10 Times WWE Babyfaces Were Heels Backstage
6. The Undertaker
A fetishised favourite for reasons quite complicated to parse, The Undertaker's early 'American Bad A*s' persona allowed Mark Calaway to play an exaggerated version of himself for the first time in his ten year WWE run. At the height of the Attitude Era, all the major stars were "themselves with the volume up", so it was only fair 'Taker got his turn.
He'd also had quite enough of losing (or even selling), thanks very much, and realised the only way to reestablish himself as one of the company cornerstones during a white hot 2000 was to take a leaf from his old character's book and bury the f*ck out of a hot prospect.
Kurt Angle had already embarrassed himself for the good of the cause, engaging in some side-splitting skits to do with 'The Deadman's beloved Titan bike (and a moped of his own), but that wasn't the only reason he deserved more than the 7:34 extended squash he was handed in what was supposed to be another coming out party at July's Fully Loaded.
The placement of the card in the company calendar was important; the Olympian had won King Of The Ring just a month earlier in keeping with his continued - and well-deserved - push. Bigger than he'd ever been and not even troubling himself to spit his tobacco out before a promo at the time, Angle's trajectory was just another aspect of Sports Entertainment Undertaker gave less than a single f*ck about at the time.