10 Fascinating WWE Backstage Facts About The Undertaker
2. Undertaker Choked Kurt Angle Out For Real
This is wild.
There are contradicting reports on exactly when this incident happened. 'Taker has said it was on the infamous "Plane Ride From Hell", but that was in 2002. He's also name-checked Insurrextion 2001 when telling the story, so things get confusing. Calaway has maintained one thing: He was a bit out of it after suffering an ear injury vs. Steve Austin and Triple H in the UK.
2001 it is then...maybe. Mid-flight above the Atlantic, The Undertaker saw Kurt Angle and Vince McMahon brawling. Stirred from his snooze and without context, he charged into the melee and started choking Angle out for real from behind. That's when the icon realised that both guys had been play fighting due to boredom.
Kurt wasn't actually attacking the boss without cause, and so 'Taker's run-in wasn't merited. That poor, poor cabin crew, man - they must've hated it when the WWF roster travelled. It was carnage, and this story is one of the tamest from those UK trips.