In 2018, The Undertaker and Triple H squared off at Super ShowDown in Australia in what was meant to be their last match ever. There was no need to revisit the rivalry after their classic WrestleMania bouts, but Vince McMahon had bigger plans.
The bout ended with Shawn Michaels helping Triple H defeat the Deadman, leading to the announcement that HBK was coming out of retirement for a tag team match at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia.
Taker enlisted Kane for a Brothers of Destruction reunion and what followed was...well, one of the worst matches in WWE history.
Talking on the latest edition of his podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer acknowledged that, while everyone involved had good intentions, they all realised it just didn't work as intended.
"It started in Australia. 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, like, 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.'"
"It just started out bad and just completely went off of the rails. [After the match], we’re all pissed. Everybody’s pissed. Shawn is pissed because he came out of retirement. Paul is pissed. He had a WrestleMania match that year and he tears his pec. Glenn loses his mask. I lose my pride [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."
During the same conversation, The Undertaker made a case for why the Brothers of Destruction tag team is worthy of a place in the WWE Hall of Fame.
"I think there’s people with less resumes that are in the Hall of Fame," he said, "but, we’re both in the Hall of Fame so it’s not something I’m losing much sleep about. I don’t really wanna give another speech [Laughs]."
The Phenom added, "But to answer your question, yeah, I think the Brothers of Destruction belong in the Hall of Fame. Again, I’m not gonna lose much sleep. If it happens, my speech won’t be nearly as long as when I went in on my own."
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