12 Times Vince McMahon Abused His Family For Entertainment
5. Shane McMahon Leaps Off The Titantron
Place a 50-foot tall LED screen in a building hosting a professional wrestling show during the Attitude Era, and shockingly enough, it's VInce McMahon's own son Shane who would likely be the first to consider jumping off the side of it onto a 400 pound man laying on a stack of wooden crates. Yes, in the match that followed Vince and Shane McMahon beating each other to a bloody pulp, at May's Backlash 2001, Shane McMahon performed a "leap of faith" to defeat the Big Show in a Last Man Standing match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PO1ts62lLo&src_vid=AyTBHQPSG5k&annotation_id=pfc%3A5PO1ts62lLo&feature=s2lp How many parents do you know would be okay with their sons walking through the curtain and preparing for such a stunt? Exactly.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
