WWE: 13 Times Vince McMahon Went Way Too Far

12. Vince's Son Is ... Hornswoggle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l7lB5G8HVo Another of the jumping the shark moments as opposed to anything nastier, in the fall of 2007 the WWE were running an angle that Vince had an illegitimate child running around, and that Vince himself didn't know the identity. They even built it up over a few weeks as a huge mystery before the day of the big reveal. They went as far as gathering the entire roster in the ring before they were systematically eliminated one by one, before the big reveal was that Vince's love child was none other than Hornswoggle. I mean, really? This actually could have been a genuinely solid angle if they'd put some more thought into it, and despite the ridiculousness of it all, could have given a solid rub to an up and coming superstar by positioning him as the offspring of McMahon. It was just a bad angle and despite Triple H's hysterics in the ring upon the reveal (worst fake laughter ever by the way), I suspect the only person who found it that amusing was Vince himself.
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