Saturday Morning Ringside: Vince McMahon takes his first bump (1991)

 By 1991, WWF Superstars of Wrestling experimented with a 3 man broadcast team. Roddy Piper was now a color analyst between movie gigs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage was the other analyst flanking Vince McMahon.

Early in September, former NWA champion Ric Flair came to the company, carrying with him the NWA World title, billed as the "real World champion". Flair had left the NWA/WCW two months earlier in a dispute with WCW executive Jim Herd. Flair & Piper were old friends off camera, and Piper would be Flair's 1st feud during his nearly 2 year run. He would return to the company in 2001.

As you'll see, Piper, after getting battered by Flair, nails McMahon in the back with a wooden chair. It was the first time McMahon had "taken a bump", as they say in the wrestling business.

32 1/2 years later, AEW owner/booker Tony Khan, son of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, took his first bumps on national television last night on Dynamite in an angle with the Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) and Jack Perry, son of the late actor Luke Perry (ex-Beverly Hills 90210, Riverdale), which brought the elder Khan to the ring for the first time. The Bucks' new-look Elite faction is now looking to emulate the New World Order during their peak years (1996-9) as the top heel faction in AEW.