Shane McMahon has a reputation for being completely fearless to the point of insanity, but he also has a reputation for knocking other wrestlers silly with those weird little punches he throws, which are essentially legit boxing strikes. They’ve gotten him in hot water with opponents like Chris Jericho in the past, but he once pissed off someone even more frightening when he gave Undertaker a black eye.
On the latest (clean) episode of Steve Austin’s podcast, Shane was talking about how he trains Muay Thai, rolls in BJJ with some of the Gracies, and does grappling training as well. Austin joked about Shane’s legendarily snug punches, and said Shane’s fists “produce more potatoes than the potato fields of Idaho.”
Austin then said he ran into Undertaker at one point last year and asked what happened to his eye, and Taker explained that Shane gave him a shiner. As a result, Shane caught hell from one person in particular.
“I got heat from that with his mom! Oh my god, I got heat from that. It happened. I tatered the hell out of him. But that was the week before, it was the go-home [show for] WrestleMania in Brooklyn, and something went awry. We were throwing hands, and we were outside [the ring] and I went to hit him with a monitor or something, and then it was stuck. So all of a sudden he sits up, and I’m like, ‘Well, he’s a big dude, what am I going to do?’ So I kind of panicked a little bit, didn’t quite get my range, so I wasn’t completely looking at him, and I was like, ‘WHACK!’ And I completely stuck it out there and I felt it. It went, ‘Thunk!’ And I went, ‘Oh my god!’ [Laughs]
“I saw his eyes roll back in his head for a minute, and he looked at me. All of a sudden, I saw that trickle of blood coming down. I’m like, ‘I’m dead.’ So what do I do? I quickly get on him, fast. Whack whack whack! I might as well get ’em in now, give him a couple extra.”
McMahon then talked about how he offered Taker a free shot backstage, but the Dead Man told him his receipt would come later, and he lived up to his word by knocking Shane silly in their WrestleMania match.
Sadly, there are no further details about the wrath of Mothertaker, but we can assume it had something to do with soup bones.
You can see the offending punch, a left jab to be exact, at about the 3:12 mark of this video.
