Christopher Daniels has addressed the speculation that he was considered for the role of WWE’s “Higher Power.”
Back in 1999, during WWE’s Attitude Era, a major storyline saw The Undertaker kidnap Stephanie McMahon and try to marry her in a dark ceremony. The story teased a mysterious “Higher Power” controlling things, which was later revealed to be Vince McMahon.
However, there has been a long-standing rumor that AEW’s Christopher Daniels was originally planned to be in that role.
All Elite Wrestling’s Christopher Daniels was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about the rumors that he was set to play the role of the “Higher Power,” Daniels said no one from WWE ever told him anything about it, and he only heard the rumor years later.
“I didn’t hear this until years later,” Christopher Daniels admitted. [So is there any truth to it?] “Maybe, but it was never anything that they told me, and honestly, it was a terrible idea anyway. Because the idea would have been Undertaker is answering to this higher power, and then I unmask, and it’s me, and it’s like, who the f*ck is this guy?
Christopher Daniels recalls a similar experience in WCW that fell flat
“It’s sort of like what was going on in my first WCW contract as well. When I first signed with WCW, they had an idea, the way they described it to me was, if Vampiro is Darth Vader, you’re the Emperor. And I was like, Okay. But also, at this point, Vampiro was feuding with Sting. I was an unknown indie guy, so whatever the reveal was gonna be at that point was gonna be a letdown to me. And so I thought, okay, we’ll do this.
“I remember going to WCW one day, cutting this promo backstage with Vampiro, I’ve got this hood, and they’re talking to me, like, ‘All right, talk about harvesting souls and things like that.’ I’m like, okay. So I cut this promo. We get it live, and then I’m back in the locker room, and it comes on live Nitro, and we watch it. And as soon as it’s done, Jeff Jarrett, who happens to be there, and I haven’t really even met Jeff at this point, goes, ‘Who the f*ck was that?!’
“And I was like, ‘That’s me, sir.’ Then that flopped so quickly that they didn’t go forward with that idea. Then I was just under contract with WCW. I was traveling with them for like, four months, and then they let me go. That was the first contract that I had with them that ended. JJ Dillon called me, is like, hey, you’re not wrestling a whole lot for us. And I was like, Well, you’re not booking me, so that’s why. It’s not like I’m wasting your money on purpose, sir. But they let me go.”
