6. "I Want The Old Stone Cold Back" (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz_EssIJP9Q Vince McMahon was WWE's lead heel in 2001, with many of the storylines at the top of the card centering around both him and his family. Thus this list is populated by a ton of those iconic moments because, well, he cut a ton of great promos that year. Getting "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to turn away from his subservient toadie to McMahon persona into the "Stone Cold Stunning," middle-finger flipping monster that guided the company's run from 1996 to that point is quite the storyline task, and McMahon nails this one solid. Austin walking away to end that episode of Smackdown after Vince's performance actually makes this one that much better, too.
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