The Undertaker Reflects On “Train Wreck” With WWE Legend

The Undertaker has learned to laugh at one of his more forgettable nights in the ring.

By the time that 2018 rolled around, The Undertaker was well into the ‘searching for a perfect match to say goodbye’ portion of his career.

This saw the veteran have a brief match with John Cena at that year’s WrestleMania to try and flush away the memories of his physical collapse against Roman Reigns a year earlier. He followed that up with bouts against Rusev and Triple H before uniting with Kane one more time to face The Game and Shawn Michaels at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia.

To add to the intrigue, the match was Michaels’ first since being retired by The Deadman at WrestleMania 26 eight years earlier.

However, the match proved to be a disaster. The action was littered with botches and miscommunications from the get-go. Triple H tore his pec early on, and then, to cap things off, Kane’s mask and wig fell off.

To make matters worse for The Undertaker, he returned to the ring in Saudi Arabia in 2019 for an equally career-threatening outing with Goldberg.

The Undertaker Has Learned To Laugh At Saudi Disaster

On the latest episode of his Six Feet Under podcast, ‘Taker sat down with Shawn Michaels, and the pair discussed their match at Crown Jewel. The Deadman began by joking that the pair needed to run it back one more time to redeem themselves.

“I was like, there’s another thing that’s been bothering me, and I think we have to correct it. We got to redeem ourselves, man, we got to run it back in Saudi…

Look, if you ever thought you could, wheels fell off, and then it got ugly… Could it have gone any worse? But now, obviously, it bothered us all that night, especially you, because you’re the one who had to make the decision… You coming back to the curtain? ‘Miss by missed me that much.’ I was like, ‘Well, he didn’t jump out as far as he used to jump out.’

Kane losing the mask. Paul rips his back, yeah. I mean, there was just, oh my gosh, you talk about a train wreck of any match you could ever think…

But it, of course, you know, it bothered me that night and for a while, but now it’s almost like. Right? It’s funny, and it’s a great story to tell, because there’s no one that would ever believe that those four guys, for sure, would have such a cluster.”

Following the debacle, Shawn Michaels headed back into retirement, while Kane wrestled just once more, making a cameo in the 2021 Royal Rumble.

The Undertaker wrestled on four more occasions, following up the disaster with D-X with that infamous match opposite Goldberg before eventually retiring on a high with victory over AJ Styles at WrestleMania 36.

Triple H also contested just four more matches, wrestling for the final time at a live event in Japan in 2019. He officially announced his retirement at WrestleMania 38 after suffering a major “cardiac event” in September 2021.

Despite his retirement, The Undertaker has continued to make occasional appearances on WWE television, most recently taking out TNA World Champion Trick Williams on the July 22 edition of NXT.

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