Street Fight

Shane McMahon def. Vince McMahon

With every emotion pouring out of them, father and son vowed to settle their private matters in the most public of ways. Shane was resentful that Vince had separated from wife, Linda. Then –after she suffered a breakdown – Vince ordered doctors to keep her medicated, and flouted an affair with Trish Stratus. For his part, Vince proclaimed that he would never forgive Linda for giving birth to their rebellious son.

As special referee Mick Foley monitored the action, Shane pounded on Vince –until sister Stephanie slid under the roped and urged restraint.

Shane’s response: hitting Vince with a vicious baseball slide, leveling him with a clothesline off the ringside barricade, and smacking him across the head with a television monitor. But when Shane tried diving off the buckles onto his father, Stephanie pulled Vince out of the way, and the younger McMahon crashed through the announcer’s table.

Now, Trish brought an apparently sedated Linda to ringside in a wheelchair. The bombshell bent over the World Wrestling Federation owner, but instead of tending his wounds, smacked him—sparking a cat fight with Stephanie. As the two transferred their warfare to the dressing room, Foley tried wheeling Linda out of harm’s way, and received a chair across the head from Vince.

Roughly pulling his wife into the ring and propping her in a chair, Vince bashed his son with a number of garbage cans. Suddenly, Linda rose, kicked Vince in the groin, and stepped back while Foley pummeled the boss.

A now-lucid Linda watched Shane climb the turnbuckles, fly across the ring, and splash against a garbage can Foley had placed on Vince. As the elder McMahon groaned in agony and humiliation, Shane scored the pin, then exited the ring and embraced his beloved mother.