10 Wrestlers Who Had No Business Being In The Ring

8. Vince McMahon

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It's almost poetic that Vince McMahon fell in 2022. It was the sort of staggering narrative twist of which he was once capable, years and years ago.

Surgery-ravaged, with a low voice so guttural that his words were all but imperceptible, he entered the ring to work a match at WrestleMania 38 against Pat McAfee. It was worse than anything promoted at the infamously grim Heroes of Wrestling pay-per-view. He had no business being in there - Yoshihiko has worked with more dynamism in matches that looked far more believable - but even as a total sideshow attraction, one that wasn't meant to be remotely good, it was still a disaster.

A dangerous one, too; in taking that Stunner, the ultimate exhibit of evidence that Vince could no longer even play the hits effectively, he could have really hurt himself. But it was all fine. Just Vince being Vince. An unrecognisable husk of an awful human being got his pop.

It was thought he was invincible, if people raised a wry grin at that fiasco. He was simply too endearing and beloved in his old, pathetic but still game age. Yes, he was evil and everything, but what was he like, eh?

He wasn't; he was undone for his historical, awful misconduct months later.

 
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