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#2 WWE wanted The Undertaker to perform the Tombstone Piledriver finisher without any practice
The Tombstone Piledriver was the perfect finishing move for the man known as The Undertaker in the ring. The finisher helped Undertaker take WWE by storm as it worked well with his overall gimmick and persona.
While the finisher became synonymous with The Undertaker, it may come as a surprise to many that WWE made him perform the finisher on WWE Hall of Famer Koko B. Ware without any practice. That’s right, The Undertaker performed the Tombstone for the first time on Koko without any previous attempts.
Appearing on Why it Ended with Robbie E. Koko, Koko revealed that the finisher was botched by Taker and almost cracked his neck:
"I love Mark to death, and I'm still proud of The Undertaker today," said Koko. "He really, really has [taken] his gimmick a long, long way. But Mark was, you know. I was the first one to take the tombstone, but he was a little excited because that was his first time doing it, and I almost kind of cracked my neck a little bit doing it. And I heard all kind of little cracks and stuff like that.
"But I knew Mark was trying to get over... I got dropped on my head, to be honest with you. Yes. But thank God for working out, it kind of helps you. Now, if I had a weak head or something like that, I probably would have broke my neck big time. I was the first one that he used it on. [We didn't practice], he just said hey. They wanted him [to do it]. It was kind of like a piledriver, but he just had my head between his legs too far that you could see my head, and if he would have had my head between the fat part of his thighs, then it wouldn't have hurt."
While Taker was unable to perform the move to perfection at first, he managed to make it the deadliest move in his arsenal, which he continued to perform for years without any difficulties.
