10 Ways SmackDown Live! Can Recover Before 2018
2. Kill, Owens, Kill
On balance, very few wrestlers escape from an angle with a McMahon family member without some emotional or physical scars to tell the tale.
Many consider Shane McMahon to be the exception to the rule, but this notion is a complete fallacy tacitly employed by WWE to keep at least one tyrannical rich kid as a 'nice guy', and normalise the very idea that humongous wealth can still have a smiling face.
In a way, Shane is actually the worst. Of the 23 WrestleMania matches The Undertaker had engaged in before tackling the untrained 46-year-old, nobody had been considered 'The Deadman's equal quite like the 'Boy Wonder'. Their abhorrent contest only furthered the myth.
Months later, Daniel Bryan begged with his widest eyes for his administrative colleague to take the final place on SmackDown Live!'s Survivor Series squad, at the expense of the entire brand's roster. What a land of opportunity.
WrestleMania 33 was where the sh*t really hit the fan. All 75,000+ of them in the building and the millions watching on the WWE Network, in fact. There, 2016's best wrestler in the world met his technical doppelganger in the form of a millionaire-by-birth skipping buffoon with slightly less of a kite than he had in his thirties.
In conclusion, if the recent Kevin Owens conflict results in 'Shane O Mac' suffering a beating from 'KO' not seen since the latter's Ring Of Honor days, it maybe wouldn't be the worst thing.