10 Wrestlers Who Couldn't Pull Off Interesting Gimmicks
4. Fake Undertaker
The disappearance of The Undertaker and the subsequent debut of the false Undertaker in 1994 is a universally-maligned storyline, and for good reason - nobody ever believed that Brian Lee was the real 'Phenom', and when he and the authentic model actually clashed, they stunk up the main event of the second-most important show of the year.
Was the angle doomed from the beginning, though? Lee's talent was dwarfed by that of Undertaker's, and the discrepancy between the two men couldn't have been more pronounced. Had there been a more capable star on the other side of the ring, maybe the program would have been more successful. Maybe it would have continued past SummerSlam.
In 1997, was Kane really much more than a fake Undertaker? He had a different costume, but he used the same moves, showed the same invulnerability, and dominated competition in the same fashion. Perhaps the fake Undertaker could have had similar success... or at least done as well as fake Sting.