10 Wrestling Stunts Which Nearly Went Very Wrong
8. Shane McMahon Vs. Glass
It's tough being the boss' son. Assuming you've a sense of pride, you pretty much have to go above and beyond to shake off the nepotism tag, and for many interns handed a plum position by grace of genetics, that means asking to be flung, hard, into a solid pane of glass until you dangerously smash through it. No, wait, we mean 'start earlier and work longer'. Who the flip does that glass thing?!
Shane McMahon, that's who. In an oft-replayed spot legendary in its infamy, the McMahon sproglet demanded Kurt Angle hoy him through the set's glass panels during their Street Fight brawl at King of the Ring 2001. Angle, a consummate pro, happily obliged - only the glass wasn't playing ball.
Turns out the stage-hands in attendance weren't informed of the planned spot, and so the sugar glass McMahon intended to defenestrate himself through was actually the real deal. But Shane wasn't going to accept its lack of coöperation, and insisted Angle keep trying. Which he did, until eventually, physics won. So gruesome - and legitimately life-threatening - was the unsafe 'stunt' that Vince McMahon nearly walked out and stopped the match in its tracks. That would have done daddy's boy's locker room cred a world of good.