The Executive Director of WWE SmackDown “Brother Love” Bruce Prichard recently remembered the infamous stalker storyline between the Undertaker and Diamond Dallas Page from 2001.
The storyline revolved around the time period of the Invasion era in 2001. After Vince McMahon purchased WCW & ECW, a lot of wrestlers and legends from the mentioned above promotions arrived in WWE. Diamond Dallas Page was one of the biggest names of WCW that came to WWE after Vince McMahon bought the whole promotion.
Bruce Prichard Remembers The Stalker Storyline Between Undertaker And DDP
The storyline was something like this, Sara Calaway; the wife of the Undertaker was being stalked by an unknown masked person for months. Undertaker along with his brother Kane was trying to find out who was this stalker. Finally, the masked man revealed his face in an episode of Monday Night RAW and it was none other than Diamond Dallas Page.
After that Undertaker Had a Feud with Diamond Dallas Page which went on for a couple of months. The feud was won by the Undertaker and the former three times WCW World Heavyweight Champion could not contribute in WWE much after that.
Bruce Prichard recently spoke on this story line between the Undertaker and diamond Dallas page on a recent episode of Something To Wrestle. Here is what he had to say about this in famous storyline;
“I did. I thought it was a completely great idea. In hindsight, it was fucking horrible and not one of the stellar moments. Looking at different ways and different things – I’m a big true crime aficionado, and I like to read about different things and creepy shit like that. Stalkers are creepy.
“When you read about some of the things stalkers would do and how they would stalk their prey – there’s a great book I would recommend get, it’s called The Last Victim. It was written by a guy who wanted to be an FBI profiler, and he would write letters to convicted serial killers in the character that he thought they would respond to and the type of people he would think they would be attracted to.
“I just study that kind of stuff and enjoy it. The stalker gimmick was a creepy thing where we had seen Taker’s wife and you were really going to get to someone – that someone is in your home and they’re there and have evidence of being in your home. That’s a sick, creepy feeling that they were right there and you didn’t know it.
“That was the idea behind it. I don’t know that we did the best job portraying that, obviously not in hindsight. It didn’t work by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t know if it was the talent involved or the story or the idea in general. That one was a flop. That was all mine.”
H/T and transcribed by 411 Mania