10 Marriages WWE Acknowledged And Turned Into Storylines
4. The Undertaker And Sara
For a decade, the Undertaker was a macabre figure on WWE television, the Deadman who competed in casket matches and told his opponents to Rest in peace. Then he went down with injuries in late 1999 and returned in mid-2000 as Biker-Taker, a chopper riding, leather-wearing American Bad Ass. Gone was the image of an other-worldly figure, and instead he was a brawling biker. This humanization of the Undertaker peaked during the Invasion storyline when it was revealed that he had a wife, Sara (although they wouldnt formally marry until a little further into the angle) and she was being stalked by an unknown person. That person was soon revealed to be a debuting Diamond Dallas Page, who made the connection for fans that Taker had finally shown weakness by looking to protect his wife from harm. Of course, the angle, which started promising enough, tanked badly and ruined DDPs image by shifting from him using Sara to get to Taker to Page actually being obsessed with her and ending with Sara pinning the former three-time WCW champ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5suiJi4jqc Thankfully, Saras involvement in WWE storylines did not go on for very long, but her presence had a huge impact. Just ask DDP.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
