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The Undertaker made a surprising return to WWE television on the June 24 episode of Raw when he joined forces with Roman Reigns to take out Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre.
Earlier in the month, the WrestleMania icon competed in a widely criticised match against Goldberg at the WWE Super ShowDown event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, leading many fans to question when both men will retire from in-ring competition.
As it turns out, ‘Taker has no plans to retire imminently and, at the age of 54, he has decided to make an immediate return by teaming with Reigns to face the team of McMahon & McIntyre at WWE Extreme Rules on July 14.
Although “The Deadman” has mostly been a singles competitor throughout his 29 years in WWE, his career longevity means he has taken part in more tag team matches than most people will during their entire time with the company.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at two Superstars who failed as his tag partner and three Superstars who succeeded.
Disclaimer: Statistics in this article were obtained from Cagematch.net. Multi-person tag team matches (e.g. six-man tag and Survivor Series elimination matches) are also included in the stats.
#5 Succeeded: The Rock
The Rock teamed with The Undertaker in a total of 17 matches on WWE television, winning nine times and losing the other eight.
Although a win ratio of 52.9 percent is hardly the best, The Rock makes it onto this list thanks to his Tag Team Championship triumph with “The Deadman” in December 2000.
One week after both men took part in the famous six-man Hell In A Cell match at the Armageddon pay-per-view, they joined forces to surprisingly defeat Edge & Christian on an episode of Raw to win the World Tag Team titles.
Their reign only lasted until the next episode of SmackDown, where Kurt Angle took charge as referee and Edge & Christian regained the gold, but the history books still show that the unusual duo of Rock & ‘Taker held the titles.
#4 Failed: Goldust
In the latest WWE NEWS, Goldust succeeded as a tag team partner for Booker T and Cody Rhodes, but his brief alliances with The Undertaker did not go exactly as planned.
The two men were on the same side in the summer of 2002 when The Undertaker feuded with Test and Goldust & Booker T were involved in a rivalry with Test’s fellow Un-Americans, Christian & Lance Storm.
In the weeks leading up to that year’s SummerSlam, The Un-Americans teamed with Triple H to defeat The Undertaker, Booker T, Goldust & The Rock on an episode of Raw, while the Canadian trio were also victorious in a six-man tag team match against ‘Taker, Booker T & Goldust one week later.
‘Taker went on to win against Test at the resulting pay-per-view, but Booker T & Goldust were unable to claim the Tag Team titles from Christian & Storm.
Following their short-lived 2002 alliance, Goldust never teamed with “The Deadman” again.
#3 Succeeded: Big Show
Big Show has won Tag Team titles with Chris Jericho, Kane, The Miz and The Undertaker during his 20-year WWE career, and he even held titles in WCW with Lex Luger, Scott Hall and Sting.
The 7-footer only teamed with The Undertaker in nine matches on WWE television, but that was still enough time for them to win the World Tag Team titles on two occasions.
Their first triumph came in August 1999 when they defeated Kane & X-Pac at SummerSlam. Although the reign only lasted eight days before they lost the titles to The Rock & Mankind, they quickly regained them from The Rock ‘n’ Sock Connection one week later in a Buried Alive match on SmackDown.
The Undertaker & Big Show lost the titles back to The Rock & Mankind later in September 1999, despite the fact that The Rock did not pin either of them – he pinned Mideon, their fellow Unholy Alliance faction member – to pick up the win.
#2 Failed: Scott Hall
Before The Undertaker became the WWE and WrestleMania icon that we know him as today, he competed under the name Punisher Dice Morgan in New Japan Pro Wrestling in 1990.
During a series of matches for the promotion in March of that year, he teamed with Scott Hall to challenge Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Tag Team titles.
Saito & Hashimoto regained their titles, while Morgan and Hall reinvented themselves and became known as The Undertaker and Razor Ramon in WWE.
Twelve years after their first televised match as a duo, ‘Taker teamed up with Hall (fka Ramon), as well as NWO member X-Pac, to face Bradshaw & “Stone Cold” Steve Austin in a 2-on-3 handicap match on Monday Night Raw in April 2002.
Once again, ‘Taker and Hall were unable to win, with the babyface duo of Bradshaw & Austin emerging with the victory.
#1 Succeeded: Kane
Kane teamed with The Undertaker in a total of 58 matches on WWE television, winning 34 times, losing 20 times and drawing the other four.
After an on/off rivalry lasting over three years, the Brothers of Destruction were finally on the same page in 2001 when they defeated Edge & Christian in a No Disqualification match on an April episode of SmackDown to win the World Tag Team titles for the first time.
Four months later, the storyline brothers added to their title reigns by winning the WCW Tag Team titles from Sean O’Haire & Chuck Palumbo before merging their newly won titles with the WWE Tag Team titles at SummerSlam following a Steel Cage victory over Diamond Dallas Page & Kanyon.
In the last few years, the two veterans have reunited on numerous occasions, most recently at WWE Crown Jewel in November 2018 when they were defeated by Triple H and the returning Shawn Michaels.
