WWE’s Late Change Led To Infamous Undertaker Match

The Undertaker could have avoided one of the most controversial matches of his career but WWE made a last-minute change involving Goldberg.

In the final regular one-on-one match of The Undertaker’s legendary career, he clashed with Goldberg at Super ShowDown held in Saudi Arabia in 2019. And it’s a match that almost everyone wishes never happened.

Goldberg was concussed very early into the bout and the match never recovered. As the match progressed at a snail’s pace, Goldberg almost dropped The Undertaker directly on his head with The Phenom only narrowly avoiding serious disaster. The Undertaker picked up the win but the match is one remembered for all the wrong reasons.

But it almost never took place at all.

WWE Brought Goldberg In For The Undertaker

Speaking to Metro, former WWE star Elias revealed that he was figured into plans to work with The Undertaker at that show and suggested it would have been safer if he had:

We did a thing on Monday Night Raw, where I sang a song, he came out, he Tombstoned me and it was the whole thing. I can remember Vince [McMahon] said, “Hey, you’re gonna be working with Taker”. Taker pulled me aside, he’s like, “Hey, man, we’re gonna go do some business at Saudi, we’re gonna have some fun”.

And dude, I’m game for anything, I’ll do whatever, I’m ready to have some fun and kill it, you know? I want to make my stamp here and really do something with The Undertaker.

I think they called in Goldberg. And they had that infamous match in Saudi. And that match is what it is, whatever. My personal opinion is, it would have went way better with me and [Undertaker] and a lot safer, probably! But, you know, that’s that’s how history goes sometimes.

Another former WWE star has explained how badly they felt for The Undertaker after watching the infamous bout.