5 WWE Superstars who defied Vince McMahon (and what the consequences were)

#2 Shane McMahon defied Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon’s son, Shane McMahon, was involved in one of the most brutal matches in WWE history when he fought Kurt Angle in a Street Fight at King of the Ring 2001.

After the famous incident where Angle suplexed Shane through a pane of glass near the stage area, Vince McMahon spoke to referee Mike Chioda through a headset and told him to bring an early end to the match.

However, as Shane recalled on The Steve Austin Show in 2017, because he had been “whacked in the head a couple of times”, he thought Chioda was speaking “gibberish” and he unintentionally defied the order from Vince McMahon by continuing the match.

How did Vince McMahon react?

Shane McMahon said he remembers WWE Superstars applauding both him and Kurt Angle after the match, but Vince McMahon was still “furious” and he was nowhere to be seen in the backstage area.

“Vince thinks that I'm shooing him off, that I'm disobeying an order, that I'm ignoring the order from Chioda, but I never got the order because I would never disobey him [Vince McMahon]. So [the] gorilla [position] was silent. Vince was going ballistic. I mean, throwing stuff.” [H/T Wrestling Inc.]

Shane added that his wife, Marissa, was even more upset about the match than Vince McMahon, especially as he did not warn her about how physical the 26-minute encounter would be.