Sure, 2020 is the reward that retains on giving (Picture: WWE)
Three many years in the past, Survivor Sequence featured one in every of WWE’s greatest debut – and The Undertaker.
The Gobbledy Gooker has gone down in pro wrestling infamy after weeks of hype concerning the contents of a mysterious big egg which was set to hatch at round Thanksgiving.
The large turkey – with legend Hector Guerrero within the costume – has gone down in WWE folklore as one of many firm’s greatest missteps.
Nevertheless, with tonight’s present celebrating 30 years since The Undertaker appeared on the identical evening, the promotion gave a hilarious nod to its previous because the Gobbledy Gooker make a giant comeback.
As if that wasn’t sufficient, the large hen gained its first ever title within the firm by rolling up 24/7 Champion R-Reality – who launched his feathery foe throughout a fantastic section on the Kickoff Present, the place he thought the celebrations have been for the hatchling.
In a method, the comedian aid second was nonetheless a nod to the Lifeless Man, who has admitted up to now he was apprehensive he was going to be revealed as the person below the outfit.
‘So concerning the time I bought my cellphone name, they have been doing this promotion the place, on the present – again then they’d do three or 4 weeks in a row – they’d this gigantic egg on the set,’ he informed “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin on The Damaged Cranium Classes.
‘So this egg seems on the present, proper? And impulsively my thoughts simply begins going like, “Aw, man, they’re going to convey me in” – now that is how outlandish the gimmicks have been again then too – “I’m going to be Egg Man.”
‘I had satisfied myself, to the purpose the place my abdomen damage, that I’m going to be “Egg Man.” ‘
Oh, how completely different the wrestling world might have been – however at the least Gooker lastly bought his second within the solar, even when it might all change once more by the tip of the evening.