When asked the question as to whether Vince McMahon deserves our appreciation, the overwhelming response that Vince is an asshole and deserves no respect or appreciation makes him eligible for just that. Regardless of whether McMahon is a good person on the outside of a WWE arena or not, he deserves appreciation for being such an asshole inside one. He will forever live as one of the best heals of all time, if not the best, and without a good heal, namely that of McMahon, such heroes and legends that we know today such as Stone Cold Steve Austin or The Undertaker may never have been just that if they didn’t have a wanker character like McMahon to oppose. It’s for the same reasons that Triple H, who, on television has known no bounds as to the extremities of the heinous acts he has performed, has gained the respect of many a wrestling fan… not because he’s a good person but rather because in the past has been such an excellent bad guy that is so easy to hate and oppose, that people respect this man’s ability to be a good wrestler and a good entertainer.

There is often a misconception which hails the ‘faces’ in the wrestling business as the legends of the sport when really, if any of you have seen the piss-weak attempts at being a bad guy that have flooded the sport over the years, being a believable and effective bad guy is just as, if not more challenging than making the fans fall in love with you… especially when they hate you because you’re a prick, not because you suck. Vince McMahon deserves just as great an accolade for making Steve Austin look like a hero as he does for evolving the wrestling business into the spectacle it has become. In an ode to Shane ‘O Mac, he has displayed similar passion to that of his father, not because of any image he has developed in the eyes of the fans but because of the sacrifices he makes in the middle of the ring.

Shane has put his body through more hell than some of the toughest superstars to walk through the curtain… I mean, falling from the Titantron at Summerslam 2000, leaping off the top of the Titantron at Judgement Day ’01 to hit the Big Show with a leg drop and who could forget when he was suplexed by Kurt Angle time after time into glass that wouldn’t break until finally, Angle smashed him head-first through the glass pane. He does it for the fans and he does it out of respect for his family’s legacy. Why should we appreciate and respect the McMahons? Because without them, quite simply put, wrestling would suck.