The Undertaker's 9 Weirdest WWE Rivalries

3. The UnderFaker

Soon after WrestleMania X, vignettes aired of people having claimed to have seen The Undertaker. Soon, Ted DiBiase introduced an Undertaker, not The Undertaker, to the WWF fans. The UnderFaker, as he was named by the fans, was played by Brian Lee. DiBiase claimed to have brought The Undertaker back to the WWF. Paul Bearer informed the WWF fans that DiBiase€™s Undertaker was an impostor and that Bearer had located the true Undertaker. This played out till SummerSlam 1994 where the two Undertakers faced each other. The rather cheesy build-up to the match featured Leslie Nielsen perform short segments trying to solve the mystery of how two Undertakers could exist in spinoffs of his roles on Police Squad! and The Naked Gun films. Somehow, this match was billed as the main event of the PPV and lasted for a little over eight minutes. The UnderFaker barely landed a blow on the legitimate Taker before several Tombstones ended the contest. Druids came to the ring after the match and carried Lee away in a casket. The resemblance worked against the event. The live audience couldn't tell what was going on. It's obvious both of them were growingly desperate to somehow salvage the match as it continued, but Undertaker's ultimate opinion on it years later would be that it was a good idea on paper that just didn't work in execution.
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