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Undertaker vs Mankind | The Chaotic Origins of the WWE SummerSlam Boiler Room Brawl

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Before the legendary Boiler Room Brawl at SummerSlam 1996, chaos was already brewing. Dive deep into the twisted, mind-bending feud between The Undertaker and Mankind, a rivalry that redefined violence and psychological warfare in WWE history.

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0:00.0

What is going on wrestling fans?

0:09.8

It's I.C. Fall. Welcome back to 10 count media. It's a brand new day here because we're talking about the strange and bizarre and professional wrestling.

0:16.2

But we're going to celebrate it with my good friend, Ben. Ben, are you prepared for this journey talking about the strange and bizarre moments

0:22.2

and matches in professional wrestling history?

0:24.6

I sure hope I am prepared.

0:26.9

I did my homework.

0:27.8

You told me what we were going to be talking about.

0:29.7

I watched it.

0:30.8

I took notes.

0:32.3

I have hopefully some interesting insights, but I guess I'll let you and the fans be the judge.

0:38.9

Okay.

0:39.4

And today's subject on the first episode is the boiler room brawl from a SummerSlam 1996 between Undertaker, who's very purpley at the time, purple gloves, purple tie, purple hat, everything.

0:50.8

He's taking on mankind.

0:52.9

And before we even get into this matchup, what are your thoughts on when you're watching wrestling out of nowhere, you hear a new stipulation match? It's no longer a steel cage. It's a ladder. They're like, it's going to be an upside down blackout match. And you're thinking to yourself, this sounds terrible already. What were your thoughts when you hear the terms boiler room brawl heading into this?

1:12.6

Well, when you say what are you, what's my thoughts when I hear a new stipulation match?

1:17.9

Usually my thought is it's probably just going to be a street fight.

1:21.4

Because usually that's what these all end up being is like you said, an upside down match or a lights out match.

1:27.4

Okay. What are the stipulations?

1:29.2

Well, there's no rules in falls count anywhere.

1:32.3

That's like, all right, so you just gave a fancy name to matches that we all know and love.

1:38.2

When I first heard boiler room brawl, I thought it would be more like a Lionsden match, where the match actually takes place

1:47.0

within the confines of the name there. So a Lionsden match was in the Lions Den, as I recall, right?

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