10 Wrestlers Who Lost Touch With Humanity
5. The Undertaker
To the 'Lord Of Darkness' first, and a 1999 full of The Undertaker repeatedly trying and failing to fit into a wrestling world that was decidedly passing him by.
As the genuine magic of the original Kane feud/partnership wound down in 1998, so too did Undertaker's sense of purpose. He'd fought and lost against Stone Cold Steve Austin but turned heel in the process, limiting his options beyond a major character change. Said shift came in the form of the Ministry Of Darkness, but there was a weird and icky feeling around that from the off - he was no longer the conscience and cornerstone of the company but a cult leader who enjoyed controlling mostly average wrestlers.
After that got lost in the molasses of the Corporate Ministry and a short exchange of the WWE Championship with Steve Austin at very least drew monster numbers, he tried to simplify all the silliness and lame lore by forming a big hard b*stards team with The Big Show.
But he just couldn't help himself.
An infamously terrible promo about killing snakes in the desert and wearing each other's skin as coats defined their entire run, and indeed Undertaker's last pre-Biker days. He rambled so long and incoherently that Chris Jericho's negging interruption scanned more as a damaging and devastating shoot.