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

Unquestionably WWE’s best popular and unpredictable period Historically, it was between the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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His biggest victory was probably over Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 14 in 1998. With the help of Mike TysonHe became the WWE Champion.

This greatly worried Mr. McMahon, the character behind the company owner. Vince McMahonHe was born around the same time.

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

He was busy fighting The Guardian in 1999. Undertaker and the Ministry of Darkness during the ‘kidnapping’ of daughter Stephanie McMahon by the menacing Taker and his henchmen during the Backlash pay-per-view.

Now, in scenes that are enough to scare you a little, Stephanie He was detained by Undertaker and tied to a ‘symbol’ that looked incredibly like a cross, but WWE was understandably careful to avoid using this or similar terms on television.

Poor Steph though, John Bradshaw Layfield was carried into the ring by Farooq. mideon and Viscera ahead of the Ministry initiating a bizarre sacrificial-style ‘black wedding’ ceremony on an episode of Monday Night Raw.

Speaking in the Backstage Pass, Layfield described how surreal the whole episode was and as he nervously and nervously made his way down the ramp carrying his bosses’ daughter, his good friend Farooq – Ron Simmons – gave him a stern warning.

“It was me and Ron who carried Stephanie to the cross,” he said explained. “So I was definitely a part of it, I was the distribution mechanism!

“Ron sits there looking at me and says in his James Earl Jones voice: ‘Don’t drop it! Don’t drop it.’

“She’s tied up, she can’t do anything, so we have to make sure we take care of her, get her in the ring, get her head under the rope. We’re making sure to keep an eye on Stephanie!”

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The younger McMahon was, unsurprisingly, the nervous headlining of the segment, which also included former WWE agent Gerald Brisco: “I’m sitting in the production meeting and I look at Stephanie and I see the reactions on her face (she said) ‘We’re going to tie you to a cross and then we’re going to drag you there .’

“Trust him, he was great.”

Millions tuned in from around the world to watch the strange tale play out, with thousands in attendance at the arena on the night. Layfield, who won multiple championships as JBL, added: “I think they were crazy. I was in the first Buried Alive match where we buried Undertaker and people thought we killed him!”

“With the crucifixion, or whatever you want to call it, it wasn’t that big of a deal, because it was a symbol, not a cross!

“People were looking like: ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ “It was a little weird.”

Austin, in true WWE fashion, would end up disrupting the ‘ceremony’ in which Vince McMahon was revealed as the biggest villain of the story from the beginning and his own daughter was used as a pawn.

Stephanie later countered her father’s arguably even more distasteful storytelling for WWE: Vince is revived as her baby’s father