10 Promos That Totally Changed Your Opinion Of A Wrestler
3. The Undertaker Becomes That Bloke Down The Pub
Before the promo:
He was the Undertaker. His 1999 exploits were corny and farcical, but that is definitely a subjective and retrospective criticism; his programme with Steve Austin broke and broke forever the per-segment Nielsen rating, on June 28, 1999, and his declining in-ring level didn't matter. The WWF of early-to-mid 1999 was incomprehensible goofy trash, but in a sobering stat, the company was never more popular. 'Taker and the Ministry, speaking in tongues, were at the heart of it. This was such WrestleCrap-calibre spooky bullsh*t in the era of nu-metal that they may as well have called them the Dunjin Ov Doom.
But it was over.
After the promo:
The WWF formed the Unholy Union of 'Taker and the Big Show in a bid to make the Big Show less sh*t. On the August 16, 1999 RAW, 'Taker told us all a story, in which he tested what Show was made of by taking him out to the desert on a pair of Harleys with no food, water or gas for the ride home. Show claimed he'd eat a snake and then his sleeping mentor, or some absolute b*llocks, but 'Taker didn't sleep. Here, 'Taker evolved into the insufferable bullsh*t artist who had seen Bruce Lee fight Chuck Norris in Way of the Dragon.
It's a Mandela Effect special of a time-bending promo, because it only takes a minute or two for Chris Jericho's merciful interruption, and yet it feels like days.
He became Biker Taker not long after because he had to.