Often times angles and storylines in pro wrestling get started and are then dropped without any explanation or reason, and one of those involved The Undertaker and his “son.”
There have been a lot of storylines in pro wrestling where someone turns out to be related to another pro wrestler, sometimes in odd ways such as when Jason Jordan was revealed to be Kurt Angle’s son or perhaps when Hornswoggle was announced as Vince McMahon’s son?
The storyline’s usually don’t go down well with fans and it seems one such angle didn’t go down well with Triple H and he was not afraid to say it. Recently on the latest episode of “Wrestling With Freddie,” former WWE writer Freddie Prinze J revealed that The Undertaker would be involved in one such storyline. While feuding with Edge, Prinze was asked to bring in someone from OVW for The Undertaker to destroy. After a meeting where they came up with ideas and the idea was for a young talent they had chosen to claim to be Taker’s son. The storyline was approved by Michael Hayes and promos began to air for the angle. Triple H didn’t think it had a chance in working.
“So we’re in the production meeting and everyone’s putting their segments through. Here comes our segment and nobody said boo the last two weeks or even three weeks of TV that we got out of it. Not one agent. Not Kevin Dunn. Not Vince. Not anybody. All of a sudden out of nowhere, Hunter says ‘Are we seriously going with this guy?’ Remember, this is not a Pay-Per-View match. This is not a guy that would get any sort of offense on The Undertaker. It would be just a build up for The Undertaker to have something to do so he could smash this guy and then get rolling over to Edge. He says, ‘Are we really going to go with this guy?’ Vince goes, ‘What do you mean? What’s the problem?’ He says, ‘He looks like he cuts my grass, man’, and Vince laughed.
Literally all the air went out of the room. Like you could just feel it. Because now it’s embarrassing to the company, well, at least from my perspective. You put something on TV for three weeks and then you remove it with no explanation, there’s no way you can do that. Like that doesn’t happen on any show. You could replace someone like on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air back in the day. Vince laughs, and then Hunter laughs, and then Kevin Dunn laughs, I mean he sells for it. You would have thought it was the best joke ever. So I’m like, oh man, this is dead. We’re dead, and Vince goes, ‘All right, dump it.’”
Freddie Prinze Jr., Wrestling With Freddie
A very interesting look into the production meetings behind some angles, it asks the question however of why doesn’t this happen more often with the more ridiculous angles we have seen over the years? Either way it would seem that this idea was better off left on the production room floor.
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.)
