Wrestlers through the years have never made any mistake about how The Undertaker has always been a locker room leader. Upsetting him usually led to bad things in the locker room, and the former Zack Ryder had to learn that lesson the hard way.
Matt Cardona opened up about this incident on the MC! True Long Island Story podcast, and he mentioned how it took place during a tour of Mexico with the WWE. Cardona and Brian Myers had been on their cell phones during the main event of the show and The Undertaker clearly had something to say.
“It was overseas, we were in Mexico. I believe the main event was Vladimir Kozlov vs. Triple H. It’s like the last night of the tour, so how many times have I seen this match? (laughs) All the boys are sitting, watching the monitor and Hawkins and I are on our phone, Hawkins claimed he was just checking the time in this exact instance. The Undertaker gives the ‘Undertaker head snap’. Basically, you know, ‘disrespectful for being on your phone bla bla’, and he’s pretty pissed. I’m like ‘okay, this is The Undertaker, locker room leader, pissed!”
“So afterwards, Mark Henry pulls us aside, he says ‘Go up to Taker, you need to apologise’ and I’m like ‘okay, you’re absolutely right’, so Hawkins and I pull him aside, we apologise and he’s super cool about it. He’s super cool because we were really respectful, but he’s like ‘you really need to apologise to the guys in the main event’, so I’m like ‘okay so we’ll apologise to Vladimir Kozlov’, I don’t even know if we did. Maybe we did but he doesn’t know what’s going on, we love Oleg, Oleg’s the best, one of our friends from the deep south.”
“So Triple H, I’ll never forget, he’s in like a private dressing room and we’re like (mimes knocking at door) ‘excuse me, Triple H? we were on our cell phones during your match, we’re very sorry, it was disrespectful’ or whatever we said. He played it off like he didn’t care but I was like ‘oh man’. This happened when The Edgeheads were not with Edge anymore, it was like the beginning of the end, so I’m not sure that did us any favours.”
Undertaker has always been big on etiquette and respect, something that has always been said about him. While times change and generations have different feelings about things, people know the respect Undertaker commands when he enters the locker room. You can watch the podcast below.
h/t to WrestleTalk for the quote
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