Undertaker: I Don’t Think I Had One Good Match With Giant Gonzalez, I Should Have Been In The Ring With Yokozuna

The Undertaker hated his match at WrestleMania 9.

In a match that was described as the worst of his career, the Undertaker was involved in a feud and multiple matches with the Giant Gonzalez before their match at WrestleMania 9. The Deadman has spoken about how hard it was to wrestle the giant and that no matter how much advice he gave him, things never turned out right for both men’s chemistry in the ring.

In a conversation on his Six Feet Under podcast, this is what the Undertaker had to say about Gonzalez and who he wanted to face at the grandest stage of them all.

“I should have been in the ring with Yoko. Instead, I’m riding out on a chariot with a big black vulture. That big black vulture was there to pick the bones of that sorry match. It’s amazing I survived the early years of my career. The opponents…I’m not going to name names, but I’ll name that one because I’ve talked about it a lot and he’s deceased anyway. Giant Gonzalez, wow. He made Khali look like Lou Thesz. It was such a struggle. It wasn’t his fault. It was what it was. You can only do what you can do. On paper, what a viable threat to the Undertaker. He’s a foot taller than me. He was damn near 7 foot 8 and had the muscle suit with the fur. Once I was done, I was done. ‘I need to have some cold beverages and try to wash this out of my memory.’ They were awful. I don’t think I had one good match with him. I tried. I tried hard. I was trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. I was killing myself. He was so limited in what he could do. ‘Just grab me throw me around.’ That was no sell Taker where it was all about the character. I was having to reach the outer banks of (what I could do). ‘Maybe he kicks the shit out of me for five or six minutes and we figure a way out of this,'” said Undertaker.

The Undertaker would go on to get the win over Gonzalez at WrestleMania 9, but only because of a DQ loss for the giant.

h/t to Fightful for the transcriptions.

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