One Moment WWE Wants You To Forget From Every Year (1985 to 2026)
21. 2006 - Good God Almighty
An idea that might, in the strictest definition, have been a decent match graphic gag, Vince and Shane McMahon taking on Shawn Michaels and God at Backlash 2006 was destined to age horribly based on religious overtones alone. That it ultimately spawned a series of segments that served to show a controversial and disgraced company figurehead hiding in plain sight as somebody with a warped take on power dynamics has guaranteed what was already an inevitability - expect to never see any of this slop again unless it's being used to illustrate a point against the promotion or McMahon himself.
In and around the handicap match against the 'Heartbreak Kid', (actually defeating "God" on pay-per-view wasn't even the worst of it) McMahon used the bit to further his deluded complex and further develop his increasingly maniacal gimmick. To this end WWE's slate of browbeaten writers were tasked with scripting and producing segments that played to his ego in grim sexual encounters with the women's roster.
The reprehensible sight of The Chairman trying to cure Candice Michelle's "labiagytis" (amongst other imagined ailments that furthered an on-screen relationship) was so grim that it created the rarest of collector's items - a Triple H segment interruption that was actually welcome.