The Undertaker comments on a botched WWE finish that made Vince McMahon go “batsh*t crazy”

While speaking on the Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker and Kurt Angle discussed their match that took place on the July 4th 2002 edition of WWE SmackDown. The duo discussed how they had to reproduce the match’s finish after SmackDown went off the air…

Undertaker: “So the finish was again, you end up in Hell’s Gate, yeah, and then you stack me, right? Or you stack me up. And it was supposed to be a simultaneous 1, 2, 3 on you and me, tap. We did at the same time. One, two, three, tap, right, yeah. They missed the camera angle… They didn’t get the tap. And that was the end of the night. The bell rings. People start leaving. And Vince loses his mind. He is batsh*t crazy.”

Angle: “We had to wait till the whole arena left. And then we had to place all the employees in a corner of the arena to make it look like this whole arena. And so they have one camera shot on the opposite side showing our match.”

Wrestling Observer July 8th, 2002: "The finish of the Undertaker vs. Angle main event was botched. After the building cleared out, they taped a second ending shooting tight and just filling in seats right in front of the camera."

See if you can spot the spliced footage 😂 pic.twitter.com/CdeS1qcnkw

— Tom Campbell (@TomCampbell) July 4, 2024

Undertaker: “It was all like the roadies and the ring crew. And they, until they had that one shot, filled up, and they were getting signs off the ground. It was like, Oh my god, okay, this is going to be horrible. Like, we just had this killer match and we’re gonna, we’re gonna ruin it like this. And, right, man, when they edited it, it was like, that’s the magic of TV.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)