Even The Undertaker was not protected from backstage pranks in WWE.
Whereas The Phenom would go on to be the chief of the WWE locker room and one of the vital revered wrestlers inside the firm, the early 90s have been a unique story.
Talking on the Six Ft Below podcast, the Corridor of Famer recounted how his hat was a frequent goal of two specific pranksters:
“After I first began with WWE, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. They have been a pair little turds. That’s what they have been. They have been simply dangerous. I might exit and have a match. Again then, we’d have anyone there that may deliver our ring gear again. Each time I’d come again from a match, there can be my hat sitting on a case someplace, and it could be poked. The highest of it could be poked in. It’d be like sugar poured all around the prime of it, flowers put in it. Simply foolish issues that they might do to my hat.
I didn’t know who was doing it. One factor with a rib once you’re within the wrestling enterprise is, you don’t promote it. You don’t promote the rib. You don’t let anyone know that the rib’s attending to you. As a result of if it’s bothering you, it’s solely gonna worsen. So I’m simply taking part in it cool and I form of set it up like a lure sooner or later. I had my hat sitting out on the case. My coat was mendacity subsequent to it and I’m form of hiding.”
Undertaker continued, describing how he hatched a plan to catch the perpetrator, which turned out to be Shawn Michaels:
“That is kinda juvenile in its personal proper. I’m form of hiding backstage backstage, watching. I set a lure [and] right here comes Shawn Michaels, simply be-bopping down the hallway, and he stops. He walked in, he sees my hat and he stops. I keep in mind him trying each methods like ‘Is there anyone round?’ I keep in mind him pushing my hat, the highest of my hat, caving my hat in, and I caught him immediately. I used to be like, ‘You son of a bitch.’ And he about pissed himself like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ That was a number of the extra juvenile. I’ve been pretty fortunate.”
Whereas this was a extra infantile prank, some tried to prank The Deadman with extra elaborate ribs. Unsurprisingly, Vince McMahon was one of many names talked about:
“There’s solely been just a few guys that may rib me. Paul Bearer would rib me and Brian Adams would rib me. These are the one two. Yeah, these are the one two guys or no matter. I imply Vince. Yeah, he went out of his solution to rib me. He would spend 1000’s and 1000’s of {dollars} simply to rib me and get a kick out of it. However so far as the expertise, although, the one two guys that may rib me have been Paul Bearer and Bryan Adams.”
As has turn out to be folklore in wrestling, The Undertaker is petrified of cucumbers. Persevering with to recall the uncommon occasions when folks tried to prank him, the Corridor of Famer revealed that cucumbers have been concerned:
“There have been a few shut calls with cucumbers, that received a little bit bit too near consumption, which might have been actually dangerous. However most of them have been fairly innocent.”
The Undertaker Witnesses Vince McMahon Prank
Though the previous World Champion wouldn’t element the character of the McMahon rib that he was a sufferer of, he has been current for most of the Chairman’s escapades over time. On a earlier episode of his podcast, The Undertaker advised the story of one other WWE Famous person who was the sufferer of Vince McMahon’s shenanigans.
H/t to SEScoops.
