The Godfather: I Saw Stars And Little Birds When The Undertaker Cracked Me With A Chair For The First Time

The Godfather got his first welcome from the Deadman.

When looking back on the career he’s had on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, the Godfather recalled the time he stepped in the ring for the first time with the Undertaker where the green-as-grass Godfather had been cracked over the skull with his first steel chair by the Phenom himself.

“Memphis, Tennessee. I just worked a program with [Jerry] Lawler, they didn’t know what to do with me. I’m as green as Kermit the Frog. Taker has been in the business a couple of years now. So they said, ‘Hey, we’re gonna bring this big, tall white kid in to work against you. He’s been in the business a couple of years, maybe we can do something with you.’ So Mark’s driving in from Texas. I never get a chance to meet him. Everything I’ve done so far is what Jerry Lawler has told me to do in the ring. I know nothing, just what somebody’s telling me what to do, which is a whole other story [laughs]. So I met him in the ring. We have a match where I’m like, ‘Oh, here’s another one of these big ass white boys I’m gonna have to deal with,’ so it was a little physical in the ring with me and him. He tells me to throw him out. So I throw him out, I go after him, I’m chasing him around one corner the other corner. I guess he found that chair he was looking for. He hit me over the head with a chair so hard that you know the cartoons when you see the stars and little birdies? I swear I see that. He looked down at me and said ‘Do you want to do this easy way or the hard way?’ I said ‘I think let’s do this the easy way.’ From that point, we became really good friends from that day,” The Godfather said.

They would soon become really good friends and have kept in contact with each other throughout their careers and lives.

H/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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