The Undertaker was not a fan of when his Ministry of Darkness went corporate.
WWE was banging on all cylinders by most metrics in 1999. Because of this, some of the top-tier storylines that didn't stick can be lost to time, swept up by memories of red-hot crowds and exciting angles.
The Corporate Ministry was the end result of Vince McMahon being revealed as "The Higher Power" that the Undertaker had been working for despite the fact that The Corporation and the ministry had been rival factions.
Speaking on a recent Q&A podcast exclusive to his Patreon, Undertaker revealed that he really wasn't a fan of when the two groups merged together and believed it watered down the impact of his original Ministry of Darkness.
"How much can I push back really in that situation? But I didn't like it. I thought as soon as it became Corporate Ministry that it got all watered down and it just ceased to be fun anymore. So, yeah, that was the kind of the beginning of the end right then," he recalled. "We were really pushing the envelope, as far as touching on religion and all these other different [aspects]. We were getting plenty of hate mail over some of the stuff that we were doing but once The Corporate Ministry, [and] there's 20 people out there... [The nWo] is a great example of where it ended up, you know? Not a super great payoff, in my opinion. It was just kind of blegh."
Elsewhere on this podcast, Undertaker confirms that Kane was never considered to be a member of The original Ministry of Darkness.
Undertaker also revealed why he added Mabel, who later became Viscera, to the faction.
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