Ranking Every Undertaker Match Type From Worst To Best

3. Buried Alive Match

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Aside from the Casket Match, the Buried Alive match is undoubtedly the most successful match stipulation directly related to 'The Deadman's gimmick... which is why it's kind of baffling that there have only been five in WWE history.

A contest in which the objective is basically to do exactly what it says on the tin, the match ends when one superstar successfully buries his opponent alive. With a grave sight set up in the aisle way - complete with a tombstone, some fake grass and a big pile of soil - the concept never has a problem setting the mood and, more often than not, it makes for a ridiculously fun brawl in which the two superstars batter each other for survival.

'Taker's debut Briued Alive match against Mankind (at the aptly titled In Your House: Buried Alive) is probably the finest that the contest has to offer, but his sophomore outing against Stone Cold Steve Austin two years later was a deliciously violent affair worthy of the Attitude Era that it belonged to.

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