10 Times WWE Went Too Far With Brock Lesnar
2. Getting Physical With Stephanie McMahon
Like Father like surrogate son was WWE's justification for Brock Lesnar casting a menacing shadow over babyface SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon during her 2003 feud with her own Dad.
Vince McMahon's fascination with getting f*cking weird with his family never extended as far as he would have liked (right into his daughter's uterus, as revealed on his own DVD) in the early-2000s, but the battering he gave the 'Billion Dollar Princess' at No Mercy 2003 was foreshadowed by the time he unleashed 'The Beast' on her first.
There's a dark humour to the very billing of "Brock Lesnar Vs Stephanie McMahon", but there wasn't much funny about the actual manifestation of it. The piped-in cheers on the taped show betrayed how little the fans actually gave a toss about her, but shocked silence was perhaps the most appropriate response as Brock strangled her then gleefully threatened so smash her brains in with her the ringside steps.
Kurt Angle made the save before he could F5 her against a ringpost (!) but McMahon had gotten his gruesome visuals (and his rocks off) by then anyway.