Loss Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 The final few minutes of the match are decent, but these two have had way better. Diesel is awesome here and is the highlight, getting Bret DQ'd purposely and flipping off Undertaker before leaving ringside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronos Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Meh. Nash's flipping the bird is indeed awesome, as is Paul Bearer reacting to the fact that Taker can't win the belt. What's with Taker's mask, anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kowking Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Broke his orbital bone and needed protection, wasn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Awfully boring match. Taker really wasn't much of a worker at all yet, or just wouldn't work past the dead-man gimmick just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_Briscoe_Is_My_Hero Posted February 3, 2011 Report Share Posted February 3, 2011 Taker didn't hit his stride until like 97 or 98, then REALLY kicked it into gear the next decade after discovering MMA. Bret had a painfully bad 1996. It starts here with not being able to beat the Undertaker, and on top of that was an eyelash from losing the title. Diesels outside interference is all that saved the title. Diesel's attitude before leaving for Atlanta was a lot of fun, certainly something different in the world of WWF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 I just watched this in full to review for 411, I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by this. I'd always heard this match get absolutely panned, but I thought it was actually quite good, once you get past the early portion of UT trying to smother Bret. This is basically Bret working his type of match (wrestling based) and Taker working his sort of match, but it actually comes off pretty well. Bret is great at working over UT's leg, and it's probably as much as UT had ever sold up to this point. Bret works in some nice heel touches, and even the FIVE MOVES OF DOOM works here, with Bret using them trying to keep UT down, but he keeps sitting back up. UT had spent almost four years stuck working with monster heels (Kamala, Gonzales, Yoko, Bundy, and Mabel) where all he had to do was let the heel work him over and work in his basic spots, which is what he does here, only Bret is wrestling him rather than Mabel or Yoko throwing their weight around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankensteiner Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I long considered this match underrated. Think I even wrote a long review of it somewhere (maybe the SC board). It's a smartly worked match if you can get past the absurdity of a "techincal" wrestler going up against a Zombie. One of the only times 'Taker had a chance to go up against a technician during this phase of his gimmick, which makes the match interesting in and of itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbaugh Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Watching Bret on the 95 yearbook and here, he really does a lot of heelish shit to keep his belt -- you can see some of the mannerisms that made him so entertaining as a heel during the Hart Foundation run in the next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Undertaker actually looks human with Bret continuing to work on the leg. This is much below their 1997 efforts though. The crowd is very split at times between both guys. In the end Undertaker gets Tombstone for the clean pin but Diesel interferes. Bret don't look too good on that finish. Diesel being so cocky in giving Undertaker the finger was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 The shittiness of this match took me by surprise and left a bad taste in my mouth for the whole PPV that had The Gunns/BodyDonnas and Ahmed/Jarrett both being far more entertaining than expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 I remember this match being a total bore, but the closing stretch we see is actually pretty good. Bret rips off the Undertaker's protective mask and rams him into an exposed turnbuckle, which pisses the crowd off mightily. UT catches him with a tombstone, but Diesel yanks the referee out of the ring for the DQ. Paul Bearer's shocked reaction to the announcement that the belt doesn't change hands on a DQ is absurd, and one of those WWF booking tropes that always made me roll my eyes. The WWF was actively experimenting with a Japan-style title scene with 4-6 guys all with equal claim to being the champion, rather than building entirely around one lone babyface. It didn't last, but the WWF title scene is more interesting than it's been in awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Final stretch was better for me than I remembered too. I am glad that Bret got rid of that goofy mask of Takers and Diesel is really bringing the attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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