10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Couldn't Get Over

6. Kevin Owens

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Not over because of things that had already happened to his character rather than anything a fairly exhilarating Vince McMahon headbutt segment could have done, Kevin Owens drawing blood the hard way from the Chairman was an undeniably awesome piece of television.

It did not result in the world begging for Owens Vs Shane McMahon's feud to continue to Hell In A Cell and beyond.

In fact, this SmackDown beating marked an interesting turning point for the McMahon character, and one WWE still haven't really gotten a grasp of in the years hence. McMahon is getting up there in years. He's 76 - the same age as your writer's Father at time of publication and theoretically around the same age as a lot of fans' grandparents. There's an unapologetic sympathy towards the plight of an old man getting battered, but when this specific old man is an evil billionaire, it creates little more than a tonal dissonance.

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