The Undertaker Admits WWE Dream Match Was A Train Wreck
The Undertaker will go down as one of the greatest WWE stars of all time but no matter how good you are, things can always go very wrong in the ring.
At WWE Super ShowDown in October 2018, The Undertaker had one of the final matches of his career as he took on old rival Triple H one more time. That match went as planned with Triple H picking up the win a few months before his big WrestleMania bout with Batista.
However, the Australia match proved to be the appetiser for a huge tag team match one month later in Saudi Arabia as Shawn Michaels came out of retirement to team with Triple H to face The Undertaker and Kane and it’s safe to say all four men probably wish they hadn’t bothered.
The match went wrong very quickly with none of the star’s regular competitors by this stage in their careers. Triple H tore his pec, Kane’s mask fell off, and Shawn Michaels’ legacy was forever tarnished.
Speaking on his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker gave his take on the match and admitted himself, Kane, and Triple H had to persuade Shawn Michaels to make his comeback for the bout that they all thought would be an easy payday in Saudi Arabia:
It started in Australia. So that’s where it all got started was in Australia when I worked Triple H. So I worked Triple H. Shawn Michaels is in Triple H’s corner. Kane is in my corner. Triple H goes over. At the end we have, hey, look at all us veterans. We’re all happy. Everybody’s happy, soaking it up, eating it up, and then Glenn and I chokeslam them both and kicked their ass which sets up the Saudi Arabia show.
Now we’ve talked Shawn Michaels, who said he was not ever going to wrestle again, and had no intentions of, and did not want to, we’re like, ‘Dude, you could do this in your sleep. It’s you and Triple H against us. How many years of ring time? We could all do this in our sleep. This is going to be easy money.’ We talked Shawn into it finally. Ain’t nobody sweating it. I don’t even think we started talking about anything until intermission.
There wasn’t any thought like anybody calling anybody, ‘Hey, what do you think about this or what do you think about that?’ We just rolled up into Saudi Arabia, like, man, we’re about to tear the roof off. This is going to be awesome. Oh my gosh.
The Undertaker Left Angry After Saudi Arabia Disaster
The Undertaker admitted, however, that things quickly went off the rails and all four men were left very unhappy with how things panned out:
It just started out bad and just completely went off of the rails. (After the match), we’re all p*ssed. Everybody’s p*ssed. Shawn is p*ssed because he came out of retirement. Paul is p*ssed. He had a WrestleMania match that year and he tears his pec. Glenn loses his mask. I lose my pride (he laughs) and I’m already filming Last Ride.
That’s going to be part of the documentary. I remember them coming at me and I had to go sit by myself for a minute to process what we had just done or didn’t do and they’re coming up to me to get my thoughts on it.
I’m just like, ‘No, just leave me alone. I need a minute. Just leave me alone.’ I don’t think we ever got an interview, It was awful. Everybody was apologizing for everybody else. It was just a complete disaster and train wreck. It was just another example of how difficult it becomes without reps.
As bad as that match turned out, things only got worse for The Undertaker when he had another disaster in Saudi Arabia just 7 months later.