The WORST Moment From EVERY WWE SummerSlam

32. The Underfaker (1994)

What was that about The Undertaker's earlier years being tantamount to torture? The character itself was iconic and already cherished by 1994, but some of the content fans were asked to sit through was simply unacceptable. Unacceptable, we say! Creatively, 'Taker was bankrupt, and SummerSlam '94 was proof of that.

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He'd been stuffed away in a casket at the Royal Rumble by Yokozuna and countless other heels. Then, Undertaker experienced somewhat of a rebirth and promised to be back. Then, Ted DiBiase flaunted his very own version of 'Taker (played by future biker Brian 'Chainz' Lee). It wouldn't be long until Paul Bearer called this out as a fake and Undertaker vs. "Underfaker" was on.

Fair enough. Book that as a midcard attraction by all means, but putting it above a red hot Bret vs. Owen Hart steel cage match on the same show was astronomically dense from bosses. They had to know that following such a fabulous bout between world class worker siblings with a slow-moving zombie set piece would close SummerSlam on a low note.

Also, get this: 'Taker vs. 'Faker was supposed to run longer than the 9 minutes it did. Bret vs. Owen went over its allotted time (thank God), and that cut minutes from the main event. Not exactly great from the Hart brothers, but they spared everyone a 12-15 minute snoozer later on.

This was a 'one and done' pay-per-view clash for Lee as a knock off Undertaker. It's a small mercy that the WWF didn't turn them into a tag-team or something like that.

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