Within the early ’90s, kayfabe was nonetheless going robust, and the thought of The Undertaker endorsing a presidential candidate appeared like one thing out of “MAD Journal.” Quick ahead to immediately, the place The Undertaker has revealed himself to be very a lot alive and never lifeless, and has been open to sharing extra backstage tales from his profession. Just lately on his “Six Toes Below” podcast, ‘Taker took followers again to his 1992 feud with the late Kamala, and pulled again the curtain on these iconic casket-building promos.
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“We shot 5, six weeks of vignettes for the Undertaker constructing Kamala’s casket,” he mentioned. “It is 28 levels exterior. Now I am within the blacksmith store … as I am speaking, you possibly can see our breath. That is how chilly it was. It was completely depressing.”
‘Taker talked about the shortage of facilities WWE offered for location shoots throughout this time interval, noting that he did not have a heated trailer to retreat to between takes. He additionally remembered filming a cemetery scene within the lifeless of winter that was equally uncomfortable.
“I needed to go sit in Bruce Prichard’s automotive and crank up the warmth and simply wait,” ‘Taker recalled. “These circumstances within the early years– you are at all times in character, you are at all times in gimmick. And imagine me, spandex just isn’t the fabric to be strolling round a cemetery in January within the northeast.”
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The casket match from 1992 Survivor Sequence was the primary of its sort for WWE, with The Undertaker rising victorious and surprising Kamala right into a weird babyface flip. WWE execs had been apparently happy with the casket match, as a result of they did not wait lengthy to drag off one other. Undertaker misplaced WWE’s second casket match towards Yokozuna on the 1994 Royal Rumble, however Rhode Island wrestling followers had been handled to a stay miracle when The Undertaker was resurrected.
