Shane mcmahons biography

McMahon returned in as a heel by again siding with his father to help in the feud with Shawn Michaels. At the Royal Rumble on January 29, Shane despite not competing in the match eliminated Michaels from the Royal Rumble match by throwing him over the top rope. In a fashion similar to the real-life Montreal Screwjob , Shane put Michaels in the Sharpshooter as Vince called for the bell and gave Shane the victory.

Vince claimed that Michaels's victory was a result of "divine intervention" and booked himself and his son in a match at Backlash on April 30 against Michaels and his tag team partner "God". Around this time, Vince began to act strangely and at one point considered himself a god. Shane, who at this time was referred to by Vince as "the product of his semen", teamed with Vince to defeat Michaels and "God" at Backlash, due to help from the Spirit Squad.

Triple H was getting frustrated with this, as it was distracting from his quest to regain the WWE Championship. Triple H wound up bashing Shane with his signature weapon, the sledgehammer , in what was considered to be an accident that put Shane out of the ring for a while. Vince and later Shane, who had recovered sought to humble Triple H and get some retribution.

Shane was injured after Michaels' elbow dropped a chair which was around Shane's neck. DX emerged victorious at Unforgiven, and Shane disappeared from television. On the March 5, episode of Raw , McMahon came back to inform his father, Vince, about the "guest referee" for the "Battle of the Billionaires. The McMahons had intended for Shane to be the referee.

During the match, Shane was able to hit the Coast to Coast dive with a trash can into Bobby Lashley 's face. Hair match which ended in Shane getting disqualified on purpose by punching the referee. After the match, Umaga, Vince, and Shane all attacked Lashley. This time, Lashley won the match, but since he pinned Shane rather than Vince, Vince remained the champion.

On the taped episode of Raw that aired on September 3, Shane, along with his mother Linda and his sister Stephanie, made appearances to confront Vince about his illegitimate child. After the severe injury that Vince McMahon sustained on the June 23 episode of Raw when a sign fell on top of him during his hosting of the "Million Dollar Mania" sweepstakes, Shane requested for the Raw roster to stand together during what was a turbulent time.

On the November 24 episode of Raw , Shane and Stephanie argued over who was in charge, leading to Stephanie telling him that Raw is her show. After being slapped by Stephanie, Shane finished the segment by telling her that from that day onwards, he was going to watch Stephanie run Raw "right into the ground". At the start of , Randy Orton began a feud with the McMahon family.

On the January 19 episode of Raw , Orton punted Mr. McMahon in the head, after he had tried to fire Orton from the company for previous comments made about Stephanie. The following week, Shane returned to television and attacked Orton for his actions, turning face for the first time since On the April 6 episode of Raw , it was announced that Shane would compete in a six-man tag team match against The Legacy at Backlash on April 26 alongside Triple H and Batista , the latter of whom had returned from injury, where the stipulation was that if any member of Orton's team pinned any member of Triple H's team, Orton would win Triple H's WWE Championship; however, if any member of Orton's team was counted out or disqualified, Triple H would retain the title.

Shane announced that the reason he had returned was that he wanted control of Raw , leading to Vince placing Shane in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania 32 on April 3 against The Undertaker , adding the stipulation that Shane would get control of Raw and The Undertaker would no longer be a participant in future WrestleMania events if Shane were to win the match.

Shane was defeated by The Undertaker soon after. Despite losing at WrestleMania, Shane controlled Raw for a month, firstly by his father, Vince, on the Raw after WrestleMania, then for the following three weeks after "popular demand on social media". In July, after the announcement of the return of the brand extension with SmackDown moving to Tuesday, Vince appointed Shane as the storyline commissioner of the SmackDown brand and Stephanie as the commissioner of Raw before tasking them to name a general manager for their respective shows.

Shane appointed Daniel Bryan as the general manager of SmackDown. At SummerSlam on August 21, Brock Lesnar won his match against Randy Orton by technical knockout and continued to assault Orton as he was being tended to. Shane confronted Lesnar, which resulted in Shane being attacked by Lesnar with an F McMahon suffered a legitimate concussion following a spear from Roman Reigns , resulting in his elimination.

Styles would originally go on to win the match before McMahon would restart the contest due to Harper having his foot on the rope during the pinfall. That same week, after Randy Orton turned on Wyatt and cashed in his Royal Rumble winning opportunity, McMahon would go on to book a number one contender's match and the now even more infuriated Styles lost to Orton on the March 7 episode of SmackDown Live.

After losing the match, Styles would confront McMahon in the Gorilla position with things getting physical between the pair. The following week, Styles attacked McMahon inside the parking lot, which caused McMahon to be busted open and suffer a storyline concussion. Due to this, Styles was kayfabe "fired" from SmackDown. However, as McMahon was about to leave, he went back to the arena and announced that he will face Styles at WrestleMania Owens demanded a competent referee, so Daniel Bryan chose McMahon to become the special guest referee.

Following the incident, on the August 15 episode of SmackDown , McMahon warned Styles that if he puts his hands on him, he will put his hands on Styles. The warning later came to Owens after he accidentally attacked McMahon. At SummerSlam , McMahon was about to count the pin and declare Owens the winner, however after seeing Styles' foot on the bottom rope, McMahon continued the match.

This caused a distraction for Styles to win back the United States Championship. During the match, McMahon made himself referee after seeing the poor officiating from guest referee Baron Corbin, which caused a confrontation from Owens. This allowed Styles to take advantage and pin Owens to retain the championship. On the September 5 episode of SmackDown , after a brief confrontation with Owens, McMahon proceeded to beat down Owens after warning him not to talk about his family.

Soon after, Daniel Bryan came out to announce that Shane had been "suspended indefinitely" by Vince McMahon , who would be returning to SmackDown next week. On the October 23 episode of Raw , McMahon fired the first shot in the build of the SmackDown-Raw feud for Survivor Series when he appeared with most of the SmackDown roster to attack the Raw roster, after initially being friendly with Kurt Angle earlier on in the same night.

They proceeded to beat up wrestlers part of the Raw roster and bring Angle back to the ring. McMahon told Angle to bring his gold medal and the remains of the roster to Survivor Series and that at Survivor Series, they would finish what they started. Worse was to come, as when The Usos tried to help, they were attacked by Cesaro and Sheamus, the Raw women's locker room attacked the SmackDown women's locker room, and when the rest of the SmackDown male roster came down with McMahon to the ring to help, they were attacked in turn by the rest of the Raw male roster, including Angle and Braun Strowman.

Shane was given two triple powerbombs by The Shield, and an Angle Slam by Angle, as retribution for the trouble the SmackDown roster pulled on Raw the last couple of weeks, and to prove that come to the pay-per-view, Team Raw would be victorious over Team SmackDown. Shane kayfabe suffered a laryngeal contusion, trapezius, and rhomboid strains.

He was taken to a local medical facility. On March 26, , WWE. It truly helps. I'm healing up, and I have the best medicine in the world with me. He competed at the Greatest Royal Rumble , where he entered the namesake match at No. At the Crown Jewel event in November, he replaced The Miz after the latter suffered a kayfabe injury in the finals of the WWE World Cup , and won by defeating Dolph Ziggler in under three minutes , winning the tournament.

At WrestleMania, McMahon narrowly defeated The Miz after being superplexed off a foot platform and landing on top of The Miz for the 3 counts although both men were unconscious. The following week, Shane called out Reigns for a fight for attacking his father, but Reigns was attacked from behind by Elias, who was assisted by Shane, allying Elias and Shane.

At Money in the Bank, Shane once again defeated The Miz this time by escaping the cage ending their feud. Following this, McMahon re-ignited his feud with Kevin Owens , after Owens stated his distaste in McMahon's constant dominance on television and began to hit him with the Stunner on countless occasions. McMahon later replaced an injured Elias in a semi-final match against Chad Gable for the King of the Ring tournament, and Owens was made the referee, and despite McMahon's promise to consider dropping a fine for Owens damaging expensive equipment, Owens allowed Gable to win, and Owens was hereby fired.

After a ten-month hiatus from television, McMahon returned, as a face, on the August 3, , episode of Raw as the host of Raw Underground, a segment presented as an unsanctioned fight club. On November 22, , he made an in-ring appearance at Survivor Series during The Undertaker's retirement ceremony. After a failed attempt to rectify things with Strowman, McMahon began to insult Strowman's intelligence, thus turning heel in the process.

McMahon returned at the Royal Rumble event in the namesake match at number 28, as a face, lasting until the final three, but was eliminated by the eventual winner Brock Lesnar. McMahon received intense criticism by fans, critics, and employees for his role in and the booking of the rumble match for trying to make himself look stronger than the full time wrestlers.

McMahon returned over a year later in April at WrestleMania 39 alongside Snoop Dogg , in an impromptu match against The Miz ; however, he tore his quad muscle early in the match and was unable to continue. Snoop Dogg replaced him and won the match in his place. In June , it was reported that McMahon was no longer contracted to WWE, ending his second tenure with the company.

McMahon uses a move named "Coast to Coast", where he jumps from the top rope and cross the ring, delivering a dropkick to an opponent, usually with a trash can situated in between the opponent's face. Though with the WWE's concerns over concussions he does not use a trash can, instead dropkicking the opponent with no weapon in place.

He also styles his punches and footwork after Muhammad Ali, and often in high-risk spots uses a diving elbow drop named the "Leap of Faith. Shane McMahon began working in WWE at age 15, starting in their warehouse, where he filled merchandise orders. The meeting focused on the possibility of the two groups doing some form of business together in the future.

After a few years at Roger Williams University, McMahon transferred to Boston University, which he successfully graduated from in Following his studies, he immediately started working at World Wrestling Entertainment in the development and sales department. In , McMahon made his first appearance in the wrestling ring, but as a referee under the name Shane Stevens.

McMahon spent a significant part of his career as a show host, occasionally stepping into the ring as a wrestler. Several times, he faced his father, a renowned wrestler, in popular shows. Despite their complicated relationship in the ring, they adored each other in real life. Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Kappa Publishing Group. Archived from the original on January 21, Retrieved December 8, The Internet Wrestling Database.

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Shane mcmahons biography

Other websites [ change change source ]. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shane McMahon. Vincent J. His flamboyant, cocky attitude could be both endearing and irritating. His father believed he had purchased long-time rival WCW, ending the "Monday Night War" that raged throughout the s. However, Mr. While his father showboated over his supposed conquest, Shane shocked the world when he appeared in person at the final Monday Nitro to announce that the name on the purchase papers did say McMahon — Shane McMahon.

Shane-O-Mac went above and beyond the call of duty. He surprised the WWE Universe with his athletic ability and willingness to climb, literally, to new heights and take a leap of faith, crashing onto his opponents below. Surprising the world, he boldly challenged his father and sister for control of WWE's flagship program.