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Tombstone: The History of the Undertaker
By: Brian Solomon
Smackdown Magazine September 2005

Enjoy an unprecedented look at the career of one of WWE's all-time greats with this astounding 3-disc DVD set.

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If you're a die-hard fan of Undertaker-and who isn't?-then the latest release from WWE Home Video is exactly what you've been waiting for. Tombstone: The History of the Undertaker is the definitive DVD collection covering the incredible career of this bona fide WWE legend.

Spanning three discs, Tombstone takes you through 'Taker's entire 15-year stay in WWE, telling his amazing story via the matches that helped make him famous. All the millstone encounters of "the Deadman's" career are here.

Relive the night he first captured the WWE Championship from Hulk Hogan at the 1991 Survivor Series. Stand with him as struggles with Mankind in the first-ever Buried Alive match. Witness the pure devastation of his Hell in a Cell matches with Shawn Michaels and Mankind.

Tombstone covers every major battle of Undertaker's history-making wars with the likes of The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and of course his half-brother Kane. From his early days, to the Corporate Ministry, to the American Bad Ass, right up to his return to the Dark Side-it's all here.

There are also countless other clips from through Undertaker's reign of terror-moments that are indelibly branded into the hearts and minds of any true "Deadman" fan. And if you are a more recent fan of WWE and Undertaker, then this will fill you in on everything you've missed up until now. It is the ultimate career history of the man whose WWE career has lasted longer without interruption than anyone's since Andre the Giant.

And as if the matches on this set weren't enough, the collection is packed with a variety of extras spanning the years. Who can forget when Undertaker constructed the massive casket he intended for the 600-pound Yokozuna? Or the night Kane shamelessly desecrated the graves of 'Taker's parents? How about when Undertaker barged into Paul Bearer's home during an interview and accosted his former manager? All that and more can be found in Tombstone.

There are even very rare Undertaker matches, such as "the Phenom's" 1997 encounter with Bret "Hit Man" Hart from One Night Only, WWE's first United Kingdom pay-per-view. Even if you're that hardcore Creature of the Night who thinks they've seen everything, you're bound to find several classic gems here.

Simply put, no Undertaker fan should be without Tombstone: The History of the Undertaker. In Undertaker's years in WWE, no video release of this scale has ever been attempted. As WWE fans have already learned over the past few years with releases like The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection and the Rise + Fall of ECW, DVD technology has made possible the kinds of compilations that previously existed only as fantasy wish-lists. Add Tombstone to the list of WWE Home Video classics.


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