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

10. Getting Eliminated By Maven At The 2002 Royal Rumble

If you look at the Undertaker€™s Royal Rumble history, you know that he has a pretty good record for eliminations and survival. But more importantly, whenever he was eliminated, it was always be someone who was already a big star or whom WWE was interested in pushing. Let€™s look at his record year by year, before the year things got strange: 1991: Eliminated by Hawk & Animal 1992: Eliminated by Hulk Hogan 1993: Eliminated by Giant Gonzalez (not an official entrant, but WWE were trying to make a big deal out of him) 1997: Eliminated by €˜Stone Cold€™ Steve Austin 2001: Rikishi (who was being built as a main-eventer at the time) In all of these cases, those who eliminated the Undertaker were credible Superstars, and his elimination was a big deal. So who eliminated Undertaker in at the 2002 event? Maven, the first male winner of WWE€™s Tough Enough. It was bad enough that €˜Taker was eliminated by such a green rookie; what made it worse was that Maven eliminated him in a cheap fashion, by taking advantage of a distracted Undertaker, who was already fighting the Hardyz and Lita. It should come as no surprise that WWE doesn€™t want you to remember that this happened. Undertaker was eliminated by one of the newest and most inexperienced wrestlers in the company at the time, instead of someone who was a much bigger star, as was the norm for him. Maven became nothing more than a lower mid-carder before leaving, which made the elimination even more useless in hindsight.