411’s WWE Greatest Moments Report: Stephanie McMahon

-Written: 7.6.26
-Source: A&E
-Run Time: 30 minutes (w/ commercials)

-Plug: HHH Greatest Moments

-Michael Cole is our host and narrator!

10. Daddy’s Little Girl
-Armageddon 99

-The match that changed wrestling history forever as it’s Vince vs. HHH and Stephanie turns on her father. That puts HHH and Steph together on screen, which leads to feelings and becoming a couple and now HHH is in charge of WWE creative. It was a brilliant decision as HHH was being pushed and that was the next logical step in making him the top heel in the business. We also learned that Steph crushed as a heel.

9. Queen of Queens
-SmackDown: March 28, 2000

-Steph says she always wanted to wrestle and had been training for some time. She gets her first match against Jackie for the Women’s Title here and with the help of DX she gets the win. Good stuff as she had the look of someone who had no clue what she was doing. “To be women’s champion when I didn’t deserve it was like a big F U to everybody.” Truth!

8. Bow Down
-WrestleMania XXXII

-Steph addresses the Mania crowd in Dallas as part of HHH’s entrance. HHH says it meat the world and something he will never forget.

-Commercials!

7. Queen of The Mountain
-No Way Out 2001

-Trish vs. Steph in a shockingly good match because both women were way early in their attempts at being wrestlers. KO notes both were never main characters at that point, but they were put out there on their own. Steph says everything hit and the story they told actually worked. Steph says she is grateful for the experience and gives Trish her flowers.

6. Her Highness in Handcuffs
-RAW: July 21, 2014

-Daniel Bryan is out injured so the Bryan/Authority feud picks up with Brie vs. Stephanie. This was fun as Brie had a ticket and was in the front row and Steph slapped her. The police arrest Steph and she goes all out in selling it. Steph: “I was put in the back of a cop car and it felt real enough to me.”

-Commercials!

5. The New Boss
-SmackDown: July 18, 2002

-Stephanie McMahon is named as the new GM of SmackDown (opposite Eric Bischoff on RAW). Steph notes she had laryngitis and lost her voice. Steph and Bischoff had good chemistry against each other. Eric says he loved working with Steph and says she was smart, physical, and intense. Steph loved being GM and called it awesome.

4. Laying The Slap-Down
-WrestleMania XXXI

-Stephanie and HHH bask in the Mania crowd and take credit. That brings out The Rock and Steph has to cut off his balls and slaps him in the face. Rock still laughs as the penis joke he made. HHH notes that Steph isn’t afraid to slap the crap out of people. They don’t cover the payoff here with Rock bring Ronda Rousey into the ring.

3. The Queen’s Revenge
-SummerSlam 2014

-Back to the that Steph/Brie feud as they have a match at SummerSlam 2014. Steph’s fast match in 10 years and she turned in a great performance that got the crowd on her side. Nikki turns on Brie and Steph gets the win. Steph: “I’m Stephanie McMahon, I’m not going to lose.”

-Commercials!

2. Defending The Throne
-WrestleMania XXXIV

-Steph says she finally got her Mania moment at XXXIV in the mixed tag with HHH against Ronda and Kurt. Took three years and swapping Rock out for Kurt to pay off what happened at Mania XXXI. Match was great as they made sure Ronda was the star of the match. Steph taps out clean and is grateful that she got to help launch Ronda’s career.

1. A Dynasty Defined
–Hall of Fame 2026

-Weird that it’s number one for Steph, but HHH going into the Hall of Fame (twice) wasn’t even Top 10 for him. No matter, as Steph opened the ceremony at this year’s Hall of Fame and gave a good speech I thought. She didn’t go hour plus like HHH and then finishes by cutting a Steph promo to end. The big thing I took for the speech is how much she loves her daughters. That’s the main thing.

-As always you can argue with the placement of some these and wonder why some were even included. The Brie feud getting two spots seemed excessive, but otherwise just another fine episode. The nostalgia factor wasn’t as high for me on this one other than the few times they went back to the late 90s, early 2000s.

-Thanks for reading!