10 Great Wrestlers And Their Terrible Impersonators
4. Undertaker Fake Undertaker
Brian Lee didn't have much luck in the WWF. He's mostly remembered as 'Chainz', one part of the stable Disciples of the Apocalypse, a biker gang who feuded with Puerto Rican gang Los Boricuas in the Wrestling Observer's Worst Feud of the Year in 1997. The feud was called Gang Warz. It was rubbish. However, this wasn't Lee's first foray into the WWF. He actually made his debut a few years earlier, in 1994. The good news is, this run led to him headlining Summerslam that year. The bad is, it was as the Fake Undertaker. The Undertaker had disappeared from WWF TV for the better part of 7 months in 1994, taking time off after the Royal Rumble to allow Mark Calloway's back to heal. In his absence however, Ted DiBiase, the Million Dollar Man and the person who had first (kayfabe) brought The Undertaker into the WWF, announced that he had found a new Undertaker, one he controlled with money rather than his usual urn. It was an odd storyline, which culminated in The Undertaker returning for a match with the imposter at Summerslam. Even though the spectacle of the Deadman's resurrection was cool (if utterly campy), the match itself was a glacially-paced dud and all fans were happy to see the back of Lee's greenhorn 'Taker. Speaking of the Brothers of Destruction...