10 Pieces Of Wrestling Trivia That Will Astonish You
6. The Undertaker Never Won The WWE Championship Cleanly
WWE is a roll-up company now, and WWE is a roll-up company because Vince McMahon is, apparently, a benevolent chap. He just likes to protect his workers.
No, not by providing them with health insurance or any nonsense like that, but by promoting legitimate wrestling holds as theft. These wrestlers "steal one!" They don't earn wins, they therefore don't get over as winners: they are cursed by rotten luck, every week. What are the chances, eh?
Very f*cking high, as it happens. As high as you must be to watch this sh*t.
This modern development is as inexplicable as it is out of control, but it's consistent with how WWE has always done things. It's a carny finish company, then, now, forever, and the "now" part is woefully out of date.
WWE is such a carny company that the Undertaker, the man with the most clean notable wins in company history, never once captured the WWE Championship without some sort of f*ckery attached. The Big Gold Belt is different, but:
He won his first WWF/E Title at Survivor Series 1991 after Ric Flair slid a chair under Hulk Hogan's head.
He won his second at WrestleMania 13 when Bret Hart distracted Sycho Sid.
He won his third at Over The Edge 1999 when Shane McMahon fast-counted his roll-up of Steve Austin.
And, at Judgement Day 2002, in another cute trivia note, he won his fourth by capitalising on the referee's distraction and...hitting Hulk Hogan with a chair.
Time is a flat circle.
Then.
Now.
Forever.