Below are some top WWE news stories of the day, involving The Undertaker.
• During an appearance on Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Stephen Amell talked about how Hulk Hogan used to run the ropes with the side of his body.
This led to The Undertaker saying:
“People hit it differently. Some people hit it differently. I’m not gonna rag on him, but Hogan’s (in-ring) work was not his forte. [Hulk Hogan’s character was based on] his promo and his image.
It’s personal preference on how hard you want to hit [the ropes]. Some people, like Bron Breakker right now, I can’t even keep up with him. He’s like a blur going across. He’s so athletic and so fast.”
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• On his Six Feet Under podcast, WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker talked about WrestleMania 18. He revealed that Vince McMahon gave him two opponent choices – Ric Flair or Rob Van Dam.
Taker picked The Nature Boy, which shocked McMahon. During the build-up to this match, Taker beat up Ric’s son David Flair. This was one of Undertaker’s favorite vignettes from his career.
Here’s what The American Badass said:
“That was a lot of fun. I remember Vince coming to me that year, I didn’t have an opponent. And he comes up to me, he’s like apologizing to me. He goes, ‘Mark, we booked all this out and I don’t have anybody for you.’ He says, ‘You can either have RVD or Flair.’ And nothing against RVD. Because I had really good matches with RVD.
I was like, ‘Flair’. He looked at me like, ‘What?’ I’m like, ‘I want Flair’. And he just… he couldn’t grasp it. I mean Flair had a run in the WWE. But he wasn’t a WWE guy. For me, it’s Ric Flair.
I said, ‘At WrestleMania? Are you kidding me? I want Flair’. Flair was on the backside of his career. But still… that whole thing was a lot of fun. That’s where I went and beat up his kid at the training center. That was one of my favorite vignettes that I ever did.”
On his 1 Of A Kind podcast, RVD addressed Undertaker choosing Flair over him for a match at WrestleMania X8:
“WrestleMania 18 is when I wrestled William Regal and won the Intercontinental Championship belt, and that’s an awesome memory for a lot of us. They made an action figure out of it, which is cool. I have that to remind me. That was awesome. It was the first time I had been in front of that many people — 70,000 people — in Toronto. It was at the Canada Centre, or Air Canada Centre, whatever it was. Anyway, it was an awesome experience for me.
If I would have wrestled The Undertaker, I could see where wrestling Ric Flair at WrestleMania could have been a bucket list kind of thing for the ‘mark’ inside of Mark. There’s no telling.
I mean, I have good matches with everybody, but I could imagine that match being more like, ‘Let’s throw RVD around like a ragdoll, then slip out of something and catch the Van Daminator or something.’ You know, I don’t know.
As far as showcasing, I probably did some cool stuff with Regal. I don’t really remember the match, but let’s just say no regrets.”
