12 Stone Cold Steve Austin Moments That Were Genuinely Savage
11. Burying The Undertaker Alive
This one is also a classic, and in terms of theatrics, it's up there with some of the more ludicrous, but still... "Buried alive"!
To get a sense of the brutality, it might also help to recollect some of the backstory; Undertaker brains Austin with a shovel, Undertaker attempts to physically run a dagger through Austin's heart, Kane comes to the rescue and collaborates with Steve to shove Paul Bearer headfirst through a manhole, Undertaker, er, crucifies Stone Cold...
Given all that, fighting each other over an open grave at the Bad Blood pay per view was quite a fitting way to resolve the feud. After an evenly balanced slobber-knocker, a soil-covered Steve Austin concluded the match by rolling out an industrial digger and coating the grave-ridden Taker with soil beyond visibility.
The connotations behind this segment are more chilling than actually watching it. That night, the wrestling industry most likely learned that bringing industrial machinery into a match was more trouble than it was worth. Still, being buried equals death. For all intents and purposes, Stone Cold had The Undertaker murdered.