10 Times WWE Didn’t Learn Their Lesson

10. The Underfaker

The Undertaker died at Royal Rumble 1994. Can a dead man die? This philosophical quandary wasn't the only head-scratcher - the resulting angle was so mystifyingly awful that it has circled back on itself to become a camp delight. That is, until you re-watch the match - it is deathly dull, appropriately enough.

Ted DiBiase found The Undertaker not long after his disappearance. He was alive! Or back to being dead. He had rematerialised, in any case. Except, he hadn't. This was DiBiase's attempt to cash in on the WWF's resident mortician. Paul Bearer disputed this new, much shorter Undertaker, and then located the real Undertaker, who vanquished the impostor during a match which has somehow shunted out Diesel Vs. Mabel as the worst main event in SummerSlam history.

The angle was terrible, even by 1994 standards - a critical and commercial bomb. So, WWE decided to repeat it in 2006. Only this time, it was his brother, Kane, who had to deal with an impostor. This doppelgänger (portrayed by the future Luke Gallows) had no discernible motivation; after terrorising the real Kane, and handily defeating him at Vengeance 2006, the real Kane simply threw the fraud out of the ring on the next night's RAW.

The booking wasn't just derivative, nonsensical and silly - it was 50/50!