10 Reasons WWE's Ministry Of Darkness Failed

While it may seem slightly ludicrous to highlight unsavoury moments in an era of time that gave us Mae Young giving birth to a hand, WWE Network content on the Ministry may be lacking due to the storyline taking things a little too far, even within the realms of the Attitude Era.

The Undertaker has always pushed the limits of realism, with resurrections, thunderbolts and superpowers galore, but it could be argued that the devil-worshipper character of 1999 may have been a little too real, resulting in a fanbase that was unsure how to react. Gone was the looming, menacing Undertaker of yore, replaced by a seedy and leering prince of darkness with a misogynistic bent. After an angle in which The Undertaker appeared to hang the Big Boss Man with a noose at WrestleMania XV, the group descended into an uncomfortable ritual of threatening the female wrestlers of the WWF. On the post WrestleMania Raw, Undertaker and his crew approached the women’s champion Sable in a predatory fashion, cornering her and making lewd jokes before Undertaker began to choke her, causing McMahon to make the save.

From this point, the group kidnapped Ryan Shamrock and made some uncomfortable remarks, before ransacking Stephanie McMahon’s house and ruffling through her ‘private things’. This finally came to a head when The Undertaker tried to marry Stephanie in an ‘unholy union’, pronouncing that he would like her to bear his offspring...

There are limits to what viewers can accept within the wonderland world of sports entertainment, and many fans may have been scratching their heads as to how they were supposed to react to a group of cruel creeps.