9 Wrestlers Who Came Back From The Dead

6. Vince McMahon

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Were it not for the intrusion of grim real life circumstances, Vince McMahon may never have walked out of his morbid on-screen explosion perfectly intact.

McMahon has repeatedly - albeit half-heartedly - tried to unfasten himself from the on-screen authority role which he's portrayed since 1997, only to return through desperation or, more likely, ego. In 2007, he came up with a foolproof plan to write his character out of WWE for good: by staging his own death.

At the end of the 11 June episode of Raw, the chairman stepped into his limo to head home, but before he could so much as buckle his seatbelt, the whole thing blew up in a frenzy of flames. According to Bruce Prichard, McMahon reasoned, "I can't be on TV if I'm dead."

He should have taken note of his own storylines. By some tragic twist of fate, the angle aired just days before the Chris Benoit murder-suicide. McMahon had no choice but to step back on screen the following Monday, and out of good taste, the whole death plot was promptly dropped.

 
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