10 Wrestlers WWE Protected In The WORST Way Possible

Did you know? Shane McMahon hits harder than Mike Tyson in his prime, and everyone's lucky the MMA/UFC boom didn't come along when he was in his 20s or there wouldn't have been any fighters left to grace the octagon. Our Shane-O would've slapped them all silly, then called them dafties like his name's Noam Dar.

At some point in 2003, WWE suddenly decided that Shane should go from being a daredevil who could take a kicking and keep on ticking better than most to one of the toughest men walking the face of the earth. That's the only explanation for why he went toe to toe with Kane or stuck Randy Orton with some of the worst looking rabbit punches ever in 2009.

Randy was instructed to run away from McMahon's fury like he was faced with some unstoppable boxing machine. It was laughable. This sort of booking persisted all the way through until Shane's egotistical performance (both in-ring and behind the curtain) at the 2022 Royal Rumble.

There, he somehow thought he should be the star of the show and made to look harder than full-timers, including Brock Lesnar. Even his father had to pull McMahon to one side and put him back in his lane. If WWE's 'tough guy' creative had successfully tricked Shane into thinking he was The Terminator, then more fool him.

Nepotism definitely played a part in this silliness.

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