- The legend of The Undertaker continues to grow.
- The word legend is really abused.
People have lost sight of what it truly means to be a legend.
Undertaker is a legend.
- I felt as if I had his respect.
That was a huge feather in my cap because it's the Undertaker.
- Who the hell?
- Who the hell is that?
- It's Randy Orton.
- The RKO.
"The Legend Killer" Randy Orton from out nowhere.
- If Randy Orton wants to take out legends,
you know he is going to go after the top one.
If you kill that legend, you're untouchable.
- Randy was young, Randy was hungry.
You're always hoping that somebody comes along
that is trying to get to your level.
- Then you factor in Randy bringing back his dad,
"Cowboy" Bob, to help him out.
- Watch out.
- Randy and Undertaker was a beautiful combination.
You're not just getting a straight-ahead fight.
You're getting theatrics.
You're getting things from the beyond.
- Isn't that part of the fun?
Isn't that part of what made the Undertaker the Undertaker?
Wouldn't it be intriguing to see how Randy Orton reacts to it?
- Randy, you're going with me straight to hell.
- This rivalry has just escalated into a war.
- When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned
in our minds forever.
This is where we break down the legendary stories behind
the greatest rivalries of all time.
I'm Freddie Prinze Jr. and this is WWE Rivals.
- Randy Orton perhaps faces his toughest challenge tonight.
Undertaker.
- Today we're going to be talking about the Undertaker,
who is a very popular subject on this show,
but this time he's taking up an up-and-comer Randy Orton.
And we're going to go back in time to the year 2005.
These are two men that are at very different
points in their career.
Undertaker's top dog.
- Taker was the man. The man.
You had one person who symbolized WWE.
You had some incredible people that came along
during all this time.
You had Bret Hart, who was an incredible champion,
Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold, The Rock.
You had Cena starting to emerge.
Taker was the one constant the entire time.
He was the cornerstone that everything the WWE was built on.
- Bradshaw not one to back down from a good fight.
He's going to get one tonight.
- Everybody who made it to the top
had to have a dance with the Undertaker.
- The other man in this equation is Randy Orton.
- Randy Orton.
This kid is sensational.
- Randy looked the part.
He was everything you needed to be.
- It doesn't get any better than this.
- Randy had to be able to back it up.
And people are expecting you to be as good as the people
that came before you, that paved that road for you.
Not to mention the fact that he's in there
with the barometer, the measuring stick
of all pro wrestlers.
- You could see somebody sometimes,
and you could just say early on, early on, "They got it."
- The 12-year WWE veteran against the rookie.
- My job was not only to sell tickets and pay-per-views
and put asses in seats.
But it's also to help that next generation to come along
and keep the product fresh and keep it growing.
This business is going to go on long after Steve Austin,
the Undertaker, Rock, and anybody else that's here.
That's just the nature of the beast.
But our time comes and our time goes.
Everybody gets their number called sometime.
- Cool.
Thank you very much.
- Thanks, guys.
- You were always going to get the best that the Undertaker
had to offer, no matter what.
If you could hang with the Undertaker,
then that lets you know that this guy has got
what it takes to hang with anybody else.
He's going to push you to be the very best you can be.
- Randy Orton, being a third-generation superstar,
he got put in that position because he could be trusted.
We knew that he was a guy that could weather the storm.
- It never really hit me that what my dad did for a living
was pretty -- cool.
- "Cowboy" Bob Orton who now has the momentum.
Orton trying to soften up "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
- But then I realized my grandfather did the same thing.
It's probably one of the most special things I think about
who I am as a WWE Superstar.
- Randy Orton, he's 20 years old.
He's a a third-generation superstar.
His father was "Cowboy" Bob Orton Jr. His grandfather,
the legendary Bob Orton Sr. Randy Orton has traveled to the
OVW Training Center to hone his skills.
- I'd been in OVW, the WWE developmental territory
for six months, eight months, something like that.
We used to run very small shows.
My very first big show down there,
I was wrestling a Rico Constantino,
but also on the card was Dave Batista
and he was wrestling the Undertaker.
And the first time I ever laid eyes on that man,
he was standing in the back
looking tall, big, jacked, scary.
He was observing who are going to be the guys
that get called up soon that I might be able to work with.
- It was evident even early on in his career
that the sky would be the limit.
- You're Randy Orton.
- Yes, sir.
- He's getting a trial match.
- Debuted on WWE television in 2002.
- Randy Orton, face drop toehold.
Face first goes Hardcore Holly.
- Oklahoma roll.
- Rolls him over.
He may have him.
Hook of the leg.
- Cradle.
- There's two.
He's got him.
[bell rings]
- Had a great 2003.
Went on 2004, kept rolling.
Worked with Mick Foley.
Became the youngest world heavyweight champion
in history at SummerSlam.
- Randy is one of the few guys-- Bob O, his grandfather,
was one of the greatest heels in the history of this business.
Bob Orton Jr. was one of the greatest workers
in the history of this business.
- He's got some great moves, "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
He can really take it to his opponent.
- Randy came along and had unrealistically
high expectations, and he exceeded them.
- And you can watch him in the ring and realize
that he was just a natural.
He really was, and he learned and he prospered
and he went on to be great.
- This is the Fabulous Moolah, okay?
Randy Orton "Legend Killer".
The Legend Killer idea came up and I loved that idea.
- What?
Oh, my God.
Oh, I don't believe he just did that.
- The Legend Killer persona, Randy would go around
and basically kill legends.
[bell rings]
- Come on, Piper.
How do you like that, You son of a bitch.
- And there is no bigger legend, really, when you think about it
than the Undertaker.
- Randy being a third-generation wrestler,
you see him and you're like, "Okay, this is going to be good.
This kid has got it."
- So Undertaker always looked at talent as,
"Is there somebody out there that is on the precipice
that I can push over the edge and make them
not just a star but a superstar?"
Undertaker looked at Randy and said,
"Yeah, that can be the next guy."
- And I remember the office, it was creative.
It might have been Bruce Pritchard even,
but they came to me, and they said,
"Listen, kid. Undertaker wants to work with you."
I go,
"With me?"
I'm about to do what no other man has done.
At WrestleMania 21, I will defeat the Undertaker.
[crowd boos]
- The idea was to be able to go back and try
and find a lot of legends in our past to come back.
- What a way to start Raw with Jake "The Snake" Roberts here.
- So using Jake "The Snake" and people like that was something
that could easily display and let people know, first of all,
how Randy viewed the legends, but it was giving him
self-confidence to be able to step into the ring
with the Undertaker.
- And at WrestleMania, when I end Undertaker's winning streak,
I will have made a bigger impact than you have made
your entire career.
- Randy Orton is given a golden ticket.
He gets the Undertaker, but he has a unique perspective
on why he wants to face him.
He sort of is the first one to recognize the streak,
which we all know now so famously of Undertaker
not losing at WrestleMania.
Orton brings this to the forefront of the conversation,
and very arrogantly claims that he is going to be one
to end this streak.
- RKO on the Snake.
Randy Orton "The Legend Killer" just RKO'd another legend.
- Randy's a natural bad guy.
Randy is a cocky, arrogant kid.
- Undertaker, you're 12-0 at WrestleMania,
you're undefeated at WrestleMania.
The Undertaker's streak, his winning streak at WrestleMania,
it wasn't a thing yet.
He was 12-0, and I went into WrestleMania
as the Legend Killer, telling everybody I was going
to be the Undertaker's very first loss.
But look into my eyes when I say this.
Soon, very soon, you will be 12-1.
Being a --, being a bad guy, being a heel
in the wrestling business, it's what I've always felt
the most comfortable doing obviously.
- Not a lot of people have the nerve to slap the Undertaker.
It had to be a great slap.
That slap is what's going to set this whole thing off.
- You want a message, he sent a message to the Undertaker.
Look at the Undertaker's response.
We are live in Hollywood, and this is WrestleMania.
- Randy was working at being a top heel in this company,
but you have to be prepared for opportunities
as they come your way.
Receiving the Undertaker as an opportunity is pretty big.
- This is sink of swim.
You got the Deadman at WrestleMania,
and everything, the spotlight, it's going to be on you,
every single move you do.
This is either you're going to make your career,
or you're going to be gone soon.
- So it's Orton and the Undertaker one-on-one.
And we call Orton brash, we call him cocky.
Just look at his actions in the past few weeks.
- Everybody is nervous.
Everybody is nervous at WrestleMania.
You put this incredible amount of pressure on yourself
to go out there and try to steal the show.
For even a young guy, he was so poised.
- To step into the ring in a match with the Undertaker,
at WrestleMania, that's a career achievement.
For Randy Orton, who at the time was admittedly a kid,
can you imagine that?
- Both these men going punch for punch here.
- And there is vintage Undertaker.
- I can't believe that he's trading blows
with the Undertaker.
- At WrestleMania 21, we had a little surprise.
If you remember WrestleMania 1,
if you remember "Cowboy" Bob Orton,
then you know that my father had a cast on his arm.
- "Cowboy" Bob Orton is an iconic legendary WWE villain.
"Cowboy" Bob started wearing a cast on his arm complaining
of an injury, but he would always
find a way in matches to use the cast as a weapon.
- Went for the RKO.
Referee Earl Hebner knocked down.
Wait a minute.
- What the hell is this?
The cast.
- That's "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
- The cast.
- Randy's father with the legendary cast.
- What was special about that for me was
that I got to work with my dad.
- My dad and I worked a little bit together,
when I first started, and then getting to be
in there with Randy, I was blessed.
- "Cowboy" Bob Orton a legend.
One of the greatest heels of all time.
He was the classic tough guy, chicken -- heel.
- I got to see my dad smile in a way
that I hadn't really ever seen him smile before
because he was doing what he loved better than most anybody.
[crowd boos]
- Are you kidding me or what?
- Randy Orton is going to steal this because
of his Hall of Fame dad.
- What the hell is going on?
- Here's the cover.
- No way.
- There is two.
- Kick out.
- Not this way.
Oh, the Undertaker kicked out.
[crowd cheers]
- Whoever I was working, it would take forever
for them to get me down.
Everything that they've done, battled, have finally done
enough to stop him.
And they take that moment, they leave me there,
and they try to catch their breath.
[crowd boos]
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, boy.
- That character sits up.
Everybody, and their mother, and their grandmother was like,
"Oh, now you've done it, now.
Ho-ho, you let him sit up.
That's your ass now.
Oh, he's coming for you."
- Orton cannot believe that the Undertaker just sat up.
- I've got this move, the RKO.
He goes to chokeslam me.
Now, this is one of those moves that not everybody kicks out of.
- Orton's going for a ride.
- An RKO.
- Oh, man.
What a counter.
- This match really let Randy just shine and how he literally
was able to deliver this finisher from nowhere,
or from everywhere, or from anywhere.
And it was the first time, that I remember,
seeing him reverse someone else's move,
which was the chokeslam,
and he turned it into his finisher,
which was the RKO.
- The Undertaker kicked out.
- I was there when they had the match at WrestleMania.
In the arena in LA, I was probably of one the very few
that hoped Randy would beat Undertaker.
To me, it just felt like Randy Orton, his whole thing
was the Legend Killer, which I think added to that match
because you probably thought,
"Oh, he might actually be the one to do it."
- He's not going to Tombstone him.
He's going for the Tombstone.
- What the--
- That's the Undertaker's finishing move.
- It was like water off a duck's back with Randy.
He stepped up and delivered.
- Undertaker reversed it.
- Look at this.
Watch out.
My God.
- Tombstone Piledriver.
Here's the cover.
- Goodbye.
He got him.
What a match.
[bell rings]
[crowd cheers]
- We talk about Randy not breaking the streak.
Sometimes, you win even in your losses.
Randy was one of those guys that wanted to go out there
and make his losses just as great as his wins.
And I think that's what the beauty of Randy Orton was.
- Well, to build on that.
Their story doesn't end at WrestleMania,
which is usually an endpoint in a story line.
This was the beginning.
- Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the sold-out MCI Center
for the 18th annual SummerSlam.
- So SummerSlam, to me it was natural, Randy not accepting
the loss, not accepting the fact that the Undertaker
defeated him at WrestleMania, on the grandest stage of all,
and now you have a new reason for Randy to want
to go after the Undertaker.
- Creative says, "You had your dad at
WrestleMania, maybe we have him come back.
We could have him sit in the crowd,"
and someone had an idea then.
- So at SummerSlam, "Cowboy" Bob Orton
was there as a distraction, but I don't think we were
supposed to know it was "Cowboy" Bob.
He was in the crowd pretending to be a typical fan,
and he had makeup on, so we didn't see
his iconic face.
- What goes up-
- Chokeslam.
- -must come down.
- Chokeslam.
- The end is near, Cole.
- Who the hell is--
- What the hell is that?
- Who the hell is this?
- This was clearly "Cowboy" Bob with makeup.
Luckily, for Randy, that's still a distraction.
- Who the hell-
what the hell is going on?
- I don't know.
- Oh, easy, easy, easy.
- Security is trying to get this guy out.
- Not happy.
You don't want to do that.
- The match goes down, my dad comes out,
causes the distraction.
- RKO.
An RKO, an RKO from out of nowhere.
- He did it, Cole.
- Randy Orton into the cover, hooks the leg.
- One, two, three.
- Oh, my God.
[bell rings]
[crowd cheers]
- One, two, three, I win.
We pull the makeup off, bit by bit, and it's just like,
I could've done a better job, my daughter could've
done a better job making up my father to not look
like my father.
It made my dad look like my dad.
- That's Bob--
- That's Randy Orton's dad.
That's "Cowboy" Bob.
What the hell is going on?
- [laughs]
Oh, it's just brand-new stuff for me,
it was like being in the movies, I guess.
It was just a great experience.
- Fortunately, we've come a long way in special effects
and our makeup artists,
and the way we do things now.
It was awful.
It really was.
- They better get the hell out of dodge,
I'll tell you that right now.
- The one thing about Taker which I think we can all agree
on is that Taker he made everybody step up.
I think that was a real turning point,
a real catalyst for Randy
to have that kind of integrity as a performer.
- After I killed your legend at SummerSlam,
we figured you'd crawl back to Death Valley
and never show your face again.
And seeing as you're here today I will do as I said.
I have a gift to present to you, Undertaker.
If I could get some help from the back, please.
Bring out Undertaker's gift.
Undertaker, let me present to you your retirement fund
in the amount of $1,416.
- The Undertaker has special powers that he can do things.
- Oh.
- Undertaker can set things on fire.
Undertaker has lightning bolts coming from his hands.
You play on the fears and the psyche of someone's head
to get in there and really mess with them.
- The Ortons are hightailing it.
And I don't blame them.
A sign, a signal, a warning.
The Undertaker plans to settle a score with the Ortons.
First time ever, Sunday at No Mercy, a Handicap Casket Match,
the Ortons versus the Undertaker.
- Randy shined so bright that this continued
and we started getting into the more creative matches,
which when you have someone like Undertaker you get
more latitude and freedom to do.
[Undertaker's music plays]
- Oh, no.
What's going on?
- I don't know.
Look at the size of that casket.
- So Undertaker generally brings a lot to the table
that really sparks your imagination.
- A casket made for two.
- Someone is going to be buried alive
Sunday at No Mercy in that casket.
- You have Randy Orton "The Legend Killer"
who's just taking out one person after another and seems
really pretty unstoppable, all of a sudden,
up against someone who he cannot intimidate.
- Oh, the Undertaker.
The Undertaker is in the ring.
- Someone who he really can't play games with mentally,
the Undertaker.
- He's the only guy that can pull this off.
You think about it, you got a dead man who's dead
but he's not really dead, then then you've got a guy who's been
buried alive, you got all this different stuff.
Nobody's going to buy that except for the fact
that it's the Undertaker.
- Right.
- And this takes us to the Casket Match at No Mercy.
- The match that favors the Undertaker.
It is a casket match.
The match that the Undertaker has made famous.
- They're fun because it gives you a whole different element
of the out, the end, the finish.
- And so, it begins.
- Not only do you have to incapacitate your opponent,
you have to incapacitate them enough so that
you can roll them into a casket and shut the lid.
- I hadn't been in many casket
matches at this point in my career.
Actually, I had never been in a casket match.
But I was in there with the man, when it comes to casket matches,
the Undertaker.
But, we threw him a curveball.
- It's a first ever Handicap Casket Match.
Both those men got to go into the casket for Undertaker
to be victorious.
- Not only am I dealing with Randy, I'm dealing with his dad,
who's interjected himself time and time and time again,
so it made sense.
Now it's cool like, two on one, are they going to be able to put
Undertaker in a casket or is Undertaker going to have to put
both of those guys in a casket?
- Undertaker up to the top rope.
- Oh, watch out.
- And Randy Orton-
- Oh.
- -cut the Undertaker off and this could be the opening
the Ortons need.
- Oh.
- Undertaker up top.
- Maybe here.
Can they do it?
- A superplex by the Ortons to the Undertaker.
"Cowboy" Bob Orton to his feet.
- Here we go.
Here we go.
- "Cowboy" Bob sent into the casket and now Randy
has got to be delivered.
- As a kid you strive to make your dad proud, but when your
dad's a bad guy too, maybe that is making him
proud is being bad.
[laughter]
- Yes.
- Undertaker is going to throw Randy in.
- Open it up, ref.
- Here we go.
- Wait a minute.
- What the hell?
- "Cowboy" Bob with a fire extinguisher.
- I remember going wild with that fire extinguisher,
[chuckles]
but you couldn't see anything but smoke.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- Undertaker is in the casket.
Come on, Taker.
- Well, the proverbial numbers game caught the Deadman.
- Oh, my God I can't believe it.
- Oh, my God.
- I can't believe it.
- They're locking it.
- Now the Ortons symbolically wheeling the casket which
contains the Undertaker inside out of the Toyota Center.
- No.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Come on now.
What the hell is Orton doing?
- Oh, wait, Cole.
Cole, stop.
Stop.
Cole.
- Oh, my God.
- No.
- Oh, my God.
- No, come on.
No, there's a man in there.
Enough with this.
- My adrenaline's pumping.
I'm about to set a casket on fire with the Undertaker in it.
So I'm not thinking necessarily about my safety.
So I'm dumping all this kerosene all over this casket.
And It's dripping everywhere, and it's splashing,
and it's hitting me and it's on my boots.
And I didn't even realize it, but my boots up to my knees
were soaked in kerosene.
You're going to burn in hell, you bitch.
Do you hear me?
You're going to burn.
I light it on fire.
As I did that, I stepped back just
in the nick of time where you saw the fire take
over the casket.
- Come on now.
- Oh, my God.
- Somebody get out here.
- Oh, my God.
- It's a damn inferno, somebody get out here.
- I think it missed the tips of my toes by like this much.
- Those are the kind of moments that people remember forever.
Most of those people, they're in tune with
what's been going on.
They know one thing about that Undertaker character
is he's going to come out of that casket eventually
and when he does
there's going to be hell to pay.
- Hello, everyone and welcome to the WWE Survivor Series.
- After the casket match, Taker disappeared for a few weeks.
I went on to Survivor Series.
- Survivor Series is where you have a team four,
five people on each side and as people lose
they are eliminated from the match.
And the idea is to be the last person to survive that match.
- Oh, another one.
- Sweet Chin Music again.
- Look at Orton.
Look at Orton.
- Here we go.
Here we go, Cole.
- Turn around, Shawn, turn around.
- Look out.
- RKO.
- Damn it.
Damn it.
No.
- Here's the cover.
- One, two, three.
- Yes.
- You have Randy at the highest of highs being the sole
survivor in the Survivor Series and being on top of the world.
- Take a look at him, guys.
Randy Orton right there.
- And hen I heard it.
[Undertaker's music plays]
- Oh, my.
- Uh-oh.
- Randy Orton looks as if he's seen a ghost.
- I mean, it's just so well set up.
Everything in this whole storyline
arc was perfectly done.
- There's pops and then there's rumbles.
That rumble, there is just that energy,
that anticipation of what is about to happen.
- Oh.
- Oh, my God.
It worked against me a little bit because like
I'm in the inside, I can hear the crowd, I'm juiced up.
I'm ready to go.
So I hit that door, it was just for a second,
but I could feel it, big ball of fire.
And then I had to take a little half second there to assess
like, I wonder if there's anything on me on fire right now
I really hope not because it would really spoil this.
- Tonight, Randy Orton has seen a ghost.
The Undertaker is back for vengeance.
- But the ghost is coming to the ring and I don't think
he's here to celebrate.
- We get the perfect entrance from the Undertaker
through the flaming casket which is such a beautiful way
for him to show Randy that nothing you've done
so far is enough to beat me.
- There he goes.
Oh, what a chokeslam.
- The Undertaker is cleaning house.
The Undertaker sending Brian Kendrick for a ride.
- Oh, my God.
- It's the Deadman, it's the Undertaker.
We've seen him rise out of rubbish before.
We've seen him come out of things like that.
You could put an axe, you can put gasoline,
blow it up.
Deadman is coming back.
- Oh
- Big boot.
There goes the Big Show.
- Right to the face.
- Oh my God.
- My God.
- Randy Orton "The Legend Killer".
- As a fan, you realize how big a story is sometimes with the
amount of production that's put into it.
You saw that with the Undertaker and Randy Orton.
- Oh wait a-- uh-oh
- Oh, my.
- Deadman sat up.
- Now we needed to up the ante.
Now we needed to do some wild stunt.
I take Taker, I hit him with the tire iron,
and he falls on the back of the low rider
and we're parked at the bottom of the ramp.
Now back then we taped SmackDown.
People at home didn't see this, but for the live crowd,
I get in this car, I got it started it up.
Well, I flood the engine.
But I was in that car what felt like minutes
flooding the -- out of the engine.
Finally, I get it to start.
Now I've got an Undertaker in the back that
I got to drop off somewhere.
What do I do?
Probably one of the craziest stunts
I've ever been involved in.
- No.
- Oh, my God.
No.
Don't do this.
- No.
- The wild part about it and I can't do it justice explaining
it, but I had just a couple of inches on each side of that set
that I had to run that lowrider through.
I had a few angels with me that day, so did Taker.
- Any kind of reservation that you have about doing anything,
it goes out the window when you're live.
You just stop thinking about anything bad happening,
and you think about making a moment.
If you've got people talking, if there's a stir like,
whoa, did you see last night?
He was on the car, they drove through the set,
he beat with the tire iron, did you see that?
It makes all the pains go away.
It makes everything good.
- And unfortunately for Randy Orton,
it wasn't enough to keep the Undertaker down.
[Undertaker's music plays]
- Oh, my.
- Wait a minute.
Cole, what the--
- Can it be?
- What the-- no, it can't be.
- Hello, Randy.
Randy, you're going with me straight to hell.
Hell in the Cell.
- Oh my.
- Oh my God.
- Hell in a Cell, the most dangerous structure in
sports entertainment history.
It ends careers and it alters lives.
- Sometimes revenge is greater than glory.
Let's talk about Hell in a Cell, which is the perfect place for
the Undertaker to exact the perfect revenge on a young man
that has shown no respect.
And now there's no running away, you're in a cage.
You're not getting out and you have to deal with this man.
[Undertaker's music plays]
[crowd cheers]
- The Deadman cometh.
- This is a moment for Randy, knowing that you're getting
ready to go through something that you've
never been through before.
- And from Death Valley, weighing in at 305 pounds,
the Undertaker.
- I was in a Hell in a Cell with the Undertaker.
Me being stuck in a cage with the Deadman,
that was enough of a story to keep people tuned in.
- So it has come down to this.
At WrestleMania, Undertaker won.
At SummerSlam, Randy Orton picked up a victory.
And tonight, scores will be settled inside Hell in a Cell.
- You're always competing against your opponent.
Like I would never say it at the time,
but internally I'm thinking, I'm not letting this kid
get over on me.
- Oh man.
That wasn't good if you're Randy,
but if you're the Undertaker, very impressive
boot to the face.
- Now, he on the other side is looking at me, he's like, yes,
this has been your yard for a long time.
I'm going to show this old-timer what I got,
and who I am, and where I'm taking the business.
You can't be content with where you're at,
you always got to be reaching for the brass ring.
Sometimes that's what makes matches so great
is that internal competition.
It's Hell in a Cell, the violence had to be violent.
- Now, oh, man.
Now the cell.
Look at this.
Oh, welcome to hell, Randy.
Oh, God.
- People were ready to see the Undertaker,
Randy Orton at Hell in a Cell.
And no one would leave that cell until
one of us was the last man standing.
- The Hell in a Cell is probably the most dangerous structure
we have in our business.
The Hell in a Cell take years not just off careers
but off lives.
- When you got two guys beating the -- out of each other,
chances are somebody's going to be bleeding.
Talk about an adrenaline rush.
Talk about living in the moment.
Talk about feeling invincible, feeling the roar of the crowd,
feeling that warm blood drip down your face,
there's nothing quite like it.
I might sound like a -- lunatic right now saying all this,
but any of the boys in the back you know what I'm talking about.
- Measuring the Undertaker
- Watch out.
- Oh, and a boot.
- You talk about being bruised, battered and torn.
You talk about being bloodied up.
There's something I know going into this match
and it's something that I'm willing to do because
I'm willing to prove to you, the Undertaker,
that I'm worthy to be in the ring with you.
- Oh, look at "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
- Yes, he's pulling the hair.
- Grabbing Undertaker by the hair.
- And that's the mark of a true champion.
- And look at this.
The right hands by Undertaker
and there's a big boot.
Now- uh-oh.
"Cowboy" Bob Orton has been caught.
- Oh, man.
- From having wrestled for years and years and years and then
to be off them years and then to come back with your son, God,
it just don't get any better than that.
- And Undertaker with the right hand to the referee.
Oh, an RKO.
- He got split open too.
- Referee Jimmy Korderas is attending to Nick Patrick.
- "Cowboy" Bob Orton Jr, you could tell he was having fun.
Early on, he didn't want to step on Randy's toes,
but as the story went on and as he became more
and more involved in it,
I think he loosened up along the way.
- Here's the cover.
Hook of the leg.
- Goodbye.
One, two-
- There's two and Bob Orton just pulled the referee out.
- Oh, he just cracked the ref.
- And then really started letting the real
"Cowboy" Bob Orton Jr out.
- I was just happy to be there.
Being able to come back and get involved in something
that was so high caliber was just great.
Shoot, I was in hog heaven.
[chuckles]
- We had all these things to play with.
But there's one thing that didn't get reversed a lot.
When Taker picked you up for a piledriver,
chances are you were getting a piledriver.
- Randy Orton doesn't realize what's going on.
Undertaker, Randy Orton in trouble.
Undertaker.
- Going for the Tomb-
- Oh, look at this.
Randy Orton countered the Tombstone.
- What the hell is this?
- He countered the Tombstone.
- I've never seen anyone do that.
Are you kidding me?
God.
- Tombstone Piledriver.
- Holy God.
- Tombstone Piledriver.
- It's strange when someone gives me my finish
because it's an unnatural feeling because obviously
all these years I haven't taken very many of them.
- Randy Orton, here's the cover.
- Undertaker sat up.
- It was like, oh, you know that's what you're feeling.
Oh, you shouldn't have done that.
You shouldn't have Tombstoned the Undertaker.
It's going to be bad news, brother.
- Here's "Cowboy" Bob.
- What the hell?
- Knocked down by the Undertaker.
Randy Orton.
RKO- no.
- The thing is with Randy taking on the Undertaker,
it's no way, it's no way Randy would have been in that position
if it wasn't for someone like the Undertaker saying,
hey, I want that kid and I want to see exactly
how good he really is.
- "Cowboy" Bob Orton, welcome to the Tombstone
- Tombstone Piledriver.
And now, Randy Orton is next.
Undertaker stalking his man.
- The end is near I'm telling you.
- The end is here.
The end is here.
Tombstone Piledriver.
It's over.
[bell rings]
[Undertaker's music plays]
- The Undertaker.
- Wow.
- The legend continues.
- Here is your winner, the Undertaker.
- And Undertaker just tossed the urn on top of the cell.
- It was just like I was feeling it,
I knew we'd just blown off a great story.
We just had an awesome Hell in a Cell match.
And it was just me feeding off of the-- not only the story,
the match, and the reception from the audience.
It was just like, all right, I'm going up.
I'm going up and this is going to be the icing on the cake.
This is the exclamation point at the end
of the sentence right here.
Darkness prevailed in the end.
- At this moment in time, Randy Orton was the picture-perfect
example of what the new generation of superstars
was going to be like.
And the Undertaker showed everyone
he can still hang with anybody.
- Anybody who comes along and makes it to become legendary
status like Randy Orton has become had to go
through this rite of passage.
And I thought this was it for Randy Orton.
This set Randy's career off on the right foot.
- It was a complete story that I've always felt kept
the top guy the top guy, and at the same time gave
the opportunity to the best young wrestler on the way
up who then has somehow exceeded every single expectation,
regardless of how big it was and then some in Randy Orton.
- One of the most memorable things for me in my career
was being able to be on the road with my father,
working with the Undertaker.
It's really amazing when you think about it.
The older I get, the more I look back
and realize, man, I was lucky.
I was very lucky.
- When I look at Randy, I just think here's somebody
who's done very well.
He's just a good person, always has been.
- Randy is the ultimate locker room leader.
And he wasn't always that.
Like I think he'll be the first to say that in his
younger years, he was probably a real idiot sometimes,
but now he's matured into this great human being.
He loves wrestling, he loves his family,
and he loves being in the locker room with the guys.
- When I'm in the locker room, when I'm talking to the young
guys and girls in the back and trying to teach them
about the little things, I always go back to where
I started and I knew that if it wasn't for Undertaker,
none of this would have ever happened.
I got a little side story.
It doesn't really show me in the best light,
but let's face it, I was 24 and I was
a little bit of a -- back then.
So we have the Hall of Fame and we have WrestleMania.
The day of the Hall of Fame, that morning, we had rehearsal.
Let's just say I got into a little bit of trouble,
I didn't get much sleep, just in case
my kids are watching.
Now keep in mind, this is my second WrestleMania.
I'm 24. I'm being given the world.
My -- dad is there, Taker's there.
I got down there just as they were finishing up
and they were walking out.
I worked with the Undertaker for a year and it all started off
with me missing rehearsal.
A lot of people may have opinions about me earlier
in my career, but nobody considers myself
more of an -- than I do.
So take, if you're watching, thank you
for not bitching me out, cursing me out or chokeslamming
my ass to hell after I missed that rehearsal.
That's probably one of my biggest regrets in the business,
letting you men down that night.
[crowd chants "Undertaker"]
- I was told before I come to WWE that no one would ever
pay money to see me wrestle.
I've wrestled men, I've wrestled their sons.
How blessed can you be to do something that you enjoy so much
for so long and still be here and able to talk about it.
Knowing where Randy went from there,
his craft has only gotten better.
It's one of those things that I'm really fond of.
And I take nothing for granted.