15 Biggest BURIALS Wrestlers Never Recovered From

6. Diamond Dallas Page (By The Undertaker)

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If there was one person possibly even more disappointed in the state of the WCW Invasion storyline than literally every other wrestling fan, it was The Undertaker.

The way 'The Deadman' handled just about every former Atlanta talent in 2001, you'd think he bought into the rivalry as a shoot. Did he not see Shane McMahon rocking up in Panama City in March? Had he not logged on to WWF.com that fateful day to be greeted by the graphic that Titan had finally beaten Turner? Surely he'd want to know that his favourite motorbike company and kicked Dubya See Dubya's ass?

Either way, he made up for lost time when they started trying to take over his yard, even though chief rival Diamond Dallas Page had paid the price to even enter it.

The former WCW Champion was one of the few high ticket stars willing to surrender his massive AOL/Time Warner contract in order to chance his arm on a WWE run, and he was so enthusiastic that he didn't even boo-boo face it when he revealed himself as the mystery stalker of Undertaker's then-wife Sara. All to, in his words, be "made famous" simply by working the company cornerstone. 

'Taker humbled Page over and over again on television and pay-per-view over the summer months, including a contest on Raw where Dallas did the job to Sara herself and a total squash of a SummerSlam tag team cage match with respective partners Kane and Kanyon. DDP spent the next year or so saying things weren't bad things, but good things, but he was lying through his beautifully-maintained teeth. 

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