![]() Much like the crowd, they didn’t know what to make of the guy. Accompanied by resident non-wrestling heel Brother Love, Undertaker walked out to a wonderful expression of shock from commentators Gorilla Monsoon and Roddy Piper. ![]() When it came time for the match, Dibiase proudly announced his fourth member: the Undertaker. Though fun piece of trivia, originally it was going to be Bad News Brown, but then he got let go and they went in a different direction. Ware at his side while Dibiase had Rhythm ‘n’ Blues (Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine) and a mystery partner. ![]() Dusty had Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, and Koko B. Ted Dibiase was leading the Million Dollar Team against Dusty Rhodes’ Dream Team. Well, at least they got some use out of that idea seven years later.Īnyway, the giant egg wasn’t the only big mystery with Survivor Series. They’re mainly only remembered for including his original name, Kane the Undertaker. While Survivor Series 1990 is well-known as the Undertaker’s debut, he actually appeared a couple times earlier in some WWF Superstars tapings that didn’t air until after the fact. At least now they would be building such a character from someone with actual experience. I’ve written before that Zeus’ time in WWF was actually completely awesome, but he wasn’t really a wrestler, so they had to use smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that he was all sorts of terrible. In a way, he was an evolution of Zeus, the nigh-invincible movie character/actor who challenged Hogan about a year earlier. Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, Earthquake, and so on were based on the idea of, “Look how big this guy is!” Hogan and Warrior were cartoony characters – comic book superheroes – and they needed someone just as over-the-top to combat them. WWF had a bunch of monster wrestlers to feed to Hulk Hogan, and to a lesser extent the Ultimate Warrior, for years, but they usually revolved around the idea of being a big dude. An old Wild West mortician from Death Valley who would be portrayed as an unstoppable monster. It was a gimmick Vince McMahon had wanted to use for a while. Afraid that he was going to be wrestling as “The Egg Man” or something equally as stupid, he was relieved when Vince McMahon called him up and asked, “Am I speaking to the Undertaker?” Obviously, something big was supposed to happen with it at the PPV, but what? Calaway didn’t know, but had a strong suspicion that it was going to be him. As they built up Survivor Series, they would show a giant egg displayed near the ring.
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