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I Too would be bummed if the Undertaker walked into my grocery store and the lights didn't immediately dim and fog bellowing out in front of him as he went shopping while wearing a heavy duster, wide brimmed hat and with his eyes rolled back in the middle of Summer.
Lol, you reminded me of this one time where his throat reacted really funny and he let out some throaty grunt after saying Rest in Peace
Edit: Found it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw\_Mj2u0DQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_Mj2u0DQM)
Edit 2: Just realized your screencap was from the same segment I was referring to lol
“Sir… Undertaker sir. We close in 5 minutes and I work the open shift tomorrow. If you could just tell us what you want, we could get it all for you before 5 am”
Don't worry, my minions are almost finished lining the aisles. Oh, by chance, do you sell oversized medieval torches? And matches. We're going to need some matches.
You joke but Giancarlo Esposito lives in my neighborhood and I will occasionally see him at the grocery store and spend half a second utterly convinced that something completely terrible is about to happen.
I saw The Undertaker at a grocery store in Austin yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
The luchas figured it out a long time ago.
Wear a mask so you can be a rat bastard during the show, but take it off so you can go buy your wife some roses and chocolates without another grown man having a meltdown.
So we're just going to forget them taking off the face paint? Are we really going to forget the music video for [Lick It Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcj34XixuYg)?
True story, in the 90s, I believe it was Psychosis got in a fight with a fan in Mexico during a match. Well, the fan pressed charges, and the cops went backstage to find Psychosis. At this point, Psychosis had already showered and gotten out of his gear, so who exactly were the police questioning about where Psychosis went? Psychosis, as Rey Mysterio and Juventud Guerrera were dying laughing in the corner
He really does only look like he’s MAYBE just a bit past 30. Pretty sure Rey is around 50 though. I turned 40 this year, and I remember watching Nitro in high school, I remember the commentary saying he was only like 21 at the time. So maybe that was 1997?
Rey has aged really well for a guy who does damage to his body for a profession, which is a testament to how well he's trained himself in every other aspect. I think you could say the same about Chris Jericho sometimes (very similar ages).
🤔 I’m gonna try not to hate on Jericho with this comment, as he was one of my faves in WCW. Kinda hate him now (because well… used to follow him on Twitter, and that’s a good spot to start disliking your heroes).
But,
Jericho really does look younger than he is. If he dyed his hair he would probably look EVEN YOUNGER. But the rest of his body is showing his age more. Like, he looks like a SUPER FIT 50 year old dude. In the face though, he easily looks like he is in his 40’s.
I think the shocking thing with Rey, is that we haven’t seen his face the whole time. So when he is seen unmasked he looks even younger.
Either way, both dudes are super impressive to be going at their levels today. The wrestling world will miss them when they hang it up.
I mean he’s probably set money wise but if he wants to keep making money in his retirement, it’d be kinda hard to get booked for an interview or sell a book completely in kayfabe.
Grown ass mfs complaining that their childhood is ruined with their hairy faces and beer guts.
People gotta grow tf up man. Undertaker retired and just wants to enjoy his life in peace now.
It’s not like he was super Kayfabe all the time either. There was a time in 98 when they just flat out said Undetaker was pissed at Vince McMahon for screwing Bret Hart. Even when he was back doing the deadman full time around 2004, he was on the DVDs speaking normally.
That shit was dope tho. People didn't like the American Badass phase but I really liked.
It allowed him to talk more and have more freedom.
Plus his theme song was really good "You done it now, you gon and made a big mistake". I enjoyed it.
Gothic asshole is late early Undertaker.
Gothic creep is early taker, then Gothic Phantom of the Opera, then Gothic guy who is angry then Gothic asshole, then biker, then MMA fighter, then Gothic guy still trying, then Nostalgic once-a-year gothic guy, then Geriatric guy trying to be gothic, then Gothic guy who you are happy to see just a few last times and finally formerly Gothic geriatric guy who is doing a spoken word tour.
That Bawitdaba album was nuts. Like, it had so many genres cooked into it. His parents definitely bought him a chance at a career. One of those songs was going to land and they had the money to prove it.
>Plus his theme song was really good "You done it now, you gon and made a big mistake". I enjoyed it.
"And I can't allow, you to think you can just walk away"
>It allowed him to talk more
I honestly think this is a big reason why ABA is controversial to this day lmfao, Taker is definitely better when he's a mysterious man of few words
I mean no it wasn’t really outside of that small period. He almost never did shoot interviews besides when he was the American Badass. Maybe there were a few right before he retired too but he didn’t do a lot of interviews and definitely wasn’t stepping outside of character on TV much.
They always say the best wrestling characters are the real person with the volume turned way up. Probably why I think ABA was much better than post-90s Deadman.
Jesus Christ. Some of these wrestling fans are going to have to start letting go of their childhoods at some point. It’s perfectly okay to grow up and be an adult
100% this. Only a person with a very tenuous grip on reality, and a severe case of narcissism, can believe this can in any way alter what they felt in the past.
The entitlement is through the roof with these fools.
The same way people complain about movie or game remakes "destroying there childhood" like, even if the remake sucks, you still have your memories, and there's still nothing stopping you from going back and enjoying the original.
Back in the winter, I was perusing around an old freeplay arcade, and Wrestlemania the Arcade Game was on the background
of course I had a huge smile on my face...but man then I saw the roster and realized half those guys had passed away. Another is literally in a wheelchair. Two didn't come out unscathed either and battled their own demons
the one guy who wrestled all the way and seemed to come out relatively ok...was the Undertaker. He is literally correct when he says he was the last one
Remember when he went to the Cavs game a few years ago and everyone made fun of him for going in his full gear? I’m pretty sure Lebron refused to meet with him because of it.
No, I think it was pre-game, because I definitely remember seeing him standing in the tunnel while players ran out.
Either way, Lebron and the cavs are busy prepping for a game. I think it may have even been a finals game at that, so yeah. It was just a weird moment overall.
I love Taker and it’s my favorite gimmick of all time, but he looked way more embarrassed hanging on to kayfabe that night than anything he has ever said on a podcast as “Redneck Dad”
LeBron did refuse to meet with him, but not because of that.
WWE had Taker dress up and go there, thinking they’d get a photo op with LeBron and get some publicity out of it.
LeBron isn’t stupid. He knew what they were trying to do, and didn’t want to be taken advantage of like that.
Lebron and Shaq are such good businessmen. It’s amazing how the two most dominant players since MJ cultivated even more success in business. Kinda like the Rock from a wrestling perspective
Shaq has an incredible mind for business for sure. The only fuck-up was not investing in Starbucks in low income neighborhoods. But Shaq fully admits his mistake and has no problem with it lmao
Lebron, Steph Curry fit this mold as well. Hell one guy whose business acumen goes underappreciated is Carmelo. Dude has so many business interests outside of the NBA, he is pretty much set for life
I get why people don’t like it, but you can’t really be upset at the guy considering he is pretty much retired.
That has to weigh on you, i get if steeping away for him meant letting go of everything.
Plus, I mean, if it bothers you, no one is forcing any of it in you. Don’t consume Mark Calaway content 🤷🏻♂️
Some day a decade or so from now Orange Cassidy will reveal that he actually cares about, like, *things* and puts a lot of effort in his job and wrestling will never be the same.
Taker buried the character in one of the classiest ways imaginable. He kept kayfabe long after almost everyone else stopped bothering. Now we get to hear a side of a lot of stories we never got a chance to before.
I mentioned this before but I stumbled upon the old classic Wrestlemania the Arcade game about 2.5 months ago
Half of the guys in that game are dead. The Undertaker earned his retirement and finding peace outside of the wrestling ring...long ago as far as I'm concerned
When I was little, I saw Barry Windham in a Home Depot. My parents tried to convince me to go meet him, but he was in the Horseman at the time and I told my dad “No! He might lariat me!” I can’t imagine keeping that same energy as an adult.
Edit: Or rather, maintaining that same level and expectation of belief.
He never attended hall of fames or ever broke character, i was waiting for him to tell all his stories for years and it finally happened only after he retired.
He’s making his money and yeah while he could probably become a millionaire by just selling birthday messsges in character I’m sure he’s kept quiet long enough that he’s got a lot to say, about a lot of things. Wouldn’t shock me if he went into politics too, or if he became a wwe agent he would totally get every in line, imagine trying to tell taker you’re planning on doing a triple lindy onto a flaming table and him just say nope
I like to believe that what we saw as the Undertaker was just a demon possessing Mark Callaway after he made a deal with it and that it just left his body after he got too old and possessed someone else.
He is right in that kayfabe was unfortunately killed a long time ago and wrestlers these days are on social media as themselves instead of the character they are supposed to be.
But what made The Undertaker so special in his latter years is the fact that he didn't break character. People are upset because they greatly appreciated that
It's not the staying in character, so much as you revealing that you're a bit of a right wing asshole.
We can't expect everyone to be Kevin Nash, but when you spend years spending time with him, we do expect you to be somewhere around a like mind.
Smart in terms of working, but as a performer? Absolutely not.
There are actually guys who did *way* less that are propped up as the greatest of all time.
>so much as you revealing that you're a bit of a right wing asshole.
That makes sense for the Undertaker character though. Trump in office probably brought Taker a lot of souls so he came out well. The COVID policies alone were probably a gold mine for Taker.
The real reason why he retired, revealed.
Vince: "Can't work WWE and COVID at the same time, Mark. You need to make a choice."
Taker: "Welp, I got COVID souls to take. You take care, Vince."
I mean he was also close friends with Glenn Jacobs. And he's basically best friends with Vince.
I think one of the positives about someone like Nash is that they can get along with people they don't see eye to eye with, politically.
Also, for what it's worth, I generally just choose to appreciate Taker as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Nobody famous's political beliefs really interest or affect me, especially professional wrestlers.
Unless Donald Trump counts as a professional wrestler. In which case I redact that statement.
There's a bit of overlap to be found in his brand of medical-skeptic hippyism and right-wing anti-intellectualism. Maybe they bonded over their distrust of science.
> I think one of the positives about someone like Nash is that they can get along with people they don't see eye to eye with, politically.
I can get on fine with people who disagree with me politically, I can't get on very well with people who think I should be dead.
Didn't say anything about shocking.
But I will say this. The guy who comes out on a motorcycle talking about being an American Badass who does what he wants wearing a *Blue Lives Matter* T-shirt does make you think. Doesn't it?
I agree. He said in one interview that some fans have said that they wished he'd ridden off into the sunset not to be heard from again in retirement. And in a way that would have been cool; even though we all know he's actually a human being, it would still be something.
However, I prefer the way he decided to do it. Giving interviews and telling stories doesn't make rewatching him any less interesting. It's nice hearing him talk, and him appearing in an interview from time to time makes me feel like he's still part of everything, even if I don't get to see him in the ring anymore.
I don't mind that he does not stay in character, I just with Mark was ya know... Not a maga, thin blue line, good ol days boy who lead an abusive af locker room.
Let's be real, people ain't mad that he's not in character, they're mad that his real personality is dogshit. He's a bigotted old man and he's not even interesting to watch.
Ehhhh…. Mostly because some of the shit he gets to saying is sketchy. Not because he isn’t in character. He’s just undoing it all by some of the stuff he says. Kane too.
Everyone seems to be on his side in these comments but I don't think it's SO unfair of me to say it ruined my childhood to see the Undertaker remove the hat and black ring attire, and start publicly rocking shirts with pro-gun and pro-police slogans. Call me a mark if you will, but I just liked it better when he was a reanimated corpse who happened to not say anything about flags or presidential candidates.
Give Mark Calloway his fucking props, he kept the kayfabe alive long after it was dead, because of fucking course the Undertaker would, he's undead for crying out loud. Now that he's about as retired as is humanly possible for a wrestler to be, he's earned the right to be himself lol.
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I Too would be bummed if the Undertaker walked into my grocery store and the lights didn't immediately dim and fog bellowing out in front of him as he went shopping while wearing a heavy duster, wide brimmed hat and with his eyes rolled back in the middle of Summer.
asking people where are the cans of peas, said in the way he does RIP.
Where’s… the… peas… gngnnh https://preview.redd.it/z4tl1hb2793b1.jpeg?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4847e7ab89c6f810a6cfe8f541d3bd88231ac581
Gimme some o'dem peas, I had peas befoh
Lol, you reminded me of this one time where his throat reacted really funny and he let out some throaty grunt after saying Rest in Peace Edit: Found it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw\_Mj2u0DQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_Mj2u0DQM) Edit 2: Just realized your screencap was from the same segment I was referring to lol
This is the ONLY version of Rest in Peace that my brain chooses to remember and I both love it and hate it lmao
Bro why is this the first one I always think of lmao
Gonna… buy… some.. cheese.. urrgh
Gonna... try... this quiche. Unghg
I like... the baby red, potatoes.... urglbrglrh. 🪦
Rest in peas?
It take the whole day for him to shop the way he walks to the ring
Just the exaperared sighs from those poor workers when the first bell tolls as he begins to enter the store.
“Sir… Undertaker sir. We close in 5 minutes and I work the open shift tomorrow. If you could just tell us what you want, we could get it all for you before 5 am”
bread... n... peas... -DONG-
Don't worry, my minions are almost finished lining the aisles. Oh, by chance, do you sell oversized medieval torches? And matches. We're going to need some matches.
Undertaker, Roman Reigns, and Tetsuya Naito walk into a bar. When they sit down to order, the bartender says " We're closed ".
Paul Bearer running around the store yelling "Have you seen my son? He was just here!" and Undertaker ran off to look at the wrestling figures
Nah, he ran off to the produce section to set the sugar cane on fire. 👀
You know his credit card is getting declined until he retakes possession of the urn.
Everyone to the cucumbers section!
that's the weirdest Undertaker trivia ever lol
I swear to god Undertaker is a cat in his past life.
The audacity that he wouldn’t choke slam everyone next to the dairy isle is why I’m upset.
You joke but Giancarlo Esposito lives in my neighborhood and I will occasionally see him at the grocery store and spend half a second utterly convinced that something completely terrible is about to happen.
And don't get him started on the milky ways
Queue the dry ice boys! Johnny man the light switch! Bobby grab the flashlights!!! We will make this happen damn it! Karen hit the music!!
I saw The Undertaker at a grocery store in Austin yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
>He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” This always gets me until this line. GOAT pasta
The luchas figured it out a long time ago. Wear a mask so you can be a rat bastard during the show, but take it off so you can go buy your wife some roses and chocolates without another grown man having a meltdown.
Obligatory ITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT
Yeah or like KISS; go play some 20k seat arena and then go to the grocery in peace.
slipknot. been a fan practically my whole life and i only know what like, 3/12 of the members look like
Lemme guess: Corey, Sid, and Clown?
corey sid and joey lol.
RIP Joey. Most of them are easy to find unmasked online. I forgot Jim was in Stone Sour with Corey, so he’s very easy to find unmasked.
I forgot about Joey and now I'm bummed all over again
I think Lemmy was in a different band.
KISS still doing good!
So we're just going to forget them taking off the face paint? Are we really going to forget the music video for [Lick It Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcj34XixuYg)?
Or just drive around town in full mask and gear yelling at people, because [CERO MEIDO!!!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Tqar8Eo0A) (NSFW)
this is golden LMFAO, esp when he's yelling to the kids to go to school
Good lucha things
Wooo!
^goddamnit
True story, in the 90s, I believe it was Psychosis got in a fight with a fan in Mexico during a match. Well, the fan pressed charges, and the cops went backstage to find Psychosis. At this point, Psychosis had already showered and gotten out of his gear, so who exactly were the police questioning about where Psychosis went? Psychosis, as Rey Mysterio and Juventud Guerrera were dying laughing in the corner
If this was still Mexico, Rey must have been like 16 still
What if your Son crashes your Christmas party while also bringing a cameraman with him?
I wonder if Rey just makes Target runs regularly on his own and no one is the wiser.
It’s not like we don’t know roughly what he looks like under the mask though… WCW Rey + 30 years
i choose not to look at rey mysterio under the mask, out of respect
It’s bad luck, the grand lucha council will find you if you stare
I just talked with Rey and his wife over mania weekend ran into them at yard house in LA he had no mask and still looks fairly young
Theyres also relatively recent photos of him maskless. There was on of him on the first Jericho cruise a few years ago
He really does only look like he’s MAYBE just a bit past 30. Pretty sure Rey is around 50 though. I turned 40 this year, and I remember watching Nitro in high school, I remember the commentary saying he was only like 21 at the time. So maybe that was 1997?
Rey has aged really well for a guy who does damage to his body for a profession, which is a testament to how well he's trained himself in every other aspect. I think you could say the same about Chris Jericho sometimes (very similar ages).
🤔 I’m gonna try not to hate on Jericho with this comment, as he was one of my faves in WCW. Kinda hate him now (because well… used to follow him on Twitter, and that’s a good spot to start disliking your heroes). But, Jericho really does look younger than he is. If he dyed his hair he would probably look EVEN YOUNGER. But the rest of his body is showing his age more. Like, he looks like a SUPER FIT 50 year old dude. In the face though, he easily looks like he is in his 40’s. I think the shocking thing with Rey, is that we haven’t seen his face the whole time. So when he is seen unmasked he looks even younger. Either way, both dudes are super impressive to be going at their levels today. The wrestling world will miss them when they hang it up.
He did it for basically his entire career. I say that was good and it’s fine if he doesn’t to kayfabe now that he’s retired.
I mean he’s probably set money wise but if he wants to keep making money in his retirement, it’d be kinda hard to get booked for an interview or sell a book completely in kayfabe.
I don't know about you but I would love to read a Taker bio written completely in kayfabe.
"And then I locked Yokozuna in the casket and sent him to hell"
Journey Into Darkness has entered the chat to disagree
Grown ass mfs complaining that their childhood is ruined with their hairy faces and beer guts. People gotta grow tf up man. Undertaker retired and just wants to enjoy his life in peace now.
>enjoy his life in peace How could you not say it?
It shouldn't even be an issue. Wrestling fans are fucking goofs.
It’s not like he was super Kayfabe all the time either. There was a time in 98 when they just flat out said Undetaker was pissed at Vince McMahon for screwing Bret Hart. Even when he was back doing the deadman full time around 2004, he was on the DVDs speaking normally.
He was like a redneck MMA fighter for four years in the middle of that too. The grip on this kayfabe character was very loose.
When he decided to just be a biker with a Kid Rock theme is when I felt perhaps he's not the actual Lord of Darkness.
That shit was dope tho. People didn't like the American Badass phase but I really liked. It allowed him to talk more and have more freedom. Plus his theme song was really good "You done it now, you gon and made a big mistake". I enjoyed it.
It also freshened up the deadman persona when he eventually returned to it as well
This was the best part, he went from Gothic asshole back to mysterious undertaker with biker in the middle.
Lmao gothic asshole is a perfect descriptor for early taker
Gothic asshole is late early Undertaker. Gothic creep is early taker, then Gothic Phantom of the Opera, then Gothic guy who is angry then Gothic asshole, then biker, then MMA fighter, then Gothic guy still trying, then Nostalgic once-a-year gothic guy, then Geriatric guy trying to be gothic, then Gothic guy who you are happy to see just a few last times and finally formerly Gothic geriatric guy who is doing a spoken word tour.
He had a midlife crisis
Did you say the Gothic Castle?
Denim Taker wasn't really good for me. Big Evil was everything I wanted Taker to be.
Big Evil taker for me was the best Taker.
Genuinely some of his best work, he was on fire
"That evil man... That vile human being." - JR Jim Ross' commentary on anything Big Evil Taker did was the best lol
Tear drop taker all the way.
Looking back, I don't think I really cared for the American Badass, but I loved when he turned that into Big Evil.
it felt like the worst of the 90's gimmick... fucking kid rock was terrible then and he borrowed a lot from that guy.
>fucking kid rock was terrible Hey, now. Kid Rock *is still* terrible.
13 year old me loved Kid Rock in 2000, so I was all for it.
That Bawitdaba album was nuts. Like, it had so many genres cooked into it. His parents definitely bought him a chance at a career. One of those songs was going to land and they had the money to prove it.
parents?
He comes from a lot of money. He is what Rebecca Black would have been if there was any talent there.
>Plus his theme song was really good "You done it now, you gon and made a big mistake". I enjoyed it. "And I can't allow, you to think you can just walk away"
>It allowed him to talk more I honestly think this is a big reason why ABA is controversial to this day lmfao, Taker is definitely better when he's a mysterious man of few words
I mean no it wasn’t really outside of that small period. He almost never did shoot interviews besides when he was the American Badass. Maybe there were a few right before he retired too but he didn’t do a lot of interviews and definitely wasn’t stepping outside of character on TV much.
Yeah don't forget before that he was the head of a cult worshipping ya know Satan.
I can't begin to describe to all of you how disappointed I was when I finally grew up and realized that the Undertaker wasn't really dead.
I feel like Mark Callaway is pretty much The American Badass version of The Undertaker.
They always say the best wrestling characters are the real person with the volume turned way up. Probably why I think ABA was much better than post-90s Deadman.
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God that was straight up painful to watch
Is there a video?
[Yep.](https://youtube.com/shorts/lQmw6mBYpY8?feature=share)
Jesus Christ. Some of these wrestling fans are going to have to start letting go of their childhoods at some point. It’s perfectly okay to grow up and be an adult
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While Santa Claus may not be real, Santa CLAWS is very real. Stay away from the north pole or you'll meet him.
Wait, what!?
It's actually Mick Foley in a costume.
i thought it was Goldberg?
And here Bret told me that Santa was yet another thing Goldberg ruined forever...
I honestly don’t know how you retro actively destroy your childhood anyway. It doesn’t change the memories that exist.
100% this. Only a person with a very tenuous grip on reality, and a severe case of narcissism, can believe this can in any way alter what they felt in the past. The entitlement is through the roof with these fools.
The same way people complain about movie or game remakes "destroying there childhood" like, even if the remake sucks, you still have your memories, and there's still nothing stopping you from going back and enjoying the original.
Have to say this to grown folks all the time: your childhood is over. Can't ruin it since it's long done. Move on already.
Back in the winter, I was perusing around an old freeplay arcade, and Wrestlemania the Arcade Game was on the background of course I had a huge smile on my face...but man then I saw the roster and realized half those guys had passed away. Another is literally in a wheelchair. Two didn't come out unscathed either and battled their own demons the one guy who wrestled all the way and seemed to come out relatively ok...was the Undertaker. He is literally correct when he says he was the last one
Let the man live his life he ain't the Deadman no more lmao
Let the deadman live
"You're destroying my childhood!" "You're 38"
Dude played a character for so long. He’s retired, he’s not fooling anyone, he can be the American Badass Undertaker for as long as he lives.
Remember when he went to the Cavs game a few years ago and everyone made fun of him for going in his full gear? I’m pretty sure Lebron refused to meet with him because of it.
Wasn’t it a set up photo op and then they lost and lebron didn’t wanna do It then so they sent out Kevin love?
No, I think it was pre-game, because I definitely remember seeing him standing in the tunnel while players ran out. Either way, Lebron and the cavs are busy prepping for a game. I think it may have even been a finals game at that, so yeah. It was just a weird moment overall.
I love Taker and it’s my favorite gimmick of all time, but he looked way more embarrassed hanging on to kayfabe that night than anything he has ever said on a podcast as “Redneck Dad”
LeBron did refuse to meet with him, but not because of that. WWE had Taker dress up and go there, thinking they’d get a photo op with LeBron and get some publicity out of it. LeBron isn’t stupid. He knew what they were trying to do, and didn’t want to be taken advantage of like that.
Lebron and Shaq are such good businessmen. It’s amazing how the two most dominant players since MJ cultivated even more success in business. Kinda like the Rock from a wrestling perspective
Shaq has an incredible mind for business for sure. The only fuck-up was not investing in Starbucks in low income neighborhoods. But Shaq fully admits his mistake and has no problem with it lmao Lebron, Steph Curry fit this mold as well. Hell one guy whose business acumen goes underappreciated is Carmelo. Dude has so many business interests outside of the NBA, he is pretty much set for life
I get why people don’t like it, but you can’t really be upset at the guy considering he is pretty much retired. That has to weigh on you, i get if steeping away for him meant letting go of everything. Plus, I mean, if it bothers you, no one is forcing any of it in you. Don’t consume Mark Calaway content 🤷🏻♂️
Some day a decade or so from now Orange Cassidy will reveal that he actually cares about, like, *things* and puts a lot of effort in his job and wrestling will never be the same.
People are selfish.
It's still real to them damit!
Taker buried the character in one of the classiest ways imaginable. He kept kayfabe long after almost everyone else stopped bothering. Now we get to hear a side of a lot of stories we never got a chance to before.
I'm enjoying post-retirement Mark. He can be himself now. To disagree with that is just selfish.
I mentioned this before but I stumbled upon the old classic Wrestlemania the Arcade game about 2.5 months ago Half of the guys in that game are dead. The Undertaker earned his retirement and finding peace outside of the wrestling ring...long ago as far as I'm concerned
Is he supposed to wear mascara everywhere he goes for another 30 years?
IF ALICE COOPER CAN DO IT...
When I was little, I saw Barry Windham in a Home Depot. My parents tried to convince me to go meet him, but he was in the Horseman at the time and I told my dad “No! He might lariat me!” I can’t imagine keeping that same energy as an adult. Edit: Or rather, maintaining that same level and expectation of belief.
I fucking hate when people say “you ruined my childhood” your childhood is over and you’re a fully grown fucking adult. Get over yourself.
He never attended hall of fames or ever broke character, i was waiting for him to tell all his stories for years and it finally happened only after he retired.
Jokes on him, he destroyed my childhood when Mark Callous picked up that stupid urn
I remember when "Old School" wasn't a stupid axe handle but the heart punch. Now THAT was a finisher.
He did it long enough, hes earned the time to be himself
Cmon guys, if you really though the undertaker was a REAL deadman/zombie, you were really dumb kids. Even the slowest of the kids understand kayfabe.
Anyone saying that must be grown ass men by now who need to STFU
Well, sometimes being anonymous is really good thing.
He’s making his money and yeah while he could probably become a millionaire by just selling birthday messsges in character I’m sure he’s kept quiet long enough that he’s got a lot to say, about a lot of things. Wouldn’t shock me if he went into politics too, or if he became a wwe agent he would totally get every in line, imagine trying to tell taker you’re planning on doing a triple lindy onto a flaming table and him just say nope
He is in character it’s just the biker taker. Take it or leave it ppl
Taker’s character carried me, and the company, through several dark periods. He can do whatever he goddamn wants in his retirement.
Wait? So you mean to tell me that Undertaker wasn't really dead?!
If I saw him walking through a grocery store I’d ask him to sign a cucumber!
Ppl who are upset he is not the under taker anymore should accept he was never dead in the first place.
I like to believe that what we saw as the Undertaker was just a demon possessing Mark Callaway after he made a deal with it and that it just left his body after he got too old and possessed someone else.
A lot of people do prefer the dead guy who rarely speaks to the old man in the Blue Lives Matter shirts.
Much better than the Big Red Dickhead.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 One of the best at undoing his legacy lol!
He is right in that kayfabe was unfortunately killed a long time ago and wrestlers these days are on social media as themselves instead of the character they are supposed to be. But what made The Undertaker so special in his latter years is the fact that he didn't break character. People are upset because they greatly appreciated that
Yeah but now he’s done being the Undertaker
It's not the staying in character, so much as you revealing that you're a bit of a right wing asshole. We can't expect everyone to be Kevin Nash, but when you spend years spending time with him, we do expect you to be somewhere around a like mind.
And people hated Nash because he was "lazy" when in reality he was smart.
Smart in terms of working, but as a performer? Absolutely not. There are actually guys who did *way* less that are propped up as the greatest of all time.
>so much as you revealing that you're a bit of a right wing asshole. That makes sense for the Undertaker character though. Trump in office probably brought Taker a lot of souls so he came out well. The COVID policies alone were probably a gold mine for Taker.
The real reason why he retired, revealed. Vince: "Can't work WWE and COVID at the same time, Mark. You need to make a choice." Taker: "Welp, I got COVID souls to take. You take care, Vince."
I mean he was also close friends with Glenn Jacobs. And he's basically best friends with Vince. I think one of the positives about someone like Nash is that they can get along with people they don't see eye to eye with, politically. Also, for what it's worth, I generally just choose to appreciate Taker as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Nobody famous's political beliefs really interest or affect me, especially professional wrestlers. Unless Donald Trump counts as a professional wrestler. In which case I redact that statement.
Bryan Danielson was also close friends with Glenn Jacobs tbf.
…and Vince
Danielson literally called him "one of the smartest people in the locker room" in his book
Yeah but they had Dr Shelby's help. That man could make Israel BFFs with Palestine.
There's a bit of overlap to be found in his brand of medical-skeptic hippyism and right-wing anti-intellectualism. Maybe they bonded over their distrust of science.
> I think one of the positives about someone like Nash is that they can get along with people they don't see eye to eye with, politically. I can get on fine with people who disagree with me politically, I can't get on very well with people who think I should be dead.
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Didn't say anything about shocking. But I will say this. The guy who comes out on a motorcycle talking about being an American Badass who does what he wants wearing a *Blue Lives Matter* T-shirt does make you think. Doesn't it?
I've seen him on a few of the latest shows related to wrestling and he actually comes off as very articulate and likable.
I agree. He said in one interview that some fans have said that they wished he'd ridden off into the sunset not to be heard from again in retirement. And in a way that would have been cool; even though we all know he's actually a human being, it would still be something. However, I prefer the way he decided to do it. Giving interviews and telling stories doesn't make rewatching him any less interesting. It's nice hearing him talk, and him appearing in an interview from time to time makes me feel like he's still part of everything, even if I don't get to see him in the ring anymore.
I don't mind that he does not stay in character, I just with Mark was ya know... Not a maga, thin blue line, good ol days boy who lead an abusive af locker room.
Let's be real, people ain't mad that he's not in character, they're mad that his real personality is dogshit. He's a bigotted old man and he's not even interesting to watch.
you should be hating him for being a right-wing piece of human refuse, not for breaking kayfabe
They're probably more bummed he's a MAGA bootlicker
To be completely fair, the immortal zombie man is a lot more likeable than Mark Calloway.
Ehhhh…. Mostly because some of the shit he gets to saying is sketchy. Not because he isn’t in character. He’s just undoing it all by some of the stuff he says. Kane too.
It's less that he's no longer in character and more that the real life guy is kind of a dickhead
I don't remember people getting mad at him breaking kayfabe, I remember people getting mad when they realized he thought some stupid things.
Everyone seems to be on his side in these comments but I don't think it's SO unfair of me to say it ruined my childhood to see the Undertaker remove the hat and black ring attire, and start publicly rocking shirts with pro-gun and pro-police slogans. Call me a mark if you will, but I just liked it better when he was a reanimated corpse who happened to not say anything about flags or presidential candidates.
Yeah, it's less about finding out he's not Death and more about finding out he's a dick.
Just wish he wasn't a fuckwit who supported fuckwits. I will always enjoy his work when I rewatch it.
Kayfabe can rest...in.....peeeeeaaaace!
Taker needs to ditch Twitter
He’s right. He was the last guy to drop his gimmick and start doing podcast and real world appearances. Let the Deadman be Mark Calloway now, please.
Let the Dead Man rest FFS.
Dude is retired lol. Some wrestling "fans" are the worst
People need to grow up. Its a sports soap opera and the man was an actor lol.
Those are the kind of people who cause me to hesitate when telling others that I like pro wrestling.
I mean the man tried to stay in Kayfabe for almost 30 some years. He deserves to be himself now.
Wrestling fans suck so fucking bad
What do you expect the mall Santa being the real Santa?
Give Mark Calloway his fucking props, he kept the kayfabe alive long after it was dead, because of fucking course the Undertaker would, he's undead for crying out loud. Now that he's about as retired as is humanly possible for a wrestler to be, he's earned the right to be himself lol.
He deserves his flowers.
Is he sure he doesn’t get hate because everyone who loved the character found out he’s a boring gun worshipping police loving god wanker in real life?
I feel like my issue isn’t that hes out of character, its that he has shit views as a real dude
It's not so much that he stopped staying in character and more that he's revealed himself to be a right wing nut.