7. The Undertaker Debuts The American Badass Gimmick - WWF Judgement Day 2000
Prior to Judgement Day, vignettes began to air with small children playing in a schoolyard and a creepy voice saying "we're here," with minimal clue as to who (or what) was to come. As the Judgment Day main event Iron Man match between Triple H and The Rock wound down to its finish and Degeneration X were making their presence felt, the vignette played again and barreling down the aisle on a custom Harley-Davidson motorcycle as Kid Rocks American Bad Ass played was The Undertaker. However, not dressed in black or purple garb, this undertaker was wearing a long leather duster coat, red bandanna, blue jeans and black work boots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVQR9Cs6If8 The idea that a man would ride a motorcycle to the ring isn't strange. Everyone from Bill Dundee in the Memphis territory to the Road Warriors at Summerslam 1991 and the entire WCW roster to Road Wild in Sturgis, South Dakota has done it. But riding a bike to ringside during a match and promptly dispatching of an entire ring filled with top-tier talent? That's pretty amazing.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
