Shane McMahon

Shane Brandon McMahon (born January 15, 1970) is an American businessman and professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE.

The son of Vince McMahon, he is a fourth-generation wrestling promoter as a member of the McMahon family.

He began working in WWE at age 15, starting in their warehouse, where he filled merchandise orders.

McMahon was a referee, producer, announcer, and eventually a wrestler, while becoming WWE's Executive Vice President of Global Media behind the scenes.

Shane Brandon McMahon was born on January 15, 1970, in Gaithersburg, Maryland to Vince and Linda McMahon.

He has one younger sister, Stephanie McMahon.

After graduating from Greenwich High School in 1987, he attended Boston University and in 1993 earned a degree in communications.

McMahon began his on-screen career as a referee named Shane Stevens.

As Shane Stevens, McMahon refereed during the inaugural 1988 Royal Rumble match, and in 1990 he was the first performer to walk out to greet the audience at WrestleMania VI.

McMahon stopped performing as a referee and became a backstage official at WrestleMania VIII in an attempt to break up a storyline brawl between Randy Savage and Ric Flair.

McMahon mainly worked behind the scenes, launching WWF.com in 1997.

McMahon made his first appearances as a regular on-air character in early 1998 during the Attitude Era, when he was one of the main WWF executives negotiating with Mike Tyson during Tyson's heavily-hyped involvement in WrestleMania.

He became a recurring part of his father's on-air feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

In the early days of that angle, McMahon offered support for his father in cameo roles, but he did not become an enforcer like Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson.

McMahon was a color commentator on Sunday Night Heat alongside Jim Cornette and later Kevin Kelly, and announced with Jerry Lawler on the 1999 video game WWF Attitude.

Concurrently with this, Shane took on the role as a regular character, turning on his father by signing Austin to a contract after Vince demoted him to the position of referee.

At Survivor Series, Shane turned heel by turning on Austin and became an official member of The Corporation.

In February 1999, McMahon moved away from the commentary role on Heat and became a key component in the Corporation angle, winning the European Championship from X-Pac.

The two met in a rematch at WrestleMania XV; McMahon got help from his childhood friends the Mean Street Posse and Triple H, who turned on X-Pac during the match, to retain the championship.

McMahon retired the title, wanting to retire as an "undefeated champion".

McMahon later gave the title to Mideon, who found it in McMahon's duffel bag, thus reactivating it.

After WrestleMania, Vince briefly made his second face run and Shane took control of the Corporation.

With wrestlers such as Triple H in this new faction, Shane feuded with his father and a new faction made up of former Corporation members, The Union.

On the UPN pilot for SmackDown!, Shane joined forces with The Undertaker and the Ministry of Darkness to form the Corporate Ministry.

Eventually, Vince was revealed to be the mastermind behind this faction, and his face turn was explained to be a plot to get the WWF Championship off Austin.

Austin met Shane and Vince in a ladder match at the King of the Ring for ownership of the WWF, as in the storyline, Austin had 50%, which was assigned to him by Linda and Stephanie McMahon, upset by Vince and Shane's complicity in the storyline kidnapping of Stephanie by the Corporate Ministry, while Vince and Shane each had 25%.

Shane and Vince won the match when a mystery associate raised the briefcase out of Austin's reach when he climbed the ladder, allowing Vince and Shane to grab the case and regain 100% ownership of the WWF.

In 1999, McMahon was awarded the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Rookie of the Year award but he declined to accept it stating "These are for the boys, not me".

With his ownership reinstated, McMahon shifted his sights to, then babyface, Test, who was kayfabe dating Shane's sister, Stephanie.

Shane disapproved of the relationship, feeling Stephanie was dating "beneath the family's standards", and wound up feuding with Test.

With help from the Mean Street Posse, McMahon made Test's life a living hell.

At SummerSlam, McMahon met Test in a "Love Her or Leave Her" match, with the stipulation being that if McMahon won the match, Test and Stephanie could no longer see each other, and if he lost, McMahon would give his blessings to the pair.

In 2004 he founded Seven Stars Cloud Group, which became Ideanomics where he serves as executive chairman.

On January 1, 2010, McMahon announced his resignation from WWE.

Later that year, he became CEO of entertainment service company YOU On Demand.

On July 12, 2013, McMahon stepped down as CEO of YOU On Demand and appointed Weicheng Liu as his successor, while remaining the company's principal executive officer and Vice chairman of the board until 2021, when McMahon was promoted to Executive chairman.

In 2016, he returned to WWE and appeared as a prominent figure for the next four years.

As a wrestler, he has won the European Championship once, the Hardcore Championship, the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, and the WWE World Cup in 2018.

Since 2020, McMahon appears and wrestles part time with his most recent appearance being at WrestleMania 39 in 2023.