10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1994
8. The Undertaker's Work Schedule During His "Time Off"
Was Undertaker shooting in his infamous 1999 promo about eating snakes in Death Valley when he turned to The Big Show and said "nice try big man...but I don't sleep".
No, he was just being a preposterously insecure grandstanding idiot, but he'd put in nine years of hard graft working for Vince McMahon by then so people are entitled to lose their minds a little. Shortly after Chris Jericho and the rest of the world highlighted how boring (and unintentionally hilarious) that was, 'The Deadman' was given time to rest, rehabilitate and return as the 'American Bad Ass' that bought him several years away from the persona that made him an icon before a welcome return a few years on from that.
It was only the second significant break he'd taken in nearly a decade, and even in the first one he was still on the clock for his boss.
After Undertaker floated into the rafters following his Royal Rumble loss to Yokozuna, he supposedly disappeared until his SummerSlam return against Ted Dibiase's doppelgänger. He in fact worked 15 matches, which is almost one per fortnight during the time he was away.
Often batched together (he worked international tours in May and June and got back on the dark match circuit in July and August ahead of his return), they were nonetheless regular enough that those wacky Elvis-adjacent skits weren't the only places members of the public were catching sight of the former WWE Champion.