A former WWE star has looked back on their match with The Undertaker and how The Deadman got them in trouble with Vince McMahon afterwards.
A star on the rise in the mid-2000s, Mr. Kennedy feuded with The Deadman in the earlier stages of his WWE run and picked up a victory over Taker at No Mercy 2006. However, one spot in the match did not sit well with McMahon.
Recalling the match while appearing on Rewind, Recap, Relive, Kennedy stated that Undertaker instructed him to execute a piledriver, which McMahon informed Kennedy was off limits:
“My first match experience I had with Taker, I’m just listening to him and he’s down on his knees and he goes, ‘give me a piledriver.’ So I’m thinking oh, he’s going to backdrop me out of it. So I pull him in and I’m standing there and I’m waiting for him to like backdrop me and he goes, ‘God damn, give it to me.’ He’s a heavy dude, he’s 270 pounds.
So I pinched his head so tight between my legs and made sure that I held him up as much as I could with my arms. I gave him the piledriver. I come to the back after the match. Walk through the curtain and Vince goes, ‘come here’. He goes, ‘I know where that came from. I know Taker told you to do that. He’s trying to get you over. I allow two people to do piledrivers in this company and you’re not one of them.'”
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H/t to Fightful.