The Undertaker and Big Show's Unholy Alliance
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The Undertaker had seen a huge amount of success during late 1998 and 1999 with his Ministry of Darkness stable. WWE fans were presented with a new Undertaker, and still to this day, fans remember the Ministry of Darkness with fondness. When the Ministry of Darkness and Corporate Ministry storylines were finished, the WWF creative team had to come up with a new angle for The Undertaker to take part in.
The Undertaker would create a new tag team with The Big Show named "The Unholy Alliance". Big Show was a relative newcomer to the WWF who was still finding his feet in the world's biggest wrestling company, and so he was paired with The Undertaker to learn from one of the all-time greats. The Unholy Alliance would go through some difficult times though, from The Undertaker and Big Show's backstage relationship being a little rocky to The Undertaker himself suffering an injury that would take him out of the spotlight. This mini documentary from Wrestling Bios takes a look at the entire Unholy Alliance run.
Topics covered in this video include:
01:51 - The Undertaker and The Big Show form the Unholy Alliance
04:23 - Big Show has some real difficulties with The Undertaker backstage
09:57 - The Undertaker shows another new side of his character during a promo
11:50 - The Unholy Alliance at Summerslam 1999
13:58 - Undertaker gets injured and is forced out of the ring
20:14 - The Undertaker is written off TV to prepare for his "American Badass" character
- Much More!
#WWE #Undertaker #Wrestling
In my own head-canon, I'd like to think that logically, Taker was preparing Big Show for his first WWF Title win at Survivor Series 1999. After all, that belt is symbolically bigger than the Tag Team belts, and with the talk of tough love and a killer instinct, coupled with Taker taking time off, it sorta felt like a "passing of the torch" moment from him to Big Show.
It’s called getting over
That profile pic sure looks familiar
definitely the WWF title was on his focus but it would have been very uncharacteristic for Taker to prepare his own student to win the title instead of him. I suppose the storyline would have reached a point where Taker would screw Big Show over for his own benefit which then would have lead to a big feud where he was gonna put him over finally
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The best wrestling channel on RUclips. Period.
@ajb1991 I beg to differ, Vee Infuso, Wrestling with Regret and Wrestling Premier are good as well.
Vee Infuso Social Injustice Warrior the better wrestling channel in my opinion.
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@@jameslightsey1761 they are good but they also produce a lot of side topics within the subjects that aren't that interesting or goof around a lot. Wresting Bios gets straight to the point
Jim Cornette
@@meld1817 a fair contender. Massive Corny fan
Taker the goat for this. Cause he for real didn’t have to do this lol
He doesn't really have to do anything he doesn't want to do as we have all seen the last 30 years of the Deadman
He really didn't he wanted other people to come up
It took 3 videos to cover Undertaker's career in 1999 that's insane.
Quincy Begay it's crazy
3 videos to cover a single year is pretty cray.
I just barely realize that until now
Undertaker had an interesting year in 1999.
it shows shows how much dedication he puts into these videos.
I’ll be completely honest & say I loved this paring, I genuinely wish they’d stayed together longer as a dominant force
I loved Taker and Kane!
El señor de la tienda I wins thinking more of a teacher & student type deal where Undertaker mentors Big Show
Temporary tag teams like this are meant to be broken ul fwiw
Yes my dream wrestlemania main event match is 6 man tag, the Unholy alliance and kane versus the Dudley Boys and spike Dudley with Val venus as the special guest referee
Seeing them together was quite a sight.
In shoot interviews both of them have said that Taker was basically trying to make Show ACT LIKE A GIANT.
It still pisses me off to this day that we never found out what the deal was with Undertaker abandoning Big Show during their tag match, and what he whispered in his ear the following Smackdown.
Michael Burke it was just an excuse to get Taker away from the ring and not wrestle
Taker was badly injured during the entirety of 1999, hence the whole Ministry gimmick and such. It was just to keep him away from actual matches as much as possible.
Yeah, and while people say that the prime of his career was with the ministry of darkness, I disagree to some extent, simply due to the fact that most of the matches he had in 1999 were not that good. The classics we all know of today had to wait until at least 2005.
Like you, I get why they did that, but I'd like to know what the note supposedly said........
i like to think that that was supposed to be the groundwork for a version of what became the eventual 'bastard' angle Paul had with Big Boss Man, but because Taker's condition just wasn't improving and he couldn't physically do the matches to come, that it got passed off to BBM.
One thing about the WWF around this time is that there always seemed to be a mini storyline within a storyline.
Thank Vince Russo, the guy everybody claims is the worst Booker ever yet always praise his style of Booking
@@NEMtvOfficial wasn’t Russo on wcw ruining it at this time tho
@@tylercox1875 Nope, Russo was still Head Writer in the WWF during the Unholy Alliance....He left in October of that year....and when he got to WCW, it was going through a Merger with AOL...so you mix that with Wrestlers with creative control saying "That doesnt work for me brother", standards and practises in meetings, Budget cut in half, and Wrestlers with big contracts faking injuries to not wrestle on Thunder, Russo stood no chance...you should study more to stop following this Narrative that Russo "ruined WCW"...Nash and Bishoff laugh at that...Russo got there almost a year after the Finger Poke of Doom, right when Goldberg AND Bret Hart got injured
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Yup. This story included Kane, X PAC, Road Dogg, Bob Holly, Undertaker, Vis, Midieon, APA all at one time. Then Rock and Mankind at the end.
Boy I really wished Undertaker didn't get injured in 1999 so we could fully see him transform into the Biker threw out the Months
This angle was good. Him as the biker was dogshit.
Compared to the original taker the badges taker was shut but overall good to see him reinvent himself them mixed the attire along wit playing the original taker was good. That climatic match wit styles was a hell of way yo go out but suck he never got to feud wit sting even this it's stings fault .
This Tag Team was never talked about enough I'm glad you got to make a video on it.
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Of course JR came up with the name. Of course he did. Vince never knew what he had with that man.
lol I remember when the undertaker gave that long ass promo about surviving in the desert.
THAT was epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then Jericho interrupted him and called him boring. Not sure how he was able to get away with saying that on live TV.
Mark & Paul's Big Bike Adventure.
@@Illusionistical822 In one of his books, Jericho talks about who he got major heat for it.
He wasn't wrong though. My friends and I made fun of this promo for almost a decade, until one of us finally found it on RUclips.
It was kinda awkward, to be honest.
Great pairing,The Undertaker mentoring The Big Show was a good move and we had that Buried Alive match against The Rock and Sock Connection. You can tell The Undertaker was hurting.
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Just finished all your other Undertaker Videos - perfect timing!
The underrated big show and undertaker tag team were an awesome tag team could have seen them adding Kane and making a trio
I wish the storyline with Taker and Big Show reached its conclusion. Also their entrance music was awesome!
Absolutely , and I feel they should have let them have a run of Dominance similar to the two man power trip. Let them hold the tag titles and the HW and IC title.
It looked like a training session for Big show and a transition period for Taker thrown together
Bro you’re doing a great job w these videos! Bringing back allll the nostalgia! 💯💪🏾👍🏾
This is probably my favourite "super team" pairing of all time.
“Nobody really talks about Jericho interrupting the Undertaker”
Bruh, we all talk about it!
I think it's more of WWE in their documentaries or whatever don't talk about that than fans like you or me.
Facts
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It’s cool that Undertaker’s backstage monologue after the handicap with Kane was basically a foreshadow of the rest of his future character developments from Biker Taker to Big Evil back to the Phenom!!
Love how Undertaker just walked out on Vince without much fanfare. Only he could do that and still look badass.
The Unholy Alliance was very strange mainly because of the way Undertaker and Big Show came together especially as they were rivals just a couple of weeks before the formation, Undertaker cracked a baseball bat over Big Show's head while Big Show chokeslammed him through the ring and to now see them as a team never made any sense but it was good while it was lasted.
Taker's promos were mostly quite entertaining and some were a bit off but it was nice we got to see a different side to him which served us a warm up for the american badass as he was slowly phasing out his Ministry gimmick in favor of a more human based persona.
It would have been interesting to see where this angle would have gone if Taker didn't have to leave, I believe that they would have continued as a team with teases of tension leading up to the Royal Rumble 00 and Undertaker would have eliminated the Big Show from the Rumble as his way of saying "tough love" leading him to snap and cost Taker the match which would have set up for a Wrestlemania battle. Even though they had a short run as a team, I won't deny that they made an impact and were very dominant.
Keep up the good work 👏
Since taker was injured I always thought it would have been fitting to have him on the six pack challenge still just to have big show turn on him and destroy him early on and have mideon and viscera also take him out and carry him to the back always thought that would have been better instead of taker just walking out lol
@@maxgriffin3950 to have the Ministry era end with Undertaker walking out of the building was pretty silly in my opinion lol and very out of character for him. I do like your idea of Big Show turning on him during the six pack and absolutely destroying him to the point we don't see him until the following year, I definitely prefer that more and it gives Undertaker someone to go after when he returns
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Was this the pairing that gave us the legendary “snake neckties and leather boots” promo? 😂😂😂
I actually wanted Undertaker, Kane and Big Show in a group managed by Paul Bearer. Just destroying every other group.
A tag team to be feared.
Another great video! Thanks so much!
A whole subsection of videos for unlikely tag teams? Odd pairings?
Rock and Sock connection?
Kane and X-pac?
Stay safe! 👍
The whole Bearer showing Taker something in his jacket and Taker whispering in Shows ear is classic 'We need a quick solution without really explaining anything tactic'
i think that was them laying the ground work for what would have been the 'bastard' angle they eventually did with Big Boss Man. I think that it must have originally supposed to have been Taker/Big Show, but because Taker just couldn't go at the time, it got shifted to Boss Man after he left.
@@maxdecphoenix What was that angle about? About BS's father dying? I don't remember
@@martifrey3357 yea Show's 'dad' 'died' shortly after Taker's ministry of darkness and the Corporation started feuding. So Big Boss Man did some 'investigating' that showed that the guy who died was not Show's biological father, and BBM confronted his mother and coerced her to acknowledge that he was 'illegitimate'. He then started trolling Show at events claiming he was a bastard, or that 'anyone in this arena could be your daddy'. It went on a few weeks and there was some crazy stuff. Then after they had their blowoff match they kinda still grumbled with each other during the Corporate-Ministry days.
@@maxdecphoenix Oh yeah I rememer a little bit. One thing was BS on his dad's funeral trying to hold on the casket lol. Thanks man
Great video again man❤️ Hope you keep up with The Undertaker career retrospective. Have loved it so far.
Hearing big show say that he was nervous and scared to face the undertaker after he made a mistake in a match is kinda... funny
Undertaker wasn't a small man. Yes, Big Show is bigger maybe even stronger but Undertaker has a reputation of a man not to be messed with.
And it's rare to see a big strong man like Big Show willing to admit that he wasn't doing the job properly and that he was letting people, like the Undertaker, down
Like to see a video on some classic tag teams that never quite got over: Power and Glory, Fabulous Rougeaus, Powers of Pain, New Foundation etc
Good idea
Definitely Power and Glory. The most underrated team with the best finisher at the time.
Best youtuber to watch for these kinds of vids. Always intresting, and most accurate I've found. Keep the vids comin!!!
Taker knew big show could be a pillar so he didn’t take it easy on him
The pairing went well so did the storyline even X-Pac did ok
X-pac was one of the best workers on the roster.
I think they were building up a feud beetween Big show and taker. Maybe for wm 2000. But taker hurted himself and Big show s push was cut. So the Big match didn t happen. When taker came back a few months later , Big show was now a midcarter
The 6 pack at Unforgiven would have been awesome. I was looking so forward to it but was so disappointed when Bulldog replaced Taker. And it never happened even after he returned.
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I'd love to know what the plan was with Taker and this story. Seemed like it would have ended with a heel Biker Taker a bit earlier. They probably just skipped any of the further evolution and went to the end point by his return. Great vid.
I always thought undertaker and Paul were helping with bigshow's father medical bills that's why he was so loyal since undertaker was known to be a cult leader it made sense
Imagine a zombie dark lord who perform dark rituals, collect souls and bury people is paying for a man's medical bills. I don't think Taker was helping show's father.
Kinda funny to think about tho. He was doing all those sacrifices for charity!
This video kicks ass !!! Two of the best big men in the business ever .
"There ya go kid, way to fire up!"
I remember Taker hitting Show in the head with a wooden baseball bat and it was loud and later in the episode someone pulled another bat out from under the ring to hit someone else in the stomach and that bat crumbled I’m pretty sure Taker grabbed the wrong bat
The most underrated tag team in the Attitude Era. 2 Times Tag Team champions.
I always thought his transition into the American Badass persona was a bit sudden. I just wish that Paul bearer took away Takers powers and returned his human soul, have Taker leave the business because of this punishment (and to recover from the groin injury IRL), and come back as the ABA.
Love these videos man. You forgot the baseball bat split bit though!!!!!
I think if Undertaker hadn't that gron injury in 1999 I think unholy alliance team would lasted longer taker and big show were a dangerous duo
always great work. cant wait for the xpac heat episode
The only thing I remember about this as a kid was the rock doing a promo and big show wanted to run to the ring, undertaker stopped him wanting to "wait for what he had to say." I only remember it because it showed the rock in reverse on the titantron
Just want to say I love your content and style of videos. Awesome 👏🏻
Awesome video. Accurate as always, but you didn't mention the time when Taker and Show saved Kane from a beating from Triple H and Chyna in the parking lot area. Kane had his reverse colors suit and I believe Kane was trying to get payback for Triple H attacking X-pac. As Kane was getting beat down, Big Show came out to attack Triple H and Taker stood over Kane's body to protect him. Just another angle that was never explained as well. I can't seem to find it online. Can you shed some light on this subject?
The only things i remember about this is takers story about leaving show in the desert
and taker making fun of jerichos beard
I can't wait for the release of your next music volume which would include this awesome piece of music you used at the entrance, the Big Show's "Crank It Up" with the Undertaker's dark style
I Loved this Tag Team! There was a lot of "Super Teams* during this Period, Kane and Mankind, Mankind and Vader, Austin and Triple H....Ahhh the Good Ol Days.
I dont know who didn't like the unholy alliance but I thought it was awesome and is wat got me behind the big show after all the stupid storylines he had been in since coming to WWF/WWE
Damn I wish Taker hadn't gotten injured
I really like your channel. Keep up the good work.
I really like the unholy alliance between undertaker and show because of how refreshing it was sure it was not as good as the minstery of darkness but I like how he mix biker and deadman at the time it probably my favorite version of taker with his biker persona. Thank you for covering this weird part of takers career because to me it is a very underrated stable
Ah yes two of my favourite wrestlers of all time, this one's gonna be good.
It seems like they were building up Undertaker vs. Big Show at Wrestlemania 2000.
Great Video
Love the resident evil code
Background music you used 👍
Subject matter that isn't covered much on RUclips.
Until now, just see how many other videos now get put up on here by others.
I just started watching this video - if it doesn't talk about Taker leaving Big Show in the desert on a motorbike with no gas, then waiting until Big Show walked outta the desert carrying the bike on his back, with rattlesnake boots and a rattlesnake tie, I am gonna be SO MAD.
Thanks for this vid bro❤️
I loved the theme song for the Unholy Alliance. An ominous feel, the dark and scary of one near seven footer and a seven foot two monster. I loved this angle due to the fact that they seemed an formidable tag team.
Oh that theme was awesome. Always wanted to release that AND Christian's gothic epic theme (just after he went post Brood but before he went black vest and coming out to Blood Brother).
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i wonder if the big show could have became some kind of gothic demon after all the mentoring
If it'd been maybe 2 or 3 years earlier they could've made it a bit more ridiculous by giving him magic powers and such.
By the turn of the millennium though, that sort of thing was becoming a bit tired, hence Taker slowly morphing into the biker thing before the full ABA debut.
@@Bansidhe good point. Even Kane teamed up with xpac. Still an attitude version of the big dark show would have been cool. Thinking more of an aleister Crowley approach
As for the Tag-Team Championship Match between the the Unholy Alliance and the Acolytes, I don't blame The Undertaker one bit for not wanting to tag The Big Show, and get in the match! The Big Show had that one coming! If he hadn't been so arrogant in his sloppy cover on X-Pac the night before, things might've been different. The Undertaker, at that point, had been working with The Big Show backstage, in order to smarten him up on some things. When he saw the Big Show do such an arrogant cover on X-Pac, he must've been thinking:"After all the time and effort I put into trying to help The Big Show...and now he does this! I'm just wasting my time with him"!
Bro........I been watching your undertaker videos.......I was wondering if you were gonna pass this up....... FANTASTIC video.......keep it up......best wrestling channel on RUclips
_"A guy's heatlh should always take priority."_
Ain't that the damn TRUTH.
Your videos are amazing! Always love clicking on them.
13:58 "Please deposit any metallic items you have in the security box."
I'd love for your channel to dip into more TNA, ROH, MLW, AEW,New Japan etc.
Paul Bearer bribed Undertaker with the keys to a motorcycle
When are you gonna do a chris Jericho video
Good stuff. I always like Kane and xpac as a tag team
I just couldn't understood the way they booked Big Show for most of 1999.
He's billed a a 7'2", 500 pound monster. Yet he loses match after match after match in first year with the company.
Seeing the Undertaker movbe away from the ministry gimic was sad. It was his best look.
On another note, Big Show really got bum-fkd in the wwf. In 1999 he had a great look and aura and then in 2000 they made him into a joke
So love these vidz. Great escape from mess on Television. Thank you! Keep them coming
I love these undertaker videos
HHH should be next 👍🏾
Hes done like 3 shawn micheals videos.
@wrestingbios I beg to differ on your beginning point. Everything WWF there at the wall in 1999 was absolute GOLD! This was a year wrestling fans still dream of!
I loved this angle when I watch it back
Always wonder how it would have worked had Undertaker not got injured...which unfortunately killed it
Maybe a Wrestlemania blowoff style match with Big Show perhaps?
Would the streak have been over before it'd become folk law?
A pairing of Taker & Nash would be all time great. Pure destruction and dominance , if I wrote their story.
I gues this was it... (scratching my head)... are we through with the Undertaker? We need to start all over! This can't be the end! Unholy sh*t, i mean allince.
Well Done. I enjoyed every minute of every Undertaker story!
He said he's going to cover Undertaker's entire career. Pretty sure he's going to start off where he left out with the American Badass story.
Tbh, my favorite undertaker. So intense
Great pairing,!!!! Would have been Dominant Tag Team Champions,!!!
hey legend found your channel about a week ago and have been smashing your videos ever since love the detailed work on the subjects your videos are amazing best wrestling channel on youtube no doubt
Taker (if healthy) could have replaced Austin in the triple threat match at survivor series. Would have liked to have seen those three get it on. Also having him in that mania 4 way is better than Show being there.
@6:18
Undertaker was pulling his best Jordan/Kobe version of "tough love".
I like.
I feel like The Big Show's name and theme song held him back. Mostly the theme song. It seems like such a small thing that shouldn't matter but to me it sounded like a joke song indicating we weren't supposed to be taking him seriously. As a kid me and my mate would sing his theme song when fat teachers we didn't like were walking around. The character and gimmick was fine, if he went by Paul Wight with a decent theme song and didn't put on so much weight he might have had more success. Was never a huge fan but I dunno, I wanted to like him, or at least see him become more than just that big guy who always takes 5 or 6 guys to eliminate him every royal rumble. Wrestling is full of 'what ifs.'
And what do you think of Kane...?
The whole world has definitely missed out big time on a great opportunity to see this frightening team be called "Marc-O/Paul-O".
Wrestling bios, I think you missed how this darker version of the undertaker was sold to the public.They even started calling him mark at times. Basically ther were selling this character (rather than giving away who mark Calloway was personally) as the guy who plays the undertaker character beliving that he really was this mythical being, that this man believed he was sent to the wwe to destroy bodies an drag them back to hell, an he as this evil merciless undertaker character was there to unleash hell on earth. When you look at things like how the undertaker was portrying himself then an his promos you then realise they actually make sense an were cleverly done, it just at the time didnt sell as well as it should have. But alot later on that whole evil incarnation of the undertaker became looked at by some in a cult like way. Although the earlier part of it is remembered more fondly as many think adding the higher power and vince angle bit ruined it some.
Was about to check your channel and look new video lol
@4:15 - The Undertaker didn't want to move on from his gimmick. Vince has stated that Mark Calloway got so into his Ministry of Darkness character, that he "thought" he was The Undertaker in real life. It got to the point where he was having difficulty separating fiction from reality. It makes me think of when Heath Ledger thought he was the Joker outside of the cameras. This, coupled with Owen Hart dying and WWE needing to be "safer", they stopped putting anyone up to be "sacrificed". This channel is my favorite wrestling channel, but it frustrates me when things like this are skipped over since they are fairly "common knowledge."
Jameson B everything you said is kayfabe
@@cakes3958 Oh really? When was this mentioned on T.V.?
@@cakes3958 I really think you're thinking the opposite of kayfabe...
Yeah, what you said is kayfabe. This was when they were trying to make to make everything seem real, so Undertaker was acknowledge by the McMahon character as 'Mark' on TV and then said he'd bought in to the Undertaker character too much and was taking it too far. It's pretty common knowledge that IRL Undertaker didn't really enjoy this Ministry character and was keen to evolve it into one that allowed him to be more versatile.
@@dreadfuldansdiscs2781 Everything you just said is what was said on Television, thus making it kayfabe. What I'm talking about is a person "becoming the character" behind the scenes. Mark Calloway played the character so much that he believed he was the Undertaker out of the ring. His mental health wasn't the best. Much like Heath Ledger being the Joker and things many other actors go through when they play a role of a dark character. Vince has said this in interviews and so has Mark. This is not what was said on TV. This wasn't kayfabe. This was real life.
that tag team theme song is an underrated banger
Love to watch these series. Great job
I only found your channel during lock down. I think I have pretty much watched everything now 😂. I love your content. Keep doing what you're doing. I will look forward to the next video. Stay safe everybody
Literally just watched Summerslam 99 yesterday!
Imagine a cliq of
Taker
Brian Adams
Big Show
And
The Harris brothers...
How was Big Show not ready to be a maineventer? He was a maineventer when he got to wwe, you forget he was headlining ppvs in wcw when wcw was kicking the wwe's ass!
Marlow Stanfield I defies logic right?! Big show himself will say that he was still green and didn’t really know how to work a match. Undertaker was the guy who taught him all that and how to mentally prepare
DX, Brothers of Destruction, and Rock and Sock Connection were always my favorite teams.
The unholy alliance theme is sticked to me i can't stop listening to it
They used their theme for Sting