According to former WWE writer Ed Ferrara Christopher Daniels was originally planned to be the "higher power" in 1999. This may be the strangest thing I've ever heard.
That's what I said! It made me realize that Daniels debuted in 1993. That's insane! He stuck around for so long, despite never making it to WWE or WCW.
Would've been better than Vince. Think of how huge Daniels would be if he was in a big angle during the Attitude Era. But instead he ended in LOLTNA and now he's only going to be remembered as and indy veteran.
I don't get why people are shitting on this. If you hated Vince as the "Higher Power", then the only good alternative was to bring in someone completely new because having it be someone like Jake Roberts or even The Jackal would have felt weird since Taker would be taking orders from someone whom we know is below him. A brand new character, however, would have had a lot of mystique to him since we'd know nothing about him yet. I don't know if Christopher Daniels would have been the best choice, but the idea in itself isn't bad.
Russo and Ferrara also did a "Higher Power" angle with Vampiro in WCW.
The idea was for Daniels to portray Vampiro's dark master named "Syndrome" but his debut kept getting pushed back to the point where Daniels returned to the independent scene and the angle was scrapped.
This makes 100% more sense. Truly, I believe Ferrara has his memory mixed up (citing VKM in the tweet) than Christopher Daniels being revealed as The Undertaker's Higher Power, and in this instance (Vampiro/WCW) it's believable given the timescale of those involved.
Roughly around the WWF version of the Higher Power I can remember Chris Daniels wrestling a lot in England, a step up to potentially one of the biggest spots in the biggest company in the world is unfathomable.
With all of the facts here, and logic, it concludes me to think the late WCW/Vampiro stuff to be correct.
While Daniels is "The Fallen Angel", I think Ferrara was just kidding with his answer on Twitter. Of course, Russo doesn't remember (like a lot of things), but The Jackyl makes the most sense with his cult leader character. It would've been a perfect fit with Undertaker's stable.
All respect to Daniels and his career but if he was revealed as the Higher Power it would have stank to high heaven, got nobody over and he was a nobody
Brian Pillman would have been a really good choice for this role too if he didnt pass away two years before. Another shocker would of been Paul Heyman..WWE and ECW did kind of have an on again off again working relationship...plus Heyman has history with the Undertaker and Stone Cold from WCW.
Not buying it. I heard Vince McMahon is a big jokester so maybe he had Ed walking around thinking some jack*** was going to be the higher power. Same goes for Russo and that's why he's too embarrassed to give out a name. Not that hard to remember. Common sense says it was always going to be Vince.
Only one person in my mind would have been logical for the Higher Power and that would have been Kevin Sullivan. If the WWE had brought in his Devil Worshiping gimmick from Florida it could very well have been one of the greatest things the WWE ever did but as always they took the easy way out.
Ed said that's who he wanted, Vince wasn't having it.
It was nothing more than an idea that was presented and promptly shot down.
It's the equivalent of Wrath being the guy to end Goldberg's streak. In other words, somebody pitched it and it never went further than that.
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