5 Most Traumatic WWE Moments Of The Early 90's

#4 The Undertaker Dies and Is Resurrected

The Undertaker Addresses The Universe From His Casket

There was a time when The Undertaker was virtually unbeatable, especially when partaking in his forte: The Casket Match.

On the other hand, former WWE Champion Yokozuna suffered from claustrophobia and was terrified of caskets. The Undertaker and his manager Paul Bearer took advantage of Yokozuna's phobias and began taunting the 700 pounder with a double deep, double wide, custom made casket.

Because Vince McMahon is funny that way and apparently unsympathetic toward phobics, he booked a Casket Match between Yokozuna and Undertaker. Although Yokozuna was a superb competitor, he shouldn't have a chance against The Undertaker in a Casket Match.

Children everywhere expected The Undertaker to win. When every heel character in the WWE came to Yokozuna's aid, from Crush to an oddly clean shaven Bam Bam Bigelow, young Undertaker fans knew that someone would come to save their favorite Dead Man. It never happened.

WWE trained children to believe that when their favorite Superstars were facing an unjust and uneven onslaught, some hero would come running through the curtains to even the score. This time; however, The Undertaker was on his own.

As Paul Bearer screamed in agony, a legion of WWE's heels rolled The Undertaker into the casket and his destiny was sealed. Where was Razor Ramon? Where was Bret Hart? None of WWE's top faces seemed to care that The Undertaker was being murdered on live television.

As his casket was being rolled out by some of the most unscrupulous heels in wrestling history, smoke began to emanate from its ghostly chambers.

The familiar gong resonated throughout the arena and a picture of The Undertaker, from inside the casket, appeared on the monitor.

He opened his eyes and sent us all into therapy,

"The spirit of The Undertaker lives within the soul of all mankind. The eternal flame of life that can not be extinguished, the origin of which can not be explained. The answer lies in the everlasting spirit. Soon all mankind will witness the rebirth of The Undertaker."

As his pale white eyes rolled into the back of his head, Undertaker vowed, "I will not rest in peace." He then apparently passed away, as his bone-chilling theme song played throughout the arena and to millions of children watching on television. Yes, we paid for this and were all guilty co-conspirators to a live murder.

It wasn't over yet. In a last-ditch effort to provide us with lifelong nightmares, The Undertaker's soul (yes, his soul) resurrected and free floated from the monitor out into the arena. We weren't seeing things. The Undertaker was levitating. We had just witnessed WWE's version of the Jesus story live at the Royal Rumble and it only cost us $29.99, on top of the life long visits to the psychiatrist's office.

Imagine the school conversations the very next day, as we attempted to explain to one another what we'd just witnessed.

For those of us that attended religion class, it made for some very interesting dialogue, as well. No religion could ever claim exclusivity to the resurrection any longer, as we had all just witnessed a resurrection on live television and as we all know, everything in professional wrestling is 100% real.