Former WWE referee Marty Elias spoke to the Pancakes and Powerslams show recently. Here are the highlights:
Being assigned the Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels match at WrestleMania 25: “The referee assignments came out and Charles Robinson was assigned that match,” said Elias. “I went to Shawn, we were in San Antonio, Texas, his hometown, and I went to him very casually and I said, ‘Shawn, I don’t have your match at WrestleMania. It would have been great, but maybe next year.’ But I knew what he was going with next year and I was hoping that I was going to be able to get this match. So, he says, ‘what do you mean you don’t have this match?’ I said, ‘I don’t have your match. Charles was assigned the match.’
“So, the next day, we were in Corpus Christie, Texas, and Shawn and I dressed together. And he goes, ‘I talked to John. You have my match at WrestleMania.’ [I thought], whoa, okay. What was I gonna say to Shawn Michaels? No? So that’s how it happened. I’ve apologized up and down to Charles Robinson for that, but at the same time, I wasn’t being vindictive. I wasn’t being anything, or trying to be malicious or a backstabber, or nothing like that. It was just friends having a conversation, and that was it. And that’s how it happened, that’s how it came to be.”
Maybe having The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels again at WrestleMania 35: “It’s the 10-year anniversary. You wanna give somebody the rubber match? And, if it happens, it would be an honor,” Elias said. “Just think; getting those three original guys in the ring again. If that match was created once, what’s not to say that it can’t happen again, to some extent?”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
