Johnny TV Recalls Undertaker Being ‘Seethingly Angry’ After Pyro Burns At WWE Elimination Chamber 2010

The Undertaker was infamously burned by his pyro coming out for the 2010 WWE Elimination Chamber match, a situation Johnny TV recently looked back at. The Dead Man was part of the 2010 Chamber match alongside Chris Jericho, Johnny TV (then John Morrison), Rey Mysterio, CM Punk, and R-Truth in the match, which saw the Dead Man defending his World Heavyweight Championship.

During Taker’s entrance, he was engulfed in flames when his pyro was mistimed. He suffered first and second-degree burns to his neck and chest and had to be cleared before he could compete. Johnny spoke with
Insight With Chris Van Vliet and recalled his memories of being in the match and how Taker was “seethingly angry” over the matter. You can see highlights below:

On Undertaker Being Burned At Elimination Chamber 2010:

“Yes. Everyone’s heard this story now, about Taker’s pyro being let off a little bit too soon, and his jacket being engulfed, and he had to take his jacket off. So I was in the pod, and I was watching everyone’s entrances. I was in my pod, it’s locked, my coat off, and I was like, trying to look cool. Taker’s entrance hits, and it’s the stoic, you know, here he comes, slowly walking. I see the flames go off on the ramp, he’s standing right in the middle of them. I thought that’s so cool until I was like, Ooh, he’s on fire. Then I see him take his jacket off, throw it down, and then take a few steps quickly, and look around, then back to character. I don’t know if it’s really true or not, but I feel like I saw his face change from just The Undertaker walk to just being seethingly angry, and rightfully so, he just got burned in front of a room full of people with pyro that was botched by the guy who had the fire. After the pyro went off and Taker got on fire, the pyro guy took his headset off and just ran and never came back. After the match, Taker ran back to look for him, and he’d been gone for like a half hour. He never came back to work.”

On Wrestling Undertaker After the Burn:

“But back to the other part of the story. So now seethingly angry Undertaker, who was just set on fire and put his jacket out and threw it down, never seen the man break character, is walking to the chamber, and he’s getting into his pod. I’m thinking I got 5 or 10 minutes in there with that man, and he looks so angry. Are we gonna wrestle, or what’s gonna happen? I was kind of like looking at Rey, who was in one of the pods too, and looking around, and everyone in the pods was all kind of looking at Taker and then looking at each other. I looked at Taker, and he was looking around, still mad, but he started doing this sort of licking his lips really weirdly. Then I start going, What the hell is going on? I stopped and I said, I bet he burnt his mouth and his mustache and his face, and he’s trying to wet his lips, because they’re dry. The match is going and I think when my pod opened he might have been in there already. I was terrified when I got in there with him. Nothing but the most professional, solid guy was there in the ring performing. That’s him, and kind of a nervous, younger dude, that was me, but fantastic. I was gonna talk to him after match and thank him, but I couldn’t find him because he was running around the parking lot looking for the pyro guy. I don’t know what he would have done if he found him.”