10 Most Awkward "Didn't Get All Of It" Wrestling Moments

6. The Undertaker Botches The Big Boot

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The idea was better than the execution.

This was all very cheeky, but given the duration of the show on the whole, the Undertaker Vs. John Cena "match" at WrestleMania 34 was a more-than-decent piece of business as an angle, a "moment", that broke up the card nicely and didn't impose on the overall experience.

The storyline that built towards it was stupid, insofar as the premise. After failing to win the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber matches, Cena thought his chances of working 'Mania that year were over. Hilariously, he publicly entertained the idea of entering the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal before implicitly not doing that, because it was some bullsh*t for jobbers. He'd rather miss it altogether.

He then challenged the Undertaker who, in a cool, unique development, didn't answer the challenge before the show. In a brilliant fake-out moment, when the lights went out, after it was suggested 'Taker had turned up after all, Elias walked out with a sh*t-eating grin.

The second lights-out reveal led to an impromptu extended squash, during which 'Taker exposed why he couldn't work a proper match: he had hips like your nana and couldn't do the big boot.

Yes, 'Taker botched a fifth of his moves of doom squash, but as far as "getting a geezer with a f*cked hip who makes women cry because he has a thing with cucumbers he needs to work through on the 'Mania card", there was a certain magic to this regardless.

 
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