In an interview with Corey Graves as part of the WWE After The Bell podcast, WWE veteran The Undertaker revealed why he was a big fan of “The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever” between Randy Orton and Edge at the WWE Backlash pay-per-view.

“It almost brought a tear to my eye, I haven’t seen that kind of wrestling match in so long. I understand the parameters and everything else that they had a lot of time, by my God, what a story they told, an unbelievable story.

I sent Edge a text today saying, the next time that I go to the Performance Center to work with guys, I’m going to pull that tape up and show these guys and dissect it, not that it won’t be dissected 100 times by then, just the little nuances of what they did.

It restored so much faith in where I think the business should be and could be, that tape should be studied by our main roster guys, that is what professional wrestling is supposed to be. It’s great being as athletic as all these guys are, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t mean anything. When you rely solely on athleticism, you push the envelope to our audience and they are going to get desensitized to the double-backflip off the top and to the floor. It’s self-preservation, you have to work smart to make it last, the guys now are relying too much on athleticism and not enough on storytelling.”

The full interview is available at this link.