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When Universal Studios teamed up with WWF during their Halloween Horror Nights 2000 event, the company went all in on The Undertaker. Sure, he was in his American Badass biker-era at this point, but that didn’t stop Universal from bestowing the Dead Man with the coveted Eyegore Award and his very own haunted house.

Everyone is there: Fake Paul Bearer! Fake Kane! Fake Mankind! Sara Undertaker!

Wait, do you think this was the same haunted house that The New Day tried to escape? Now that is long-term storytelling!

Back in 2000, Universal Studios teamed up with WWF to hold auditions for the park’s Hallowe’en Horror Nights. And who better to judge what is truly horrifying than Brother Love himself, Bruce Prichard?

Yeah, that’s kind of a weird choice, but then again, so is posting a clip from this with minimal explanation. Luckily, the video from the Associated Press of all places, comes with this helpful description:

American horror fans are in for a real fright this Hallowe’en, courtesy of a spine-chilling union of the Universal Studios Theme Park and the World Wrestling Federation. Following the success of WWF wrestler ‘The Undertaker’, the two organisations have decided to mix wrestling with some new faces for the fun park’s Hallowe’en Horror Nights.’ 25 terrifying souls have been picked from hundreds of blood curdling wannabees by a panel of judges from Universal studios and WWF. They will join the superstar muscle men in a few weeks, to provoke as many screams as possible from willing fans. But judges are keen to remind fans that while the best horror actor can make your hair curl, the world of professional wrestling would still be out of reach. That hasn’t put off the finalists, some of them working stuntmen, to get ready to give their best and up the chill factor.

So they’re not getting in the ring for the WWF, but there is a ring behind them, they’re cutting wrestling-related promos, and there’s some fighting. Oh, and someone gets lit on fire. Okie dokie then!

Kurt Angle has achieved so much in his career: Olympic Gold medal winner, WWE champion, meme. But all of those things pale in comparison to being a presenter at the Spike TV Scream Awards.

The what?

For a couple of years in the 2000’s and 2010’s, Spike TV had themselves a little award show for horror, fantasy, and comics. And since TNA was on Spike TV, what better way to bring them together than with Kurt awkwardly reading some canned lines before presenting an award. It’s true! It’s true!

From Abruzzo, Italy to your home phone, it’s the Bruno Sammartino hotline! It’s totally different from the Wrestling Trivia hotline because that call might have been, y’know, fun. Instead, we get Bruno telling his life story (which was legitimately interesting) and, I don’t know, maybe talking about Larry Zbyszko turning on him.

Which wrestlers would you spend $1.00 per minute to hear their life story? New Jack would have absolutely made a killing with his own hotline.

Life on the road can be tough for a professional wrestler, especially when you’re Dominik Mysterio. After serving hard time and being everyone’s punching bag, Dom just wants to kick back and eat some chicken tendies. Unfortunately for him, fellow WWE star Zelina Vega has other plans. We even get a little Finn Balor in the background with some helpful advice.

Do you know the real funny thing about this prank? It’s not Zelina’s kid voice or Dom struggling to have a conversation. It’s that someone actually answered their phone.