The Undertaker recalls the chaos after a mistake on SmackDown: "Vince McMahon was beside himself"

In the last episode of his podcast Six Feet Under, The Undertaker invited Kurt Angle to talk about his career, his transition to wrestling, and several shared memories in WWE. One of the most striking moments was when they both revisited the infamous SmackDown match from July 2002, whose ending had to be repeated due to a production error that enraged Vince McMahon.

The match, in which Angle challenged the Deadman for the WWE Undisputed Championship, was supposed to end in a draw. The plan was to execute a simultaneous ending with a three count and submission at the same time, but the cameras missed the submission moment. "The ending was supposed to be: one, two, three and submission at the same time. But they missed the camera angle... they didn't record the submission. The bell rang, people started leaving, and Vince lost it. He was beside himself," Undertaker recalled.

Angle complemented the story by explaining how the situation was resolved backstage. With the audience already out of the arena, WWE had to recreate the scene with their own employees in a corner of the arena to simulate attendance.

We had to wait for the entire audience to leave. They placed employees in a section to make it look like a full crowd, and filmed only from one angle.

Despite that mishap ending, Undertaker and Angle faced each other multiple times later on, solidifying one of the most memorable rivalries of that era on SmackDown. Most of those clashes ended with the Deadman's victory, but they always left behind matches remembered as classics by the fans.