Undertaker says Vince McMahon admitted he was wrong about Punjabi Prison match
Before stepping down from his position of power in WWE in 2024, Vince McMahon was the main authority in the promotion. McMahon had been in charge of the promotion for several decades and had hardly ever admitted he was wrong.
However, recently speaking on his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker revealed that McMahon had admitted to him once about being wrong.
Recalling the incident, The Undertaker claimed that McMahon admitted to being wrong after the first-ever Punjabi Prison match between him and The Big Show in 2006.
“I will give you an argument that I fought and lost. This is the only time he ever came back to me, and I said I was right and he was wrong. Out of 30 years, there was one time. That was the Punjabi Prison match. It was originally supposed to be with Khali, but he had something going on, and they put Big Show in the match.
“Vince [McMahon] had this idea of us going through the gate while we were fighting, and that’s how I would get out of the cage. I had the idea of jumping from the inner cage to the outer cage and getting out that way. ‘That would be such a cool visual. They won’t expect it. It’ll look amazing.’ We went at it.
“It finally got to the point, ‘I don’t want to hear anything else about it. This is how we’re going to do it.’ ‘Fine. It’s going to suck. When it sucks, it’s going to be on you.’ He didn’t appreciate that either. We did it the way he wanted it, and it was flat.
“I go back and look at him; I didn’t say a word. He knew. He goes, almost under his breath, ‘I think you were right on that cage spot.’ ‘Really?’ He just turned around and walked off. That was a victory for me to have him admit he was wrong on something. Didn’t happen very often,” The Undertaker recalled.
While the first-ever Punjabi Prison match lacked the presence of the Great Khali, McMahon made up for it in the second match. The second Punjabi Prison match took place between Batista and Khali in 2007, while a third one took place between Jinder Mahal and Randy Orton in 2017.
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