Shane McMahon’s 10 Most Ridiculous Ego Trips
9. The Night After
...and when Shane actually does take his lumps, they're his lumps, and he doesn't take them very bloody hard.
Compare and contrast. When Mick Foley was frighteningly thrown from the Hell In A Cell roof through an announce table, he continued the match in an effort to put over his persona as a fearless madman. But he sold the bump. He sells it to this very day, as he recovers from hip surgery expedited by this and several other of his scariest falls. Famous for its insanity, bravery and imagry, the bump still had a self-contained tale at its core, and remained loyal to a carefully cultivated character.
Shane McMahon is a talentless hack who wishes he could have been a wrestler, so he jumps from great heights instead. He is to be commended for his bravery as with Foley, but his obnoxious attitude towards the consequences of his risks makes the original bump so infuriatingly wasteful.
Because he's a McMahon, his bonkers WrestleMania 32 pratfall will be replayed ad nauseam, but hopefully his largely unaffected stroll out on to the stage the next night won't be.
Mick Foley absorbed the damage of his Hell In A Cell massacre for 19 years (and counting). Shane, save for some laughable make-up, couldn't even make it 19 hours.