10 Crazy Wrestling Angles That Shouldn't Have Worked (But Did)
9. The Ministry Of Darkness Abducts Stephanie McMahon
One of the best parts about the mid to late ’90s and the era of wrestling colloquially known as the Monday Night Wars, what is the need the public need for an edgier and edgier product whilst in the throes of a battle for ratings supremacy.
During this period, The Undertaker, working as a heel cult leader type gimmick of the Ministry of Darkness, was part of an angle involving the McMahons and eventually Stone Cold Steve Austin. At one point, this would see Stephanie and a limo which was supposed to take her home, only to find out that the driver was none other than 'The Phenom' himself, uttering those three famous words in his demonic Ministry voice, “Where to Stephanie?!”
Before the camera cuts out, you just hear her screaming "DAD!", and out go the lights.
This kind of gripping television was one the closest times WWE came to blurring the line between Sports Entertainment and a dark, adult-orientated soap going, going down, as it did, in one of the most notorious periods of The Undertaker's lengthy career.