The Undertaker Names WWE Faction That Should Have Lasted Longer
The Undertaker thinks that there is a group in WWE history that should have had a longer run.
It was in 1998 at SummerSlam in New York City when The Undertaker challenged Steve Austin for the WWE Championship. The two men went into the match as babyfaces and Austin found a way to retain the title in a huge match.
In the weeks that followed, The Undertaker was frustrated and slowly joined the dark side, so to speak, by becoming more of a heel character. By year’s end, he was in full heel mode while re-aligning with Paul Bearer to lead a group known as The Ministry Of Darkness.
The Ministry of Darkness group consisted of the likes of Edge, Christian, Gangrel, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Mideon and Viscera among others. By the spring of 1999, they became the Corporate Minstry because Vince McMahon’s group known as The Corporation merged with it.
Since The Ministry of Darkness ended in the summer of 1999, they only had about eight months as a faction. It was memorable in some ways since The Undertaker did hold the WWE Title while leading the group, but it also ended rather abruptly.
While speaking about The Ministry of Darkness on his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker spoke about how the group should have had a longer run.
“It definitely had the legs to go on if it hadn’t gotten watered down the way it did. Probably a 2, maybe 3-year run out of that. I think there was so much that we still had left that we could have done to push the envelope and people to work with. But it had its place in my run and I’m pretty proud of it because it came at a time where I really felt like I needed an evolution and I think it resonated.”
The Undertaker Didn’t Like When The Ministry Of Darkness Became The Corporate Ministry
On a previous episode of his podcast back in May, The Undertaker explained why he didn’t like when The Ministry of Darkness turned into The Corporate Ministry group.
“How much can I push back really in that situation? But I didn’t like it. I thought as soon as it became Corporate Ministry that it got all watered down and it just ceased to be fun anymore. So, yeah, that was the kind of the beginning of the end right then.”
“We were really pushing the envelope, as far as touching on religion and all these other different [aspects]. We were getting plenty of hate mail over some of the stuff that we were doing but once The Corporate Ministry, [and] there’s 20 people out there… [The nWo] is a great example of where it ended up, you know? Not a super great payoff, in my opinion. It was just kind of blegh.”