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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Golden Era: The Undertaker's First Year: The Story Behind Wrestling's Greatest Character

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Sean Mooney explains why The Undertaker’s first year in WWE was the foundation of one of the greatest careers in professional wrestling history. From his shocking debut at Survivor Series 1990 to becoming one of the most feared and respected characters in WWE, Sean Mooney shares behind the scenes stories, Vince McMahon’s vision for The Undertaker, and why those early months mattered more than any other period in his legendary run.

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0:00.0

From Brother Love to Paul Bear, we're talking about year one of The Undertaker in the WWF.

0:06.0

How you doing today, Mr. Mooney?

0:09.0

Dung.

0:13.6

No.

0:15.8

No.

0:16.4

Do I need to do more?

0:18.1

Everybody knows who we're talking about when you hear that, right? And you

0:22.5

think through the history of professional wrestling, how many sounds, I'm going to even say, you

0:29.8

know, songs, I mean, just sound that you hear that immediately you're going, you know what it is.

0:36.3

The lights didn't have to go out.

0:38.3

You just hear that, and immediately, you know, it's the undertaker.

0:41.5

And, you know, there's been a few other iconic songs,

0:45.8

theme songs that these guys have had.

0:48.1

And, of course, the Warriors, remember that, dun, dun, da, da, da, that one that.

0:51.3

When you hear that, the breaking glass of Stone Cold,

0:55.3

and, of course, the Dongs with The Undertaker,

1:00.0

who, you know, we've had some great characters

1:02.6

throughout the history of professional wrestling.

1:05.1

This may be the greatest gimmick ever.

1:08.3

And I think initially, you know, this was, this wasn't something new.

1:13.3

You know, other people had played morticians or that had the dead theme, but you had to have

1:19.4

somebody that could pull it off. And after much, much trial and error for this individual,

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