The Undertaker's 17 WWE Survivor Series Matches - From Worst To Best
7. Tag Team Elimination: The Million Dollar Team - Ted Dibiase, Greg Valentine, The Honky Tonk Man & The Undertaker Vs. The Dream Team - Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Jim Neidhart & Koko B. Ware (1990)
The Undertaker's debut! The evil millionaire Ted DiBiase promised a mystery partner for his Million Dollar Team. If wrestling fans online existed 25 years ago, they probably would have guessed a dozen names without anybody picking The Undertaker. Nobody knew a thing about this guy, unless you had watched him work for companies in WCW as Mean Mark. That was a different character, though, and to a lot of fans he was just this brand new rookie. The Undertaker eliminated Koko B. Ware early on with a Tombstone. It was such an unpolished move at the time and he did it on the side that wasn't facing the hard camera. You could tell he was new just by that. A few minutes later, he also eliminated Dusty Rhodes with a double axehandle attack off the top rope. Shortly after that, Undertaker was eliminated by countout when he decided to go after Rhodes since Rhodes was distracted by Undertaker's manager Brother Love. "He looks scary, he's big, but he's dumb" was how Roddy Piper summed up his performance. I always thought it was mistake by not having The Undertaker win the match. You build up this mystery partner, this guy is a spectacular performer just by looking at him and then he loses in the match by a countout? That's always stood out as weird to me. In today's WWE, a guy like that would definitely be booked as the winner. The match is pretty average, but it's huge when it comes to the historical significance related to The Undertaker's career.
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