If youre doing a list of the campiest, cheesiest moments in The Undertakers vaunted career, there really is no competition for the top spot. The entirety of the 1994 Royal Rumble casket match against Yokozuna and the mind-numbing hijinks afterward are nearly beyond comprehension. Its too difficult to explain in detail what happened to a person who has never seen the match, so its best to suggest forcing yourself to watch the entire match and aftermath. Suffice it to say: theres a 10-on-1 effort to close the casket on Taker; the urn is opened and starts smoking (which Vince assumes is the urns power escaping); we are treated to a video presumably from inside the casket (which also has started smoking at this point); and Undertaker levitates from a video screen into real life and floats out of WWE for seven months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2lwYPWNEw Maybe mind-numbing isnt a strong enough term. Nonetheless, this 20-year-old incident is something that will likely never be seen on WWE television again, unless its in an angle where Triple H is using it as evidence of Vinces instability to wrest control of the company away from him. Otherwise, this will remain as the Mount Everest of cheesy, silly and flat-out ridiculous moments, not just for The Undertaker, but for WWE as well.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
