10 WWE WrestleMania Moments That Meant NOTHING In Hindsight
3. Well Hung
The Big Boss Man getting slung up in a noose following his rancid Hell in a Cell match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania XV wasn't just removed from WWE canon when the company went PG in 2008. It was already rendered complete horsesh*t by June that year.
It'd be easy to sling mud at Vince Russo for the insane trajectory of one of 1999's biggest angles, but Vince McMahon himself was always a headliners-first booker. There's no way his fingerprints weren't all over the 'Greater Power' angle he ended up paying off himself with a legendarily cartoonish cackle.
It was quite a leap from 'The Phenom' sacrificing McMahon's top corporate henchman in such grim fashion, and not just logically. For McMahon to have been 'Taker's guiding force all along, - just to get to Steve Austin, remember - , he'd had to have okayed the virtual murder of his top security guard not to mention the slaughtering of his other guardians in the form of Ken Shamrock and Test. All to lull 'The Rattlesnake' over to his corner when mortgaging his daughter to 'The Deadman' in a black wedding.
Boss Man was the never-revealed-but-assumed force behind a briefcase full of 100% company ownership that evaded Stone Cold Steve Austin at King Of The Ring 1999. Presumably the Corporate Ministry still had all the gear from the Cobb County lawman's own journey to the rafters.