17. Shane Buys WCW
Around the turn of the millennium, something happened that would forever change the landscape of Professional Wrestling: Vince McMahon’s WWE drove Ted Turner’s WCW out of business.
With the demise of WCW, it was affordable for Vince McMahon to purchase the company outright. He got everything that ever belonged to them, and with that, was ecstatic that had finally put an end to his biggest domestic, arguably global, competitor. So much so that he decided to make an event of it by showing live broadcast clips of WCW’s last ever episode of Nitro.
At the end of the night, just when Vince was about to make the big reveal that it was he who had purchased WCW, his son, Shane, interrupted to let him know that while the name on the contract did say “McMahon,” it said Shane McMahon. He had taken WCW’s ownership out from right under him and served a blow to Vince’s egomaniac character.
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