Every McMahon WWE WrestleMania Match - Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Shane McMahon Vs. Mr. McMahon - WrestleMania X-Seven

At its very heart, professional wrestling is all about storytelling.

It is a highly athletic form of performance art, a soap opera told through the medium of scripted combat and one that often highlights emotion over technical proficiency. The McMahon Family have dominated this landscape for the longest time, and whilst the McMahon saga is somewhat tired in 2017 it was one of the hottest things in pro wrestling way back in 2001.

WrestleMania X-Seven is still considered to be the best WrestleMania of all time, and one of the great matches of that night saw the McMahon Family saga reach a peak as father and son battled it out in a brutal street fight that eventually involved mother and daughter too. It was a long story reaching its climax, and one where the bad guy actually got his comeuppance.

The actual wrestling in this match was somewhat irrelevant when measured against the story. Many will complain about the wrestling, but those critics need to go back and listen to the pop when Linda McMahon rises from her wheelchair - it was pro wrestling at its finest. 67,925 people went absolutely mental because a 49-year-old woman stood up.

Shane picked up the win after hitting his father with the Coast to Coast, ending a sports entertainment spectacle that stands up there with the best of them.

John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

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