10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Should Be Erased From History

5. Linda McMahon

On the October 10, 2005 episode of Monday Night Raw, Linda McMahon had finally had enough!

Raw had gone to hell. Just the week before, her children, her husband and herself had all been victims of a Stone Cold Stunner. Which means in 2005, that this was only about four years past being interesting.

The solution was obvious: fire Steve Austin, sue him for tens of millions of dollars and press criminal charges against him. She went the non-obvious route: fire Jim Ross and then punch him in the balls.

Ross needed time off for colon surgery, so instead of letting him go away to heal up, they made it an angle. But Linda McMahon was the catalyst? Had Vince McMahon ever watched her on TV before? What the hell was he thinking? She could have murdered the entire WWE roster, and people wouldn’t have been interested in her on the mic.

Well, the storyline was basically dropped and Linda tried twice to become a United States Senator and lost tens of millions of dollars of the McMahon family fortune in the process. That had to have been some sort of weird karma in play there, just not sure how it all worked out.

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