May 6, 201312 yr Author comment_5544079 Speaking of crazy gimmicks, we cut to a black-and-white shot of a cemetery with the opening song in "Phantom of the Opera" playing. This is awesome, and legitimately creepier than anything the WWF ever did for the Undertaker.
June 8, 201312 yr comment_5547173 Dave Brown has that look on his face like he is really trying to hard to put this over as legitimate. Music is a nice touch. Slowest grave digger ever. But Undertaker must be rolling over in his his watching this.
June 9, 201312 yr comment_5547258 One thing that absolutely cannot be denied: the man is what he says he is.
June 6, 201411 yr comment_5605998 I loved this right until Gravedigger started talking. no idea who is playing this gimmick.
October 21, 20159 yr comment_5705995 It's when you see knockoffs like this that you realize just how awesome (in a literal sense) the Undertaker gimmick was and still is. Maybe it's because I know that this guy will be nothing more than one of Lawler's Freaks of the Week, to be beaten and forgotten in the same evening, but I couldn't get into this at all. I can't see how this could be creepier than one of Taker's entrances, either. I'll give them points for actually showing the guy (supposedly) digging a grave, but that's as far as I'll go until I actually see him wrestle, assuming I ever do. What this really makes me want to see is Taker and Percy invade Memphis once the working agreement between the WWF and the USWA begins. I wouldn't doubt that the two of them have wrestled each other while Calloway's been Taker, but I can't seem to recall any sort of program between them. (I remember that they faced off while Calloway was in Memphis as the Master of Pain back in early '90.) Did the Gravedigger turn out to be anyone we should know?
October 22, 20159 yr Author comment_5706099 To me, it was creepier because it was less glossy. The low-budget nature of it made it a lot freakier to me.
October 22, 20159 yr comment_5706132 That's understandable, Loss. I never thought of it that way. Still, there's a reason why Taker's an all-time legend and this guy isn't, unless someone like Nash is moonlighting and not telling anyone. Like I said, I'll wait to see this guy work before I make a judgment, although I don't recall seeing him on the matchlist for the rest of this set. Does anyone know who he turned out to be?
October 22, 20159 yr Author comment_5706152 He didn't turn out to be much of anything. My comment was about how the vignette was produced, not really about Gravedigger as a talent at all. WWE horror is sometimes too saccharine.
February 4, 20187 yr comment_5831148 I'd agree with Loss. This was done with a classic horror movie sense to it, much like the Leatherface video was done with the whole idea of a slasher film in mind. Clearly it's a rip-off of Undertaker, but the way this was executed seems more fitting to that kind of gimmick. As for the idea of this in an actual Memphis studio, I'm glad I didn't see the squash match that this was leading to.
October 30, 20186 yr comment_5870379 The match was every Undertaker match you ever saw except, this time, Nate put a live rat in the bodybag with the poor job guy. I still get the willies thinking about it. The Gravedigger himself might have later become Prince Kharis in SMW. I'm not 100% on that, but I think it's the case.
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