Terrified Wrestler Gets 3-Word Warning Before Wild Vince McMahon WWE Storyline ‘Freaks’ Fans

The Attitude Era remains famous for its wild and unpredictable storylines, and not all of them are fondly remembered.

Arguably the most in WWE popular and unpredictable period historically it spanned the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Perhaps the crowning achievement came at WrestleMania 14 in 1998, when Stone Cold Steve Austin, with the help of Mike Tysonbecame WWE Champion.

That was much to the anguish of Mr. McMahon, the character behind the business owner Vince McMahonwho was born around the same time.

McMahon often placed himself at the center of storylines during the Attitude Era, winning championships and achieving a major WrestlingMania matches – and not always against Austin.

In 1999 he was busy fighting The Undertaker and his Ministry of Darkness when his daughter Stephanie McMahon was ‘kidnapped’ by the menacing Taker and his gang of cohorts at the Backlash pay-per-view.

In scenes that are now enough to make you shudder a little, Stephanie was held by Undertaker and, incredibly, tied to a ‘symbol’ that resembled a crucifix, although WWE was understandably careful to avoid that or similar terms on television.

Nevertheless, poor Steph was carried to the ring by John Bradshaw Layfield, Farooq, Mideon and Viscera before the Ministry began a bizarre sacrificial-style “black wedding ceremony” on an episode of Monday Night Raw.

In his speech on Backstage Pass, Layfield discussed how surreal the entire segment was, and the grim warning that close friend Farooq – Ron Simmons – gave him as they walked, nervous and tense, down the ramp with their boss’s daughter in hand .

“Me and Ron were the ones who carried Stephanie to the cross,” he says explained. “So I was definitely part of it, I was the delivery mechanism!

“Ron is sitting there looking at me and in the voice of James Earl Jones he says, ‘Don’t let her fall! Just don’t drop her.’

“She’s tied up, she can’t do anything, so we have to make sure we take care of her. We need to load her into the ring and put her head under the rope. We make sure we take care of Stephanie!”

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The younger McMahon also unsurprisingly nervously headlined the segment, with former WWE agent Gerald Brisco interjecting, “I’m sitting in the production meeting and I look at Stephanie and see the reactions on her face (as we said) ‘we We’re going to tie you to a cross and drag you there.’

“Give her credit, she was fantastic.”

As millions of people around the world tuned in to see the bizarre storyline play out, so did the thousands in the arena on the night itself. Layfield – who won multiple championships as JBL – added: “I think they were panicking. I was in the first Buried Alive match when we buried The Undertaker, and people thought we killed him!

‘It wasn’t so much about the crucifixion, or whatever you call it, because it was a symbol, it wasn’t a cross!

“People looked at it like, ‘You’re kidding me.’ It was a bit weird.”

Austin would ultimately thwart the ‘ceremony’ that Vince McMahon, in true WWE style, turned out to be involved in all along as the main villain of the storyline, using his own daughter as a potential pawn.

Stephanie later rebelled against what was perhaps an even more distasteful storyline pitch to WWE from her father – Vince is portrayed as the father of her baby.