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32. 1994 | What Was Meant To Happen Afterwards

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SummerSlam 1994 was headlined by a miracle of a match. That’s not a good thing, because the Undertaker versus fake Undertaker was so interminably dull that its extraordinarily goofy quality wasn’t even perversely entertaining. Surely, a match based on two Undertakers battling it out and built in part by Leslie Nielsen would have been something to look at. Nope. It was just sh*t. 

The future Chainz, Brian Lee, played the imposter Undertaker. Imagine the super-plodding version of the early 1990s Undertaker with none of Mark Callway’s presence - and make that even more boring - and you have the imposter Undertaker. The match was so legendarily awful that Vince McMahon, who was really taken with the idea, was convinced to scrap at least one planned rematch. He probably made that decision two and a half minutes into the first one. According to the June 6, 1994 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Vince had even grander plans than that. 

The two Undertakers were meant to team up at one point, making Callaway and Lee the original Brothers of Destruction. 

This wouldn’t have been very good, would it? Can you imagine an undead mortician impervious to pain playing the Ricky Morton role of a babyface in peril? Can you imagine Chainz drawing on his bond with the audience and convincing them to cheer him over to the corner? 

The actual Undertaker would then have to explode with a hot tag, and that wouldn’t have worked either. He was hardly a house afire. His house was on fire once, but that’s not the same thing. 

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