Shane McMahon is all set to face The Undertaker in two days’ time and needless to say, the odds are heavily stacked against him. However, Shane McMahon will bring the fight to The Deadman inside his own proverbial backyard, Hell in a Cell. This is definitely not the first time the two are going to face each other, though.
The two have had a quite a history. While they’ve been on the same side, they’ve also squared off against each other and to make matters interesting, Shane McMahon does not have a very good track record against The Deadman.
Here are 5 times Shane O Mac and The Undertaker have faced each other.
SmackDown, 2000
It all started with Shane McMahon challenging The Undertaker to a match. What made him to that? Well, Shane O Mac’s father suffered a hit and run attack at the hands of The American Badass.
Shane O Mac came out and bragged about his victory against The Big Show at Judgement Day and called out The Undertaker. The Deadman did oblige and made short work of Shane O Mac. He chokeslammed him and out came Degeneration X to Shane’s rescue.
Undertaker held his own against Triple H, X-pac and Road Dogg for a while, but they had the numbers advantage. And just when you thought D-X were going to make The Undertaker pay, out came The Rock and did what he does best – layeth the smacketh down and DX had to retreat.
Triple H, Shane McMahon and Vince McMahon vs The Rock, Kane and The Undertaker, King of The Ring 2000
No points for guessing which team won this match. But what the pecuiliar here was that the first man to pin an opponent would win the WWE title. This match had chaos written all over it.
With teammates not surprisingly breaking their own teammates’ pins, this wasn’t the best Pay Per View we’ve seen and the sour cherry on top was this match.
Who gave them the idea to put the WWE Championship match on the line in a 6 man tag match? And the stipulations made it even more ludicrous. Chaos and absurdity are the two words I’d use to describe this match. An interference here, a pinfall break there, a few blows exchanged here and a pinfall break there again.
Towards the end, Mr.McMahon tried to do the People’s Elbow on The Brahma Bull himself while the latter was flat on the floor but The People’s Champion rised and delivered the Rock Botton.
Shane and Undertaker provided us with an amazing moment when the latter chokeslammed Shane from the top off the turnbuckle through the announce table (”Bah God! His body must be broken in half!”).
No points for guessing who said that
Team WWF vs Team Alliance, Survivor Series 2001
“Winner takes all!”
I know what you’re thinking, the InVasion angle was a huge letdown. But that’s not what this article is going to talk about. A lot of things could have been different; like Team Alliance (representing WCW and ECW) had three WWE wrestlers.
There are matches that build your expectations, get you pumped up and excited, only to bring it all crashing down. But this match was not one of them. Don’t let all the loopholes, disappointing storyline and stuff that makes you scratch your head take anything away from this match – this match was awesome.
Ten of perhaps the greatest superstars of that era in one ring; this match had it all. No complaints as far as the in-ring action’s concerned. To spice it all up, there were discords among teammates, several rivalries and feuds, all mixed together in one of the greatest main events of all time.
Shane was eliminated after he first received a Tombstone piledriver from The Phenom followed by a Lionsault from Chris Jerichom who then pinned Shane McMahon. But he did his best breaking counts and delivered the final blow on the Big Show, an elbow drop from the top turnbuckle.
The Undertaker and Kurt Angle vs Shane McMahon and Diamond Dallas Page
Another match from the InVasion storyline
The Deadman and The Olympic Gold Medalist entered first followed by Shane O’Mac and DDP. They ran towards the ring but DDP stopped short, letting Shane McMahon face Kurt Angle, leaving The Undertaker all by himself.
Sure enough, Shane McMahon was battered and thrown around by the two. Kurt Angle wanted to end the match early but Undertaker had other plans.
For the most part, DDP tried to stay out of the action, even refusing to tag in. He even ran out into the crowd at one point. Shane received a Last Ride from the Deadman and Kurt Angle had DDP locked in his Ankle Lock, but The American Badass still wasn’t done.
It was a cue for something and out came the reinforcements from WCW and ECW. The two WWF Superstars tried fighting back, but they were outnumbered ten to 2.
Undertaker even dived out of the ring, taking out most of the WCW and ECW’s wrestlers. Kane and Chris Jericho came out to assist the outnumbered WWF superstars, but the rest of the roster were nowhere to be found.
After they did a number on the WWF superstars, out came the orchestrators, Shane, Stephanie and Paul Heyman.
