Although they might have feuded on-screen, WWE Corridor of Famers The Undertaker and The Godfather have maintained a shut, and well-documented, friendship behind the scenes. Throughout a current look on “Perception With Chris Van Vliet,” The Godfather opened up in regards to the roots of their friendship, which started in late 1989.
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Following his debut sequence of matches with Jerry “The King” Lawler at america Wrestling Affiliation, Godfather – then referred to as The Soultaker — discovered himself face-to-face with a brand new set of opponents, together with Dutch Mantel, Steve Austin (later “Stone Chilly”), and The Grasp of Ache, whom the WWE Universe later got here to know as The Undertaker.
“I simply labored a program with Lawler. They did not know what to do with me. I am as inexperienced as Kermit the Frog. ‘Taker has been within the enterprise a pair years now, in order that they stated ‘Hey, we’re gonna deliver this huge, tall white child into work in opposition to you. He is been within the enterprise a pair years. Perhaps we are able to do one thing with you.’ So [undertaker] is driving in from Texas [to Tennessee]. I by no means get an opportunity to satisfy him. All the things I’ve completed up to now is what Jerry Lawler has informed me to do within the ring. I do know nothing, simply what any individual’s telling me what to do, which is a complete different story.”
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Upon assembly Undertaker within the ring for the primary time, Godfather recalled the in-ring motion being relatively bodily. At one level, Undertaker retrieved a chair, which he then whacked over the pinnacle of The Godfather. This hit was apparently so arduous that Godfather noticed stars and birds whereas in his dazed state. From there, Undertaker requested Godfather if he needed to proceed through the “straightforward manner” or the “arduous manner,” to which Godfather confirmed desire to the previous possibility.
Regardless of beforehand labeling their first match as “horrible,” Godfather moreover famous that it nonetheless in some way sparked a friendship that has now carried forth 35 years.
