10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 1994 Facts
2. The Wrestler Who Helped Train The Fake Undertaker Earned A Full-Time Job
"Primetime" Brian Lee was temporarily poached from Smoky Mountain Wrestling to play the role of the impostor Undertaker. He did look the part from about twenty feet away, but matching Mark Calaway's every nuance in the role was a nearly-impossible task. Not that WWE didn't give it the old college try.
In late-spring 1994, a 20-year-old Connecticut enhancement talent was called up to WWE's offices to bump around and play victim for Lee as he tried to co-opt Undertaker's moveset and characteristics. Said wrestler was paid $150 a day for about a week to let Lee practice being The Undertaker on him. On the last day, Lee, in full Undertaker costume, tossed the wrestler around with Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson, and the real Undertaker watching on.
That wrestler? WWE jobber Peter "PJ Walker" Polaco, who would later be made over as "The Portuguese Man O' War" Aldo Montoya, and down the line as Justin Credible. Though his work with Lee did impress, it was apparently Polaco's Portuguese background that intrigued officials the most, and led to that desirable jock-strap-over-the-face gimmick.