10 Wrestling Feuds With Unexpectedly Ridiculous Stories

3. Shawn Michaels Teams With The Almighty

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This being the same person who once pitched to be revealed as the on-screen father of his own daughter's unborn child, the fact Vince McMahon ultimately felt that a feud centred around himself, his son Shane, Shawn Michaels and The Almighty - no, not that one - would go down a treat on WWE television shouldn't come as that much of a surprise.

But that didn't make the sight of The Heartbreak Kid eventually teaming with the spotlight also known as God in a No Holds Barred match at Backlash any less outlandish to behold.

In the lead-up to that planned bout with "The Hipster from Heaven" and HBK, the McMahons also opted to pay an equally problematic visit to a church, with Vince doing his best impression of his son-in-law's entrance with holy water before comparing himself with the man upstairs.

The entire sudden and offensive religious detour was simply a way for the crazy billionaire to fuse Michaels' real-life status as a born-again Christian into the on-screen drama; and an entirely uncomfortable and bizarre one at that.

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