Loss Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 The Undertaker's first television appearance. Brother Love managing him and the roses being spread over the jobber after the match are a creepy touch. They definitely made him seem scary from the very beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 The Update segment from a week or two earlier emphasized the "Kane" part more than the Undertaker part, oddly enough. Andre the Giant's ill-fated appearance as a participant in the Royal Rumble is mentioned--God knows how that would have gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 First squash for the Taker. He did have a presence even in this early going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 It’s got to be Cain! Undertaker hasn’t got into his tattoo faze yet. Does the rope walk and a Tombstone finishes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 My favorite part of this was Honky ducking the question of how he'd try to stop Taker in the Royal Rumble. He finally answers, "A little song-and-dance routine", which is so typical of him. Deep down, he has no chance if Taker gets his hands on him and he knows it. Brother Love is quite effective here as a mouthpiece, and I'm left to wonder again how much better he would have gotten if they hadn't signed Percy and developed Paul Bearer instead. I must have missed the roses being spread over Mancini's body; I know there was no mention of it on commentary. Andre/Taker would have been a dream faceoff in the Rumble, however brief it may have ended up. In fact, Taker could have made a huge name for himself by eliminating Andre singlehandedly. I would have posted the results from the Portland, Maine card on December 27 that was mentioned in the insert, but Graham doesn't list them. The known matches were Kerry/DiBiase, Bossman/Heenan, LOD/Orients, Rockers/Power and Glory, and Jake/Martel. The other four wrestlers he mentions are Savage, Snuka, Tony Atlas (as Saba Simba), and Shane Douglas. My guess at matchups is Snuka/Savage and Atlas/Douglas, with Shane playing the heel in the latter. Oddly enough, a lot of the guys on this card are working in Auburn Hills, Michigan on the same day, and there's no mention of the Portland card being a matinee. (In case you're wondering, December 27, 1990 was a Thursday.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Good to know where the "Kane" thing they used years later came from anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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