1. The Undertaker Vs. The Undertaker (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIF7m_h0mlM The Undertaker is and always has been a figure of mystery and mind games in the WWE. Created at the height of the cartoon and superhero era of the late 80s/early 90s The Undertaker gimmick was presented as a creepy figure with borderline supernatural powers far beyond anything your average funeral attendant would possess. In the same era as Papa Shango, The Repo Man and I.R.S no one batted an eyelid at what was an equally silly gimmick. These men were wrestlers after all, and I guess you could ask a similar question about why would a repo man come to wrestle in his day job clothes...which looked like a rejected costume for The Riddler? There is one main differences between The Undertaker and those other Federation years era wrestlers however, and that is that Mark Callaway is a good wrestler who pulls off the gimmick better than anyone else did. Yes, The Undertaker gimmick is arguably better than that of The Repo Man or Skinner, but in the wrong hands no other wrestler would have made it the legend it has become. If the formally known Mean Mark Callous had been called Papa Shango he would have probably played it much the same way and he would have still been successful. In this sense you can say that the cream would rise to the top despite what gimmick they have, although that isnt to say that there havent been a few dud Undertaker moments over the years. The Grim Reaper gimmick with all the supernatural guff that goes with it has over the years allowed lights to mysteriously go out, vanish from coffins and on occasion be in two places at the same time. The most hyped and infamous time this happened was when The Undertaker faced himself in the main event at SummerSlam 1994. This was ridiculous. The movie Superman 3 (you know, the one with Richard Pryor in it) wasnt seen as one of the great movies in history (I loved it though) and the central promotional aspect of that film was Superman vs Superman. Like it or hate it, it was a nice idea, and one that was achievable because everybody and their dog knows that Superman is fictional. The WWE, especially at this stage in the mid nineties was still going under the premise that what you are seeing is real. Yes, it can be said that the commentators in the match, and the angle at the time acknowledges that one of The Undertakers is not the real original Undertaker, but the idea isnt blasted as stupidity as it should have been. Even Ted DiBiase, who was the manager of the fake Undertaker, had a look of shock on his face as there were two identical Undertakers stood opposite from each other. The spectacle was made all the more ridiculous when the late Paul Bearer summoned the real Undertaker was a massively oversized urn, which was clearly oversized so it could house a pretty hefty and powerful flashlight to make a mysterious bean of light which was never really explained come from within it. Seriously, what was that beam of light supposed to be? As for the match itself, it was short for all the hype and fairly flat as the real Undertaker dwarfed his alleged doppelganger in a not particularly entertaining match. Even Vince McMahon himself on commentary commented that the audience were in awe as they didnt know what to make of what they were witnessing. Just in case the fans couldnt tell that the taller, more capable Undertaker was the real one they used the old Mortal Kombat trick of having the two grapplers be a palette swap of each other, with The Undertaker with purple gloves and the Underfaker in the old school grey.