REVIEW | Seb Costello On This Week's 'The Last Ride' When Vince McMahon Tears Up Over The Undertaker

As legend has it, WWE founder Vince McMahon, doesn't sneeze.

To him - we're told - sneezing is a sign of weakness. These rumours are part of the reason we love him.

In Episode 2 of Undertaker: The Last Ride, viewers are show a new side to McMahon. This is miles away from the TV villain that gives his enemies "No Chance in Hell". It might even be the real Vince, and it may give fans a different reason to love him.  

More on that later.

Meantime, listen to Seb Costello's review of Episode Two of WWE's answer to The Last Dance, following iconic legend of the ring The Undertaker in real life as Mark Calaway:

Undertaker: The Last Ride has the wrestling world talking.

For three years, cameras followed the WWE Legend in-and-out of the ring. The result is a five-part docu-series that began last week on the WWE Network and continues this weekend.

Episode 2 picks up immediately where Episode 1 left off. It's just after Wrestlemania 33 (2017) and The Undertaker’s loss to Roman Reigns. Viewers are allowed in to the home of 'Taker as he watches back the match.

He isn't happy.

Moments later we follow the Undertaker and wife, Michelle McCool, from their Texas home to a New York Hospital. In mid-2017, Undertaker had a metal ball-and-socket put into his right hip.

It’s during this sequences that we get the laugh-out-moment of the episode. With the Undertaker dressed in a blue gown and laying on the operating table, a medico pumps his ring-entrance music over the surgery PA!  

The second episode of Undertaker: The Last Ride has two main themes. First up, is his quest for redemption following Wrestlemania 33. We follow Taker & Michelle again, this time to WWE HQ in Connecticut. After waiting for Vince to join them for meeting (McMahon was at the gym, of course!), Undertaker decides he wants another match.

The episode then traces his lead-up to Wrestlemania 34 and a meeting with John Cena. "Whether it's a good match, bad match, more importantly for me is to perform at a level that they expect me to be at" he says.  

"I want them thinking that this guys got a lot left in the tank”.

The other key theme to be explored, is Undertaker's relationship with McMahon. "I would take a bullet for the man, honestly I would" says Taker. He means it.

The pair clearly have a relationship that is closer to father-son, than employee-employer. Which brings us to the key moment.

Mid-way through Episode 2, a suit-wearing Vince McMahon is asked about friendship with Mark Calloway (The Undertaker). Off-camera a producer asks McMahon; "What has the Undertaker meant to WWE and to you personally"?

McMahon signals for a break. Tears well in his eyes. "I can't do that" he whispers. He can't answer the question.

But to millions of viewers, he already has. 

ICYMI, here's Seb's review of Episode One of 'The Last Ride' now streaming on the WWE Network: