10 Wrestlers Who Were HUGE Marks For Themselves
5. Shane McMahon
Shane McMahon was good once. Shane McMahon was good when he played a d*ckhead stooge heel who only won matches with the help of the Mean Street Posse. The delusion that he was a tough guy was crucial to his act. He was detestable in the role.
His match against Kurt Angle at King Of The Ring 2001 was too good for its own good. Shane took such a gutsy and impressive ass-kicking that, forever after, he deemed himself a badass.
When he abandoned the all-important delusion, he became the least credible wrestler of all-time.
Babyface hard-man Shane McMahon - a sweat-soaked disgrace with the cardiovascular conditioning of a flatworm - thought he was Haku or something. The hubris was absolutely outrageous. He didn’t just think he was a great, tough wrestler; with his pathetic punches, he thought he was a combat athlete in the wrong job.
So convinced of his credentials, he once squared up to Brock Lesnar backstage. He was lucky that Lesnar laughed in his face.
Worse still: at the 2022 Royal Rumble, he out Hogan’d Hulk Hogan by booking himself to look harder than 29 other men.
Terry thought he could only take eight!