10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Couldn't Get Over

5. The Legacy

Vince McMahon slap
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The above image is not really as preposterous as it might first appear.

Yes, it's totally ludicrous that a mid-ring Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase Jr (then 29, 24 and 27 respectively) should fear the wrath of an ageing Vince McMahon, his ageing non-wrestler son and the past-his-prime WWE Champion Triple H. But only in reality, not in WWE.

Their "Then, Now, Forever" tagline refers mostly to how this is Vince McMahon's organisation and world, no matter how divorced it is from anything resembling normality. And in this world, McMahon is an alpha male, and an alpha male can wear his f*cking khaki slacks to work and still kick the f*cking sh*t out of you as long as his sleeves are rolled up, pal.

All of this bluster was supposed to aid the younger trio either side of Orton's rotten WrestleMania 25 main event with 'The Game', until Vince wisely took himself out of things in favour of Batista when it evidently wasn't working. The biggest laugh comes from the idea of him thinking it might.

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