While their relationship strengthened over the years, Undertaker said that many fans’ perception is that he and McMahon were “in lockstep” together all throughout those 30 years. He explained that wasn’t the case, however, and they actually butted heads a lot, especially when it came to their vision of the WWE product.
He gave an example of an argument with McMahon that he initially fought and lost, but said it was the only time McMahon came back to him to tell him he was actually right. It involved his Punjabi Prison match against Big Show.
“Vince had this idea, he wanted us to go through the gate or something while we were fighting, and that’s how I’d get out of the cage,” Undertaker said. “I had the idea that I wanted to jump from the inner cage to the outer cage and get out that way. I thought, ‘Man, that’ll be such a cool visual.'”
He said he and McMahon argued back-and-forth. It finally got to the point where the chairman said he wasn’t going to hear anything else about it, and the gate escape was how they were going to do the match.
“I’m like, ‘Fine. It’s going to suck and when it sucks, it’s going to be on you,'” he said. “Anyway, we did it the way he wanted it and it was flat. It was like, womp, womp, womp, womp. So, I go back and I just looked at him, I didn’t have to say a word. He knew, and he goes, almost under his breath, he goes, ‘Uh. I think you were right on that cage spot.'”
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