Speechless Logan Paul puts hands on his head as he listens to The Undertaker recall brutal Hell in a Cell match with Mankind
Logan Paul was left speechless listening to WWE legend The Undertaker recount the horrors of his Hell in a Cell match with Mankind.
The Phenom waged war with Mick Foley, then grappling as Mankind, at the 1998 King of the Ring in what remains one of the company’s most brutal matches.
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Mark Calaway - the man who portrayed The Undertaker for more than three decades - was grilled on the match on Paul’s Impaulsive .
He delivered a devastating blow-by-blow account of the WWE madness and duly left Paul - sporting a black eye from his efforts at SummerSlam - stunned as he watched on.
At times grimacing, throwing his hands in the air and laughing in disbelief, the former United States Champion was left amazed at the tale of sacrifice, not least on Foley’s part.
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Discussing the infamous moment when Foley was tossed from the top of the Hell in a Cell structure and through a ringside table below, Calaway reflected: “People think I’m bulls******* when I say this, this was the one time in my life that I had a total out-of-body experience.
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“I let him go and I can see myself standing there, and I can also see him falling, which seemed like it took 20 seconds to hit that table.
“He hit with so much force that he slid under the railing that was there, and I don’t know that he could move – I’m just looking at him thinking: ‘Come on, Mick, move.’
“I was like ‘this is what I’m gonna go down in history for, I killed Mick Foley.’â€
The Maverick was already reeling at this stage, Calaway compounding his amazement by following up with details on how close to a potentially fatal blow Foley came once the match resumed.
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The grapplers ended up trading blows back on top of the roof of the Cell, which began to buckle, before one of the panels eventually gave way under the weight of a chokeslam from Undertaker to his rival.
He added: “Little did we know that that [table landing] was going to be the easiest part of his night, because when I chokeslammed him through the top… if he rotates a couple more inches, he don’t get up.
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This caused Paul to reflect how mad the career path he has chosen for himself actually is.
Looking into the sky, he put his hands on his head and said: "This business is crazy," to which Taker could only agree.
He continued: “We’re walking on the mesh, and you can hear the brackets popping off.
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“You’d see I’d step, and my foot would just keep going down. [It was] supposed to give way in a corner, and we were gonna slide down one of the panels and get back in the ring and finish the match.
“At the last second, I get off the mesh and stand on the poles, and he just never stopped [falling]… the chair that was on top and hits him on the face, too.â€
Paul’s biggest bewilderment came near the end of the episode when Calaway recalled the damage done to one of Foley’s teeth by the force of the second landing.
He went on to say: “I’m looking at him, and it’s kind of gross, but he’s got this huge booger, or what I think is a booger, in his nostril. It’s weird, the things you pick up in the course of a match.
“I came to find out it’s not a booger, it’s his tooth. When he landed, his incisor went through his lip and lodged in his nose.
“He was tough. Bless his heart, he’s a sweetheart of a human being.â€
The Undertaker had been involved in memorable matches, winning his first title in 1991 to taking on Shawn Michaels in the first ever Hell in a Cell match in 1997 and beating Brock Lesnar.
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Paul, 29, was himself lucky to escape potential injury this past weekend in his SummerSlam match with LA Knight.
WWE officials were reportedly left concerned after he landed awkwardly on his neck before going on to lose his US title.
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