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WHERE UNDERTAKER LEARNED TO WALK THE ROPES, TED TURNER ON MONDAY NIGHT WAR, WWE TITLE SPLIT AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2016-07-07 10:00:00

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As a follow up to a reader's previous question on whether or not CM Punk will use "Cult of Personality" as his walkout music in the UFC.  Is there any chance Brock Lesner would use his WWE Entrance Theme as his walkout music in UFC?

I would be shocked if UFC hadn't licensed the WWE theme music for this appearance.

Lately on RAW I noticed everyone, including commentators and announcers, have started calling the main title "WWE Championship" like it was before the brand split on RAW. Have you heard any news if WWE is planning to bring back the old World Heavyweight Championship title with the brand split that was part of the Smackdown?

All signs point to there being a Smackdown championship but whatever it will be titled remains to be seen.  The fact that WWE dropped the "World Heavyweight" distinction from what is now, again, the WWE championship, is pretty telling.

How does one get their hands on "The Gift of Jericho" if one wants to drink it all in?

By locking themselves in a basement and chanting his name backwards for three days straight.

I was recently re-watching the Monday Night War on WWE Network and was curious about an interview segment that they showed.  Throughout the series, various clips of a 1998 interview with Ted Turner are shown discussing WCW and his thoughts on the business.  Obviously this was done during WCW's time however was this recorded by WCW themselves?  Why did Ted Turner do this interview?  Is there a complete, unedited copy out there somewhere that can be located?  Throughout everything that occurred with WCW and WWE, many people spoke of Ted's intentions and thoughts but we've rarely ever seen them first hand and I'm curious to see his thought process concerning the WCW product.  As a followup, has there ever been to your knowledge any reaching out by WWE or someone else to interview Ted Turner concerning his experiences and thoughts regarding the history of WCW?

I believe the Turner comments are from a video deposition Turner gave during the time period that WWF was suing WCW over WCW's alleged infringement of the Diesel and Razor Ramon characters by giving the impression that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall had come to WCW at WWF's behest to invade.

Thank you for your time and great work.    I read where one of the Undertakers most popular moves during a match in which he takes one of his opponent by the hand, climbs onto the top turnbuckle and proceeds to walk along the top rope and then land onto his opponent with great force. It was said that he learned the move from studying legendary  wrestler the Spoiler (Don Jardine). I also read that Jardine was his mentor. Hero if you will. Would you know if is this is true? Has he ever met Don Jardine aka the Spoiler? Whatever happented to him?

Jardine taught the move to Undertaker while Undertaker was working as The Punisher in World Class in Texas.  Sadly, Jardine passed away in 2006.

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