Underneath the stewardship of disgraced former Chairman Vince McMahon, WWE had its fair proportion of controversial, infamous, and downright notorious moments from 1984 throughout McMahon’s official departure earlier this yr. One of many extra notorious moments that followers might not bear in mind, nonetheless, occurred on the Nice American Bash 2004, the place The Undertaker proceeded to bury his long-time supervisor, Paul Bearer, alive in a crypt of cement.
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Whereas discussing the 2024 Nice American Bash on “One thing To Wrestle With,” Bruce Prichard, who was a member of the WWE artistic staff on the time, took co-host Conrad Thompson by means of the storyline. As Prichard defined it, the thought for the angle all took place as a must get Bearer, then affected by gallbladder issues, off TV.
“Paul Bearer had reached a degree the place touring for him was very tough,” Prichard stated. “He had placed on a lot weight that touring by means of airports, simply getting up and down [wasn’t feasible]…he may go to the ring, however he could not get into the ring. He was in very poor well being and wanted day off. He wanted to go away and he wanted to get assist.
“So [we decided to] kill him off. And the thought was ‘Effectively, what if we truly killed him off?’ And it was this…truly, I feel this was Dan Madigan too, the concrete crypt. And Vince liked it. He thought ‘Nice. We’ll bury him stay on tv. Concrete crypt.’ And, you already know, a few of these begin off as ‘Ha ha’ after which they…grow to be actuality. That is while you go ‘Oh, this sucks.'”
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Ultimately, Prichard may discover no redeeming qualities within the angle, irrespective of which method one selected to have a look at it.
“It was horrible,” Prichard stated. “It was completely…it was a horrible concept, horrible execution.”
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