50 Absolute Worst Things WWE Has Done In The 21st Century

Some ego trips should be shot down before they get a chance to go in front of cameras.

In 2022, Vince McMahon needed to be pulled aside and ridiculed for suggesting he work a match on the biggest weekend of the year. Sadly, McMahon still called the shots in WWE, so no-one dared to chastise him for booking himself vs. Pat McAfee at WrestleMania 38. This impromptu effort followed Pat's prior match vs. Austin Theory. That had been boring enough, but McMahon's bout was something else.

The soon-to-be disgraced owner of WWE flopped around like a fish whether he was dishing out punishment to McAfee or taking some himself. Look, Vince was 76 years old when this happened, so he was never going to be prime Kurt Angle out there. That's fair. What isn't fair is that McMahon expected the highest standards from his roster whilst simultaneously force feeding this rubbish. At 'Mania. Y'know, an event series that was supposed to highlight the very best this medium has to offer.

McMahon tumbling around before taking one of the worst stunners in history from Steve Austin was the urine-soaked cherry on top of the crap-filled cake for his weekend too. Somehow, it was even worse than the one Vince had taken back in 1997. This was a terrifying insight into Vince's mind at the time. Not as terrifying as his Netflix documentary, but terrifying nonetheless. A few behind the curtain probably even told him the bit was funny or helped the show.

It didn't. It was bloody brutal and anybody else putting in a performance os roundly terrible would've been told to pack their things then go home.