On this date in WWF history: Tracy Dali accuses The Undertaker of infidelity

by Jesse Holland on Oct 10, 2011 10:00 AM EDT in History

He may be the dead man, but according to Tracy Dali, the "American Badass" still had some life left in him somewhere.

On Oct. 10, 2002, during an angle of monumental stupidity, the WWE creative team almost did what no wrestler ever could: Kill The Undertaker.

That's because someone, somewhere, thought it was a good idea to have Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman, who were feuding with "Big Evil," try to get inside his head by bringing the B-movie actress onscreen to accuse him of cheating on his wife Sara, who was back at the funeral parlor pregnant with little evil.

Further proof that just because it's old, doesn't make it classic.

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We're in another era now, and I don't have problems with guys breaking keyfabe or whatever

But I don’t like it when they do so with the Undertaker. Maybe it’s me being sentimental and all, but…He’s the Undertaker, the Deadman from Death Valley. He’s not supposed to have a wife, family, adulterous affairs, a life outside of being the Undertaker, anything.

And, on a semi-related note, how the hell did the Undertaker become the motorcycle Undertaker in the early 2000s? I stopped watching before the transformation, but how was that explained? I know he was off of TV for a few months after a loss and then came back with that new persona, but how did they explain him going from, well, the Undertaker to a biker dude?

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 12:08 PM EDT reply actions

Before The Undertaker got injured in September 1999, he was slowly transforming into the biker character that he portrayed in 2000-2003, as he tried to move away from Vince Russo’s Ministry Of Darkness silliness.

by Keith Harris on Oct 10, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

How was that explained in-story, though?

How did he go from being a necromancer to a biker?

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions

The Undertaker gave this infamously bizarre promo out of the blue on the August 16th, 1999, Raw, before Y2J interrupted him, to start his metamorphosis into a zombie biker:

“Play time’s over, sit down and shut up. Later on tonight, there’s gonna be a match for the tag team titles between the Acolytes and X-Pac & Kane, whatever whatever, it’s not important. The fact of the matter is, this Sunday at Summerslam the winner of that match will come face to face with this. And to make sure that my man was right, this week I put him to the test. I had Paul Bearer call out to California – San Fernando Valley to some associates of ours at the Local 81 – Paul said we’re gonna need two bikes for a ride in the desert. The guy said ‘Brother Paul, now we know that the Dead Man can handle it, but I don’t know about the Big Show. It’s August, it’s 120 degrees in the middle of Death Valley.’ He says ‘the only things that survive in the desert are the cold-blooded…the snakes and the lizards.’ Paul said ’that’s all right, and in one of those bikes that you’re setting up for us, I want you the Big Show to only have enough gas to get to the middle of the desert and not get back.’ So we’re on our way – we get to the middle of Death Valley – 120 degrees, the Big Show’s bike runs out of gas. And I pull up next to him and I ask him this question: ’It’s 120 degrees, how are you gonna survive?’ He looks me straight in the eyes, without hesitation, he says ’I’m gonna wait ‘til you go to sleep, I’m gonna stab you in the back, I’m gonna cut your flesh off, make a coat out of it, and I’m gonna eat YOUR flesh until I find food.’ I said ‘Good answer big man, but I don’t sleep,’ and I drove off and left him. I waited on the outskirts of the desert. Two days later, he walks out with a snake necktie and lizard boots, carryin’ his Harley-Davidson on his shoulder. The point of the story is this. What used to be known as SummerSlam will now be known as Armageddon, and whoever shows up…will be hurt.”

by Keith Harris on Oct 10, 2011 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions