10 Wrestlers Who Probably Had A Death Wish

2. Shane McMahon

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I don't know whether it is a death wish, a desire to give a paying audience a show or just the crushing pressure of his last name and the nepotism that comes with it, but Shane McMahon has been responsible for enough insane bumps to fill his own WWE warning video.

Much like Jeff Hardy it is now expected that if Shane is involved in a match, he's falling off something high.

The difference here is that this is pretty much all Shane brings to the wrestling side of things. He's also the son of the boss, so needless to say he doesn't need to do these things. But do them he has and do them he surely will again.

Whether it is Shawn Michaels suplexing him from the top of a ladder through two tables on the outside or Kurt Angle hurling him through glass, Shane McMahon has spent his entire in-ring career on the edge of mortality.

All that without mentioning the three frankly insane leaps that made him a true legend in the art of death-defying bumps. Falling 40 or 50 feet from the TitanTron to the floor is not to be sniffed at, whether it is jumping with an elbow drop of a dead drop following a kendo stick shot from Steve Blackman. Kudos Shane, kudos.

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