Gangrel Reflects On WrestleMania 15 Hanging Of Big Bossman, ‘It Was Terrifying’

WWE pushed the envelope at WrestleMania 15, with The Undertaker hanging Big Bossman from the top of the Hell in a Cell cage.

Undertaker had help from the Brood, who sent the noose down to “The Deadman.”

“What I remember is we weren’t on schedule for anything in WrestleMania, and then we all get like a memo saying you have a rehearsal,” recalled Gangrel while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight. “We’re like, rehearsal for what? So we show up, they go, ‘Oh, you’re gonna come out of the ceiling.’ We’re like, “What? We’re looking at each other like, “Who’s coming out of the ceiling? ‘No, you three are gonna come out of the ceiling and come down on top of the cage.’ So, we rehearsed it one time there, and I know none of us were happy about it. We’re all freaking out. So it was terrifying. We did a rehearsal, everything went fine, and we got back up. Then came WrestleMania. Again, it’s not like the entrances. You do a dry rehearsal, it’s one thing, but then there’s live crowd, and in the moment, so we all go off and we go down. I almost missed the cage, like one foot’s over here, but I get back on it. That was scary. Then we go over, and then we’re on that, and all I’m thinking is, don’t fall through the cage, because you think about Mankind. The cage is kind of rigged too, for you to be able to rip it open. So we’re up there, we got the noose, we’re ripping it, please don’t fall through this cage, because I don’t like heights at all. So we get that, we go back up, and then the circuit breakers blew.

“So we’re all stuck, that’s why you got a picture of Edge hanging right there in his coat. He was hanging the lowest. I was between the sound board and the lighting, and Christian, I think, was just where his hands were on the beam to get back on top. It legit went out. We were stuck, and it felt like forever, but it was probably only a couple minutes, you know. I kept thinking they’re going to come on this sound board and just blow my eardrums out, because I was in between the lighting board and the speakers, and Edge was down low, and he was getting all the pictures, because he was stuck in his coat. That’s why you see that a lot. Yeah, there was just one rehearsal, and then we did it, and there’s a bit of a heavy thing, you know, hanging is a bit strong, I suppose. You don’t really see them, I don’t think they push that much anymore, and stuff like that. I think if you go look for it, it’s hard to find that, because it was so graphic and kind of strong.”

Gangrel never got a WrestleMania match.

Elsewhere during the interview, he explained why he wasn’t at WrestleMania 39. You can find his full comments here.