8 Most Memorable WWE Father/Son Moments

Today, the father and son combo of Vince and Shane McMahon are working in complete harmony to gradually erode WWE's television ratings, their nefarious ultimate solution being the one putting his top title on the other.

Twenty years ago, they shared another common enemy - besides a genetically bestowed receding hairline - in the form of one 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.

Although the younger McMahon had been a key component behind the scenes in bringing Mike Tyson to WWE - and with him, Austin's ascension - before the cameras he became one of his father's key allies in fighting the counter-corporate malice. As the Corporation's heir, Shane memorably put his dad through his paces ahead of Royal Rumble 1999 in a meat-pounding, chicken-catching skit for the ages, and six months later the pair thwarted Austin's attempts to take full control of the company at King of the Ring '99 - the infamous night of the floating briefcase.

Thanksgiving dinners became somewhat awkward for a few years at the turn of the millennium, as Shane seconded The Big Show against his whole family at McMahonMania 2000, and the rift was wedged open further still when the next in line dramatically revealed he had gazumped Vince for the purchase of WCW a year later.

Blood, and disgustingly, the "semen of God", proved thicker than water; in 2006, Vince and his 'product' put their differences behind them to profane Shawn Michaels. Most recently, despite a little Undertaker-shaped blip in which Shane discovered just how thick that blood is, the McMahons have combined to Make Raw Great again. For that, see the opening paragraph.