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Shane Brandon McMahon is an American businessman and professional wrestler. He is best known for his various roles with WWE between 1988 and 2024.
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business · American professional wrestler and businessman (born 1970) · professional wrestler · entrepreneur · also Shane McMahon, McMahon
Born 15 January 1970 · Q861110
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If not for America's lunatic fringe and the disaffected, WCW would be out of business. If you can tell me that you would bring an important child in your life to a pro wrestling match, I have no gripe with you because you clearly don't know right from wrong. And the overwhelming majority of the wrestling fans who contact me simply prove my point by flooding my mailbox with profanities, obscenities, and other acts that show them to be a disenfranchised sub-culture.
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“The problem is the mainstream media don't look hard enough at pro wrestling. Imagine if middle-aged pro baseball players dropped dead on a regular basis, this would be page one stuff, and a federal inquiry would be launched.”
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“If not for America's lunatic fringe and the disaffected, WCW would be out of business. If you can tell me that you would bring an important child in your life to a pro wrestling match, I have no gripe with you because you clearly don't know right from wrong. And the overwhelming majority of the wrestling fans who contact me simply prove my point by flooding my mailbox with profanities, obscenities, and other acts that show them to be a disenfranchised sub-culture.”
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“s departure, did they, Rock? No, with Stone Cold out of the way, who sold the T-shirts, who picked up the media appearences, whose book went to number one, who showed up on television, who got movie roles? You have not fooled me, Rock, and therefore right here in Anaheim, California, in the case of who ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin at Survivor Series, Mick Foley finds The Rock... not guilty! But if you didn”
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The Times of India: Paul “Triple H” Levesque vs. Shane McMahon: Who built the bigger WWE legacy and fortune after taking different paths inside and outside WWE through the years?
However, it was reported that despite having a part time WWE contract and no major production role with his family's company, McMahon had in fact had a history with booking Royal Rumble matches, with Sean Ross Sapp of Fi
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Made an in-ring appearance at Survivor Series during The Undertaker's retirement ceremony
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At Fastlane, Shane McMahon pulled the referee out of the ring when Kevin Owens covered Dolph Ziggler and pulled Sami Zayn out of the ring when he covered Kevin Owens
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McMahon was involved in a helicopter crash, but was relatively unharmed
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Returned to WWE where he was a prominently featured figure until October 2019
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McMahon stepped down as CEO of YOU On Demand and appointed Weicheng Liu as his successor, while remaining the company's principal executive officer and Vice chairman of the board until 2021, when McMahon was promoted to
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McMahon stepped down as CEO, but remained the Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2021, when he was promoted to Executive Chairman of the board
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McMahon became the CEO of China Broadband Inc
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“Having been associated with this organization for the majority of my life, I feel this is the opportune time in my career to pursue outside ventures”
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WWE published a statement from Shane McMahon announcing his resignation from his position as WWE's Executive Vice President of Global Media, and also issued an official press release stating that the resignation was tend
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McMahon announced his resignation from WWE
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Was because "he realized that his father Vince, saw his sister Stephanie and her husband Triple H as the heirs to the throne" and "was tired of his father Vince, overlooking his ideas" for what he envisioned for the comp
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Talking to Big Show after the latter had his nose legitimately broken going by the plan to push Mayweather's speed by Floyd Mayweather Jr
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Nobuyuki Sakakibara, president of DSE, announced that Station Casinos, Inc
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WWE and Dream Stage Entertainment officials, the parent company of Pride Fighting Championships, held a meeting at WWE global headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut
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McMahon attended Pride 32 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada resulting in speculation that WWE were considering promoting MMA events
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As a heel by again siding with his father to help in the feud with Shawn Michaels
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Billed as WWE Homecoming, all four members of the McMahon family were given a Stone Cold Stunner by Stone Cold Steve Austin
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McMahon appeared briefly on camera during the opening of the event with Vince and his newborn son, Declan
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Founded Seven Stars Cloud Group, which became Ideanomics where he serves as executive chairman
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Went to check on his father's welfare following a Street Fight with Hulk Hogan, with Hogan welcoming Shane in the ring and walking out
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Shane made his third face run by once again feuding with his father, Vince
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Shane made his return as a heel again by trying to help Big Show defeat The Rock; these efforts failed as Vince returned the next Monday night on Raw Is War, when the Rock got a rematch against Big Show and helped The Ro
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McMahon was awarded the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Rookie of the Year award but he declined to accept it stating "These are for the boys, not me"
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McMahon helped launch WWE's official website
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In an attempt to break up a storyline brawl between Randy Savage and Ric Flair
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McMahon was already backstage official and working behind the scenes for the company
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And he was the first performer to walk out to greet the audience at WrestleMania VI on April 1, 1990
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Attended Bridgton Academy in Bridgton, Maine
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Born 1970-01-15.
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In Gaithersburg, Maryland, to Vince and Linda McMahon
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s departure, did they, Rock? No, with Stone Cold out of the way, who sold the T-shirts, who picked up the media appearences, whose book went to number one, who showed up on television, who got movie roles? You have not fooled me, Rock, and therefore right here in Anaheim, California, in the case of who ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin at Survivor Series, Mick Foley finds The Rock... not guilty! But if you didn
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