The Undertaker recalls how he was told he was losing the WWE Championship.
The Undertaker held the WWE Championship/World Heavyweight Championship six times in his career, none of which lasted more than 140 days. Undertaker's third reign began at WWE Over The Edge 1999 when he defeated Steve Austin. It ended 36 days later on WWE Raw when he lost the title back to Austin.
"Vince [Vince McMahon] pulls Stone Cold, Triple H, Kane, and me into a room. He's livid, beside himself. 'Something is not working. Something is not working right. We have to change some things. Steve, you're going over Taker tonight. We're switching the title back on TV.' I think we did it live on TV, if I'm not mistaken, maybe a pay-per-view, I'm a little foggy. I put Steve back over, he takes the belt. I'm not sure what else changed for the other guys. One of them was the Intercontinental Champion, one may have been the US Champion. Nothing changed for them, the only thing that was changing was me dropping this title back to Steve.
"[Vince] always liked a babyface champion. I'm thinking, 'These are guys that I respect the absolute most and now we're in a room together and it's basically all falling on me.' 'Dude, you're not getting it done as champ, you're dropping the strap tonight. You two, get your shit together too or you're next.' That's how it went down and that's how I left that room. I remember Triple H coming up to me and he goes, 'You didn't deserve that.' 'You know what, I don't think I did deserve that,'" recalled Undertaker on his Six Feet Under podcast.
Undertaker says he was motivated by Vince's comments and losing the title.
Jeff Jarrett was the WWE Intercontinental Champion at the time and the WWE United States Championship did not exist as WCW was still in business in 1999.
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