10 WWE Classics That Never Should Have Worked

5. Vince McMahon Vs. Shane McMahon (WrestleMania X-Seven)

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Lovingly laboured over during WrestleMania season, Linda McMahon's rise from her comatose state remains one of the greatest moments in the history of the 'Grandest Stage'. It arguably even stole WWE's greatest ever show.

A Sports Entertainment triumph and probably the reason Vince McMahon still wants his family front and centre of all significant events to this day, the Father-and-son fight was the best singles match either ever had with each other and one of the best either had with anybody. A deeply evocative affair, the match was thrillingly engineered to deliver countless grandiose bouts of comeuppance to one of the vilest incarnations of The Chairman.

Guest referee Mick Foley didn't just leather him with strikes as a revenge act for his firing the prior December. Shane's first ever Coast-To-Coast (then merely a cribbed Van Terminator) wasn't just for the honor of his Mother. Linda's aforementioned life-affirming kick to the d*ck wasn't just for her own redemption. McMahon took these many many lumps for all of us.

Fans had winced in horror at his megalomaniacal actions, especially towards his family and former vanity squeeze Trish Stratus. The future Women's Champion running off Stephanie was an additional act of fan service too. Vince had taken control of the wrestling universe with his purchase of WCW just days earlier - this brought him back down to earth with the most satisfying of thuds.

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