Former WWE star and a former three times WWE Intercontinental Champion John Morrison who is also a former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently looked back at the infamous Zombie Lumberjack match between The Miz and Damian Priest that took place at the WrestleMania Backlash pay per view event of 2021.
Damian Priest was new on the main roster of WWE during the time. He made his male roster debut during the men’s Royal Rumble match of the same year. At WrestleMania 37, he teamed up with Bad Bunny to take on the team of John Morisson and The Miz. The feud between Miz and Priest continued even after WrestleMania 37.
John Morrison Remembers The Infamous Zombie Lumberjack Match
So at the WrestleMania Backlash pay per view event, Priest and Miz net Each other once again in a one on one match, but this time it was a Lumberjack match, and it was not just another normal lumberjack match, it was a zombie lumberjack, that meant the ring was surrounded by actual zombies.
It was actually worse than it sounded. Enhancement talents were dressed up as Zombies, Bron Breakker was one of them. Actually, this match was sponsored by the upcoming Army of the Dead movie featuring WWE legend Batista, and WWE received a lot of money to book this match. It might have been a critical failure but it made a lot of money.
John Morrison who is also a former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to the Wrestling Perspective where he looked back at the infamous Zombie Lumberjack match between The Miz and Damian Priest that took place at the WrestleMania Backlash pay per view event of 2021. He said;
“I heard about the match and told Damien Priest what we’re doing. He walked over to The Miz and said, “what the fuck is John talking about, some weird shit? Like, he said, we are having a zombie lumberjack match; is he just fucking with me or what?
“To be honest, I loved it, it’s so weird, and it did not make any sense. Then again, wrestling doesn’t have to make sense. So we both got eaten by zombies and then just came back the week after.
“The craziest part of that whole day was that there’s this one zombie that followed me around for five minutes and kept kind of touching me. I didn’t want to be rude to him, but finally I said get the fuck away from me, and it was Scotty 2 Hotty.
“He had such good makeup on that I didn’t know it was him. I was trying to be really polite because I didn’t know who these people were, and I knew that they had spent hours in this prosthetic makeup stuff. Yeah, bro. He got me so good that day.”
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