Paul Bearer and The Undertaker mostly kept to themselves during the early days of their tenure with WWE - the notable exception being a semi-regular alliance that Undertaker formed with Jake Roberts late in 1991. With Roberts's chilling attitude and complete lack of morals, he made a perfect compliment to The Undertaker. The tandem first aligned when Roberts attempted to help The Ultimate Warrior in his feud with 'Taker. Promising to help teach Warrior about the dark side, Roberts instead joined forces with the Phenom and tricked Warrior into being bitten by a snake. The hellish tandem then turned their attention to Randy Savage, crashing his wedding celebration with Miss Elizabeth and terrorizing the pair. Roberts took things too far when, after losing to Savage on an episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, he threatened to hit the "Macho Man" or Elizabeth - whomever he saw first - with a steel chair. Undertaker stopped him as he brandished the weapon, and the two later came face to face on 'Taker and Bearer's Funeral Parlor talk segment. When Roberts angrily asked Undertaker whose side he was on, he simply said, "Not yours!" Roberts attempted to attack Undertaker, but the Phenom ran him off, turning face for the first time in his WWE career. He would go on to defeat "The Snake" at WrestleMania VIII and soon become one of the most popular superstars in WWE.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
