[1996-12-09-WWF-RAW] Undertaker vs Mankind

[Superstar Sleeze]

Undertaker vs Mankind - WWF RAW 12/9/96 No Holds Barred

Man I really enjoyed this match. I watched this maybe 6 years ago didnt seem to leave an impression But I liked this a lot. This was around the time period where they were putting hard hitting NO DQ matches on RAW all the time to compete against Nitro theres a killer Mankind versus Austin also from around this time. 
 

I really liked the hot start from Taker. Old School, Chokeslam and then looking for Tombstone. We are still building to Executioner match so we get some distraction from him. Then after that it is just killer hand vs leg psychology. So we saw the great hand psychology from Taker and again more of the same here. But this time we get some nice leg work from Mankind to counter it.  Because it is no holds barred they are able to use all the fun stuff outside the Ring to attack the hand or leg depending who is on offense. Mankind shined In this match there were the usuals like Nestea Plunge and the Cactus Clothesline but the Cactus Elbow on the bad leg and the drop toehold to get out of a Chokeslam really popped me. We get the Mandible Claw as a counter to the Tombstone which was killer. Then Tombstone when Taker rallies to win. The Executioner attacks which is lame but man this was a great match. The best match was definitely the Buried Alive match which should have been the last match but these two matches after have been great. ****