10 Forgotten Moments In The Undertaker's WWE Career

6. Armageddon Rules

The Undertaker Executioner
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When he wasn't busy trading body bags for Casket Matches or developing other trademark matches like Hell in a Cell or Buried Alive, The Undertaker was doing his able best to carry an over-the-hill Terry Gordy to something passable at In Your House 12: It's Time.

Sadly, both for Gordy's prospects on the roster and the pay-per-view itself, he couldn't do anything with Bam Bam's duff Executioner gimmick or the dull "Armageddon Rules" concept.

Vince McMahon did everything he could on commentary to sell the match as fresh, exciting and dangerous, but it was little more than a renamed Texas Death Match that confused the WWF fans more than enthralled them. For proof, listen to the popcorn fart reaction when the ref starts a 10-count after 'Taker had already pinned his foe.

The result was a formality, and the match a slow-moving disaster that didn't fit with the quicker style The Undertaker had started working by 1996. It might've been better had the WWF kept this for a one-off house show rather than using it to co-headline a pay-per-view.

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