Another WCW burial that The Undertaker carried out was on Mike Awesome, but this time it was a backstage burial. He apparently went to management and badmouthed the big man, which then resulted in the former WCW / ECW star being relegated to jobs on Velocity and eventually a 2002 release. Could it have been a case of Taker playing politics and wanting to keep down a wrestler with a similar build and style to his own? It certainly looked that way. Awesome later said "Being in the WWE sucked. I hated it. You had to kiss everybody's ass... You had to be on your political toes all the time. You would not believe the backstage politics. You were getting stabbed in the back constantly. I was so happy when I was told I was gone."
