Every Wrestling DEATH Ranked By Stupidity

Retro rockers (that's enough to make anyone of a certain vintage sick) Saliva could've licensed their track, 'Click Click Boom' to WWE for Vince McMahon's on screen downfall in 2007. That year, the 11 June episode of Raw closed with the memorable visual of an exploding limousine that apparently signalled the end of Vince as a viable character the creative team could use when mapping out scripts.

Not quite. The grisly reality of Chris Benoit's double murder and suicide forced a change of plans. Even McMahon, who was never known for good taste, realised that he couldn't book a death angle whilst that awful story was sweeping through the media like a stain on the entire wrestling biz. So, WWE acknowledged that the storyline was a work and Vince returned to TV.

Bruce Prichard once explained via his 'Something To Wrestle With' podcast that McMahon had a simple reason for blowing himself up in a limo. He'd wanted to get away from the camera for a while, but was repeatedly leaned on due to his strength as a TV constant. During one meeting, Vince reasoned: "I can't be on TV if I'm dead".

That's when he hatched the limousine bit.

The timing couldn't have been worse. That'd come back to bite WWE again when they aired a tribute episode to Benoit before eventually finding out the true extent of his behaviour. They weren't to know, obviously, but the whole thing was still a PR nightmare. Killing off McMahon's character became less of a priority in light of the Benoit tragedy. 

Vince tried to snuff himself out once again during his "McMahon's Million Dollar Mania" scheme the following year. That didn't work either.