WrestleMania X8 in 2002 featured The Undertaker versus Ric Flair in a memorable no disqualification match on the undercard. Famously Arn Anderson would interfere and hit The Undertaker with a spinebuster. That, though, only lead to a near fall, and The Undertaker would go to increase his WrestleMania winning streak to 10–0.
Now, The Undertaker has revealed on his second appearance on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions that Vince McMahon had another wrestler lined up as his potential opponent for the show. McMahon’s thinking was The Undertaker would have preferred to have worked with the younger Rob Van Dam, who he’d previously feuded with over the WWF Hardcore Title. The Undertaker, though, jumped at the opportunity to face Flair.
And he was shocked, right? Vince was shocked because he thought I was gonna go with the younger, y’know, the guy, and RVD, was on his way up, and you know he was doing good things. But it was like, “I wanna work with Flair,” and he was still trying to like, “you don’t wanna work with RVD?” I said, “nah, I got plenty of time to work with RVD. I wanna work with Flair.”The Undertaker
Despite missing out on a match against The Undertaker, RVD still wrestle at WrestleMania X8 and defeated William Regal for the Intercontinental Championship. Later that year, RVD would work with The Undertaker again, mostly on house shows, but would challenge him for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Title on Raw.
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