WrestleMania has borne witness to many things, but President Donald Trump facing a Stone Cold stunner was still a shock to many. As fans are aware WWE founder Vince McMahon and the current President of the United States have been friends for decades.
However, what many don’t know is that there was a time when the two business moguls staged a feud to entertain the WrestleMania fans.
Fascinatingly, it escalated to the point that McMahon ended up subjecting Donald Trump to a Stone Cold stunner that would go down in history.
Vince McMahon once convinced Donald Trump to face a Stone Cold stunner on the spot
Vince McMahon had made a lot of controversial choices in his career, but nothing could come close to convincing Donald Trump to take a Stone Cold stunner in 2007. As per Huffpost, in a storyline spanning months, Trump and McMahon convinced the fans that after decades of friendship, they were engaged in a bitter feud.
In a surprising power move, the POTUS entered the arena during a Monday Night Raw with a rain of money from the ceiling. Although the money was McMahon’s, the gawking audience wasn’t aware of it at the time.
Nevertheless, the stage was set and after the grand entrance, the announcement was made for a WrestleMania fight where two wrestlers would represent the business behemoths.
The first twist came in the form of Steve Austin, or Stone Cold as he was known in WWE, being named as the referee in the upcoming match. He took the show up a notch by saying to Trump,
You p*ss me off. I’ll open up an $8 billion can of whoop a*s and serve it to ya, and that’s all I got to say about that.
However, nothing could have prepared the audience for what would happen in the fight. Basically, just before the show was about to start, McMahon and Austin pulled Trump to the side and convinced him to take the famous Stone Cold stunner to hype up the audience even more.
According to Austin, he explained how the move works just about 15 minutes before the fight. Surprisingly, Donald Trump decided to go with it with no prior rehearsals. As the former wrestler noted, this obviously did not sit well with Trump’s handler, and he tried everything he could to protest against it.
He tried to talk Donald out of it a million ways.
However, all those protests fell on deaf ears and the fight commenced. Interestingly, it became one of the most watched and highest-grossing fights in the history of WrestleMania with $24.3 million in global revenue as per the outlet.
The Donald Trump-Vince McMahon fight might have featured one of the ugliest Stone Cold stunners
Although the fight had been one of the most-anticipated ones in the history of WWE, per Austin they couldn’t gauge the audience’s reaction at the moment. The situation, however, turned when Vince McMahon’s son Shane McMahon entered the ring where Umaga and Bobby Lashley were brawling as the WWE founder and the President’s representatives, respectively.
Moreover, Trump pulled a move by jumping on McMahon and repeatedly punching the daylights out of him. What makes this even more interesting is the fact that this was decided before the main fight in a meeting where the WWE owner was absent.
As such, just like the audience, he was taken completely off guard. At any rate, Lashley and by extension, President Donald Trump won the match.
After which the bet they agreed upon of the loser going bald was fulfilled in the form of Vince McMahon shaving off his prized mane. Nevertheless, the main twist came after this when Steve Austin pounced on his chance by throwing his signature beer at Trump.
I threw beer to everybody I got in the ring with. Here’s the bait, and it’s the hook as well. Long as I get him holding those beers, everybody knows that anybody who … takes one of my beers is gonna get stunned.
That is exactly what happened in this case as well. However, even though Donald Trump was prepared for the move, with no rehearsal the move failed to have the same impact.
In fact, even the commentator Jerry Ross noted that “It may be one of the uglier Stone Cold stunners in history.” Austin, though, was impressed as he knew how hard it could be to execute with no prior concept of it.
We never rehearsed it. He didn’t even know what it was. Vince botched half the ones I gave him [and] Vince is a great athlete. So that’s no knock on Donald Trump.
Although it sounds like an impossible feat in 2025, at the time the fight was nothing but an entertaining event for fans.
Famously known as The Battle of the Billionaires, the fight went down in history as a President of the United States, although long before his tenure joined the WWE.
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