8 Ups & 6 Downs From The Undertaker's WWE Career

5. Giant Bloody Gonzalez

Of all the inept monster heels Undertaker faced during his WWE come-up, this 7'7" goober was the absolute worst.

Fairly remembered as one of the least effective giants in company history, Giant Gonzalez stumbled into WWE in January 1993, eliminating 'Taker in that year's Royal Rumble. A decent rub in theory, but the big fella was dead on arrival. An embarrassing bodysuit airbrushed with muscles and hair made it impossible to take him seriously, and he was calamitous from bell-to-bell, with physical stature his only positive attribute.

Him and Undertaker met at WrestleMania IX, working an embarrassing, graceless seven-minute mess that concluded when Gonzalez was disqualified for attacking 'The Deadman' with chloroform. This wasn't the end of it, though. Lord knows what Vince McMahon saw in that bout to make him think it warranted a rematch, but he put it together for SummerSlam '93, and the two unseasoned brutes somehow conspired to create a clash worse than their 'Mania catastrophe.

There are a handful of other Undertaker feuds bad enough to warrant their own 'Down.' As the most egregious of all, Gonzalez gets the nod. It was a nadir, not only for 'The Phenom,' but the New Generation era as a whole, and those responsible must never be forgiven.