"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome The Undertaker!"
'Taker and Paul Bearer already knew what Michael Cole was going to ask as they made their way to the SmackDown ring for an interview. They would be happy to answer him. Ever since Raw, The Undertaker felt powerful again. He was still afraid of Sting, but his rather elaborate plan had worked.
"Why? Why did you attack Sting on Raw in such a…vicious manner? The blood, the symbol, why-"
Bearer grabbed the microphone and sent Cole back to the announce table. The Undertaker neither needed nor wanted a guilt trip. Paul held the stick as the Phenom spoke.
"I did what I did because I learned something. I did a little research about Sting. I learned that at one time, Sting was considered unbeatable. He took out ten guys at a time. He was feared like me. He was invincible like me. But then the boy had to wrestle. And when he did that, he got beat up.
You see Sting is a human being. He's flesh, and he's definitely blood. And because he's human he makes mistakes. Angry men make mistakes. And now, thanks to me, Sting's one angry man.
The truth is I'm still a little afraid. I can admit it. I still don't know what I'm up against. But I don't think Sting knows either. He's up against The Dead Man! He's fighting the man from the dark side! And I know that when we're in that ring together, he's going to make mistakes. And when that happens, I'm going to destroy him. I showed Monday night that a man who's afraid has nothing to lose. A man who wants to get rid of the thing that scares him will go to great, inhuman lengths to get the job done. And when Sting makes a mistake, I will take full advantage of it.
So I say to Vince McMahon, make the match! Bring on Sting! Give my creatures of the night the fight they want to see: Sting against The Undertaker! Because The Undertaker will make Sting…rest…in…peace…"
Calloway rolled his eyes at the camera and left the ring. He had said all he needed to. And while some may suggest a lack of intelligence on The Undertaker's part for angering the man he feared, there was logic to his thinking. He was like a caged animal lashing out at a man who intimidated him. The only question was if it would work when the time came to wrestle. He desperately hoped that it would.
What The Undertaker said was true. There was a time when Sting was considered unbeatable. But once he stepped out of the rafters and back in the ring, he was still the same man. For Sting, being angry meant truly being at his best as an athlete.
The reason he even put on the black and white paint in the first place was because of his anger. He was angry at the New World Order. He was angry that WCW didn't trust him. He was angry then, and he was angry now. Much like Mike Tyson taking a boxing match to a new level by biting his opponent, The Undertaker had turned a wrestling contest between two huge forces in the business into a more personal battle.
Sting had actually watched the entire promo from up in the rafters. He could've come down and extracted revenge on Calloway for his actions on Raw, but that wasn't the way of the angry Sting. The angry Sting preferred lurking in the shadows and stalking his victim like a silent vulture until just the right time. That time was going to be in a match against The Undertaker, where he could unleash all his anger.
Thanks to the attack on Raw, angry Sting was back. He was no longer the colorful happy-go-lucky Sting trapped inside the body of the Sting from the late 90's, as some say he was in the post-NWO era of WCW. Completely re-embracing the darkness within his soul, Steve Borden was once again at his athletic best and most intimidating psychologically.
But now with his confidence back, so was The Undertaker.
It was going to make for some interesting television.
'Taker and Paul Bearer already knew what Michael Cole was going to ask as they made their way to the SmackDown ring for an interview. They would be happy to answer him. Ever since Raw, The Undertaker felt powerful again. He was still afraid of Sting, but his rather elaborate plan had worked.
"Why? Why did you attack Sting on Raw in such a…vicious manner? The blood, the symbol, why-"
Bearer grabbed the microphone and sent Cole back to the announce table. The Undertaker neither needed nor wanted a guilt trip. Paul held the stick as the Phenom spoke.
"I did what I did because I learned something. I did a little research about Sting. I learned that at one time, Sting was considered unbeatable. He took out ten guys at a time. He was feared like me. He was invincible like me. But then the boy had to wrestle. And when he did that, he got beat up.
You see Sting is a human being. He's flesh, and he's definitely blood. And because he's human he makes mistakes. Angry men make mistakes. And now, thanks to me, Sting's one angry man.
The truth is I'm still a little afraid. I can admit it. I still don't know what I'm up against. But I don't think Sting knows either. He's up against The Dead Man! He's fighting the man from the dark side! And I know that when we're in that ring together, he's going to make mistakes. And when that happens, I'm going to destroy him. I showed Monday night that a man who's afraid has nothing to lose. A man who wants to get rid of the thing that scares him will go to great, inhuman lengths to get the job done. And when Sting makes a mistake, I will take full advantage of it.
So I say to Vince McMahon, make the match! Bring on Sting! Give my creatures of the night the fight they want to see: Sting against The Undertaker! Because The Undertaker will make Sting…rest…in…peace…"
Calloway rolled his eyes at the camera and left the ring. He had said all he needed to. And while some may suggest a lack of intelligence on The Undertaker's part for angering the man he feared, there was logic to his thinking. He was like a caged animal lashing out at a man who intimidated him. The only question was if it would work when the time came to wrestle. He desperately hoped that it would.
What The Undertaker said was true. There was a time when Sting was considered unbeatable. But once he stepped out of the rafters and back in the ring, he was still the same man. For Sting, being angry meant truly being at his best as an athlete.
The reason he even put on the black and white paint in the first place was because of his anger. He was angry at the New World Order. He was angry that WCW didn't trust him. He was angry then, and he was angry now. Much like Mike Tyson taking a boxing match to a new level by biting his opponent, The Undertaker had turned a wrestling contest between two huge forces in the business into a more personal battle.
Sting had actually watched the entire promo from up in the rafters. He could've come down and extracted revenge on Calloway for his actions on Raw, but that wasn't the way of the angry Sting. The angry Sting preferred lurking in the shadows and stalking his victim like a silent vulture until just the right time. That time was going to be in a match against The Undertaker, where he could unleash all his anger.
Thanks to the attack on Raw, angry Sting was back. He was no longer the colorful happy-go-lucky Sting trapped inside the body of the Sting from the late 90's, as some say he was in the post-NWO era of WCW. Completely re-embracing the darkness within his soul, Steve Borden was once again at his athletic best and most intimidating psychologically.
But now with his confidence back, so was The Undertaker.
It was going to make for some interesting television.