10 Worst Payoffs To WWE Storylines
3. Mr. McMahon Is The Higher Power
Even though it spawned one of wrestling’s greatest memes, that doesn’t mean that the higher power reveal wasn’t a truly disappointing payoff.
In early 1999, Undertaker decided he wanted control of the company, and so he spent much of the early part of the year terrorising WWE, claiming to be acting under the orders a mysterious Higher Power he was serving. Along the way, ‘Taker took some pretty drastic measures, from kidnapping Mr. McMahon’s daughter Stephanie, to attempting to sacrifice Stone Cold Steve Austin to the Higher Power, and generally just causing chaos throughout McMahon’s company.
Except, all of the chaos had been Mr. McMahon’s doing.
The big reveal was that it had all been a ruse. McMahon himself had been the higher power that ‘Taker was serving all along, and he’d been in cahoots with the Deadman for the sole purpose of screwing over Austin.
I suppose, in a way, that had been achieved, as Austin was no longer WWE Champion, but did it really make sense for McMahon to allow—amongst other things—his daughter to be kidnapped for the simple sake of messing with Austin?
No. I’m afraid the answer to that one is a resounding, unanimous no.