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In reality, we know Triple-H is Vince’s son in law. He married Steph after a storyline brought the couple in close proximity to each other several years ago. Hunter and Steph recently had their first child.

Having Triple-H be the “son” of Vince is a payoff that makes a lot of sense, from a business perspective. For one thing, it would reaffirm Helmsley’s entrenched status in WWE. With Vince’s daughter as his wife and a storyline that makes him Vinnie’s son, he has too much tying him to WWE for him to ever again bolt from WWE to a rival promotion.

HHH is already family, so he can be trusted more than most. Plus, it would provide a certain “ick!” factor to the storyline, an element Vinnie-Mac seems prone to favor over years and years and years of RAW broadcasts.

Trouble is, the “incest” aspect of this – even though fictional – might leave some viewers squeamish. While chances that HHH being the bastard son of Vince are high, it’s not a lead-pipe cinch, either. I mean, the thought of HHH and Steph being brother and sister after having a kid together, even though it’s fictional, is enough to make most viewers wet their padded panty in disgust.

ECW’s C.M. Punk would be a great choice if you’re looking for a payoff out of left field. Punk’s image is the exact opposite of the McMahon Family’s, and his revelation as a “bastard” son of Vinnie-Mac could drive storylines forward for years to come.

Trouble is, simply because C.M. Punk is so young, it would be a huge risk to bestow such a title on the kid. After all, what if, like previous highly-promoted wunderkinds like Kurt Angle, he had a falling out over a contract dispute, and switched to another promotion like NWA-TNA? One can only imagine the cannon fodder that would give Vince’s storyline son in real-life, behind-the-scenes negotiations, or that such a wrestler could carry with him when switching to a rival promotion.

No, something like that would be like entrusting your Orlando real estate to Eugene. For that reason, I just can’t imagine a younger superstar like C.M. Punk being awarded this kind of storyline honor.

C.M. Punk, therefore, is unlikely to be Vince’s fictional “bastard child.” Still, the chemistry when they teased this storyline on ECW was fun. Trouble is, I really see this all resolving RAW rather than ECW or SmackDown.

I always enjoy Mick Foley. There’s not a better comic on the WWE roster, plain and simple. And Mick could have fun with the revelation, talking about his struggle to reconcile his image of his parents… especially his mom… with the idea that Vince slept with Mrs. Foley.

It’d be great fun with Mick, something worth watching from the comfort of theater seating. But there are some problems with it.

Most obviously, Mick’s a part-timer now, at best. He might show up for the payoff, kind of like Stone Cold did for Saturday Night’s Main Event a couple weeks ago, but he’s not coming back full-time again, so it’d be the waste of a good storyline.

So, I doubt it’ll be Mick.

SummerSlam has come and gone and the secret of who on the WWE roster is Vince’s son remains. That’s disappointing.

The main reason it’s disappointing is that it’s not that compelling a mystery that one would want to see it play out beyond one pay-per-view. Sure, it was a graceful way to twist the storyline that began with a tacky, ill-timed “Who Murdered Vince?” storyline, which was dropped, only to be replaced by the “too close to the original storyline for comfort” take, which was more of a “Vince Faked His Own Death” storyline. That was given a sharp left turn and now we’re into familiar “McMahon Family Drama” territory… Vince has a “bastard” son who is a WWE superstar.

Let’s hope the storyline pays off soon so that it can advance before the whole thing starting feeling played out. It doesn’t yet, but will very soon. I’m gonna start posting some of my favorite possible resolutions to this storyline in this space. It could be more – or less – useful than a collection of cabinet hardware. You decide.

Terry Bollea, better known to wrestling fans as Hulk Hogan, knows his son Nick has been living fast, but is now praying Nick won’t be living up to the other half of that famous expression, “Live fast, die young.”

Nick Bollea was traveling in his Toyota Supra “at a high rate of speed” with a friend, at around 7:31 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, when the car apparently lost control, slammed into a median, flipped and the rear of the car impacted with a palm tree.

A police vehicle rolled up right after the crash and immediately called in the accident. The yellow Supra was totaled and at this hour it is unclear whether it was Nick or his friend who was at the wheel at the time of the accident. However, since the car belonged to Nick and the Hulk Hogan family, the driver is believed to have been Nick.

Nick, who has become somewhat famous himself while appearing on his father’s VH1 reality show, Hogan Knows Best, has transformed from the younger of the two Hogan kids, living in the shadow of his famous father and his older sister, who would goof around for attention, including wearing animal masks, to an emerging adult with his own set of talents, hopes, frustrations and problems.

Now, though, both Nick and his friend were flown by medical helicopter from the scene of the accident and other than being informed that both are in either “very serious” or “critical” condition, the extent of their injuries are unknown at this hour.

We at Pro Wrestling Views ask readers to keep the entire Hogan family, and Nick’s passenger, in prayer in the coming hours.