So I just learned about a face kliq in the Bone Skull Crew... Undertaker and the Samoans?

Like have I been living under a rock? Why am I just learning about them...

Did they just never get in the news ever? Because holy fuck I feel like I've been in a coma for 20 years...

Jan 24, 2021 23:28:26 GMT @ness said:

So I just learned about a face kliq in the Bone Skull Crew... Undertaker and the Samoans?

Like have I been living under a rock? Why am I just learning about them...

Did they just never get in the news ever? Because holy fuck I feel like I've been in a coma for 20 years...

Uhhh, did you never pay attention to Taker's tattoos!?

Jan 24, 2021 23:53:07 GMT 🤯 said:

Jan 24, 2021 23:28:26 GMT @ness said:

So I just learned about a face kliq in the Bone Skull Crew... Undertaker and the Samoans?

Like have I been living under a rock? Why am I just learning about them...

Did they just never get in the news ever? Because holy fuck I feel like I've been in a coma for 20 years...

Uhhh, did you never pay attention to Taker's tattoos!?

Yeah I've now seen the picture pointed out but honestly I never paid much attention to what his tatts actually said.

Jan 24, 2021 23:53:54 GMT @ness said:

Jan 24, 2021 23:53:07 GMT 🤯 said:

Uhhh, did you never pay attention to Taker's tattoos!?

Yeah I've now seen the picture pointed out but honestly I never paid much attention to what his tatts actually said.

So you never wondered what the monkey on the back of his neck was meant to represent!?

Jan 25, 2021 0:02:43 GMT 🤯 said:

Jan 24, 2021 23:53:54 GMT @ness said:

Yeah I've now seen the picture pointed out but honestly I never paid much attention to what his tatts actually said.

So you never wondered what the monkey on the back of his neck was meant to represent!?

Honestly I hate tattoos so it always looked like gibberish with a sharpie... <___<

Jan 25, 2021 0:04:39 GMT @ness said:

Jan 25, 2021 0:02:43 GMT 🤯 said:

So you never wondered what the monkey on the back of his neck was meant to represent!?

Honestly I hate tattoos so it always looked like gibberish with a sharpie... <___<

How did you react then in 2008 or whenever it was when Randy Orton returned from injury with like two complete sleeves?

On the topic of BSK, would've been fun to get a 1995 Survivor Series match pitting "wild card" teams of Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, and Hunter Hearst Helmsley against the Undertaker, Yokozuna, Savio Vega, Fatu, and Henry O. Godwinn... Especially since the Darkside team was pretty much BSK anyway.

Jan 25, 2021 0:38:11 GMT 🤯 said:

Jan 25, 2021 0:04:39 GMT @ness said:

Honestly I hate tattoos so it always looked like gibberish with a sharpie... <___<

How did you react then in 2008 or whenever it was when Randy Orton returned from injury with like two complete sleeves?

Remember when Rock came back with that one square piece in 2003? And every time he returned he had more, so it was like the tattoos were a disease slowly taking over his body.

So that's why Taker always showed off the tat. It was a message to his homies.

ABA Taker must've been simply embraced that. Man that run was kind underrated.

Jan 24, 2021 23:28:26 GMT @ness said:

So I just learned about a face kliq in the Bone Skull Crew... Undertaker and the Samoans?

Like have I been living under a rock? Why am I just learning about them...

Did they just never get in the news ever? Because holy fuck I feel like I've been in a coma for 20 years...

Don't feel bad. I never heard of the BSK until I listened to a Godwinns shoot at some point in the 2010s and I was all about the backstage newz once upon a time.

What's even worse is I only learned this week that BSK member Fatu lead an actual stable called the BSK in late 90s Memphis based WWF developmental territory Power Pro Wrestling. Between that and all the tattoos it's safe to say the BSK was hiding in plain sight the entire time.

Jan 25, 2021 0:43:21 GMT 🤯 said:

On the topic of BSK, would've been fun to get a 1995 Survivor Series match pitting "wild card" teams of Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, and Hunter Hearst Helmsley against the Undertaker, Yokozuna, Savio Vega, Fatu, and Henry O. Godwinn... Especially since the Darkside team was pretty much BSK anyway.

The other original BSK members were Paul Bearer and Kama/The Godfather. Later on they would add Phineas Godwinn. Bradshaw, Faarooq, and Kane aren't listed on the official Bone Street Krew wikipedia page(!) but they were members of Taker's backstage clique in later years.

From what I've heard the BSK were more about hanging out and having fun backstage rather than engaging in the machiavellian machinations of the Kliq or even those of the counter-Kliq Hart faction. Iirc the Godwinns said BSK largely got along with the other two groups. Nash & Taker were good friends. As were Hall & Yoko.

90s WWF was a total soap opera behind the scenes. 

So can we assume that Mabel/Viscera was like the Justin Credible/Louie Spicolli of the crew?

From memory it started off as a rumour as a bunch of backstage photos of early-to-mid 90s WWF wrestlers started to emerge. There's that infamous photo of the Kliq, Austin, Taker, Bearer, Briscoe etc. playing cards and there was a lot of confusion about the Godwinns being in the photos. It was quickly pointed out that The Undertaker did make Mideon a part of the Ministry so they were most likely friends. It's worth noting that at the time, the only associates we knew Taker had outside of Bearer were the Harris Twins. He was also friends with Brian Lee, but apparently they had some kind of falling out when Taker's first wife mistook the wrong Taker.

Unlike the Kliq who were very public about their friendship, I think BSK was just this group of friends who gave themselves a name to help keep their sanity on the road with all that down-time.

I'm kind of curious about what brought this up? Did Taker say something in the Rogan interview? I've just been catching up on OSW episodes and they brought it up presumably on the Survivor Series '94 episode.

I didn't know about the BSK until the advent of Youtube either, probably through the numerous Cornette shoots. WWF backstage factions weren't nearly as volatile as the WCW backstage factions. Late 90's wrestling in general was art imitating life with all the factions involved with both the WWF and WCW. ECW also had it's share of cliques too with Taz's gang and Shane Douglas's buddies etc.

It was a Kevin Nash shoot that informed about the BSK. He was basically like, "Everyone talks about the Kliq, but those motherfuckers had GANG TATTOOS!" It was very funny.

Jan 25, 2021 5:09:39 GMT Baker said:

Jan 25, 2021 0:43:21 GMT 🤯 said:

On the topic of BSK, would've been fun to get a 1995 Survivor Series match pitting "wild card" teams of Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, and Hunter Hearst Helmsley against the Undertaker, Yokozuna, Savio Vega, Fatu, and Henry O. Godwinn... Especially since the Darkside team was pretty much BSK anyway.

The other original BSK members were Paul Bearer and Kama/The Godfather. Later on they would add Phineas Godwinn. 

Turns out Crush and Mr. Fuji were also BSK members. 

My mind is still processing this. The idea that Yoko as the leader talking gangster like in the back is bizarre.

Seeing these group shots of them cosplaying as thugs.

I guess it makes sense. Wrestling is a fucking prison and you need backup. Lmao.

Yo @ness. Did you at least name the rock you called home for so long?

I think Taker discusses BSK in one of the more recent WWE Network specials, it was no secret boys club or kliq, but basically a bunch of guys who like to drink and play dominos. Or something to that letter.

Even the 'Bone' part is in reference to dominos being sometimes made from bone.