Oct. 5, 1991 in Barcelona! The World Wrestling Federation is in town with a show at Palau Saint Jordi, ready to blow away next year's Olympics. And it's time for your main event, featuring the unbeatable Undertaker.
El Enterrador, striking fear into the hearts of all in Spain.
Tito Santana will be Undertaker's victim. A former IC and tag team champion but now a veteran on the roster who is there to make sure the pushed bad guys can look good, which used to be a valuable position before every TV show was filled with PPV level matches.
Tito is very popular in Spain, crowd lit up for his music, and he gets some early shots in.
Santana holds a wrist for a bit. If you've seen Undertaker Coliseum Video matches of the time you're familiar with the "staying in a simple hold for a while" part of his stuff, like when he held Ultimate Warrior in a Facelock for like 7 minutes.
Taker mounting his offense now. I understand fully that he had to change over the years but I do miss when The Best Pure Striker in WWWF History just did these goofy throat thrusts.
Santana sends Undertaker over the top, but this man doesn't fall down, he's like a cat.
just
here's this
Undertaker with his famed nostril stretcher.
Early Undertaker and Paul Bearer were such a crazy good act. To come up with the ideas for those characters and then find the EXACT right people to pull them off THAT well is absurd. Even their past experience didn't really play into executing those gimmicks much, really.
CURRENT SCHOOL
Tito tries a slam. No slam. Undertaker is dead weight, you see. DEAD WEIGHT.
A second attempt at Current School fails and the crowd is mad for Tito still.
Tito hits the forearm twice, but Undertaker doesn't go down. On a third attempt, Taker pulls the ref in to get creamed, as the great Don West would say.
The match isn't over but with the referee out, Undertaker is bagging Santana.
Tito does not WANT to be bagged, however.
Santana with the piledriver, capitalizing on the cardinal mistake!
A second piledriver!
A THIRD piledriver!
Paul Bearer tries to rally Undertaker with the urn, but Tito socks Bearer and takes it away, then cracks Undertaker in the skull with it.
Santana falls on top of Undertaker, referee eventually gets over ... and Tito Santana wins! Barcelona loses it!
This is a mildly famous match for not being a big show. Never had any impact on overall booking of the WWF. Taker still controversially won the WWF title the next month, Tito was still a JTTS guy. But it was a gesture to Santana, a great veteran, in a place he was very popular.
A final big moment, if only locally in Spain, for Tito Santana, a guy who had given the WWF years of strong, reliable work.
You can follow @tapemachines.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: