10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Undertaker's American Badass Run

2. The Worst Match Of 2001

When you combine the Undertaker€™s big beer belly, mounting injuries, and overall €˜sluggish€™ movement, you got the worst match of 2001: The Brothers of Destruction vs. KroniK at Unforgiven 2001. All four of the participants in this match were billed as €˜super heavyweights€™, which meant that they emphasized power and brawling over technique. However, no matter how you try and spin it, it was a bad match. While some might say that Undertaker had a long hiatus before the American Badass first appeared, that was from September 1999 to May 2000, long before he was in this match. Moreover, he had a great match with Triple H at WrestleMania X-Seven, so his lacklustre matches during his run as American Badass are that much more of a blemish on his record. While it€™s true that the Undertaker has had worse matches than this one (Giant Gonzalez being one of his most notorious opponents), by this point Undertaker had reached a point where he was having some of the best matches on the card, and was expected to be showing everyone in the back how good he was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0DPRL-r6Qo Maybe the blame shouldn€™t fall solely on Undertaker€™s shoulders; Kane, Bryan Adams, and Brian Clark didn€™t do so well in this match either. Sadly, history will remember all four of them as the participants in the worst match of 2001. While WWE doesn€™t really care about third-party opinions, Undertaker not performing to the standard set by his run as the Deadman us yet another reason why the WWE wants you to forget the American Badass.