The Undertaker says that in 30 years of working for Vince McMahon, McMahon conceded he had been wrong exactly one time, and it was about a cage spot.
Asked on the latest episode of Six Feet Under about the biggest argument the two ever had, The Undertaker first pushed back on the idea that they always agreed.
“I think people’s perception is that me and Vince were in lockstep together through that whole 30 years. But we butted heads a lot. Sometimes our visions on the product and the business were polar opposites, and there were a lot of times where I would choose the hill that I wanted to die on.”
“A lot of them I’d have to assess like, okay, if I do this, this needs to be done this way, this is how he wants me to do it. Do I fight him on this, or do I just wait?”
The one he lost, and was later told he had been right about, was the Punjabi Prison match.
“I will give you an argument that I fought and I lost, but this was the only time that he ever came back to me and said that I was right and he was actually wrong. Out of 30 years, there was one time, and that was the Punjabi Prison match.”
The match was originally planned with The Great Khali before Big Show replaced him. The disagreement was about how The Undertaker would escape.
“Vince had this idea about he wanted us to go through the gate or something while we were fighting, and that’s how I would get out of the cage. Or I had the idea that I wanted to jump from the inner cage to the outer cage and get out that way. I thought, man, that’ll be such a cool visual. I said they won’t expect it. It’ll look amazing, and we went at it and back and forth, and it finally got to the point where I don’t want to hear anything else about it. This is the way we’re going to do it.”
“I’m like, fine, it’s going to suck, and when it sucks, it’s going to be on you. But he didn’t appreciate that either.”
He was right, and he did not need to say so.
“Anyway, we did it the way he wanted it, and it was flat. I mean, it was flat. And so I go back and I just looked at him. I didn’t have to say a word. He knew, and he goes almost under his breath, he goes, yeah, yeah, I think you were right on that cage spot. I was like, really? He just turned around and walked off.”
“But that was such a victory for me, to actually have him admit that he was wrong on something. Didn’t happen very often.”
The Undertaker faced Big Show in the first Punjabi Prison match at Great American Bash in 2006.
