When Undertaker was Mean Mark Callous & talked like a mute

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Bruce Prichard revealed the struggle he had to persuade Vince to take a chance on Mean Mark - the future Undertaker:

“I get a phone call from Paul Heyman, who was managing Mark in WCW, and asked me if there was any interest, that his contract was coming up in WCW, wanted to know if there was any interest in New York

"And I went to Vince, and Vince kind of looked at him and didn't see a whole lot in him

"And I asked him, you know, 'Can we please meet him? There's something special about this guy'

"I didn't know him from Adam - I spoke to him on the phone a couple of times. And it was one of those things that you just saw something in somebody

"They were set to come to New York to meet Vince the day after [Great American Bash]

"Mark had worked with Lex Luger and Taker had dislocated his hip, but worked the match because he knew that Vince was watching and wanted to have a great match

"The match sucked. I'm not going to say it was all Lex's fault, but also, Taker had a dislocated hip

"Vince called me - I was in the pool in Randy Savage's house - and Vince told me he wasn't interested in meeting him: 'He's just another big redheaded basketball player'

"I had to call Mark... I did not tell them that, you know, 'we are canceling the meeting'; I said, 'we're going to postpone it'. He understood"

"And I got back and begged [to Vince]: 'Just meet him'"

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