Teddy Long opens up about when the Undertaker told him to buckle up.
Shortly after Teddy Long conspired with Vince McMahon and CM Punk to screw the Undertaker out of the World Heavyweight Championship at WWE Breaking Point in 2009, Undertaker would trap the longtime WWE SmackDown GM inside of a limousine, telling him to "buckle up" as Teddy comically oversold.
Now, in a new interview with Chris Van Vliet for the Insight podcast, Long says that famous line from the September 18, 2009 episode of SmackDown was improvised by The Undertaker.
"Taker brought that up, that was just his line. I remember the day we went over that, and this is another thing I have to say about Vince. That day as we leading up to all that, so that day before we talked about the coffin, putting me in the casket, and so Vince sent for me and Taker. So it’s just me and Taker in the room with Vince and we’re talking. I’m sitting here and the only thing I’m thinking about is wow, I’m sitting here with Undertaker and Vince that’s all the thing I’m thinking about, what a hell of a position on me. But I didn’t let it go to my head. So next thing you know we’re talking about the match. I don’t say anything, because, you know like I’m saying I ain’t got business opening my mouth, let me hear what y’all want me to do. Vince looks at me [and says] ‘You gonna say anything? Goddamnit we’re going over the match here, anything you think you can add?’ I don’t know if I can add anything.
"So they started going over something man, and so I stepped in, the coffin. They were talking about breathing and all that, you know, and I’m like, I got it covered Vince. I say what I’ll do, when they start to roll me down, I’ll take one finger and I’ll ease that lid as much as I can so that you can’t see it but I get some air. [Vince said] ‘God damn it that’s good sh*t!’ That’s exactly how it went down. But my thing is, you ask me for input and that made me feel pretty good. [Undertaker] just said that [line], that wasn’t written."
Ultimately, Undertaker would get his revenge on CM Punk and win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in Hell in a Cell the very next month at the inaugural WWE Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. Teddy Long would go on to be the general manager of WWE SmackDown for several years, never crossing The Undertaker again.
Undertaker recently opened up about never having any real backstage heat with CM Punk. Read his comments here.
Thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for sending the above quote.
