Shane McMahon's Biggest and Wildest Bumps in WWE Career

Shane McMahon may not be human.

It's at least worth exploring the theory after all the astonishing falls and breathtaking dives he has walked away from during his WWE tenure. The SmackDown Live commissioner has made a career out of being the daredevil of the squared circle, taking unnerving risks for the sake of an in-ring story.

And a recent real-life incident will only cement the idea that Shane-O-Mac somehow has nine lives.

Angelica LaVito reported for CNBC.com Thursday: "McMahon was rescued off the shore New York's Gilgo Beach on Wednesday after a crash landing." He emerged uninjured.

McMahon thanked "the man upstairs" and the helicopter pilot and rescue crew in a tweet afterward.

The jokes about this being McMahon's biggest bump to date have already flooded the internet. It's only fitting that a man who showed no fear with elbow drops through tables and leaps from great heights be at the center of a story like this.

He's an uncannily lucky man.

But WWE fans knew that long ago. The wildest stunts he has pulled over the years are proof of that.

7. Ambulance-Style Coast to Coast (Survivor Series 2003)

One of McMahon's signature moves is risky under any circumstance. The Coast to Coast has him set up a foe in a corner, usually with a trash can atop them, before he leaps at them feet first from the other side of the ring.

At Survivor Series 2003, in an Ambulance match against Kane, Shane-O-Mac added height to that move by using an emergency vehicle as a launchpad.

McMahon did appear to have some cushioning for his fall, but leaping from the roof of an ambulance on to a cement floor is still mighty dangerous. He crashed into Kane, a garbage can and some sort of box to provide a typical Shane-O-Mac moment to the first WWE Ambulance match.

6. Cage Dive (Raw, Oct. 25, 1999)

A steel cage couldn't separate McMahon from his enemies.

As The Mean Street Posse terrorized Test inside the structure, McMahon came running in. He played cavalry in his usual devil-may-care style. Rather than storm through the cage door, Shane-O-Mac climbed to the top of the cage.

He leaped on to two of The Mean Street Posse with a crossbody that electrified the crowd.

McMahon had two men to catch him this time around to lessen the danger of the dive. But he would go on to leave his feet from much higher starting points in later years.

5. The Phenomenal 1's Victim (SmackDown, March 14, 2017)

Distance was not the wild part of the climax of the beating McMahon took from AJ Styles ahead of WrestleMania 33—the landing spot was.

Styles battered the SmackDown chief in a parking lot. To finish him off, The Phenomenal One sent McMahon's head through a car window.

The glass was surely gimmicked to make this spot safer, but anytime one's face goes through a material that shatters, there's reason to be concerned. Shane-O-Mac is quite familiar with glass not doing what it's supposed to do during a wrestling stunt.

Years before being on the wrong end of this attack, McMahon infamously flew through two plates of glass.

4. Twice Through the Looking Glass (King of the Ring 2001)

McMahon must have said some prayers just before his bout with Kurt Angle at the 2001 King of the Ring. He could have been seriously injured after a set of suplexes.

Angle sent McMahon crashing toward the glass King of the Ring set, but it didn't break right away. Instead, McMahon fell on his head, and the two men retried the move. On the second go, Shane-O-Mac flew through the glass, with shards spilling everywhere.

Moments later, Angle flung his foe through another pane.

McMahon's neck could have been wrecked during any of those suplexes. He set himself up for an easy concussion. And that glass could have sliced him up.

Even so, this wasn't the riskiest night of McMahon's WWE career.

3. Elbow Drop from Hell (WrestleMania 32)

Everyone saw it coming. The daredevil McMahon was in a match famed for its dangerous stunts. Fans knew Shane-O-Mac was going to jump off the top off the Hell in a Cell at WrestleMania 32.

That didn't make it any less of a breathtaking sight.

McMahon leaped from the massive steel structure and crashed into an announcer's table below. It was the night's biggest moment, a vintage McMahon move to steal the show.

The move is wilder when one considers that McMahon was in his 40s and a father at this time. That didn't matter. The old, know-no-fear Shane-O-Mac came to life when the lights came on.

2. A Fall for the Ages (SummerSlam 2000)

It's hard to remember anything from McMahon's SummerSlam 2000 match against Steve Blackman beside its stunning ending. The Hardcore Championship bout climaxed in a stunt worthy of an action movie.

After both men climbed high up a steel tower, Blackman whacked his rival until his grip on the bars loosened and he plummeted toward the ground.

Forget the safety measures WWE had in place, seeing a man fall that far is frightening. And he did it backward, no less.

Something could have easily gone wrong. WWE officials had to be holding their breath the entire time. There's a reason we haven't seen another Superstar do something like this again.

That is except for Shane-O-Mac himself the following year.

1. Big Air, Big Show (Backlash 2001)

An elbow drop from the top rope offers a painful crash landing. What McMahon did against Big Show at Backlash in 2001 was absurd.

In order to defeat the giant in their Last Man Standing match, McMahon climbed a 50-foot tower and dived on to his opponent.

The height, the human being waiting below and the wooden landing spot all made for a dangerous spot like no other. It's incredible neither he nor Big Show suffered a major injury here.

McMahon's highlight reel is full of moments that make one gasp, but nothing tops this.