Undertaker comments on today's professional wrestlers lacking intensity between the ropes as compared to Shawn Michaels from 1997.
The wrestling industry has changed a lot in the last 27 years but one fixture in the wrestling industry that began in 1997 and has persisted on through for almost three decades is the Hell in a Cell structure. Shawn Michaels and Undertaker christened the roofed cage in 1997 at WWE In Your House: Badd Blood and through many phases of evolution, the Hell in a Cell persists as one of the dominant gimmick matches in the history of WWE today.
During a video on Maven's YouTube channel where he watched back the first Hell in a Cell Match, Undertaker praised Shawn Michaels' intensity and his psychology would handling a larger wrestler such as himself. During that praise, Undertaker revealed that it is a pet peeve of his when watching wrestling today to see wrestlers lacking that intensity and focusing more on pandering to the audience.
"What Shawn did in that [comeback spot] is the intensity. He had a window, right? 'This is a big dude. I've got to pour on the gas.' I think a lot of people in today's [wrestling industry] would have glad-handed. They would have went to the crowd [gestures]. It doesn't make sense. You wouldn't do that in a fight. You wouldn't do that in that kind of a situation and that's one of my biggest pet peeves is, you know, as athletically gifted as the talent pool is, they glad-hand too much with the audience."
Undertaker, in the past, has admitted that he doesn't want to criticize today's wrestling too much because he does know that the business right now is making a significant amount of money which means that what they're doing is working. Read those comments here.
To get Shawn Michaels' perspective on some of the more underrated matches in his catalog at WWE In Your House events, read here.
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