8 Wild & Unscripted WWE Moments That Made Matches Better
2. The Glass Doesn't Break For Shane McMahon (The First Couple Times)
"If at first you don't succeed, for the love of God just let it be! It's not worth it!"
That's advice someone should have given Shane McMahon and Kurt Angle before their Street Fight at the 2001 King of the Ring, because oh sweet lord was it painful to watch.
What was to be the most memorable spot of the night turned into the most legendary sequence of either performer's career when Angle went to suplex Shane through a pane of glass...and the glass didn't break.
Instead of crashing through it, leaving a spectacular flurry of glass bits in his wake, Shane bounced off the pane and landed directly on the back of his head.
According to Angle, the person responsible for ordering the glass got the wrong kind, leaving the Olympic Gold Medalist to try putting a human body through plexiglass instead of the standard sugar glass.
That's why it didn't break the first time, and it's also why it broke into big shards instead of tiny pieces when Angle finally got enough force to send him through the second time around.
Of course, during the middle of the match, they didn't know what was wrong. And so Shane yelled at Kurt to suplex him through a second window as they'd planned.
Once again it didn't break, and once again Shane was dropped on his head. They still didn't stop, instead choosing to put Shane through that pane face first.
Both men sustained major injuries that evening, but created an iconic moment in the process.