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one man who has stood the test of time.

I want them thinking this guy's got a lot left in the tank.

If I can leave with that, I'll be content.

I can walk away.

I say that.

But I've been saying it for a long time.

You start to hear things, people talking,

ah, he's too old, he shouldn't do this,

he shouldn't do that, well, that's up for me to decide.

I think that's the danger

that you don't know when it's time.

As we get older, even though our brain says go,

our body says no, but the red light hits,

all of a sudden you can't help it.

For the last few years, I've had this internal struggle of I don't want to stay too long and become a parody of myself.

Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.

People have no idea how much pain he's in physically.

You're about to put your whole legacy on the line and you know that you have no business being in that match.

I have no doubt Art can do anything he puts his mind to.

I sometimes wonder if he knows.

You start second guessing yourself.

Or is it me?

Have I lost that big a step?

Are you the reason why this stuff is happening?

Oh, my god!

I was two inches away from making my wife a widow.

My kid's father was.

You guys have enough of this, please.

Thank you.

All the time sitting there, just tapping on the back of a shoulder,

waiting for him to turn around and say, hey, do his time.

Hey, help me, man.

You brought enough better over here.

It's really tough getting older in this business.

It just comes with time.

Your body's gonna break down.

Laro, you're coming in hot.

He's given his life to this tartarico.

I'm either gonna go out with a match

that's sitting the Undertaker at WrestleMania,

or I'm going out on my shield one way or another.

I normally share a lot of things that are really personal, but what happened to me?

You know, I used to be a tough son bitch.

What happened?

You don't really call me Santa Claus now, right?

Because I only come out once a year.

That's all you need to.

You look great.

Wow.

Here I am,

you know, at the Slate Point in my career.

And I'm wondering,

am I going to be able to hang with this young guy?

Okay.

I'll keep that in mind.

Just let one of us know, okay?

Really? You really can't k-fade 10 minutes while I'm screwing your camera camera?

I was trying to figure out because I knew I wasn't anywhere close to being at 100%.

I was trying to figure out how to make it work.

That's a huge challenge to only work once a year and to try to have...

timing, cardio, have your gimmick, you know?

I mean, it's tough, it is, but it's my reality.

I mean, that's where I'm at.

At this point in my career, I can't work a full schedule.

Mayor, I said it.

I just love and respect this business so much.

was a, you know, I wanted to be a wrestler, you know.

And what I have imagined, you know,

the success of that character and the longevity,

there's no way.

I don't think I've ever been so drawn to a character so immediately.

It never felt like a performance.

It just felt like someone tapping into his inner self and bringing it out to the public.

It was then and is today the greatest character in the history of the business, as far as I'm concerned.

I always thought like Frankenstein like it was like you couldn't do much to him.

He became what he envisioned the Undertaker would be.

In every sense of the word.

Was less is more.

The pace of my matches was extremely slow.

And then bang.

Oh!

Something really fast.

Like, catch people off guard, like, whoa.

I didn't know he could move like that.

The eye roll, that just happened in a match.

I think it was Greg Valentine I was working.

Heading down in the corner.

Look at that, Mansooni. He has no eyeball.

And I came back and everybody was like, what the hell was that?

The Undertaker walking up, top up, and down.

It goes all the way back to his love of what we do and his love of performing.

What he was willing to sacrifice, it was what he was willing to do.

What in the world?

I've never seen that in my life.

He gave it everything he had.

He was 300 pounds and just a big son of a gun.

Good job, son! I'm so flamed!

And could move in a way and do stuff that men his size shouldn't be able to do.

They're new to take it over! Go!

People fell in love with the character.

They also fell in love with Mark Allaway because they know he worked so hard for them.

The Undertaker receiving a standing ovation from this jam-packed capacity crowd.

There have been a lot of men who have held that belt undeservingly,

but I can say without truth that man deserves to be exactly where he's at.

How fitting!

WrestleMania is just, I mean, that's it.

I mean, that's the creme de la creme in our industry.

And for me, it's big time.

I mean, it is.

You are looking at the most incredible performer

in WrestleMania history.

Just happened, man.

Someone brought it to my attention.

You know, you're undefeated at WrestleMania, and I'm like, well, it's cool.

To me, the streak goes hand-in-hand with WrestleMania.

Ladies and gentlemen, the legend of the Undertaker continues to grow.

Then as WrestleMania, that star is the Undertaker. It's his show.

If there was a Totem Pole, Taker was at the top of the Totem Pole.

He was the best, he was the highest you're gonna get.

I think I earned his respect that night, and to earn taker's respect, you've arrived.

To be given that opportunity, you knew, okay, they trust me.

He trusts me with this baby.

Oh my goodness!

That is the streak.

Who would have thought that one man can make so many

Russemanias to even be able to put himself in the conversation to make that happen?

Every match was different and unique in its own way.

It became this unbelievable moment every year that you look forward to

and look forward to being a part of.

Quite frankly, I mean, the streak is what made it okay

for me to only work once a year.

You know, because I had to defend the streak.

I mean, it takes its toll.

I had a five-year stretch or so there

I would prepare for mania.

I would have my mania match.

All right, bro.

Then I would have some kind of surgery to repair

whatever had been bothering me going into that match

and then go straight from rehab right into training

to be ready to go to mania again.

When Taker talks about the things that he had to do to perform,

I can relate to it because I was going through the same things a lot of time in the same times of I haven't done this

I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna do this

Everybody's expecting it to be at the level that I was at in a certain level and perform like this

But I'm not in the groove. I haven't done it. Can I still do it your mind-place games with you?

By far physically and mentally the hardest absolute hardest thing I've ever done in my life is that performing once or twice a year thing

The road is what keeps you callous, the road keeps you bruised, it keeps you in that ring

shape where you're almost impervious to the bumps because you're doing it on a night

in, night out basis and he would have his three and four month camps but that is no

walk in the park because ring rust and timing is real.

Stay healthy man, keep running, keep running up that road while you're good.

People have no idea how much pain he's in physically and how much pain he tolerates and how many surgeries he's had it's just

They don't understand

To weather through everything that he's weathered through because he loves this business speaks volumes

To sum it up. He's a tough son of a bitch

At this point, every year, that's kind of the big issue.

Is it making sure that there's always enough gas in the tank?

And that's kind of a product of only working

the few matches that I do now.

Everything that I'm dealing with now.

Yeah, it's a

It's a

Kind of a crazy web I weave trying to you know

train effectively

They get you know to get them

The maximum results I can with what I'm working with

This is always the most nerve-wracking workout because it's the last workout before the match

and you always fear some type of injury two days before the biggest match of the year.

I want to stay fluid, keep the muscles elongated.

Stay focused and get what you have to get done done and get out

So the two matches I did with Shawn I was excessively sore

The first match we had with Triple H. So I think it was in Atlanta. That was pretty brutal

That's the where I got carted out

I actually had to spend two full days in the hotel after Mania.

Got the hip repaired.

The next year was pretty good. The next year was pretty good.

You know, the match with Brock happened, which to this day, I still don't remember.

This match is simply about one thing, the 21-0 undefeated streak of the Undertaker.

I'm not sure when I got concussed.

Oh!

Oh!

I don't know how that match happened.

I have no recollection of any of that.

My last memory of that day was at about...

I'd say 3.30 in the afternoon.

Vince comes to the curtain and says,

medical, get in here.

Somebody, and this was the first time we had any

indecination that there was something wrong.

And he was sitting in the walkway outside of Guerrilla.

And he had the happy days look on his face

that he had no idea where he was at.

And he looked at me and he kind of smiled.

And he's like, hey.

And I'm like, oh boy, something went wrong here.

I was gone, man.

We decide that probably the best course of action

is to take him to the emergency room.

As we pull into the hospital, Carlos behind us was an SUV.

Door's open.

Of course, the first person who's there.

WrestleMania's still going on.

But who's outside the ambulance?

Vince.

And of course, you know, Mark cusses at us.

Don't you have a show, you know, that's still going on?

But Vince wouldn't have it.

And we're sitting there in a room,

and he kind of looks up at us, and he goes,

I'm not dead guys, come on.

And so we kind of made the room laugh a little bit

so we were able to start joking around.

You know, not to make light of it, but we joke.

He was trying to cheat in the hospital.

The nurses would come and say, you know,

do you know your name?

What's your name?

And he'd go, hey, babe, come here.

What's my name again?

He was so severely concussed that he had no idea his name.

He didn't know where we were.

He didn't know why we were in New Orleans.

He didn't know his name until 4 a.m.

So what I think happened is between getting older.

And then not having, you know, all the reps

and taking all the bumps through the course of the year,

I mean, eventually it caught up with me.

And so I think that explains what happened in New Orleans

is I think that's why the concussion.

But it's one concussion in one match.

destroyed my confidence.

I don't even think anybody even knew, really.

I didn't know.

I was nervous.

He seemed like this is another day it would work for him,

then didn't shake him at all.

It was Triple H that really spotted it.

And I'm waiting to go out, just riddled with self-doubt.

Triple H came to me, you know, he's just like,

hey, remember who the f*** you are.

Show them who the f*** you are.

Yeah, you're all f***ed last year.

Killed his head.

And I remember that being mind-belowing to me,

like, this is the f***ing undertaker.

It was hard for me to contemplate that he had those doubts.

Oh!

It was enough to get me through that match.

Restored a little bit of my confidence.

We're like William Calloway, also known as Gunner Taker.

I got those answers a lot quicker this year.

For him, the Undertaker was back.

What you're watching is the gunslinger back in action.

Everything that he was feeling was gone

and that it wasn't there anymore for fans all went away and it was back.

Gonna take Brock for a last ride!

What? Chulkslam! Chulkslam!

What's going on is I'm getting my confidence back.

Okay, you can still do this.

But what's also happening is more wear and tear.

Like any stretch of the imagination, somebody that was gonna make excuses, he's not gonna

say, oh, I didn't like that match, but you know, my hip was hurting.

No, his hip always hurts.

Both hips always hurt.

When I got in the rumble, I knew.

I was like, what have I done?

And Roman Reigns with his eyes set on the man standing in the ring, the Undertaker.

You're about to put your whole legacy on the line and you know that you have no business

being in that match.

That match should be somebody else's.

Regardless of my injuries, regardless of my age, regardless of everything that's happened,

if I'm on the card, there's some young guy that's making a lot of, you know, the shows

through the year, you know, that may not be on that card. So it's my duty to make sure that it is,

it's worth putting me on the card.

No one would probably say anything to my face if I stunk it up, but I wouldn't know and you know, that's

one of my biggest fears and

It's kind of becoming a parody of myself

I always think this way I kill me

To know like some dad who watched me when he was young has to turn to his son and go

Man

Yeah, I mean he's moving kind of slow now, but man you should have seen him

You know you should have seen him 10 15 years ago, you know, that's just like

You know, I know reality is that yeah, I've slowed down

But still I try to bring them I

Try to bring the best package that I can on that on that night. So

Just because I like I said, it would just kill me if I was you know, it's like

Yeah, you should have seen him win, you know and not

Not what he is now

You're looking alive outside the Amway Center here in Orlando, Florida

It is the most prestigious night of the year where we honor the legends of the past

who paved the way for the WWE superstars of today.

What's up man?

You clean up well?

There has never been anyone like him.

Bruno, how are you sir?

Hey, how are you?

It's good to see you.

It's not just his persona, it's his presence.

How you doing, man?

Good, good.

Good to see you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Undertaker had a certain amount of respect for me for winning a gold medal at the Olympics,

so we hit it off pretty quickly, and we became very close friends.

The taker, can I have one of these right at the 6L?

Yeah.

I'll never forget one of the first times that I worked with Kurt.

I drew back, you know, and I'm about to throw this straight right hand at him, and his face

I mean, I hadn't even done anything yet, right?

And his face is just like,

I still give him crap to this day about that.

If I draw back, are you gonna give me the old one?

I think you should just take the shot.

You remember the first one.

I didn't know you were taking the other gun, knock me out.

There's a difference between working hard and working smart.

I'm learning that.

It took me a while.

You might make it in this business, kid.

The whole locker room leader thing is nothing that I ever sought to be.

It's just the way that I thought that things needed to be done for the sake of the business.

Every one of us looked at the locker room and said that's the dude, you know,

that's the benchmark right there.

Don Corleone, there's nobody that's higher ranking from a respect standpoint as taker.

He always was the guy.

I don't think I've ever been around a wrestler that has carried and earned more respect in the locker room of his peers than Mark Calloway.

I've always been proud of myself that were the people like me or they didn't like me or they agreed with my views or not that I stood up for what I believed in.

Taker wasn't afraid to tell you how to do it then go out there and prove you how to do it.

And I think that's the big difference.

A lot of guys talk a lot of shit about how to do stuff

and how to be good.

Taker backed it up every night.

I'll never forget.

We're in Seattle or whatever.

I'm looking through the curtain.

I'm watching Taker work.

Go out there and tear the house down.

I went, I got no problem with him getting paid more than me.

He's earning it.

People were measured by Undertaker.

So he was the yardstick, and if you did well then pretty much you were in if you didn't, you were out because you knew if you didn't do well it won the Undertaker's fault.

First match we had in 1996 was the day after Russell Manning.

I remember coming back and him just smiling.

One of the most memorable moments of my career.

He was the best.

Thank you very much.

Oh, man.

Oh, jizzle.

Yeah.

Oh, jizzle.

Congratulations, man.

Thank you so much, man.

Thank you very much.

So happy for you.

Thank you.

I think he's the greatest performer that's ever been in the history of this business.

I don't think there's anybody greater.

I don't think there's anybody who had more impact, bigger matches, and a longer career

and been more of a professional than the Undertaker.

I'm one good shot away from one good man.

It's all there.

But I can tell you this from having seen him

for almost 30 years.

I've never seen him physically in worse shape

than he was before WrestleMania.

Every time I think I'm out,

they pull me back in.

Don Corleone over here.

He starts at about five months out.

How you feeling?

I like it.

Well, I feel like you know that.

I felt like shit last year.

I have no doubt Mark can do anything he puts his mind to.

It's like a convention of old-timers.

We're waiting for the head honcho.

We're waiting for you to call the Tuesday order for everything.

Tuesday. Tuesday.

All right.

I sometimes wonder if he knows any more.

The question is, how are you doing?

I got the kid knows.

Well, we'll find out.

We'll find out in a couple of days.

I think that's the danger, is that you don't know sometimes.

You know, you see Brett Favre, and he's playing for the Vikings.

And he still shows that throw into the end zone last second.

Still there.

It just might not be there as much.

You know and is it fair for anyone to tell that person when it's time with that kind of career behind them

They have carte blanche to say when it's time

Therein lies the difficulty

He's undertaken everyone so that that is an expectation that you almost have to live up to

You know in people's eyes

I have it with I saw the babies did you oh my god look that one this one right

here this one right here it's a pleasure it's a pleasure this one's on

baby radar at all time and she saw that she saw the twins

It was like, oh my.

She got the fever?

Bro, you think I'm still working?

You know what I mean?

I try to, well, I'm more.

That's the line I told her at least.

I'm more over the practicing.

I just, you know, it's the game time stuff

that I'm going to get a little old for.

It was always really easy and easy to talk to him, you know what I mean and as much as I could pick his brain for work stuff

It's nice to hear real-life stuff and just his experiences and how he carries himself because everything that I've done

You know, he's already done it, you know ten times and he's seen all the places that I'm gonna go or if I've already been

You know back in the day

There's like a rolodex and like a huge filing cabinet of just experience that he has

Years ago the first time when we worked at the Astrodome

It's always nice to be able to do that with him and I was happy that my wife was able to sit there and you know

Hear a couple of his stories and get to talk to him and stuff

I I tend to if I think too much about it too soon sure that I then I think about it too much

It's also cool because like we knew we're about to go do some business like the biggest business, you know of my career

This is the part where it's it's weird, you know what I mean like this is the hindsight like pinch me it doesn't feel real

Am I still sleeping?

Like, this is my yard now.

I'm going to be able to share the ring with the Undertaker.

I'm going to live with this for the rest of my life.

The best way to sum it up, it's just a great honor.

But like, it was a responsibility too, you know what I mean?

I had faith in myself.

But like, at the same time, you just

want to do right by taker.

For the past 25 years, regardless if it was 20 people watching or 20,000 people watching,

the tiniest of towns on a Friday or Sunday or on the biggest stage of them all,

he had to be the Undertaker.

He's got that responsibility to be this person, this character, this role model.

It only takes out one person.

You're like, that's not the Undertaker.

In order to be as successful as him

and to get to that point in your career,

you have to take every single day like it's a WrestleMania.

And that's the hardest part.

He is that guy, and it's just the ultimate respect.

We're good. We're going to tear it up.

I appreciate it. Thanks, man. Thank you so much.

There's a little bit of pressure,

but that's what separates being good and great

and being a legend.

We just need a couple little tweaks here and there that I feel like suit my character.

It's really the beginning of where I start putting in the laser focus.

The mental imagery really starts to kick in what you want to get accomplished, how you

want to get it accomplished.

All right, do you want to go this way or come up and go down?

Uh, I'll go up.

Okay, cool.

Don't get much cooler than that, does it?

This is the quiet before the storm.

This morning always seems to start excessively early.

I don't need to be awake yet,

but I'm already laying there,

staring at the ceiling, you know,

running things through my mind.

Kind of get your confidence flowing.

You swagger.

Obviously at the end of the night,

I want people leaving the stadium,

talking about the Roman Reigns Undertaker match.

I think that's probably what I worry most about, making sure that the people are getting what they pay to see.

They say fighters can grow old in one fight, so, you know.

Hopefully this isn't that fight.

How are you?

I'm good, man.

What's up, bro?

I'm good.

I'm hanging in there.

When he walks in, he has this presence, and everyone knows that he's there.

Even if you don't see him somehow, you just know.

A lot of us younger guys, you know, we get excited, but he has this ultimate calmness

about himself.

And you just sit silently, you know, waiting for what he's going to say.

Six sticks, Marves.

You like ones, dude.

I just love them.

It's great.

I'm not gonna be having fun out there for nothing.

Can I see you on the other side?

All right, man.

I'll find the trainers.

I haven't run into them yet.

I don't know what you know where they're at, too.

Yeah, that's definitely, definitely a deal with that.

Hey, bro.

Hey, all right.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm good.

Thanks.

I'm not from there tonight.

Thank you, bro.

You guys on last night?

I think so.

Yeah.

Like midnight or something?

Yeah.

The Undertaker is never on camera.

He doesn't do podcasts.

So when I saw him being followed around by a camera crew,

I was like, oh, is this documenting the last weekend

of the Undertaker's career?

That ran?

Have you been out there yet?

I'm just going out there right now.

It's been a long time.

It's long?

Yeah, yeah.

Have you not seen it in home?

Longer than ever?

Yes, yeah.

It's 80 yards.

80 yards?

Yeah.

I think the last thing anybody wants to do

is become a caricature of themselves.

So whatever pains he was feeling, he grit his teeth

and said, screw it.

I got to go out there and be the undertaker.

And if it's the last time, I got to leave him wanting more.

He's the toughest guy ever.

He's battle tested.

And that guy has gone through everything.

As we get older, even though our brain says go,

our body says no.

But that red light hits, and all of a sudden,

you can't help it.

People say, all you got to do is go out and choke slam somebody,

make your entrance, and everybody's going to be happy.

No, I'm not going to be happy.

Like, when I say, you know, and this is not just stupid man pride

or, you know, cliche stuff,

I'm either going to go out with a match that's the fitting,

the undertaker at WrestleMania.

or I'm going out on my shield one way or another.

Tonight, when Luzer draws, it's going to be tough not to be emotional,

because we don't know when it's going to be the last time.

And I don't care what Roman Reigns does over the next 20 years,

this will be the biggest match Roman Reigns will ever have.

There's a real pressure. This is the last one, you know what I mean?

And I'm his last opponent.

It's a little weird to think about it, you know what I mean?

For him to Kishindo probably the greatest career of all time especially at

WrestleMania and for me to be his opponent and give him the last ride that

he deserves, it's surreal.

There's not many situations that I can't figure out how to make it work within

the wrestling industry. And instead of being able to be creative and focus on the match,

I'm having to figure out, okay, how am I going to sell this? And how am I going to get up and do

this? And how am I going to do that? When all that starts feeding, it really breaks down the whole

process. I think there are a lot of emotions going on that day.

Mark always puts the pressure on himself.

He knows that he wants to go out there and deliver for the fans.

He knows he wants to go out there and deliver for Vince.

And he knows he wants to go out there and deliver for himself.

With me, it's business.

The business comes first, first and foremost.

That's why we're here.

Our job is to go out.

be first-class professional entertainers and to give our fans what they paid

their harder money to see. I come from an era of if you can walk to the ring you

go to the ring and work. Take it we'll go out there and deliver every night.

I've seen him go out there with a 103 degree fever,

need an IV drip as soon as he got to gorilla

because it was coming out of both ends.

And he still went out there for 20 minutes

and tore the house down.

He set the bar for what being a WWE superstar is about.

He's literally been caught on fire on the way

to a chamber match.

He stood in the pod pouring water on himself for 20 minutes before he went out and wrestled

for 30 more minutes with second degree burn.

Like he literally does not make excuses.

We never had a guy that was more reliable than Taker.

He's a tough, physical son of a bitch.

He really truly is.

I knew he was hurting when we were touring the country and the world and having some

pretty epic matches.

left the cell match in much worse shape.

He had actually entered that match with a broken foot.

They don't come any tougher than the Undertaker.

One, two, three, the Undertaker through the table!

Don't embarrass yourself.

Don't embarrass the company.

Don't embarrass Vince.

It's just the way that I thought

that things needed to be done.

For the sake of the business

The process has become bigger and bigger each year to get me to a place where I can go out

And deliver that performance

If you stay around as long as I have that your body's going to break down at some point and my body was at

At the limit of what it could take

I can tell you for certain, after all these years and all these WrestleMania's, there's

nervous or had that that feeling in my stomach before I before I go out.

The greatest performer in WrestleMania history

23-1 the feet of the Undertaker versus the Roman Empire of Roman Reigns.

It is hard to even describe all the emotions that you go through,

all the jitters, the concerns.

Am I ready?

I mean, it's just, I mean, it's big time.

One of the most controversial figures,

perhaps in WWE history, Roman Reigns.

This is a magnificent athlete,

and he's got so much to gain here tonight

with a victory over the dead man at WrestleMania.

Joe Montana walking the candlestick, but you're seeing the Undertaker at WrestleMania

Believe me, that is a bucket list right there. He's the greatest performer in WrestleMania history

The bell sounds we're ready to go and remember it's no home's barred

This one will not be for the weak at heart whose body will fail them first

This is not good to get out of the way guys

When there's blood in the water, it's a great white right there

Undertaker sending the end is near

That's got some devilish imagination.

Good night.

Lusiard is it now?

Trying to go for something like his own tombstone pile driver or something.

Man, what a Superman punch, it connected.

shield and they go out on their own terms. He almost got the impression that Roman Reigns

didn't want to put the Undertaker away.

The Undertaker emptied everything in his arsenal, maybe everything in his soul.

30-plus years of my life, just, you know,

that's what I've done.

Oh, how you feeling?

Uh-huh, how do I feel?

Like I had to help you now.

I mean, I'm probably going to leave.

Obviously, this is going to take some getting used to in our

life, if there's not going to be times where, you know, I'm

watching the show and thinking, like, you know what, I

think I still got enough left in the tank to do something,

but I don't know.

Nice.

Pull that out.

That's nice.

Oh.

What have you come to be?

I was waiting for you in my place.

I tried.

Everybody got out of there.

I tried as close as I could get.

Right now I'm pretty content riding off into the sunset and we'll see what tomorrow brings.

I just want to say thank you.

All right.

You happy?

I'm very happy.

All right.

OK.

It's all a matter of time.

OK.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Always ribbon, right?

You got to slap me in the back.

Mark had so many operations and things of that nature,

but always came back to what he loved

and always had that sense of responsibility.

Thank you for going, boss.

Thank you.

Mark once told me, he said, like, if we ever get to a situation whereby I just, you know,

I'm growing out there and I can't do what I'm supposed to do, tell me.

I think that most everyone could sense that he was trying, but he wasn't there.

And he knew in his heart that it wasn't there.

I was so disappointed in my performance and the fact that I let myself do that the problem

was my body was at the limit.

The plan is to resurface your hip.

If he thinks Vince needs him, he's in.

I need redemption.

That's the driving force to prove to the world who I am and what I do.

I don't believe I'm about to watch this.

Already looking.

They should have just played the package and called it a day.

Don't give yourself enough credit.

Play bloated Elvis.

The last ride for the Undertaker.

The last ride for the Undertaker.

I tried my hardest to wield myself through this.

Oh!

Oh, great.

They're going to overpower the other team.

I feel bad for Roman.

You dream about that match.

To be in that match and tearing the house down,

and I wasn't able to give him that.

Man, that bothers me.

I make excuses all day long.

Excuses are like holes.

Everybody has one.

It's like I don't even know where I'm supposed to be.

Oh, man!

Got a huge spear.

It's the heart of the Undertaker.

I haven't spoke to him about it.

He's probably looking at me right now,

thinking, what was that guy all about?

It was really disappointing.

I know that you were disappointed,

but I don't think for one second he thought that.

I'm sure he did when he watched it back.

I feel like I need some redemption for that performance.

So here we are.

so much emotion. You have to think of everything that's going on right there at

that moment. The utter disappointment of the performance that I just give. There's

the searing pain that's running down my leg, coupled with the fact that this is

the last time that I'm gonna come and be on this stage in this manner.

I don't think there's anything any more real

than me putting those gloves in the hat and coat down.

I think it was very religious, the jacket, the hat.

Symbolizes how Taker worked his entire career.

When you leave that ring, everything's in the ring.

You gave the fans everything, whether there's 400 people there

or there's 400,000 people there, you leave everything you have in the ring.

An undertaker will rest in peace

To see that symbolism

And to see it in his face which he never ever registers anything

That got me

That's getting me a little bit now

Leave my son saw I had a little

I'll admit it. I have a little tear coming down. He's like you okay does like

Yeah, I'm okay

Such a reverent moment.

He left the Undertaker Bressana in the ring, literally.

But he broke character for the first time in 30 years

and kissed me on air.

That was the only thing that gave me hope that, you know,

selfishly as a wife who knows how much pain he's in,

to believe that he's done.

I was so disappointed in my performance

and the fact that I let myself do that.

That was 100%.

real, and me saying goodbye.

It's just, it's like heart-breaking.

It affected me, like it made me, you know what I mean, emotional, it made me want to cry.

Was it perfect? No

We are in the moment and as live performers anything can happen

To be able to do that it just

It's all coming back on his character. It's all coming back to the responsibility that he holds and that he succeeds at

You know what I mean? Like if there is something that has to be done. There's a goal at hand

the man gets it done plain and simple and I think that

It couldn't have been easy.

I couldn't imagine that decision

or being at that point, you know, in my career

or my life to where this is the last one.

So it's still hard to fathom.

Thank you, man.

Thank you, man.

Thank you, man.

I did the best that I could do for him.

The problem was, was just my physical condition.

My body was at the limit of what it could take.

He wasn't there, and he knew in his heart that it wasn't there.

Probably take a trip, probably to Turks and Caicos,

and then I'm gonna have my hip replaced.

My hip feels bad daily.

First and foremost you care about the human being then you care about the character from a human being standpoint

He had a big big decision to make you know, what do I do for my family?

What's best for my family and then what's best for me?

Have my kids be able to chase them and you know and play with them

You know, that's that's the stuff that's important

Everything that I've done for the last 30 plus years. It's time to kind of you know enjoy

I take a lot of pride in what I do in the ring and not being able to get the fans what they expect.

I don't want to be a parody of myself, so if I can't deliver and give everything that I have,

people expect to see when I don't want to cheapen the work that I've done over the last 27 years.

That plays a lot into this surgery.

So we'll see what happens.

Yeah, here we go.

It's game time.

So I've had this surgery before and to this day completely pain-free in my left side

And now my right side is basically caught up

It's funny we were just

reliving the last time we were here, which rooms very early similar to the one that we were in

It's real now

It's tough. I mean, I think obviously part of this is the waiting game, but that waiting game is super super hard

It's a long day

All the pre-op before it's a lot of sitting around which makes your mind kind of wander

Never gets old though when they say have you had any surgeries in the past

Let's like take your pick of which body part has not had surgery and no surgeries in your past

Hendix tonsils

Have you had surgery?

Yeah, I've had a few.

He's laughing.

Well, because it's from head to toe, literally.

That's why we laugh.

Yeah, because there's nothing.

I've had over 15.

What kind of eye surgery do you do?

So, I've had both eye sockets.

I've had blowouts of both eye sockets.

Your shoulder surgery.

Rotary cuff surgery, yeah.

You got a pec major repair, biceps tendon repair.

You keep expecting you to stop, and you're like,

I've got about halfway through.

You also had a knee scope, correct?

A knee scope repair.

No broken fingers.

Not many.

Yeah, pick your finger, which one you want.

He's trying to straighten them if you're wondering,

but they don't straighten them.

You know, when you're looking back,

wow, that's a lot of surgery time, but...

The career wouldn't have been what it was, without it.

Okay, so the plan is to resurface your hip and then put in the metal bowl, metal socket.

We're going to get you up today, then we'll let you leave the hospital.

Although, uh, Vince has given me a lot of grief about not leaving the same day.

He says, what time's your surgery?

I was like, why, it's 1.15.

He says, that mean you're going to leave at 5.15?

Like I gotta fly I gotta fly somewhere. So, you know, we're worried about blood clots and stuff like that. That's right

Okay, all right, well I left

Keep the testosterone in the rings. Yeah. Yeah, he's no need to rush the recovery. Yeah, he's funny

So we're gonna be safe about it

Any other questions? No, I'm just I'm figuring it what seven years. I mean you ought to have this stuff down, right?

Done a lot of them in seven years

Okay.

Ready to go?

Yeah.

For me, I sit there and pray that everything's going well, that Dr. Sue has laser-like focus

and that the recovery will be good, and I completely trust Dr. Sue.

He's the best at what he does.

But that doesn't change the fact that my husband's going in there

is being put under with a very major surgery.

There's always complications, and you just never know.

Just another day at the office, right?

The biggest wrestling star of all time?

Nothing to be nervous about.

They give me the good stuff and then I do remember my theme playing

and so I slowly dozed off into oblivion.

Great, we're doing a right hip resurfacing.

There's our mark.

Being able to operate on a physical specimen like Mark is kind of a treat.

We're going to smooth it out with these instruments and create space for the new joint.

Everything is gigantic, everything is really clear, and his bone is really good quality.

His bone is going to support that implant for years and years to come.

So going very smoothly, it's going to get good relief and recover very quickly.

Okay, now we're going to close up.

I mean, you have one of these, but it's always kind of cool to see that.

This is incredible. It just spins.

It spins all the time.

Here's the biggest size they make.

That's just the coolest thing.

Mark.

Thank you, sir.

My pleasure.

No, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next door on the left, if you will.

Go ahead.

The pain from putting weight on it is gone.

It was amazing to wake up and be pain-free.

How much weight do you feel like you're putting?

I'm putting more, definitely.

It's just amazing though, he has zero pain in that joint

after having chronic pain for at least 10, 15 years.

Today he is walking straight on crutches.

Typical recovery, people can get up the same day

and start to progress.

The first phase is walking.

Left leg goes up.

Right leg together.

Yeah.

And then just watch your head with the top.

Good.

Nice and easy.

Very good.

Go back.

We'll talk through some things.

And I'll do my discharge paperwork for you from right now.

All right.

And this one is half as good as the other one was.

That's Christmas, you know.

Yeah, but it's also where...

It comes into play where it's both like a blessing and a curse.

Obviously, it's a blessing of how good you're gonna feel.

We all know that.

It can also be bad because of how good he's gonna feel.

And Lord knows what kind of test he might want to put on the new hip.

Around April.

Around April, oddly enough.

Weird.

I'm sure I'll be hearing,

it's in New Orleans and I don't remember my last match there with Brock

because I was so severely concussed even after watching it back.

I still don't remember it, so I'd like to remember my last match in New Orleans to see if he could remember anything and he couldn't.

If I could, one, yeah, if I could see whether or not I could, I remembered anything.

So I can see you saying.

Or to pick up where I got concussed and I can't, there's no, I can't pinpoint where it was, but anyway.

I've changed.

I've changed.

Since yesterday?

Physically.

Being able to walk around pain-free that's been huge and the emotional freedom of not being in

pain I

Was just loving life and being able to do things that I had been able to do a while and do it without pain

It was nice

selfishly I wanted him home because I wanted him to just personally be able to enjoy

being in a little less pain, you know, being able to run around with the kids.

Soccer games and softball games and volleyball tournaments and school events,

granite were uber drivers for the kids, but I don't think he'd have it, you know, any other way.

Michelle, she is, she should get a medal for what I've put her through, what she's had to endure.

and still wakes up with a smile on her face

and attacks each day.

She was able to show me what was important in life again,

because I had kind of lost that.

He's super humble, super kind.

I think people have this image of him walking around the house

with his eyeliner on and his eyes in the back of his head

half the time, but that only happens occasionally.

He's also playful and romantic.

People don't get to see that side of him.

When you think about soulmates and people say that, I mean, she's mine.

I don't know that anybody would have stuck it out like she has

and continue to grow and be a positive influence on our kids and people around her.

I don't really want to water up here but I wouldn't be nearly a man I am today without without her

There are two people I did not want to meet when I started wrestling came yep

And me yeah one she found out was probably the nicest guy in the world which is came and she married the other one

So, uh, oh my gosh, she chased me for a week, oh I got months, oh my god, all right, that

could be a fabrication.

First thing that I was attracted to was just her desire to be better in her work ethic.

It wasn't the blue eyes, the blonde hair, kicking body, wait a minute, we're getting,

Kids might watch this

Just how simple he is he really fell in love with me because I knew how to throw a football

That's what sealed it for me

true story

So it was a TV day. I had a little football. So get the football. So we're throwing the football in the arena, right?

I mean, I won't name names to embarrass anybody

But I mean there were a lot of wounded ducks being thrown and she just happens to walk out picks it up

and throws about a 35-yard spiral, just scorched it.

I kid you not, I've never seen a girl throw a football like that.

It was like...

Look, all the McCool girls learned how to throw a football.

If you're going to throw it, it's like,

if you're going to throw it, throw it right.

Who knew?

I was pretty impressed.

That's what really impressed me more than anything.

She can throw football

That's when he started really trying really putting on the

Trying to put on the charm

Yes, love wake me up when she's done please. I said I was gonna come down there. Do you want me come down there? Yes

Daddy's trying to kick me out. Oh good grief

So my contract during this time expires

And I think it was some time in August I went up to Stanford

This was the probably the best opportunity for us to get together and sit down and figure out what you know

What my role you know what my role with the company is going to be

I don't see myself getting in the ring again.

I've said that before.

What do you think?

But I know, you know, that Vince is going

to want what's best for me, physically, mentally.

We've had enough discussions that I know that.

It's one of the questions I get more than,

yeah, what's Vince really like?

Well, you take what you see on TV,

and then you amp it up in real life.

I love when your mom always says,

do you think he's seen himself in the mirror

or walked like that?

Yeah.

Kills mom.

Does he ever look himself in the mirror?

His walk to the ring, you know?

Oh, my gosh.

I gave up on strategizing meetings

with Gents a long time ago.

I've been so dead set in what I was going to do and say

in a meeting, walk out, the door shuts behind me,

and then realize, like, I got absolutely nothing

I mean, who's to say, who knows?

I don't know, really.

Like I said, never say never, but...

Oh, there you go.

Well, where the hell is he?

No, he's not here.

Do you hear him?

He's in the gym, so he wants you to just, um,

you should wait in his office.

It is hard to describe the relationship between Vince and Mark.

One, they've worked together for so long.

They've both given each other so much, you know, in regards to the business,

but on a personal level.

I mean, Mark named his son Gunnar Vincent for a reason.

The only way I can describe it is they literally would take a bullet for each other.

I can't think of anybody more influential in my life other than my father than Vince.

He'd be the first one to patch you on the back

But also the first one to kick you in the ass when you needed it

When you work with someone for so long and you get to know them and you're help building

You know, we all help build the business together. So when you're doing that together, it's a special bond that you have

Take was the guy who was always by Vincent's side

Take was

Vincent's right-hand man

The Undertaker wasn't afraid to go and barge in and talk to Vince about something that wasn't right.

He stands alone that way.

I would look at it as two old war buddies, two guys that have been in their trenches together.

They've had their backs to the wall that have fought competition in and out of the ring.

They've had to bunker down the same bunker together and fight through it.

I think the amount of respect that they have for each other is on words.

I think a lot of that stems from the fact that during the Monday night wars a lot of the other top stars they left and

There was never a doubt that

Undertaker was going to be here and be loyal to this company. I

Stayed by a side even after all his hand-chosen favorites

Left town for greener pastures more money. I

Vincent Mann is one of those people that when you're loyal to him, he's gonna be loyal to you

Undertaker Mark Calaway's the most loyal performer I've ever dealt with and

He is the kind of man that you would want literally and figuratively in the foxhole with you. I

Love Vincent death. I would take a bullet for the man. Honestly, I would

Yes, he's my boss

my friend

He's been like a dad.

He's been like a brother.

He's been it all to me.

I've gone through some really harrowing

personal issues in my life.

Kind of let them take over who I am as a person.

The problems just became so monumental

that I didn't really care about anything else.

Vince is one of the very few guys that knows Mark personally and sort of been

through and help him get through the ups and downs and the struggles that he's

had in life and in his career and things of that nature.

He was the one that basically set me down in a chair and told me, he says,

Mark, you could feel sorry for yourself.

There's no other person that could say that to me, that I wouldn't have got up, you know, and just knocked the shit out of them.

But it was Vince, and I knew it was true.

And I knew where it'd come from.

But that's what I needed and not because he was my boss or anything else. It was because he was my friend and

He cared about me

He's an incredible man and a very important

person in my life that has made me a much better man.

What has The Undertaker meant to WWE NTU personally?

Can't do that.

It's good to see you.

It's good to see you.

I'm actually shocked.

Shocked.

Yeah.

I was expecting at least another hour and a half.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Got your swell on?

Yeah, just finished up.

We'll train back.

At the towers on a Saturday.

I don't know who meets on Saturday other than Vince.

Make sure you're here on time, right?

You know it.

Never late.

Never tardy.

What you got?

Are you guys out enough in this place?

Thank you.

We had a long talk about my future,

and he was like, well, what do you think?

You know, you think you're going to be ready?

And I'm like, I don't know.

I don't, if I don't get back in the ring again, I'm good.

I don't, you know.

But I will.

I'll train.

And I said, if somebody gets hurt,

I was saying it out of loyalty to a friend, I think.

I guess when you've been with someone

and worked for him for as long as I have

and picks up the bat phone, I always answer.

And that's the thing.

If he thinks Vince needs him, he's in.

No questions asked.

I'll get ready.

I'll be in the bullpen.

You just give me the signal, and I'm there.

You know, I think I might have made a comment that my tank's empty, you know, and

And he was like, I think he just kind of maybe reiterated what I had said. I

was a little taken back because

Normal events is full throttle. It's like, nope, you can do that. You can do this forever. Kind of a deal

Wait a minute

All right, is this some kind of double swerve? Like he's gonna tell me that I can't so that I will he can sell ice to an Eskimo

I mean, he's just that good.

Like, so I had to figure out what angle he was taking.

Like, what are you challenging me?

Like, thank you.

Thank you again.

Thank you.

I didn't quite know how to process right away.

I know. Legendary Kurt Angle. Right there. There he is.

I've got my ass kicked.

Desireately so.

Now when home we'll get some good stuff.

You don't mind that I predicted you were someone back to Mania, do you?

Everybody's got their opinion, yeah. You know, so.

I bet it won't be Mania without him.

Well, I can tell you this.

I feel a lot better than I did last April.

The phone hadn't rung yet in my head.

It tells me that it's time.

I know it will at some point.

Now, it may happen tonight.

Anybody in here?

But I don't know.

It's tight.

I said it's tight.

It's kind of still a case of emergency break glass kind

I know my mindset right now is still if I don't get back in the ring, I think I'll be okay.

The one guy here I missed, I'd love to work with, AJ.

He gets it. I mean, he really does. Reminds me a lot of Sean.

Hey, brother. I'm good. How you doing? You're on the other side of things tonight, huh? You're the cheering section. Yes. Yeah

Yeah, I'm the support team. That's nice

Up next is history for the first time ever 30 women will compete in a Royal Rumble match

Michelle McCool a four-time women's champion and one of the top women superstars in the last 15 years

It's always fun for me to watch her work

She has so much passion and so much fire for the business

Just to be there to support her and not have to worry about anything

eliminated by Natalya.

What a performance though tonight.

I'm just glad that I could be there for her.

Lord knows she's been there for me.

After the rumble, Vince called me and asked me

what I thought about a match with Cena.

And even, you know, it was appealing in one sense,

but still, I don't know that I was mentally,

I was mentally prepared at that point for what it would take.

It really wasn't a thought until I actually finally watched the match back.

When I watched it back, it reaffirmed tenfold everything that I thought.

I looked old, I looked slow, I was overweight, I couldn't move.

and it just wasn't undertaker-esque,

I guess, in any sense, really.

I had one match too many.

Thinking in my head right now,

please, please take me down.

So that's when the wheel started turning

like I need redemption.

The process became, I'll give you an answer

after I see how I feel.

Working out for a few weeks, getting back in the ring,

seeing how my hip does.

And that's kind of where we began.

WWE brought a ring down for me.

There was this old jet ski repair place

that's been abandoned since I moved out here to this area.

It was just a disaster.

I'd get the electricity turned on.

I'd get water turned on.

The biggest thing was just cleaning this place up.

Yeah, it was about as redneck as you can get.

But it served its purpose, and it served it well.

It came down to maybe somewhere during the chamber,

as I give him a deadline on whether or not

it felt like I could do, you know, I could be ready.

Obviously, he had to have a deadline

so that he could book his card.

And I needed to know that I was going to have what it took

to be able to have that kind of match.

I'm pretty sure I officially retired.

At least five times.

Huh?

At least five times.

To be able to continue to increase the speed and movement

and hit ropes and to take a bump and be able to get up and go,

you know what?

That's not so bad.

That's pretty cool.

He felt good, and he said, record this.

I was like, OK.

So he hit the ropes three, four times, took a couple of bumps.

He came into the corner and he said,

I ain't as good as I once was,

but I'm as good once as I ever was.

I see you in New Orleans.

It was the day of the chamber that I sent him that.

I think I sent it during the show.

So, that was kind of my little rib of trying to make it wait and draw it out as long as I could.

He sent me a text. I think there was an excipitive in it, and then, yeah.

So, I think he was excited to see me be able to move like that.

He knew it was a good idea. He knew it was going to draw a lot of people.

It's something that people probably want to see.

I was like, okay, if you make this decision,

we're gonna do everything we possibly can

every single day to get you as healthy as we can

and to get you as prepared as we can.

When I started, I was still really heavy.

I was 315 pounds.

I'd been lifting, but just lifting to lift,

not really doing much cardiovascular wise.

So, I mean we basically had to start at ground zero and start working on the cardio

The worst thing about this nowadays it takes me longer to

Get ready and warm up than it does to work out

So right now what we're doing is we're just giving him a little bit longer time to to warm up

We've learned that

Some athletes take a little longer and because of his age and his injuries and everything else

We make sure that we get him really kind of a little bit warmed up to get his part rate up

And also get that blood flow going and then we transition into the workout

You have to think about all the ebb and flow that goes through a match.

Once your cardio goes, and if you're five minutes in a match,

it breaks down your ability to create in the ring, react in the ring,

all you're worried about is your air.

I couldn't get up like that last year without a week.

the wheels started turning like with the way I feel right now I can go out and have a better match

than last year and then it basically turns into not I don't want to have just a better match

I want to have the match then it all starts flowing back you want to steal the show you want to

create this unbelievable memory and and have this and then say now I can make the decision

Now I can go out on my terms instead of it being something like that happened last year

When you get in here

And you get winded and you get gassed and you want to quit.

You know, that's why this stuff's hanging up.

I look over there, all those guys are looking back at me.

Like, come on, you old son of a bitch.

Get off your ass and do this and do it right.

I oscillated my sound.

You draw energy from wherever you can.

So this is Harry's gym.

He's got boom on the wall.

Boom means hell.

Welcome to hell.

For the next hour, we'll be told that.

Hell.

I didn't think this workout was going to be this taxing cardio vascular wise in the heat.

I didn't expect it's almost 90 degrees today.

Yesterday it was in the 60s tomorrow to be in the 60s today.

It just decided to be 90 degrees because we knew we were coming to Harry's Hotel of Hell.

You're even laughing.

See that's a sadistic individual over there.

Nobody else feels sorry for me, I'm not gonna feel sorry for myself.

I shouldn't have been in the ring last year, simple as that.

It won't happen again, you can bet that.

You see, the difference between you and me is when I fail,

I get back up, I put a smile on my face, and I go to work to kick ass the next day.

When you fail you hide your head in the sand never to be seen from again because you're so ashamed and

Embarrassed of what people will say about you

You are not too old you are not washed up

You are not broken down because if you was broken down you wouldn't be posting workout videos on your wife's Instagram

I think knowing what you want to achieve

in any sort of storytelling is the most important thing.

And with this story,

we needed to bring back The Undertaker.

Do you want to see The Undertaker kick my ass at WrestleMania?

Yeah!

Thank you.

I get chills thinking about it, because it was really...

The energy was there, the anticipation was there.

They just want to see the guy.

So undertaker at WrestleMania this year. I'm either going as a fan or

I'm going as your opponent, which will be history

If I was you I know what I would do I would want one more match

At this point, rain, snow, sunshine, whatever it is, we have to get our work in.

You think somebody put this tarp on?

We're trying to accomplish two things.

One, we're going to formulate what not warm up before the match will be.

Because I want to have broken a sweat and be warm and fluid and able to move,

instead of having to warm up through the course of the match.

And then I was fortunate enough to have Primo come in somebody who's very good in the ring very quick and very fast

You know, that's a lot different than just hitting ropes and and taking back bumps

Give me the tumble, but let me sack her out and then give me a clothes line down. Okay

I was surprised, I didn't know what kind of taker I was going to see, but he came out

of his car and I saw, I see him, you know, he looks healthy, he lost 30 pounds.

So he, I know he's dedicated to tear it up, come mania.

One thing I could say about taker is that he never phones anything in, he doesn't half

ass do anything.

I can't remember the last time I had to move that fast.

Nope.

You look good.

Yeah.

All right.

Here we go.

Good day, man.

Good day.

Thanks.

You got it.

I feel like I need redemption.

That's the driving force.

That's the best way that I can describe it.

This is a clean slate.

All the other 27 years prior, none of that

means anything at this point.

This is a brand new undertaker, and I'm

going out there to prove to the world.

who I am and what I do.

It's fun to be able to see the work that you're doing paying off.

It still has to pay off on April 8th to make it all mean anything at all.

Settling in now, just the last couple of days I've been at home by myself, the family's already here.

This is kind of, you know, trying to not get in my own head.

I'm happy where I'm at.

It's probably the best version of me since the first WrestleMania match with Sean.

No, you're in game mode, so.

I plan on being full on Undertaker tomorrow night.

I'll be completely honest. I mean, after last year's performance,

I think there was a lot of reason to doubt, you know, that's not how

I want to be remembered, so yeah, it's for the fans,

but yeah, a lot of it's for myself and my pride

and the legacy that I want to leave in this business.

Everything out there is all speculation.

There's people even put together the fact that because kid rock was inducted into the hall of fame last night that I'm gonna come back

This is American badass. How are you?

To me conspiracy theories

So when I come up, one, two, then we start going down.

It's kind of creeping in that there's a good chance

that tomorrow is the last time that I make that walk.

And a part of my life.

important part of my life will, you know, kind of stops.

And, you know, I'll turn the page into a new chapter.

Sure, it takes the mindset of the performer to go,

okay, right, this is it.

But then the match has to live up to those expectations.

And as a performer, your expectations are always,

you know, up in the moon.

You know, that's where you gotta shoot for.

That's where a guy like Undertaker shoots for,

or he wouldn't be the Undertaker.

It's an honor to be able to get in the ring with John Cena

We've had one singles match in his entire career here, which is just amazing. I

Really do think you're gonna see the old Undertaker

And you're gonna see someone that's going out to prove something

You have a man in Mark Calloway that wants to go out on his own terms,

and Mark Calloway is going to go out the way that he wants to go out,

and that's on top in the best performance of his career.

He always says, I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I'll ever be.

So, you know, that's kind of his motto.

I'm not as good as I once was, but you know what?

I can go out once a year and be as good as I've ever been.

So, I believe he's gonna do that this year.

He feels good, he looks good, it's gonna be good.

It's been a very well orchestrated, concerted effort by everybody to kind of keep things under wraps.

Even my shrouded golf cart out there. Got my little ride in here on.

It was definitely some speck-op stuff.

After repeated pleas for a match with the Undertaker,

John Cena lived up to his promise.

You won't fall, I got you.

And he's here and is a member of the WWE Universe.

You dropped, you dropped, man.

There's a reason I'm sitting here.

Not only do I have a ticket, but I actually have a full jean shorts on these are extended jean shorts

I think this is the first time in history. So this is a history-making night

Whether it's a good match bad match that I'm not so concerned about

More importantly for me is to

Perform at a level

that people expect me to be at.

Two pans I wore last year.

I want them thinking...

Two.

Two.

This guy's got a lot left in the tank.

Yeah.

If I can leave with that,

I'll be content.

I say that, but I've been saying it for a long time.

How do you get my step out, please?

I think John Cena's had an office in a very upset tonight.

Didn't get what he wanted at WrestleMania, so

he's gonna take it out on Elias.

Obviously Undertaker's not here, and I understand John's disappointment.

in WrestleMania history has answered the call.

Two absolute icons of our industry doing battle at the showcase of the immortals.

Take her out of the box, right to left.

The best tear striker in history of WWE has taken it to Zeta.

Undertaker we are going to see

It's one thing to come back, but to come back and look like this

John just saw a ghost

He's beat John Cena, he routed John Cena in the Superdome!

that I asked it to do and I didn't have to ask it I just did it I didn't think

about how I was gonna hit the ropes or how I was gonna get my foot up or how I

was gonna punch or how I was gonna do anything I just did it

the undertaker is back better than ever

as strange as that sounds it's been a while since I've had a match where that

was the case

I don't take anything for granted.

None of this happens without him.

He gave me an opportunity a long time ago.

Obviously changed my life.

It's something that I do every year.

Give him a hug and tell him thank you.

I mean, it was obvious that I had no business being in the ring.

Wait, are you okay?

I just want you to know what that bothers me.

No, I didn't have it. You know that.

Someone like Undertaker who gives his life through good times and very bad times in his business

feels a certain way when he feels he could have done better, which is a shame

because we all love him because he's the Undertaker.

I hope from this day forward, he understands who he is and I hope he appreciates it.

It felt good, you know, just selfishly.

I would have, you know, liked to have been out there a little longer, but it is what it is.

You know, kind of bittersweet.

And I feel short, awesome.

Not what I trained for, but I mean that we don't.

We don't sell time, I guess.

We sell entertainment.

So hopefully that's what they got.

I trained for 45, and I get five.

You know, I feel awesome.

I've never been to the gym.

Mission accomplished, and what we set out to do.

I had a lot more in the tank tonight, I mean, you know.

And, yeah, at the end of the day, that's what I wanted.

I just thought that was gonna happen

after a 30 minute back and forth slugfest war.

Hopefully people are gonna wonder tonight, like, wow,

what's he do next?

You know, it's been a running joke.

How many years I'm gonna retire?

I think if I had to, I could.

If I want to, I can look at it like, okay, you can still go.

Now, do you want to go?

I mean, I don't, it's just, there's no sense that you may give me an answer, really,

because I couldn't give you an honest one.

I'm looking for that one match.

Brings me back to yesteryear.

If he has to put his body on the line,

he'll just keep doing it.

The world is witnessing this match for legends.

We did not deliver.

It couldn't have gone any worse.

It was a total train wreck.

Which means he's going to have to redeem himself.

Here we go.

It's going to be a vicious cycle.

John Cena, he routed John Cena in the Super Tome.

Professionally, it was fine. Personally, it left me a little empty.

I was able to train for the first time in a few years the way that I wanted to train,

pain free in my hips. I was prepared to do a 20-30 minute match.

You would think, okay, John Cena, Undertaker.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It would have been a different deal, but...

You are awesome.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Yes.

That's your heart.

That's your heart.

I'm looking for that one performance,

that one match brings me back to yesteryear

and delivers on the match itself,

the story and all the athletic.

requirements to, you know, have a good match.

If it had happened with Cena, yeah, there's probably a good chance that I could have walked away and been okay.

Then it was a, you know, it was a three-minute match, so what are you going to do?

That was awesome. That was awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How are you?

How are you?

How are you?

Are you okay?

The matches that I've won, she's actually fallen asleep and

missed, so she's only stayed awake for the ones that I've lost, really.

So I think she was excited to know that I could still win a match.

She goes, yay, daddy.

So she was cheering for you, but she was mad that you lost, that you beat John.

Now, I gotta worry about John Cena's feelings.

It was nice that I got to crush her favorite and let her know that her daddy was a man.

But I was disappointed the match was only what it was.

I would have liked to have seen him have a little bit more time and go out there and just physically put on a show I knew he was capable of.

But in that short two, three minutes, that did more for him mentally and emotionally than anything else.

The fire was really lit once I came out of the scene of match.

I mean, I was feeling good. I was in shape.

You know, I was like, well, shoot, I can, you know,

I can work a few matches.

You know, I was ready to go.

And Saudi, just what they're trying to do over there,

and being part of that was intriguing to me.

It's kind of an honor to be invited, really.

It was all part of that initial relationship period

between the Saudis and WWE.

So it was important if you could be part of stuff like that.

I mean, those are the kind of things

you're going to remember forever.

When you go across the world, you don't necessarily know how different people receive things

like that.

So I'm always curious when we break out caskets or whatever we do in the morbid macabre undertaker

world that how it's going to be received.

No matter what continent he haunts the reaction is always the same for the phenom

The undertaker to be this close to it still takes my breath away

The hair on the back of my neck is standing up right now

And the undertaker

Glancing back at the casket where he hopes to bury rusev tonight

They seem to really enjoy it and be right there lockstep with us. Here we go

So intimidating, so dominating.

And they did a good job in the match.

It was a win-win all the way around.

Oh, no, oh, boy.

How many times have we seen this over the years?

Oh, snap!

Rest in peace.

Physically, I didn't feel quite as good tonight as I did, obviously, in New Orleans, but I'm still

90% better than I felt in a few years. So, you know, at this point in my career,

I just can't take a match for granted anymore. I just can't, you know. So, it was really nice to

get the reception that I got when I came out, you know. I mean, that never gets old,

That's kind of a bucket list thing to do is to headline Mattis the Square Garden.

Even after all these years, it's still special enough to bring me right in the middle of my

vacation and do this. So I just want to kind of soak it in one last time, you know, in case this

is it. You never say never, I've learned that now, but it'll probably be my last match in the garden.

When I rolled up to the garden and it was lit up in purple,

that was a really special moment for me.

Like, after all these years in the business,

you do sometimes we get a little jaded about things,

but it was like, wow, man, that's Madison Square Garden.

That's been Vince's house forever.

The wrestling extravaganza of all time, WrestleMania.

All these iconic moments in history

line the halls of the building.

To have your name at the top of the page

on a sold out Madison Square Garden card,

that's when you know you're doing something right.

These fans here in New York come to the garden.

I mean, they are fans of the truest sense, you know.

Tonight, they're garden.

The dead rises. Rest in peace.

Come on!

Are we going to do that next week?

You're going to take your right wing to my left.

So, I just want to go out there and be able to entertain them,

give them a little bit of what they expect

when they see the undertaker's name on the marquee.

You got to bring it at the garden.

And if you do bring it, then those people show you love.

And if you don't, then they will let you hear it.

He loves you.

He loves you.

He loves you.

They pay their money to come sit down and watch the best

wrestling show in the world.

And if you don't give it to them, you're in trouble.

really nice to get that kind of reception from the garden crowd and make all the aches

and the pains go away for a little bit, even if it's for a few minutes.

Not knowing exactly what I had physically, it sure helps get you through those little

hiccups and those little bumps when you start feeding off of the crowd.

It was nice being out there with a bunch of young guys.

The guys that are out there working every night.

Hopefully there's something that somebody can pick up

and make themselves better.

Then that makes it a success for me.

Tonight I was taking moments to kind of look around in something that I normally ever never do make eye contact with people I

Was able to kind of sit there and soak it in and

Reflect back on you know been here so many times and had so many big matches here

That's a good group of guys that I was in the ring with.

We delivered tonight, and everybody, I think,

went home happy and excited.

It's good that it's still special,

because when it's not special anymore, then it really is.

It's time to walk away.

Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir

This is the last time that I'm in the garden. I'm okay with that because it was it was a memorable night, and you know I

Think those closure moments help if they're great

But it's a catch-22 if those closure moments are great. It makes you want to have another one

These matches themselves are not what I'm looking for to say, okay, that's the one I

Can go home and put my six shooters up on the mantle and stay here, but

Yeah, those aren't it

When I come home, I pretty much shut it down now,

which is something that in the past that I wasn't able to do.

It's right back to husband and dad mode.

There's always work to do around the house.

I think I'm going back to work full-time.

Yeah.

Ha-ha-ha.

Your mind is always like,

I mean, I wonder if I did this, if I could do that.

I wonder, you know, your mind is just always going,

trying to figure out how to stay fresh,

stay significant, stay relevant.

Are you trying to tear the glute completely in half?

Once Vince calls me and he says, hey,

you're interested in doing this or do you want to do that,

then I have to first and foremost think, OK, how far am I

out and how hard do I have to work now

to get myself ready to do that?

So I get a call often Vince calls me like hey, you want to work with Triple H?

Yep, I'll do that. Yeah, and you want me to go to Australia to do it? Yeah, that's fine. Let's get it done

I'm proud to say that WWE will be making history in Australia presenting super showdown the undertaker

and Triple H will compete against each other

for the very last time, ending an iconic era in WWE.

Debut of Hunter Hearst Helpsley.

When I first came in to the company,

95, and the Undertaker had an aura.

That Undertaker persona was legit.

We had a few opportunities to be in the ring.

Maybe that changed his respect level for me.

Then there was one night where we were all out,

everybody was out.

He kind of motioned for me to come over

and poured out two shots of Jack

and kind of sat there looking at me for a little bit.

Then we started talking and finally he just said,

you're all right with me and we did a shot of Jack

and I don't drink and he knew it.

And I think it was kind of the icebreaker for me and him.

We've always had this mutual respect for each other. We think a lot alike and match preparation

And the way we go about storytelling

Just one of the people that I have enjoyed working with

He was a locker room leader, he was sort of a sounding board for things.

When Steph and I got together and were starting to have a relationship,

the guy that I talked to about it was Taker.

He was one of the most supportive guys of it.

He was like, screw everybody else and their opinions of you.

You know what you bring to the table and so do I.

If anybody else doesn't like it, that's their problem.

You know, he was in our wedding at a certain point in time.

you've found yourselves being two of the things that were just still always there.

If you walked in the locker room, the one guy that could relate to everything that you had been

through for the last 20, 25 years or whatever was take her. We don't have a day-to-day buddy-buddy

hangout. That's not us, but I can look over across gorilla and see him in his own head and can talk

Do we call each other every day and see how our lives are going to go on? No, but I think he knows

If he ever needed anything, he could call me and I would be there and that goes both ways

For whatever reason, I mean we've always had this really unique chemistry on a personal level and on a professional level

I've got a lot of moments in my career that I hold

Very near and dear to my heart and they're very special to me with a lot of different guys

But I you know and no disrespect to anybody

But you know, I think overall what I'm most proud of as far as

Matches and storylines and all that are the four matches that I had

The two with with Shawn and the two with Triple H

The two matches was Sean

Man, I'll put him up against any

They have different personalities different careers and attitude and persona and styles

It was no secret early on I was not a big fan of Sean Michaels

Sean could rub me the wrong way outside of the ring

I can't really think of anybody that I had rather work with in the ring than Sean. He's just that good

The respect that he had for me because of my ability,

that tempered or evened everything out in his mind with me.

And thankfully, 20 years ago, I changed.

I mean, he was just a completely different human being.

Now you have two guys that respect each other.

They're at the top of their games.

The chemistry he and I had that may be one of the things that puts a biggest smile on my face because it was just

Magic being in there with it. We're gonna go old school on Shawn Michaels. No, he does. I

Knew Shawn was gonna be Shawn

Undertaker was gonna be Undertaker

And it was magic

Working with Randy at that WrestleMania,

and I remember watching as I was getting ready

and thinking like, we are f***ed.

It was the greatest thing I'd ever seen.

You can feel the electricity.

He felt it, I felt it.

Everybody in the building felt it.

I remember saying I'm having an out-of-body experience because I thought I was I just seen things that just were

phenomenal determination

Mighty was classic

Great chemistry between those two guys.

Great execution.

Storytelling is what we do,

but it's storytelling out of spinus.

The pressure of not only following what many consider

the greatest WrestleMania match ever,

and then on top of that,

you also have the responsibility of having his last match.

And you've already set the bar the year before.

The Undertaker's undefeated streak in WrestleMania against,

well, Shawn Michaels' career.

And the seeds were planted for tonight's epic encounter

at last year's WrestleMania.

The first one was...

off the charts, and then the second one is the way that I'm gonna leave a line

of work that has been a part of my life since I was 19. And it does not appear

that Shawn Michaels is intimidated at all. He got the John Elway retirement.

John Elway goes out, wins the Super Bowl, boom, and he retires. And then got to leave on his terms.

Sean Michaels will not surrender.

Two-stone!

Here's the cover!

Sean Michaels, the leader, is open.

Everybody's still sort of amazed that I'm able to stay retired.

That speaks to the closure that we were able to have

with one another in that match.

was there is the ultimate show of respect this might be the ultimate

WrestleMania moment

I'm so envious of Shawn because he was able to walk away and be he was good

Do I wish I had that kind of clarity? Absolutely.

I absolutely wish I had that kind of clarity.

He had the clarity before going into the match.

And hopefully, when I have the match that I'm looking for,

one way or another, I hope I have that clarity to know.

It's like, okay, that's it.

Sean did what he did.

Taker still no pun intended wrestling with it.

He's been doing it so long, it's just hard to give up.

It's hard to think of a storybook ending for this incredible character,

but I believe there'll come a time when he knows it's time to say goodbye,

and it will be almost understood that we've seen the last of a true phenomenon.

I want it to go right for him, to have that proper moment.

I mean, I really hope he gets it.

And if he gets it, then he knows to take it

and finally close the door.

At that point in time, Taker's starting

to talk to me about, like, hey, what if on the other side

of this, you and I pick this up and we run with this.

It's like one continual story.

It started having her hell,

and then it was Sean's retirement match,

and then it was Triple H taking up for his buddy.

I mean, the story was so good and intermeshed.

Man, I was all for that,

but the pressure of that, that is,

I just watched two back-to-back

of probably the greatest matches I've ever seen,

and now, there you go.

You got two guys who are ass-kickers and don't take a step back.

What limits will these relentless men go to to leave with a victory here tonight?

The brutality, I mean, we took it to another level, that's for sure.

Wait! Undertaker for the Hellscape submission!

There's still life!

Look at him catch!

I know it felt like the end of an era to us and kind of how do we encapsulate that?

We'd all had so many conversations about this and getting Sean back involved.

And it all seemed to begin to come together as we kept talking about Hell in the Cell

because that's the match that he and Sean started and all the Hell in the Cells that

there had been, Taker and I had been and like two-thirds of them.

Here we go, end of an era.

To me that story had everything.

Sean Michaels, Mr. WrestleMania, who's the referee.

Here's the guy Undertaker who he couldn't beat at WrestleMania. Here's his best friend Triple H. Now he's the rep

He has to stay impartial

Sean Michael's the special official in this matchup. Oh, man

In Sean's facials and his expressions and his emotions throughout this entire match made for tremendous theater

I don't think there's a better hook in a match than

Superkick

Into the pedigree

into the kick-out.

It's not over! It's not over!

Amazingly, the Undertaker still lives!

John Michaels has been called. It's matched up down the middle.

His emotions overwhelming him.

I think right there, more so than any other time ever,

did the people think that the street would be broke.

I knew that we had just finished something that was going to be so special that would

last through the annals of time in our industry.

It was storytelling at its finest.

Here for the last four years, these guys have beat the living hell out of each other and

we did.

It's as if these three men know that they will never be at the same place at the same time in this exact environment.

It just was all real in that moment, us leaving together, us standing on the top of that stage together.

That's one of my favorite moments, I think, of all time.

A standing ovation from 78,363.

In a moment that will live in infamy and WWE, an image we can never replicate.

It was an organic moment that happened. It wasn't planned.

It was probably one of the most special moments of my career.

Standing up there with those two guys,

I had the utmost respect for it.

I have a picture, Sean has one and Triple H has one.

Actually, Triple H had him made for us.

And it's the picture of the three of us

standing at the top of the ramp.

Picture hangs above the door of my gym.

And it's a constant reminder of probably the most special.

moment in my career.

I'm not going to have these kind of opportunities

to really be in the ring with someone of a magnitude,

experience, you know, respect.

There's a true friendship there, and it's always nice

to know from a wife's standpoint,

like, I don't have to worry about that.

You know they're going to take care of one another,

and you know it's going to be good.

That's what makes it really special.

For the people that were along for the ride the first time they're going to be instantly hooked because of what we did the first time

On the same token. I want them to be able to say man. I was there. I was there the last time

Triple H and the undertaker fought

As a fan, I wanna see it.

Two legends, two icons, the Undertaker and Triple H in the culmination of

one of the greatest rivalries in the history of sports entertainment.

At WWE Super Showdown with my brother of destruction watching my back.

Triple H will rest.

in peace.

The expectations for this match,

they're gonna be astronomical,

just due to the talent that's involved in it.

with guys, you know, triple-H, Shawn Michaels, Cain.

I know that they're going to be able to do what they do,

and I'll be able to do what I do.

Hopefully we deliver on what it is that people are expecting tonight.

Thank you, buddy.

We have such incredible history,

and we've been able to do incredibly entertaining matches.

I think everybody's just kind of like,

yeah, let's just go out there and do what we do

and show the young kids how the old guys do it.

I'm not in the groove. I haven't done it.

Can I still do it?

But with a legend like that, there's a confidence level there.

We just have to go there and have a match.

Like, I can do that by sleep with him.

I mean, there's always pressure.

We always have pressure to perform, but there's no added pressure.

There was no reason to stress because you know the other guy knows what he's doing and you'd be able to go out there and tear it down.

Truth be told, at this point this is the only reason I come to work anymore.

Not the fact that we'll have 75,000 people out there.

We have played cards in a lot of different countries.

Continents, yeah.

Continents, countries.

Most people who know me and understand me in the working environment know if I give you a lot of crap, then I think a lot of you.

Is there anyone that's a real sore loser?

No.

There you go.

No, he's horrible.

I give Larry a lot of crap.

Well, that's bad news right there for you, brother.

Catch it.

Got time about to make a comeback.

Come on.

We have a lot of downtime,

especially on the road all the time.

There's been a lot of time with Larry playing gin.

We've played so much cards that it's kind of been,

people come in to just watch us play cards

and there's certain guys that would come into the room

and I'd have to make them leave the room

because they were bad luck.

Horned swagger, big show.

Jimmel, um...

I'm gonna tell her if we can cut him up.

With Taker and I, we always joked,

and we played for pride,

and there was no money exchange.

For us, our pride was way worth more than our money.

He's a very sore loser.

I mean it's been a full-time job trying to keep me healthy and able to perform just through all the years

We've really bonded. I got to say something nice about him

Gen game it really is sub par and I'll probably get a phone call

shortly after this airs, but

Anyway

spacious Melbourne cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia where seventy thousand three hundred nine

WWE fans will experience

WWE Super Showdown

History will be made the Undertaker versus Triple H last time ever the fact that we are witnessing history

This bookend on the storied rivalry between Triple H and The Undertaker.

This place is on fire.

Triple H has not beaten The Undertaker one on one in 16 long years.

It is a big fight feel in front of 70,309 WWE fans.

The history of hate on the faces of these two men.

It's been seven, eight years, nine years since those last matches together.

It's been a lot happened to us since then.

It was old school storytelling.

Undertaker goes old school!

Group!

Both of these superstars with two of the best legacies in the history of sports entertainment.

Neither one wants to have a tarnish tonight.

It needed to be physical and violent.

I think we went at it in a way that jippified that it was going to be the last matchup.

Two superstars who have literally done everything there is to do in this industry,

asking themselves now,

what more do I have to do for one final victory?

Sludge Hammer in hand again.

And off the face of the Undertaker.

Sweet Tim Music into a pedigree.

And with that, it's over.

For the last time ever, both of these superstars left it all.

of acknowledgement from the dead man. How iconic is this moment? Two gladiators

sharing the ring with two men who have shaped their careers.

Years and years of penta...

We just witnessed the ultimate show of respect.

Now this is the ultimate show of betrayal.

The brothers of destruction have lived up to their nickname.

I think as a whole, I think I'm gonna be happy with it.

Now I may watch it, and I'm like,

holy crap, Kane screwed up so much in this match.

I won't be the first to say that.

We've set the table for the next act.

People are gonna leave here with something very specific

that they want to see.

I think we did our job that way, for sure, you know.

So we'll see what happens

Are you ready?

The Brothers of Destruction versus the Generation X it's huge on paper. It's it's huge

You know, there's no weak links anywhere in the four of us

We got two words for you.

All right!

I mean, that's just like a dream,

like, for all of us to be in there together one last time.

The table was set for success.

All right, K, this is to your line.

In five, four, three.

Triple H and Shawn Michaels, you had three words for us.

Well, we have three words for you.

Go f*** yourself.

It's pretty good.

Early on, working with them was pretty intimidating.

It was a little different than this today.

Back then, everybody was interested in protecting their spot,

often at the expense of new guys.

That's gotta be Ken!

That was never the case with Mark.

He wanted to help the new guys along.

I would never have been able to have the career that I had without him,

and he'd always been an advocate for me.

What a hellish this matchup this is going to be.

Two brothers about to collide.

When I wrestled at WrestleMania for the first time against The Undertaker,

that's my favorite match of all time.

Man, he never took a day off, worked hard.

Obviously, you know, we had our moments when we worked together, we worked against each other.

Both of us have been through a lot, put ourselves through a lot physically.

They do think there's a lot of mutual respect, and hopefully he thinks the same of me.

You can count on, you can just like you can count on the sun coming up in the morning.

One of the few guys I'd ever let hold my wallet if I had to.

Shawn Michaels may claim he stayed away out of respect for me that he no longer has.

But deep down in his black soul,

Shawn knows that what kept him in the shadows for eight and a half years was nothing but fear.

Was I surprised Sean came out of retirement 100% every conversation I had had with Sean at that point was

Absolutely not

But at the same point time you go, I don't want to do this buddy. I mean it's with guys that are

We've all been down the road for 25 years

piece of cake I

Was blown away that he agreed to do it

Even talking to him about it, you know, he had no aspirations to make him come back, he was a one-off.

You know, Hunter and Taker and all that, you know, being out there with those guys was just a comfortable thing,

and so it's like, oh, well, that I can do, and that sounds like fun,

and Phil about doing it, and encouraged about doing it.

It's with Kane and Taker, dude, it's the night off, right?

You'll come in there, we'll do a couple crotch chops,

we'll throw some glow sticks out,

a couple super kicks, drop an elbow.

It'll all be great, no problems, right, easy.

Except me and Taker, you know, doing the once in a while

thing Sean hasn't wrestled in however many years.

Kane's the mayor.

He's like a bad comedy movie, it really is.

Four icons for legends for all-time greats history happening now

My arm was hooked in there deep and I just

Done

I said I just tore my pack off Sean never panics on it, but I remember the look in his face like

You're hitting me.

At one point, I remember looking up and it looked like Cain's whole head fell off as the mask came off.

Shawn Michaels had Cain so hard that Cain's mask came off his face.

It couldn't have gone any worse.

As a total train wreck, it was a disaster.

It totally blew.

We're all humans and things that even happen to people that you don't think things like that happen to.

I take a lot of responsibility in that because my mind, I wasn't there.

I mean, I was there physically, but mentally, I wasn't there.

And Michelle and I had some personal things going on with other parts of the...

family and you know so I had that drama you know going on in my head that I was

all consumed with. If that match would have came off the way that it was

intended and the way we would want it to that may have been enough for me.

Here we go. It's gonna be a vicious cycle of I know he's not gonna be happy

I know he's not gonna be happy with his performance, which means he's gonna have to redeem himself

Because he's your buddy because he's you know so important to you. You don't want that for him

It's chasing the dragon and that's uh

That that ain't healthy man

everybody's

Storybook ending is different

If the closure moments aren't what you want them to be,

you double down on yourself if I can't go out like that.

It's a catch-22, and it's addictive,

and it's hard to break the cycle and get out of it.

Especially after 30 years, you want

to leave on something that just felt right.

I think after the WrestleMania, when he left his jacket

and his hat in the middle of the ring,

that could have been it.

But he wasn't ready.

So I don't think it's anything's going to be a perfect puzzle

where everything fits together until he's emotionally

and mentally has that closure.

And I think once he has that closure,

this being his identity for 30 years,

until he gets that closure, I don't

think it matters what happens in the ring.

Every professional wrestler is looking

for that storybook ending.

If he has to put his body on the line over and over and over

again,

He'll just keep doing it until you tell him to stop, you know, he can't do it anymore.

I think Undertaker is processing the end.

You know it bothers him that he's coming to an end.

He's an aging gunfighter, man.

The sand is pouring through the hourglass at a pretty rapid rate.

It's called father time.

Father time don't do any jobs.

Father time doesn't lose any matches.

With the reality syncing in of being human and with other

responsibilities in terms of family and things of that nature

But yet at the same time wanting to perform it's in your heart. You just can't get it out

And when you look in the mirror, which is tough for some of us to do you look at a mirror

And you want to make sure you're the first in the mirrors looking back at you is the reality

And you constantly, in life, are reflecting on,

wait a minute, where am I?

Every one of us got to look in that mirror

and have that come to Jesus talk.

When everything is said and done,

you step away from this stuff.

It's with the misses, it's with those kids

that you got to have real peace and real joy,

or else that disintegrates too.

You're just never going to get that one thing

that you're looking for,

and now you got all this other crap going on.

Yeah, I kind of read that as like okay, you're spinning out of control and you need to make some life changes here or something

I'm coming to grips with the fact that my days in the ring are numbered.

Mania's around the corner, and obviously I don't have a match this year.

And I'm okay with that, I think.

Watching the show, and that's when it really hit me, like, I should be out there.

The Venom will take on Goldberg for the first time ever.

Oh my god!

That was-

But I instantly text our doctors and I was like, is he okay?

four legends, four all-time greats.

I mean, that's just like a dream.

The brothers of destruction versus degeneration X,

the table was set for success.

Oh, my god, up over the top, Hunter hit hard.

Hunter got hurt, but that totally sucked.

Shawn Michaels hit Kane so hard that Kane's mask

came off his face.

The game has nothing left.

the four greatest of all time.

It was a total train wreck. It was a disaster.

I take a lot of responsibility in that because my mind, I wasn't there.

Michelle and I had some personal things going on with family.

For the most of my career, I could always put that out.

But it just wasn't that way that night.

When you can't go like you need to go or want to go as tough

But you know by the time catches up with every single person. That's just the way it is

I just don't want to see him get hurt, you know his heart's in the right place

His head's in the right place. His body's in a different place

Because of all the other drama I had going on in my life at the time at that point I was like this is just

I left Saudi thinking that I don't, I'm just done.

So, you know, like I'm coming to grips with the fact that

my days in the ring are numbered and it's time for me

to kind of cash in on the things

and be able to do some things that I never would allow myself

to do for the sake of the character

and for the sake of business.

For the most part of my career, I

lived this character in this gimmick.

I feel possessed.

Ha ha ha.

and passed on a lot of opportunities to do other things

because I didn't think that it was being true to the character.

Not many guys could have pulled that off.

I can't think of anybody else who could.

There's this typical thing that people say about this place,

that your character's personality on television is you turned up to 10.

But Undertaker's always on 10.

We all treat that character with such reverence.

I don't even call him Mark anymore.

I haven't called him Mark in 20 years.

I'd say it's safe to say I know less about him as a human being now than I did 28 years ago,

and I like it that way.

Who is this guy?

Is there somebody else underneath there?

Rest in peace.

When we first started, I bought books about death.

I bought books about undertakers, books about morticians, and books about dying.

You have this huge macabre figure, then the contrast of Paul Bear with it.

Paul Bear Undertaker was always the combo the early years you didn't see him without me or me without him

We were always together. We traveled together. We stayed together and it was just the perfect chemistry

And in those days Undertaker didn't say nothing. He just stood there, you know

It was just amazing the stuff that we could do.

I remember building the coffin for Kamala.

Sawing the wood and crafting this casket for Kamala

and having blueprints and everything drawn up.

All of that just became a part of what he did.

I must now be your judge, your jury, and your executioner.

We had a lot of fun in some of those cemeteries.

I didn't get you too much, did I?

Son of a bitch!

Rest in peace.

It always was in the absolute worst inclement weather

you could imagine.

Here we go.

Three, two...

Mankind!

We'd have to go and sit in the car

and turn the engine on while they relit.

back out into the cold again.

A lot of guys, I wouldn't have even asked to do that

because they would have looked at me like I was crazy.

Mark Halloway understood what I was looking for

and he went, yeah, that'd be a cool shot.

OK.

And now they laid a rest behind me.

It was a quick 30 seconds to do it again.

Very dedicated to everything he sets his mind to.

True professional in every sense of the word.

May you rest in peace.

That is a wrap. Thank you very much, Undertaker.

I appreciate everything that everyone that I've ever worked with did to help build that character.

Rest in peace! Rest in peace! Rest in peace!

I, in fact, was 24-7. I was the Undertaker.

Are we ready for our future?

I made a decision early on that I'm going to live this.

I'm going to dress in black everywhere I go.

During appearances.

And how are you going to take her?

Fine.

Oh, good.

Are those enough words?

What would you like to hear?

Rest in peace.

Yeah.

So much professionalism.

and so much control over his emotions and this character.

You know what you need? You need a vacation.

You need to get to an RV and go for a couple thousand miles.

It was a running gag or joke, whatever you want to call it with us,

to try to get him to break character.

I almost got you to damn sure got me.

I think it's time for the Undertaker Rooney.

They tried to get him to the spinner Rooney. They tried to get him to do so much. I love you, man

He'd never broke character

You know Kerta, that's a long flight back to the States

Walking through the airport people would leave me alone. They didn't know what I would do is

Dedication to the craft caring and loving about the business so much that you put it above all else

That's a challenge in and of itself.

That meticulous day after day, night after night,

365 being Groundhog Day every day for 30 years.

Are you married?

Am I married?

I'm married to the creatures of the night

that come and support me.

I was afraid of that.

For so long, whether he was on the road, at home,

wherever he was, he protected the image of the undertaker.

He was the undertaker.

It was an investment I made in the character.

I didn't think people would accept the character the way

they did and the way they have.

If I'm out here doing these other things,

and then I'm this guy here, but then I'm this guy here,

which nowadays it's just normal.

So I started working with a social media group

that was trying to get my name out there

and exposure and endorsements and doing some other things.

I had agreed to do an autograph signing in Las Vegas.

It wasn't pitched to me that the other company had a show

that was running right parallel to this autograph signing.

I was oblivious.

I wasn't even keeping up with what was going on or anything like that.

Vince calls me.

He's like, what are you doing?

I was like, I'm doing, you know, I'm doing this signing.

Well, yeah, but you know, you got all these people thinking you're going to do this.

I'm not stupid, nobody knows anything about me, knows that I'm not going to a different

company.

I've been here forever, I ain't going anywhere, I'm not going to jump ship to go to, well,

why would I?

Vince and I had a little bit of a falling out over it and I understand where he was coming from

He's got a business to run and I understand his position that I also had a position of my own that needed to be understood and

You know, we didn't talk for a little while and then we both largarred down enough to talk and then we got things worked out and

It's all been

Sunshine and rainbow since

After Crown Jewel, I've just kind of been taking it easy.

Kind of beat up and worn out after the last Saudi show.

So here we are in New York.

I mean, it's that time of year.

Mania's around the corner.

Obviously, I don't have a match this year.

Not sure.

If at this point, I'm not sure if I work at Mania again Mania is probably coming gone for me

And I'm okay with that. I think

As we get closer to bell time Sunday, I'm sure I'll have a lot of emotions and a lot of feelings and

Wondering why I'm not

Getting myself ready to go to the ring

I've played all this out in my head.

I'm not sure how it's gonna go.

I think it's been 14 years in a row

that I've been on the card in some fashion.

He is!

just to be on the card, you know.

If it's not something that's important or mean something,

there's really not a reason for me to do it.

I'm sure I'll run the whole gamut of emotions

from happy to sad,

but right now I'm content and I'm okay.

I was fighting off that internal instinct, like normally on this day, you're doing this.

And on this day, you're going to do this, you know, you're going to do, and I didn't

have anything to do.

I don't know what to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

I don't have anything to do with myself.

So, yeah, we went and took Kaya to Access and got to go and look at all the stuff I'd never seen before.

I mean, I'd never, I can't even tell you the last time, other than doing a signing at Access that I'd been doing Access.

You know she's six now, but she's really intuitive and she's in tune with what we do

It's just really cool for her to look at her mom's world championship

She's aware what her mom brought to the table and fords the way for the women of today and even for Kaia's generation

I got the biggest kick out of that more so than my stuff

Just kind of having fun as a family, but it felt weird kind of like is this really happening?

Oh, you're getting stronger.

She's stiff like mommy.

You know, he's normally kind of stressed out

the weekend of WrestleMania, and he was just kind of relaxed.

Yeah.

I'm enjoying this, and I'm enjoying

getting to experience that with Herb and Michelle,

because that's just something I never got to do.

It was a strange energy, like...

This is really happening.

He's not on WrestleMania.

All right, if I'm not working Mania,

and in my head, I don't really foresee any more matches.

And then lo and behold, it was Saturday,

and of course, he gets a text or Vince calls,

or however it went down, he's needed on Raw, and I'm like.

And he goes, look, this is what I'm thinking.

And he's like, no, no, no.

Like, you can't tell Vince no, and you want to do it.

And there's nothing wrong with that, so go do it.

At any moment, he'll be ready to step through those curtains

and go.

It's just a matter of when Vince needs him.

Hmm.

I don't have any gear.

Boss, uh, hmm, I didn't bring my gear.

What?

You didn't bring your gear?

Of course, I'm like, rookie move.

Who doesn't bring their gear?

You know, that's the cardinal rule, bring your gear.

All right, I guess I'll go home and get it.

So I got a flight that night, flew home, grabbed my bag.

I had to find it first, because I hadn't used it in a while.

I had no idea where it was.

I mean, it was all my stuff was packed and washed.

So yeah, I had a quick trip to Texas

and went right back to New York.

Which way is the set? Anybody know?

This way.

Really?

You can run, but you can't hide.

Liverpool is too small.

My wife will be on the Beatles tour, I'm finding you.

I'll leave you on the road to the home.

That's smart.

It all became very real Sunday.

How are you?

Good to see you.

Are you doing round on me?

All night. You got nothing to do?

We're going to do a quick rehearsal.

Yeah, man, absolutely.

It was fine during the day, and Michelle and Kaya with me.

Awesome as usual.

Always impressive.

There was no pressure, not worrying about what

it was going to do in a match.

I think I've aged out, man.

Oh, yeah.

I'm just saying, here we are.

I'm a spectator.

Just a fun day, hang out a little bit.

You have to make a trip home.

Yeah, I got to go.

Talk to a bunch of people I never get to talk to first time in 14 years. Yeah

It was weird not having him in the car

I'm gonna do a few of your moves tonight. So hey, just make you do them right. That's all right

But there was a part of me that were really

Was happy that he wasn't and I know that sounds weird, but I just love the guy

You know, I just don't want to see him, you know walk away from this business and

in bad shape, so I was okay to see him not on the car

and just giving himself a break, man.

I mean, if anybody deserves a break, it's that too.

What's up, Trouble?

What's up, brother?

How you doing?

I'm good.

We live in the same town.

While I was working out together, our kids play,

I'd take the kids for ice cream.

What are you doing?

You better give Mr. Mark a hug.

You could have scared me.

What's going on sugar when we're together? We never talk wrestling, but selfishly as a fan. I still want to see him at WrestleMania

I told him he's not to.

I didn't have anything to do with that.

A pro would bring you in.

You're here.

Always.

And it's always right up here.

Well, okay.

Where I can get my hands on it.

That's good, but a pro would have booked me to start with.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

I got a point.

All right.

You're not gonna wear that shirt?

All right.

For the rest of the day, I am.

Yeah.

You pushed the limits, didn't you?

You pushed the limits, yes or no?

Oh, no.

You could have put it out off a week, I'm just saying.

There's a giant, there's a giant Gonzales from down

and where the hell is he from?

It's his son that's coming back now.

There ain't enough left in me for that.

I've said this before, I heard Mick Jagger say this.

He said, I can't understand people taking something to get up for a show.

He said, I can understand taking something to come down.

The feedback from live audience is the best.

Over 80,000 WWE fans will be here tonight.

This is Wrestlemania.

That's what people miss the most.

It wasn't until the show started and we went up to Guerrilla.

We're watching the show from there.

And that's when it really hit me, like, I should be out there.

I don't think he was ready emotionally to sit back in Guerrilla and not do anything.

Being that close to the action, but not being in on it after all these years.

I think that toyed with his head just a little bit.

Which is hard to watch.

It was a rough night,

sitting there watching the show go on,

thinking in my head that I should be out there and not.

It let me know I think that there's still a passion there probably moving forward. It'll be easier now that I've got through this

If I get through today, you know without working and I think I'll be able to you know, I'll be able to manage and it is what it is and

You know, we'll just we'll take it one day one day to time from here tomorrow be my WrestleMania. I guess

No

That's the famous suitcase right there travel around around the country to make sure it was here

Unbelievable the things we do

We always have the mentality, stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

He always says, you know, if my number gets called, I'll be ready to go.

And that was his mentality.

Every superstar wants to make their name on Elias.

I get it, you're a fan.

But mark my words, the next one to interrupt me is a dead man.

Oh boy, it is the Undertaker.

I know that we're building for the big show in Saudi.

I think that's important to me, you know,

just due to the fact that the last time to Saudi

didn't go real great in my eyes or anybody else's,

for that matter.

So a little bit of redemption for my last trip to Saudi

and get me out of my own head.

It was triple H that called me and asked me,

what do you think about working with Goldberg and Salty?

And I was like, wow.

I mean, on paper, that's huge.

I'd never worked with him.

At this juncture in my career,

you don't have very many opportunities

to work with somebody of that magnitude

for the first time ever kind of deal.

Can I have it up my face here?

Yeah.

All right.

That's all I am.

You can't be an a**hole.

I guess I can.

I do.

That's what you do.

You just turn into a character.

See?

Camera instant character.

Immediately.

Immediately.

Bang.

I got a green light.

Oh, good.

Okay.

A little minor, but nothing major.

All right.

Okay?

Ha ha ha.

Just a little bit.

You want to come back?

Oh, I'll go.

You all right?

I can't believe this.

I used to have a stroke around here.

I know.

And you're in Texas?

Right in my hometown.

You'll never make it out of here alive.

The stature of Goldberg, the stature of The Undertaker,

being able to do that for the first time,

I mean, that's pretty exciting.

So I am looking forward to that.

And hopefully we can...

Hopefully we can deliver on the hype

I told you, you just put it on your face.

I don't understand that.

A blue pen burst and all.

I didn't know if you knew.

A lot of these assholes steal kids when I started here.

All right, I mean, I didn't mean to use the outside.

That's me.

You shoot the shit right in the hallway.

People don't work right by them.

A little bit of cameos, man.

A little bit of cameos are guys that are open.

Go ahead, guys.

It's a myth.

Are you kidding me?

It's nice for people to come by and say hello and pay the respects like I'm the godfather or whatever.

It made me an offer. I can't refuse.

I don't know, man. I need to get in with the boss. That's what I need right now.

Look at how long these days are.

Who's sneaking up behind me?

Let me find my range.

Hey, I got it right now.

I got it.

I got my range right now.

We're trying to do the show here.

I know.

I'm trying to help you out.

I got what I wanted.

First time maybe, 29 years.

He listened to my suggestion.

I don't know if I should be worried or not.

Might as well enjoy it right now while I can.

Lance, how are you, man?

Levi.

Good to see you.

Another hometown.

Levi.

How are you, sir?

How you doing?

I'm pretty good.

Young, he lives here.

McConaughey and myself are both huge University of Texas long-worn fans.

You know, it's pretty cool that they've made plans to come out and watch.

All right, guys.

Pleasure.

See you back here.

Thank you.

It took my film crew for a while.

This guy's real nervous, y'all. We need to talk to him.

Rookie.

Rookie.

Do you ever wonder what happens when you become face-to-face with death for the very first time?

Does this guy grow dark? Does the ground begin to rip open at your feet?

Goldberg this Friday you will get the answers to all those questions

Goldberg

You're next

And at super showdown you will

Rest. In. Peace.

The phenom will take on Goldberg for the first time ever.

The match built itself without even ever having to touch each other.

Two of the most dominant forces ever in sports entertainment will clash this Friday.

I just got to go get on the big plane and fly over there and get it on

You are looking live at a jam-packed King Abdullah Sports City stadium in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This is super showdown

with the pageantry and everything going on, this is a big deal.

And I'm excited to give a new group of fans a little taste of the old me.

It is a big fight in our main event at Super Showdown, Goldberg Undertaker.

There are very few true dream matches left in this business.

This is one of them.

What's interesting about this matchup is that in the late 1990s,

these two men did battle, but never against one another.

They did battle on Monday Night's row and Monday Night Raw in the Monday Night rules they were pillars of their shows

And here tonight for the first time. They do battle at Super Showdown

And Goldberg with a spare, a spare by Goldberg

and a setup by the Dead Man

Take a whip across the ring hits the turnbuckle hard here comes Goldberg. Oh God

Goldberg may have been busted open when he went into the corner and he was

Bill got concussed early on. I'm assuming that I think that you know, he had a head injury

You go on last you want to be able to deliver and you want people thinking when they were leaving like wow that was man

We just watch Goldberg undertaker go at it

There's no way Goldberg's gonna be able to do this to the Undertaker!

Oh, my God!

Goldberg wanted the jackhammer, didn't get all of it.

It was a train wreck.

It was not anything he wanted, it's not anything I'm sure Goldberg wanted or the fans wanted.

And now Undertaker with a choke slam to Goldberg.

Here's the cover by the Deadman, and it's over.

my reactions after the match.

It's a dejected look on my face

and there was, because I was upset.

He was really disappointed and I was disappointed.

That crushed me,

because I knew how much it would crush him,

but more than that, yeah, his safety.

I just knew.

And I knew when he came inches, centimeters away from,

you know, breaking his neck, I instantly text our doctors

and I was like, is he OK?

Normally, if he's away and I know something's happened,

I text him like, baby, you OK?

And it's normally, yeah, I'm good.

Don't worry.

I'm good.

And I text him like, how bad is it?

And he's like, man, my back is jacked up.

that he was truly in some serious pain.

I don't think I could even fathom how bad it really was.

It's just like, wow, that was really close to being catastrophic.

And I've seen him go through a lot of injuries.

I've seen a lot of scary moments, but that one, man, that one got me.

That didn't feel good at all.

got this long flight back to the States and my back's bothering me and I'm just like,

man, maybe it's time. Maybe it is you or out of gas and I've got a wife and kids and, you know,

am I risking, you know, permanent injury and, you know, so, you know, all that stuff comes

flooding into your head after something like that happens and I need to really,

you know, take a real honest look at this.

and then assess where I'm at, you know, is it me?

You start second-guessing yourself.

Is it me? I mean, have I lost that big a step?

Are you the reason why this stuff is happening?

So you got all this stuff going on in your head,

and then, you know, you got this pain in your back,

and you can't hardly move, and it was tough for a while.

You just keep hearing that voice of,

man, I really could have hurt myself bad.

I got lucky and he got so, so lucky.

But yeah, I can't imagine how much that would mess with

his head because it mess with mine.

For the Saudi show, I had agreed to do

the extreme rules already.

So now I've got that in my head too.

Like, is there some way that, you know,

can I get out of this?

Do I need to get out of this?

You know, I was just overwhelmed

with all these negative thoughts

in my head, you know, coming out of Saudi.

All right, sir.

It's going to be Roman Reigns and the Undertaker versus Shane McMahon and

Drew McIntyre tonight.

This is what McIntyre and McMahon aim to do, to put down the big dog once and for all.

Shane goes to the top rope, looking for the coast to coast here.

unlikely savior you start to hear things people talking he's too old he

shouldn't do this he shouldn't do that but that's up for me to decide as

critical as they are I'm twice as critical of myself and I hold myself to

a higher standard regardless of how feel or how long I've been doing this you

know I have expectations and

Every time that I go out, I want to meet those expectations.

I'd like to reach into the bag of tricks and dig deep and try and come up with a performance

that make people forget about Saudi Arabia, or at least the last trip anyway.

Nothing that I've really done in the past matters.

Basically, what am I going to do tonight?

I was actually looking for some diet, Dr. Pepper,

because you two are the only people I know

that drink that s***.

Did he s***?

Stop.

What? Don't say it. Wait.

That's all right.

Okay, all right.

You know.

Just cut it short.

All right, all right.

I'm about half-high.

I didn't come up with that.

He came up with that.

That's good.

You know people looking from the outside in you should call it a day, you know, you made enough money you done about this

It's really not about the money it's about the passion

This has always been the one thing in my life that I know that I that I know

Without a doubt at this point. I got that I know how they got the answers. I know what to do in those situations

you know

You don't always know those things as a husband as a father

You know, this is the one thing that I've always felt like if something came up. I

had the answer

This is one of the most

addictive businesses. I think that there is

it's so

great at its greatest level it's so the perfect form of entertainment if you

really love it like the talent that you're on the road with are your family

the people you're in the ring with are your family and it's addictive that

connection that electricity that fan that reaction that all of it

I think probably the biggest thing is looking in the mirror

and go, am I ready for that change?

Because there's also a comfort with that Groundhog Day.

It's a familiarity and stuff that you know.

You know, it's like a frickin' drug dealer, all right?

So, you know, any addiction is bad,

even if it's healthy stuff.

This is the one place and the one thing

that I've always been so confident of.

It's been so hard to walk away.

At a certain point, is it pride?

And is it ego?

And also a work ethic

and wanting to be there for Vince and the company?

I think a lot of those things weigh on him.

For the last few years, I've had this internal struggle of

I don't want to stay too long and become a parody of myself.

I can't deny Father Tom's catching up, I just can't.

We would kid each other about who was going to tap out first.

Of course, it was me by long shot.

I retired, you know, at the WrestleMania 19 against the Rock.

This business is going to go on long after Steve Austin,

the Undertaker, Rock, and anybody else is here.

That's just the nature of the beast.

And our time comes and our time goes.

So, you know what, his legacy is built and established.

Everybody gets their number, call it sometime.

He knows the end is near, because Father Time sitting there

just kind of tapped him on the back of his shoulder,

waiting for him to turn around and say, hey, dude, it's time.

But it's hard to do.

I haven't discussed anything with Stone Cold.

Sean and I have talked quite a bit.

And I've said on more than one occasion,

I should have left with you.

That's the thing you've got to have a point to where you're secure stepping back from that portrait that you've been painting for the last

Thirty years and look at it. You thankful of it be appreciative of it. You'll be joyous with it and then

Sign your name at the bottom of it. They're walk away from it

It's hard to walk away from something you love and you've been doing your whole adult life. I had a hard time saying goodbye

He's one of those guys who can be his own worst enemy because he loves his business and he's just all heart

If you told me there was somebody who loved the business more you'd have to prove that to me

I think there's something inside of taker that's worries about what's gonna happen with this business when he leaves

like his child, you know, it's

Scary thing for him to step away and let it go on its own

You'll always miss it, but I realize that I physically can't do it at the level that I want to do it at.

And because of that, it's time for me to move on to the next chapter of my life.

And that's what I'm finally mentally prepared to do.

God's summer night on the East Coast as we prepare for the 190-year WWE goes extreme.

You are looking live at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia as we welcome you to WWE Extreme

Rules.

As you get older and you're surrounded with younger guys that are all they got to do is think and move

where you have to actually apply yourself a little harder.

Those are all kind of things that are running through my mind.

The pressure putting on myself right now is a lot more than in the past.

My heart's telling me you know what to do, you know how to do it.

Just go out there and enjoy it.

This very well could be the last time.

The world watching tonight, the return of the Undertaker to extreme rules as he

teams with Roman Reigns against McIntyre and McMahon.

Cheers.

And Undertaker will never, no holds back.

Roman Reigns face first in a steal.

McIntyre and Shane have now been able to take over.

You see the Undertaker in the background pacing.

I can tell that he felt good.

He was at the stair, stomp, you know, getting the fans into it.

Take her!

for the Undertaker, Corey, I cannot remember when the Undertaker has looked that damn good.

It was fun to watch from a fan perspective, from a wife's perspective, it was so entertaining.

The Undertaker may be the dead man, but you are looking at a living legend.

Everything went the way it was supposed to go

There was energy. I felt good. I was moving well

Enjoy it ladies and gentlemen. We don't know how many more times we're going to be able to enjoy what we witnessed tonight

There's only one man who has stood the test of time

I was like that's it

All right, let me talk about it for a second.

Did you know she's got the crack?

Yeah.

They call it.

Oh, my god.

It's not the real crack.

You're not getting that.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

It's not the real crack.

I need to evaluate.

It's beautiful.

Thank you.

Very.

I wish I had used it a few years ago, bro.

You're looking good.

That was nice. Really nice.

Thanks, man.

Like I said, if that's a swan song, then I wanted to enjoy it.

You know, we'll see.

We'll see what happens, but it was a real sense of calm.

I felt like I had a flu out there,

and it's been a while since I felt like that.

I felt good.

We're all chasing that pop,

and I think that's the most difficult struggle

that any of us who've been in there

have been able to hold the crown and the palm of our hands.

We'll face this, trying to find something in life

that makes us feel the way we feel when we're inside that ring.

If they haven't been in this industry, you don't get it.

We've never experienced a regular life.

And so to imagine your life not being a WWE superstar,

not doing that same thing, that's hard.

There's more reasons to say yes than there are to say no,

than to walk away.

Yes, there's a loyalty to Vince.

But I believe that the truth is not the loyalty to Vince it's the loyalty to this all of it

And it's not money. It's not fame. It's not any of the stuff. It's the moments. It's the excitement. It's that connection to the fans

It's the dragon

The loyalty is to the dragon that you're chasing

Yeah, kind of way too good a little bit, you know

Because right now I'm all, you know, I'm all juiced up with, you know, adrenaline and feeling good about how things went.

Like, you know, maybe.

I might have a couple more left.

If I don't perform there again, I'm okay.

was when we started this whole thing, I wasn't.

I wasn't counting him out just yet.

I really always expect him to come back.

There's got to be some finality somewhere.

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story

and I'm gonna write my own ending.

I had no idea that that was gonna be the gateway.

If the satellite can use gonna go one more match,

I'm gonna give it a shot, all he can say is no.

Mark looked at me and I was like,

there's nobody better, it could be magic.

When you're as good as AJ Styles is,

that's an intriguing dragon to chase.

I was supposed to go.

I felt good.

One, two, three.

Everyone is just going, oh, they want to see more.

Man, who's thinking about it?

Just a crazy feeling.

It's indescribable.

I'm not articulate enough to describe to you

that feeling and that rush that you get

from that crowd pumping into you like that.

Undertaker has looked that damn good.

I don't think it's gonna get any better than that.

I came through the curtain.

I just whispered in Ben Sear, I said, I think that's it.

He was like, Mark, whatever you want to do,

I think you got a lot more left,

but it's completely up to you.

It's your decision, you do what's right for you.

It kind of went too good a little bit.

I might have a couple more left, but, you know, I got to get through that, I got to work through that.

The kid in me, it's always rooting for him and always there, I always want to see that continue.

The friend in me, there's a certain time where I got to choose a different path.

I felt good about where I was and I left Philadelphia.

I was happy the match came off the way it was supposed to go.

Went to Hawaii for two weeks and had a great time

and I was content.

I wasn't counting them out just yet.

I really always expect him to come back.

I think the pressure he puts on himself plays a part of it,

but look, Undertaker's been his identity for 30 years.

And it's been his identity for so long,

I think he just isn't sure what Mark Calloway does next.

Mark and I had a lot of conversations in that time,

and Lee, I'm done conversation.

Maybe he believed it, maybe he didn't.

But I never got the feeling talking to him.

I'm done.

Ever.

The easiest person to lie to is yourself.

The dragon is still there.

And you're still chasing, you're not done.

What he deserves is not the moment.

He deserves to be satisfied.

They wanted me for TV at the garden, and it's the Mecca.

It's really the home of the WWE.

That's special.

That's just something that you don't get all the time.

One of my favorite aspects of working in this building

is all the iconic shots in the hallways.

When I came out of my dressing room the first thing that I saw was Elvis and then right next to Elvis was Ali I

Would look at those pictures right before I went out

Knowing that I was about to go out and perform in the same arena as two of my lifelong idols had done

Seems kind of hokey, but for me it was just a little bit of a reminder of the importance of Madison Square Garden

I mean, that's just that was just truth

Everybody knows it takes me a long time to get to the ring

If you're in tune with what I do, most people can tell now that it takes me a little longer to leave

because I don't know if I'm going to be back.

I want these people not only here in the garden but everywhere I've worked

to know how much I appreciate them and how much they've sustained me

and helped me get to the ring on nights when the aches and the pains and the broken bones

and everything else were going on.

It was their cheering and them holding up their lighters and them shouting rest in peace that would get me through a lot of nights.

I wanted to come out here and take a minute and absorb all this.

For the past 30 years, I've considered these hallowed grounds my home.

how many times I'm gonna get to come home anymore.

But there's one thing that I want everyone to remember

about this place, the legends that made their name here

and the heroes that were created right here

in Madison Square Garden.

And that's special after nearly 30 years of doing this stuff get that kind of reaction still

Let you know that they appreciate how hard that you tried to work for them and a lot of energy out there

I wish I could bottle it

So far I didn't figure that part out yet

Personally I'm at a spot where if I don't if I don't walk in the ring or get in the ring again perform the ring again

I'm okay

And it took me a long time to get to that spot, you know.

I would be at home and think, yeah, yeah, I'm good.

And then I would come to work.

And you get an ovation and that kind of energy out there.

And then you think, yeah, I can still do this, you know.

When you're in the business that we're in,

You live for the crowds, you live for the pobs.

Now, finding something that brings you all those same highs

and all the great stuff that comes with the business

and that adrenaline and all the stuff, it can't take a while.

Well, your mind plays tricks on you.

In one minute, you think, I can't do this the way I used to do this anymore, and you know that.

But, well, sure, I can. My mind still works the same way, and I just got to physically feel a little bit better,

but I can still do this, and you think you can move the way you did, and you can't.

When you have to start thinking about this, it becomes really difficult.

When I was young, and I was out on the road all the time, you never think about getting hurt.

or something catastrophic happening.

You don't.

You go out and you work hard

and you do your thing every night.

Nowadays, I think a lot more

because one, I don't move as well as I used to move.

I don't have the reaction time that I once did.

Due to injuries, I don't have the strength

that I used to have.

And all those things, they start getting in your head

and you worry about something catastrophic happening.

Something nearly catastrophic happened in Saudi

the last time I was there.

Was anybody's fault? It was just something that happened, but I was two inches probably away from having my neck broken

Oh, I was two inches away from making my wife a widow and my kids fatherless

Once those thoughts once they get in there, it's really difficult to get them out

Once you start thinking those things it's like a hamster wheel you just keep hearing that voice of man

I really could have hurt myself bad

The shackles on your mind of do I do this do I stop now do I keep going that's rough

Where am I gonna be ten years from now if I keep going and especially if I don't have that burning desire here

To go out and do it

The big part of it is is I'm okay

I'm okay mentally and emotionally if I'm not an in-ring performer anymore.

I just want to capture, you know, I really want to capture what these last few years and,

you know, things that we've had to go through to get out there. That's more important to me than

the the will to be the best that I could be this part of my career and

Now you know and work in my way as I did that work in my way to where I am now where I'm

I'm good to walk away

Because when we started this whole thing, I wasn't you know, I wasn't

So it's all good man. It's all good

I mean, I could do for a gathering or a party.

Not to be a prima donna, but if you could go to makeup

and find something to like.

Makeup remover?

Yeah, I'm glad you said it, not me.

Yeah.

Cut that.

I don't wear makeup, man.

This is my warmask.

That's what I used to tell my dad.

I brought my dad one time when he was still alive.

I was in Houston working at the Old Summit.

I brought my dad backstage with me.

He was kind of shadowing me everywhere I went,

and it was time to start getting ready.

He was asking me questions, you know, about my boots

or whatever it was, you know, my hat, my coat.

Then I did the eyes last,

and I looked over at him, and he was just like...

He was just shaking his head, like,

yes, Dad, you're 6'8",

330 pounds on his putting on eye makeup.

He's like, I would have never.

But there was nobody any prouder than my dad.

No one more upset about my career choice,

but no one more proud by the end of it.

Because I was in college, I had a full scholarship.

And then I decided that I wanted to become a professional

wrestler.

I thought that was the stupidest thing.

You get an education.

No, you get to go play basketball.

Are you kidding me?

And everything's paid for?

You're walking away from what are you gonna do in the rest of your life?

I'll figure it out then

I'm missing

The priority of my life is to be a good husband and father so

Steve, this is to you. Here we go in five, four, three.

I could not start the debut episode of the Brooklyn Skull Sessions with a better guest than I have tonight.

He's on the Mount Rushmore and the greatest character in the history of the business, the one and only

Undertaker. Welcome to the show. Glad to be here, man. Been a minute. How you feeling? I'm feeling, you know.

30 plus years, I think, you know, you probably got a pretty good idea of how I feel.

It's not an easy life.

You really got to see who I am and you got to see me in regular clothes and art audience.

They've been clamoring for that for years and years to see behind the hat and the coat.

I couldn't keep my stuff straight at home, but if you had a problem at work, I could

help you out.

what we did. He was just taking the temperature, going with what his gut was

telling him in his heart and can't say anybody ever loves the business more

than I do, but a guy who loves the business like he does and that's a bunch

and is still wondering what's next. What gets me is when people tell me what I

need to do.

You know, nobody knows what I need, but me in the sense of when it's time to, you know, when I'm gonna hang it up

There's got to be some finality somewhere regardless of anything. I'm gonna write my own story and I'm gonna write my own ending

I had no idea that that was gonna be a kind of a gateway

My buddy and I were talking and he said that he watched the podcast was done cold and and he wants to retire on on his own terms

Pride is a sum, bitch.

It's not so much that I feel like I have anything left

to prove to the business or give to the business.

It's personal challenges with me.

It almost sounded like he was gonna go one more match

or maybe two more and I thought,

if he's gonna do something,

how can I be one of those matches

if he's gonna do more than one?

I just wanna be one of them.

Broke his call sessions with the Undertaker,

Mark Calloway, cheers.

Enjoyed it.

I was like, you know what?

I'm going to give it a shot.

All he can say is, no, it's not a big deal.

I didn't ask Vince, because if Taker doesn't want to do it,

well, then it's not going to happen.

So I called Undertaker.

I mean, we just started chatting.

I had a pretty good idea of what he was calling for.

He goes, when you were on Steve's show, you said you were going to kind of go do things

on your own terms.

What's that mean?

I mean, are you going to work?

And you want to do something?

He goes, I would love to do something with you at Mania.

And I was like, oh man, I don't know.

I was like, bro, honestly, I would have loved to work with you 10, 15 years ago.

I said, man, I think we could have tore the place down.

you know, aspirations are getting back in the ring.

And he goes, man, I just, you know, if you don't,

I just think about it.

If it's me, I'm looking at the roster, I go, right?

I want AJ Styles.

That's who I'm gonna have my last match with.

Because AJ is a guy who, from an athletic standpoint,

can help him have that final chapter, I think.

We talked about how some of his matches with smaller guys like Shawn Michaels. So I've always been his better matches

For some reason I really tend to understand

Dynamic between someone my size and someone AJ's size

And then putting something together that people can sink their teeth into and understand and get the story

These guys are throwing bombs at each other.

I think he's an awesome storyteller with his matches.

Right after night, AJ Styles continues to be the best performer of our generation.

In my opinion, AJ Styles is the best wrestler on two feet right now,

and Undertaker can trust him.

And at this point in Undertaker's career right now,

he's got to be out there with someone he can trust.

Oddly enough, we've been vacationed with one of AJ's best friends for almost 10 years,

so we've gotten to know AJ and Wendy and his kids through them.

So AJ reached out and he's like, hey, you know, take, if you've got one more in you,

I'd be honored.

And Mark looked at me and I was like, there's nobody better.

There's absolutely nobody better to get into the ring with if you're going to do it, and

be good.

You know, he's like, really?

you're like steering me in the direction I thought you wouldn't steer me and I'm like,

but it's AJ like it's it could be magic. So I said give me a couple weeks to think about this

and I'll get back with you. I said well just so you know whatever you your decision is it's the

right one. When you're AJ Styles and you're as good as AJ Styles is when you call Mark that's

I promise Matt Bloom that I would come down here and work with some of their big

guys. I'm pretty sure they were all fairly nervous. A lot of the times guys

they don't look genuine because they're trying to be something that they're not

and that's a difficult thing to figure out.

And once they found out that I wasn't going to shred them,

I think they felt a little more comfortable.

Everything we liked, it was there.

That's a nice way of saying it.

That was some stiff shit.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

The business is in his heart.

He wants to give everything he has to anybody who will listen.

So anytime we're in Orlando, he's at the PC.

And he's helping the guys, and he's helping the girls.

It's, I think, not only important that people like the Undertaker pass on their knowledge,

it's imperative to the survival of the business.

This business has always been handed down from one to the next, to the generation to

the generation.

If they make it theirs, then they pass that knowledge down on to others.

I got to know him best on European tours, picking his brain, cracking open a cold one

I remember my first match with him, it was on SmackDown.

It's a chance of a lifetime for this 22 year old who's only been in the WWE for a few weeks.

I could tell he liked me because I was arm dragging him, hip tossing him, giving him backdrops.

He was taking all these bumps for me because he wanted to go out there and really make the young kid look good.

I remember we came back through Gorilla, and Vince was like,

what are you doing?

And Undertaker just looked at him and goes, well,

it's good for the kid.

I'm trying to make the kid.

Isn't that what we do?

And that response right there, I thought was so cool.

And it just showed me, he just wants to make me look good

because he knows that I'll return the favor

farther down the line.

This business is forever.

The Undertaker character is forever, but I'm not.

And it's my responsibility to guide these younger guys.

Help them to become the best that they can be.

You're doing nothing, but it looks like you're doing f***ing everything.

It only makes this industry stronger.

He teaches everyone everything.

That's just how powerful he is here.

Gray Wyatt just melted away!

Look into the eyes of the dead man!

To say I learned one thing from him is an understatement.

I'm gonna make Jeff Hardy famous.

I've been so fortunate to have him as a, you know, mentor and a leader and a teacher throughout the past years.

To be in there, it may have been raw with him in my early 20s. I mean, it was just incredible.

You know, he would basically tell me what I did wrong or what I could do better, and then I would just take that and run.

This is the first time I'll be in a ring since extreme rules I

Told myself I was gonna try and keep myself in

Some semblance of shape of course that went right out the window

We'll see what these boys are a learning day

For us to come back today what happens is gonna be how I make my decision

My plan is is kind of work around with those guys and then kind of morph into doing more stuff myself

So I can really make an honest assessment of where I'm at

It's on point I mean no hurry

It's good for him to be around it it lights that fire their youth their desire it's like jumping in the fountain of youth

right up to the rope, right where you're at, right there.

That's how you don't become the bitter old guy.

You surround yourselves with young people

that are fresh and hungry and knowledgeable,

and you talk about it, and you engage in it.

Hooray!

I knew at some point through these two days that I had to assess where I'm at.

I just want to make sure that I feel like when I'm asked my buddy to do something, you know, it's going to answer.

I felt much better than I thought I was going to.

I felt like my stride was long, felt pretty natural.

I'm still kind of torn.

I know I can do it physically,

but mentally I have to figure out if I'm 100% in,

which I have to be.

I can't do this half-assed.

I left on a very high note.

Extreme rules really far exceeded my expectations.

you know what happens if I go out if I decide to do this I go out and I'm

disappointed in my performance now what right you can't stop like

there you now you're going to keep going and redeem this

Toronto I work with flair and it was WrestleMania

I remember afterwards, you know, Rick coming and thanking me and talking about how his self-confidence was in the tank after WCW.

I just couldn't understand. I was just like, what are you talking about? Like, you're Rick Flair.

You know, you are wrestling. This is what wrestling is about, you know? You're the nature boy, you know?

Ooh, you know, all that. I didn't understand until these last few years. I know exactly now what he was talking about.

I know what that self-doubt feels like.

Don't worry about the hard work. It's just you know all the sacrifices that Michelle's gonna have to make and you know the time

That I'm gonna have to spend away from my daughter

Gonna have to go home and think about it talk with my family about it pray about it

This thing will go on forever

Be the longest documentary in the history of documentaries

Undertaker would not die he will not go away making his way to the ring

With a walker

Hopefully I'll get some clarity really really soon because I know they need an answer

Oh man, you know taught with Michelle about it watch some of his stuff and I've always really enjoyed watching him work and I was like crap

Every time I think I'm out they pulled me right back in so I said all right. I say I'm gonna do it. I'll do it

I decided I was gonna do it

But I gave myself like a couple more days before I made any phone calls

Just to make sure that my mind wasn't gonna change

Called Vince up. I tried to rib AJ and I said look I'm gonna do it, but I want you to call AJ for me

I want you to let him know that

That I'm gonna work mania, but just tell him that I'm gonna work with somebody else

Vince

He goes well

I'll talk to Taker and there's some kid in Tennessee. He wants to to get over and stuff on that like

What he goes? No, no, I'm serious

You got it you probably need to call him and then I call Taker's listen

There's this there's this younger kid that I want to put over I was like

Bull crap, man.

That's bull, you know, so it was a,

they tried to rib me, but come on.

Ah!

Damn.

Thank you, little lord.

It probably doesn't mean that much to him.

It's another WrestleMania for the Undertaker.

But for me, I get to get in the ring with the undertaker.

This is huge.

This is the biggest match of my career.

No doubt about it.

Yeah, I don't feel bad, man.

That's always the worst, man.

I start feeling good.

That's what I'm saying.

I just want to make sure that he goes, you know what?

If I'm going to retire, maybe this is the one to do it on.

I want him to be so satisfied with this batch

that it could be done if he wanted to.

I couldn't think of a better person to have my last Rosamania match with, for sure.

I don't think there's anybody else out there that I would have come back for.

I know that for a fact. There's nobody.

It is a beautiful evening here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A huge crowd expected for Super Showdown.

A big night of action here at Super Showdown.

I can't wait to see what goes down.

When I work on trips, we heard doors and we ain't going over shit yet.

I mean, y'all must be just taking it to the next level, though.

That's what it is.

That's what it is.

We took what you, the foundation you laid, and then we tried to build on shit, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You like to go over all the minutiae, like when I grab your wrist, should it be here

or quarter inch up?

Right, right.

We want it to be precise.

The details.

Right.

It's all in the details.

Because they didn't have high-def television.

Exactly.

So now we got to measure everything.

Yeah, right, right.

Should I angle it?

Or is that pop too much?

It's supposed to be too much pop.

Too much pop.

All right, so let's turn it down.

And that's why we talk about these things.

So y'all are just two professionals.

That's it.

That is it.

Students are the game, you know?

Right.

I can appreciate that, then.

Not going to love the understanding for who else.

Yes, sir.

We're happy.

Yes, thank you for that.

I appreciate that.

At that time, I had been off TV for a little while again,

It was the right place. That was obviously a big event and it was a great place to kick everything off

Ladies and gentlemen the phenom the undertaker is here at Super Showdown the Reaper has arrived

AJ Styles said that he's the best superstar of any era, that he can beat any superstar.

What do you think is going through the mind of AJ Styles now?

You are first, the other, I know.

AJ going for the ride at Shulk Slam.

will never, ever be anyone like the Undertaker.

Are you paid by the hour?

You're here for a good time?

Not a long time.

Not a long time.

Walt's always got to be longer than the match.

I don't think it takes too big of a brain surgeon

to figure out what's going to happen.

Kobe, this is kind of the launching pad.

It's a mania.

Last year we made a collective decision that that I would not be on the card and I was okay with it

Until I was actually sitting in the stadium and I was like my insides are telling me how you need to be out there

I'm excited to kick things off couldn't be more excited with you know, who I'm gonna face

Be anxious to see how it all turns out

At this point, it all starts kind of starting to flow back.

I'm back at Harry, he's training like an animal again,

trying to diet and do everything right,

and just like fell right back into the hole

where that should be doing at this time of the year, you know?

You got anything to do to you, Harry?

I don't know, he's got the deadlift bar out,

he's got the assault bikes.

sinister plan for me since I've been here.

Knock the cobwebs off.

Knock the cobwebs off.

There's really not a lot of adding strength or size or anything like that.

It's just about his long capacity

and being able to stand 25, 35 minute match.

What happened?

You know it's going to be a good match

when your nose starts bleeding while you're training.

I'll be 55 years old when I step into the ring at Mania.

So that means my cardio needs to be better than it was for

seeing a better than it was for a Roman.

I don't want him waiting on me for anything, regardless of

whatever happens during the course of the match.

I don't want to be a step behind.

In a singles match with somebody the caliber of styles,

there's nowhere to hide, man.

If you're not conditioned, if you're not ready, you get

exposed.

As many critics that I have out there that say, just retire,

get out of the ring, is like I said on Steve's show, you know.

I'm gonna do this on my terms.

And if I decide that I'm getting in the ring, then it's my responsibility

to be the best me that I can be on that given night, you know.

I have to train ten times as hard as I ever have for a quarter of the results.

I mean, that's just mother nature.

But I know that going in, so that's why we put in days like today.

folded his jacket, took off his gloves and his hat, and

laid them nice and neat, right in the middle of the ring.

As if you were riding off into the sunset.

It was a beautiful, powerful moment.

The one thing that I've learned about WWE is that it's all about the moments.

And the Undertaker ruined it.

He ruined it when he came back to the WWE.

That's the key, I want to find a way to make as many moments as possible.

This is going to be personal between AJ Styles and The Undertaker.

You've already lost your dignity, your pride, your mistake.

I want to make it so personal, you're not gonna want to leave until finally Undertaker destroys AJ Styles.

I don't know what keeps him coming back.

But I've got a pretty good idea

It's his wife

The build-up for a WrestleMania has been

Unexpected and she plays the home like a fiddle

Anything and everything she wants she gets despite her husband walking down the aisle getting this ring and getting hurt every time he steps in it now

I didn't know that he was gonna cut such a good promo

that I was going to start hating him for a second.

Undertaker, your wife is going to run you into the ground.

And I'm going to help her.

I actually text Alan's wife during the promo, like a dang.

I was like, this is good, but I'm literally almost hating him.

I was like, which clearly he's doing his job, but jeesh.

I don't see this mythical monster anymore.

I don't see this phenom anymore.

What I do see is a broken down old man named Mark Galloway.

He rips me up and down and he talks about my wife.

He crossed every boundary that I would never let anyone cross.

And I think that's why it resonated so well with people.

I am going to take the Undertaker's soul at WrestleMania, and I promise you,

I will literally put the nail in your coffin.

People may not be satisfied unless I push his face back in his head about six inches.

It forced my hand with where I had to go with the character

because I don't feel like how does the Undertaker defend

all the, you know, the bad things that he said about Michelle

is like, I can't, I can't go out there and do,

I can't go out there and be Undertaker.

As great a character as the Undertaker persona is,

you're handcuffed in a lot of ways to what you can do and what you can do.

Around 2000, I was starting to feel a little stale.

The way I looked at it, like, well, if I'm starting to feel stale with this,

what is the audience going to feel like?

And second of all, our business was changing, man.

It was evolving so fast.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

The character needed to change with the times,

and the times were the attitude era,

and everybody was louder, ruder, rowdier.

My mind is like, if I don't evolve this character somehow so that it fits in, then I'm going to get lost.

I had to keep elements of The Undertaker,

but I had to bring it into that era and make it work.

Here comes the real American badass, The Undertaker!

And listen to this crowd!

I could talk as much smack as I wanted,

and didn't have to worry about staying

the confines of the traditional Undertaker character.

Let's let the pain and suffering begin.

I don't think the Undertaker would have lasted or survived if I hadn't have made that switch.

He knows his character better than anyone else in the history of the industry,

but he also knew when to change without changing the mystique and the aura.

Show different lights and shades of gray and just take it in a different direction, but still stay true to who he is.

Although I don't dress like Satan anymore. I'm still down with the devil and I will go medieval on your ass

It just felt real. I think to them it felt like okay, this is what the other side of that undertaker is and I

Guess in reality it really was

As much as Mark Calloway is the undertaker the undertaker is Mark Calloway

They've merged

A.J. Styles.

Or should I say, Alan Jones.

Man's crossed all those lines. He's not referring to me as Undertaker.

He's referred to me as Mark Calloway. He has addressed my wife.

You're gonna pay the ultimate price for disrespecting her.

My wife, Michelle McCool.

This is where the man he has to come forward to try me

I'll make you famous. I'm gonna wrap all three of these guys together

It's gonna be the undertaker. It's gonna be the American badass and then there's gonna be more Callaway you can feel the wrath

Of the unholy Trinity I'm bringing with me

This is how I'm going to work in this match against him.

You're going to have elements of the Undertaker,

you'll have elements of the American badass,

and you're going to have Mark Callaway defending his wife's honor.

You will suffer.

And most importantly, you will rest in peace.

From the time that I agreed to do it,

I envisioned us having a wrestling match

in a wrestling ring in front of 80,000 people.

We will have more cases.

We will have community spread.

That is inevitable.

COVID-19 is just so bizarre.

At that point in time with everything that was going on in the world with the pandemic and everything we were sort of kind of flying by the seat of your pants.

We are an unprecedented time worldwide.

Vince McMahon's mantra while owning the WWE has always been, the show must go on.

Our fans are the lifeblood of what we do.

They deserve to be entertained, especially during this time and we're driven to prove it.

It was pretty much confirmed that we probably weren't going to be at Raymond James Stadium.

always been one of the things that WWE does well though is we can shift on a

dime and try to make something from nothing the too big for just one night

event will still go on but without an audience holy cow the stadium is not

gonna happen holy cow we're gonna do WrestleMania out of the performance

center holy cow it's gonna be two nights we're gonna have to do some of these

things off-site if they lend themselves to that

They say anything can happen in the WWE and the grandest show of all must go on and it will go on right here

just crazy times and I

Mean our audience is such a vital factor to our product

You just feed off their energy and now your handcuffed in a lot of ways to what you can do and what you can't do

I'm gonna bring back the dead man

in a match that he would love to be in, a boneyard match.

When I got involved in the production side of it,

I asked the question, so like, guys,

what's a boneyard match?

And they were like, I don't know.

Like, do you figure it out?

We drive 40 minutes outside of Orlando

and we get there and it's like a one acre plot

at the end of a residential neighborhood.

And Michael A's and I get out of the car,

and I'm like, you are kidding me.

Like, this is not what I was expecting at all.

It's got a barn on one end.

And there was just speechless at first, like, oh, my god.

And then Michael said, well, Tripp, this ain't going to work.

Yeah, maybe you can fight over here.

But we played the cards that we were dealt,

and it was one of those times where we turned chicken

into chicken salad.

The transformation of this place is just, it's phenomenal.

If you'd have seen it the day before, you would have never expected it to look the way it did.

Taker came in the next day with AJ, walked him through it, what we were thinking.

All right, do your thing.

Oh god, I couldn't breathe in there!

Taker and AJ both thought it was great concepts and ideas, so went to Vince.

The pictures will shoot in cinematic, we'll do it with multiple cameras, kind of ran them

deeper through the creative and he was like, do it.

We got extremely lucky in the sense that we were able to go off-site and do this match

off-site because of where the story developed and the severity and how personal it became

I don't think that you can have a wrestling match,

which we always envision.

It turned out to be probably the best thing

that we could have done.

It was about, I don't know, a 45, 50-minute drive

from the site of the boneyard to the performance center.

And we were on our way back.

I was in the car with Triple H, Michael Hayes.

My phone started to ring.

And I looked down, and it was my niece.

And then something just told me in my head,

said, you need to answer that call.

And it was probably the last ring

before it was going to send it to voicemail,

and I hit it.

And I said, hey, what's going on?

She goes, my dad, my brother, Tim, he says,

my dad had a heart attack.

I was like, oh, wow.

I said, OK, what hospital did they send him to?

He lives outside of Austin and lived.

I asked her, I said, uh, what hospital did they, they send him to?

He said, no, uncle Mark, he's gone. He didn't make it. And, uh,

it was, uh,

In the middle of all this stuff going on,

WrestleMania, you know, when everything goes perfect,

it's hectic and stressful.

But now I have to call all my brothers

and let them know, and then call my mother.

Knowing that...

what that was going to do to her and not be able to be there.

It's just another indication of how important being present with your family is

because you just never know what's going to happen. So it was an extremely rough day.

It was hard, too, going to the next day

with the loss of my brother.

It's just as fresh as it can be.

And then, you know, you're in a boneyard match,

and everything's centered around being buried.

And it's just like, man, you know, it makes it tough.

But at that point, the show must go on.

And OK, how do we make this great?

I didn't think you'd show up.

Hey, does Michelle know you're out this late?

She let you come out.

Hey, I took the liberty of digging your grave for you.

Doesn't it look nice?

You dug your own grave, sir.

You think so?

Yeah, I know, sir.

You think so?

Come on, old man.

Yeah.

Come on.

Let's see what you got.

We got enough for you.

Yeah.

Come on.

Boom.

Get up, boy.

You wanted this.

Come on.

Boneyard match, 25-minute fight scene, and they beat the crap out of each other.

it was in a different format, you know when things are that good. I was really happy with

the bike element. That's a cool thing there, like he's had this hellacious fight.

through my head as I'm riding off.

This may be the last time I do this.

It was a difficult night

and it was ever been as rough as it looked.

Five minutes into shooting,

I put my arm through the hearse side window.

It chews up my arm, so we got to stop shooting immediately.

Just kind of wash it off a little bit.

He got color early.

His arm was a crimson mask.

So they got to clean my arm out, dig the pieces of glass

out of my arm.

What happens when you film that way is you get started,

and then there's the stoppage.

They've got to switch cameras around, they've got to switch lighting around.

And for me, with where I'm at physically,

just standing in one place is the worst.

It allows that

Adrenaline to come down a little bit and then it allows whatever is that that's hurting like okay. Yeah, all right

Yeah, that's gonna be bad tomorrow

It was just a really long night and we wrapped it about 5 a.m. I

Knew the things that we were filming and the things that we were doing we're gonna be cool

And then when I saw the final product, I mean it was like while this turned out really cool

And then the feedback, that was icing on the cake.

Everyone had nothing but positive things to say about it,

and that's very rare.

The performances in this were just phenomenal.

Physical, demanding, trash talking was spot on,

selling the storytelling, all of it.

And I think all that aura and mystique of the Undertaker was back.

If for no other reason, it was successful just for that.

With your ass and your break.

My specialty is storytelling.

If you look back at that build-up, the payoff with the match,

I mean, that's storytelling at its best.

Cut.

Break.

Is it what I envisioned when I said yes to the match?

Absolutely not.

Thank you guys.

Thanks everybody.

But it was damn good.

And damn good was what I was looking for.

It's like, how do you top that?

There's no pressure out here. Just, you know, it's time to relax and enjoy yourself and

forget about all the other stuff that goes on in the world. Slow down. Slow down, exactly.

I feel like the more that we get out here, the more he's not gonna want to leave. And the more

maybe he'll be at peace with whatever decision he makes, knowing that he has this to come to. And I

Not a worry in the world and that's where we're at fishing on the river worrying about catching a fish

Yeah, I'd rather worry about you catching a fish than worried about you getting concussed

Breaking a bone. Let's do an eye socket

Considering everything that was going on I feel very fortunate that we were able to do the boneyard match

Was different but still taxing on the body

By the end of that shoot, I felt like, you know, I had done a 45-minute match.

I mean, that was a rough week, so Tim, Mark's brother, passed us away.

And then we went home, and it was that Sunday night that my nephew, Rhett McCool, tragically passed away in a car accident.

Just graduated high school.

But that's when you get really grateful for the family.

Even before my brother passed Kobe Bryant's death

It was amazing how that struck home

You know made me realize it like I'm not getting this time back and it's time to be present and give home

What I give the business

You should never know you never know when your numbers gonna get called

That's what life's about to hear her giggles. Hey love you come over here

Were you cheering for daddy or for AJ?

No, forget it. I'm out of here.

I'm glad I beat him. I'm glad I beat him like I did then.

I don't want to miss out on anything else because I feel like I have to have this certain match to walk away.

My career, my legacy, it speaks for itself and I'm happy with it.

At the end of the day, that's really, that's really all that matters.

And I have this other life that I need to go and experience and enjoy the fruits of my

labor and enjoy the blessings that I have in my life and my children.

He left a legacy a long time ago.

Long, long time ago.

It didn't matter if he never stepped in the ring these past five or six years.

He left his legacy.

That is stamped.

And I think making that transition to where his identity is Mark Calloway versus Undertaker,

I think it's rough.

And I think now he trusts himself more and to move into that avenue.

I believe I'm at a place now, post-Boneyard.

It's like just one hellacious battle against one of the best in the business.

Here you are climbing on your motorcycle and taking off.

There was a lot of thought, a lot of emotion that went through my head.

One of those is being, are you happy enough with that?

It was just a powerful moment.

And you don't necessarily always get those.

Man, if there was ever a perfect ending to a career, that right there is it.

You know, when I come back, I guess time only tell their case of emergency break glass you pull out the undertaker.

I mean, I would have to consider that.

Never say never, but at this point in my life and in my career, I might have no desire to get back in the ring.

I got a pit in my stomach right now.

I'm at a point.

This time, the cowboy really rides away.

There's nothing left for me to conquer.

There's nothing left for me to accomplish.

The game has changed.

It's time for new guys to come up.

The time just seems right.

I think this documentary has helped me discover that.

I mean, it's really opened my eyes to the bigger picture

and it's allowed me to not judge myself as harshly on these last few years.

and to see things on a broader scale.

My peers, you know, given their insight,

really got a genuine sense that they care for me

and want the best for me.

It's been very humbling allowing this part of me

to come out and have people accept it.

I've only given them the Undertaker.

They hadn't.

They haven't got Mark Calloway.

all signs there that they've accepted Mark Calloway.

I can do more good outside the ring now than I can inside.

And I'm finally at a place where I'm able to accept that.

And I'm okay with it.

I've been very blessed to have two families.

My wife and my children.

And then my family on the road.

I still feel twenty-five

Most of the time

I still raise a little cane

with a moose

Guys like Brian Adams

Gilgazune and the Godfather

Shawn Michaels, Triple H

Red Heart, Mick Foley

Obviously the mayor, Cain, Edge

Obviously, I can't name everybody, leave somebody out, but it's important to know how much you guys meant to me.

Not only a professional level, but on a personal level.

So many people that I consider true, great friends, and I just can't thank you guys enough.

Obviously, Vince always had my back, and I have to say, thank you.

Yes, it james

I've considered myself blessed to be able to do something for as long as I've been able to do it.

This is a tough life and it's a rough life and you have to have it within you to want to pursue it.

You have to have a genuine love for what you do and you have to have a genuine love for wrestling

Because this business is all about heart

Awesome is the only word I could think to describe this undertaker

Hear the term lightning in a bottle and every once in a while if you make it to the top you've caught it

But man he caught it for like what 30 years

That always raised the bar

His work ethic, his ability, his talent.

And honestly, the way that he handled himself.

I think he's the godfather of professional wrestling.

Someone people can fight in, someone people trust.

Through all of it, he was like the rock.

As the waves are pounding the shore,

you have the rock that never moved and always stood firm.

That was him.

Absolutely mesmerizing the magnificence that is the fabled the legendary undertaker.

I've devoted most of my adult life to this business and I wouldn't change a thing.

All the injuries and surgeries and everything I mean it I wouldn't change any of it.

It's all part of my story it's all part of the things that helped shape the person that I am today

I've been very blessed to have great guys to work with

I'm gonna be around but I still want to miss you guys and most of you already do miss I

Don't know one wrestler. There's like, you know what he's a piece of work him. That's guy. I can't stand

never

Guys love taker

It's an honor to call him one of my friends. He's my brother

There's only one Mark Calloway that could do what he does in the ring

Literally would be a different life had he and I not crossed paths

He put me on the map he put a lot of people in the map

I fought against him probably more than anybody in my career.

He never had an off night, ever.

I learned a lot from that dude, and I love him, and I respect him.

The bar for respect is the Undertaker, and everybody else down here.

It doesn't happen without them, it doesn't happen without the fans

buying into this character and holding it so near and dear to their heart.

I never tried to just mail it in.

Every time that I went out, I went out

to do the best that I could.

This capacity crowd, ladies and gentlemen,

and all of the presence of the Undertaker

and all of the creatures of the night

have been a strength behind this man.

I hope they realize what it meant for me

to go out night after night and perform in front of them.

How much their love and their energy.

So many nights is what got me through.

I can't think of a better way to spend the last 30 plus years of my life

than performing for the people that have followed me all these years.

To ride the edge of a lightning bolt for 30 years, the way he has

has been nothing short of phenomenal.

He's given his life to this business, and he'll be remembered forever.

I don't think there'll ever be anybody like him.

The character, the performances,

his legacy is that there'll never be another.

It was the iconic and greatest legacy of all time.

I mean, an absolutely amazing career.

And you should be extremely proud.

Mark, I'm proud of you.

So proud.

There's no question Mark has made the best of every opportunity.

To the business

To his professionalism and who he is as a human being that man could look at a married look

I did good

This business has given me everything

It's ingrained in me it's always gonna be a part of me I

Did things my way

And I'm gonna leave my way

And I'm good with that.

You know everybody has tons of stories of their

Adventures in this thing called professional wrestling and

Being there for over, you know 30 years. I've got my fair share of stories. I

Think it just adds a whole another life to the life that people do know of the Undertaker

Now

The dead man rises

The folklore of his legendary journey have been unearthed and the tales of the undertaker

Are about to be revealed

Hear the story straight from the phenom himself. This is

Undertaker the last ride

Tales from the dead man

For 30 years, the Phenom, the Undertaker, has remained a mystery to the WWE Universe,

an indestructible supernatural force, more myth than man.

The Deadman's secrets have been buried in the deepest depths of the graveyard.

Now,

Discover the lore behind the legend.

The Undertaker!

Sending chills up and down the spine!

Let us begin with the most auspicious origin story of the phenome.

Involving a mysterious egg of gigantic proportions.

This is about the time we were building for a survivor series survivor series is always in November

You know right around Thanksgiving

So now they got this giant egg right and now I'm like, oh, no

Oh, no, I just knew it. I knew it to my core that

was gonna come out of that egg. I was just like, oh man, I'm gonna be Eggman. I'm gonna

be Egghead. He's gonna make me shave my head and shave my eyebrows. I'm gonna be the Eggman.

So I'm just like totally stressed out about, you know, getting the phone call and having

to be Eggman. Sure enough, one day the phone rings, so I answered the phone.

Hello, there was no caller ID at the time or any of that business, so, you know, it's like hello, is this the Undertaker?

You know, and it took me a second to process, like, okay, that's, I'm pretty sure that's Vince.

And he called me Undertaker. I didn't, nothing like Eggman.

Yes, sir. Yes. Yes. This is the undertaker like I had no idea what undertaker

his vision was

You know anything about it all I knew was it wasn't Eggman and I wasn't coming out of that egg

It was like a sense of

Eggman was not to be instead

A denizen from Death Valley, the Undertaker, made his spectacular and chilling debut at the 1990 Survivor Series.

Holy cow! Look at the size of that ham-hawk!

And last, the dead man had arrived and was charting his path of destruction.

A path which ran through the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.

No journey is without its perils as the way into the garden proved a mighty

challenge even for the FINA.

The first couple of times that I came to the garden you know everybody was

established with the character. You know so we had to originally we walked out

the side we had to go across the street to the parking garage. Back then we had

no security other than the you know the NYC police.

You got to get through that ocean of people and you know, you basically had to fend for yourself and get into your car

You're stuck in traffic with just thousands of people beating on your rent a car

You know thinking about man, did I take the deductible out or did I take the lost damage waiver out on this thing?

They came up with the idea Paul bearer and I would go over and park our car

I think it was a remada that had this parking garage and we would go over there

They would send the ambulance in there.

We would get in the ambulance.

They would bring us in in the ambulance.

Nobody would see us.

And then, you know, usually we were on last or next to last.

So we were at the end of the night.

So they'd put us back in the ambulance

and then they'd take us back to the Ramada.

It worked good for a couple of years.

And then one night, I mean, it was a cold New York winter

night and we're cruising across town.

And then we roll up to the Ramada parking.

I swear there had to have been 2,500 fans there.

Somehow it got out.

Somebody figured it out.

So we are stuck standing there, waiting on our car.

And there's 2,500 fans just on top of us.

It was like, well, it was nice while it lasted,

but this gig is up.

And now we had to figure out a new strategy to how

to get in and out of the garden.

There's no place that I hate getting into more than the garden.

No place I'd rather work once I got in it, you know?

I mean, that's just, that was just truth.

It was great once you got in this hide, but man, the process, it was exhausting.

A bit of smoke and mirrors on the part of the phenom

and his trusty manager, Paul Bearer.

While the Undertaker's public persona was often shrouded in mystery,

A select few were invited to be part of the dead man's inner circle.

The price of admission, some good old fashioned camaraderie, and a lot of whiskey, which often

led to an interesting night.

We just put this disclaimer out there that this was a long, long time ago, and so we invited a bunch of people back to our hotel room.

We were at a party, we were drinking, and a lot of them missed the names that were there, but a lot of people were there.

So there's probably 15 people in the room, and we're still drinking.

Well, he has this really cool Stetson River Boat Gambler hat.

I was like, man, that is a really cool hat.

He goes, you know, and he's like looking at himself in the mirror,

like, you like that?

Man, I just got that, you know?

I said, yeah, that's sharp, man.

I said, I'm going to find one like that.

Through the course of the night, he comes over to me and he goes,

he goes here.

And I decided that I was going to give my hat to him.

Gives me the hat right and he's like no big dog. He looks better on you. I'm like no it looks better on you

No, you're taking that. I'm giving it to you. You got it. You have to take it. I'm like no that's your hat

That's a cool hat looks good on you

Thanks, but no thanks kind of a deal and so it became a thing where no you wear it no

I wear you're gonna take the hat. No, I'm not taking your hat

So he gives me the hat goes in the bathroom and locks the door

So, you know, I'm there doing my business, and all of a sudden it's like, I'm like,

what in the world?

I turn around, he's hitting the door, the door's not breaking, the door frame, it's

coming at me.

Then he's standing there, you know, he's like, you're taking the damn hat.

So I take the door, and I've got to put my head through it.

I take the door off my head, go out on the balcony.

sling this door, I'm looking back at you know everybody like I showed him right I

turned back around and that Joker's in a three-point stance and he he got he heard

hut he blasts me and lands on top of me between the two beds we went after it

man and I'm telling you we're good friends but we're really going after it

I mean, like two big, giant kids, right?

He says, no, you're going to take the hat.

You know, and I'm like, no, I'm not taking the hat.

And so, but he won't let me up either.

And I can't get out.

And I'm sorry.

Finally, it was like, okay, I'll take the hat.

So that's all you had to say.

It got up, found the hat, it had been stepped on already.

Put the hat on.

Thank you.

Thank you for the hat.

Sounds ridiculous. I know, but I just you had to be there, but the moral to the story is

He took the hat so I won because he took that

That was a pretty typical night

We had lots of nights like that

Typical family drama a

Moment of celebration between two brothers quickly turns into a night of chaos and destruction

In the end, the infamous Bone Street crew came out stronger and more united than ever before.

Two warriors, hardened by years of mileage together.

The road is home to many of the Deadman's greatest tales.

Like our next story, a tale of two wayward travelers, lost on a path to parts unknown.

Mark Callaway, the person, is one of my best friends

and one of the best people you'll ever meet.

Genuine, really salt of the earth,

but hardworking guy, true professional

in every sense of the word.

I'll tell you, this is a funny story.

We were in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Swung early on with The Undertaker and Brother Love still.

So we wanted to get out of TV pretty quick.

We jump into the car and we want to get from Chattanooga to Atlanta, that was our goal.

We start hauling ass and we get lost.

Not knowing our way around too well, we end up in a pretty seedy neighborhood and a pretty

sketchy part of town.

So we pull up into a gas station.

I roll the window down, I'm in the passenger side.

You know, Bruce, hey buddy, hey you think you can give us some directions to the interstate?

And the guy comes up and is like, oh well, maybe you can help me out.

Well, I don't know, you know, maybe, you know, maybe if I had, like, you know, 10, 15 bucks,

maybe I could help you, maybe, I don't know.

Guys start coming around the car like they're gonna try and mess with us.

He can see Bruce, but he can't see me at all.

And I'm thinking, oh, man, this is gonna be bad.

So as he leans down, I give him the old...

Guy backs up, almost falling down and goes, man!

What's wrong with that dude?

He looks like he just killed somebody.

Yeah, I can hear him mumbling it.

Yeah, that man, he looked dead.

Okay, listen, this is what you guys got to do.

You're gonna go down here, two blocks,

you're gonna turn right,

that's gonna take you right to the highway.

Y'all need to get the hell out of here.

True story, and it was absolutely hilarious,

and we just kind of took off.

A mere glance from the phenom

is all it takes to make mortal men quiver.

Among the dead man's travels, some have taken on mythological status, like this next saga,

an infamous excursion around the world that will be forever known as the flight from hell.

We were in Birmingham. I had done a handicap match with Stone Cold and Triple H.

Somewhere through the course of the match,

I take one of Austin's knee braces right in the side of the head,

dings me up a little bit, and it split the top part of my ear in half.

There was a noise ordinance, so we had to take off before a certain time,

so I was presented with the option of

Stay there in the UK, get my ear sewed up and taken care of there and then fly home the next day or fly with the rest of the crew on the charter.

Obviously I opted to fly back to the States on the charter.

I had a headache, my ears, throbbing, everything.

So I'm kind of in and out of consciousness and it's just one of those flights where

The boys were having a really good time.

This is your captain speaking.

Vince was on the flight.

And Vince keeps trying to take down Kurt Angle and vice versa,

and they're having this contest the whole way back from the UK.

And I'm just kind of laying in my seat,

and all of a sudden, you know, I feel this kind of bumping around my feet.

And I look down, and Kurt's on top of Vince.

And I'm like, what the hell?

Why is Kurt attacking Vince?

So I just like popped out of my seat,

put a rear naked choke on Kurt.

Kurt's final words were like, take, you're choking me out.

And by that time, you know, everybody's like,

no, they're playing, they're playing.

So I let go, got my seat, fell back asleep.

From what I understand and from the looks of the plane

when I did wake up at the end,

It was a pretty wild flight.

A flight from hell indeed.

Lesson learned.

Do not cross the boss.

The Undertaker was usually the calm within the storm that surrounded him.

Except when the dead man's affinity for fire

put a fellow Bone Street crew member in a heated situation.

I guess some of the fondest memories are in hotel rooms, just playing cards.

All the BSK boys, that core group of guys, we were always together.

Yokozuna, he was always in a good mood, always wanted to play cards or dominoes.

We were in Kuwait together.

Now they don't have adult beverages over there.

We were in my room playing cards.

And we were all kind of getting a little bit stir crazy.

I remember taking a match, and I'm setting them on fire

and flicking the matches and trying to hit people with them.

Pig yolk was on the side of the table from me,

and I flicked one.

It went right over his head.

I didn't realize that it landed in the back of his hair.

Suddenly, I start seeing all this smoke coming up.

I said, well, it turned around, right?

And I turn around, sure enough, his hair is on fire.

And then it was just like five guys just pounding him to death,

just trying to put the fire out.

But it didn't worth getting some free shots on him.

He laughed it off.

Just a great dude, man.

I really miss him.

Encouraging the wrath of the great Yokozuna

is not for the faint of heart.

The Dead Man's action is no doubt demanded retribution.

Tale for another time.

In the WWE locker room, as in the world at large,

there are matters that can only be adjudicated by going before a magistrate.

In the WWE, there was only one entity worthy to sit upon the bench of justice,

and pass down the ultimate judgment to those who stand before him.

What was wrestlers court?

Ah, I love it.

A wrestlers court was a mediation process in the locker room,

which would often just turn it into entertainment for the guys.

Boys will bring up charges.

For example, you're traveling together, everybody splits up their trans,

and maybe you didn't pay your fair share of trans.

The case would have to be heard in Russell's court to determine guilt or innocence.

The offended person had to get himself a lawyer.

And then, of course, they had a prosecuting attorney who oftentimes is JBL,

who's great at it, but you had the hanging judge.

Every now and then you might have been a choice of who lawyers were,

but there was never a choice about who was the judge.

There was one guy that was judge, jury, executioner,

godfather of everyone, and that was Undertaker.

He's one of the guys that people went to.

When there were issues in the dressing room,

there were problems.

He was the great mediator.

He was the judge.

People thought that much of him.

I don't know if anybody has more respect than an undertaker.

Rustler's Court was the lighthearted way

to get the message across that you're screwing up.

And your co-workers know that you're screwing up,

and they don't much appreciate it.

You've kind of made your bed, now you got to lie in it.

Well, I was brought up.

At wrestlers' court one time, Al Snow and I were judged guilty of leaving Bob Holly hanging at the airport while we went on carnival rides.

Apparently leaving another one of the guys hanging was a serious offense and was treated as such.

If you're accused, then Taker would render the judgment.

Well, then all drinks are on you tonight, or you know, whatever it might be.

It was usually a case of beer, a bottle of Jack Daniels,

you got to pay for my hotel room for three days,

you got to pay for my rent a car for a week.

Those were usually the outcomes of the synthesis.

Yeah, you might get called out

and get embarrassed a little bit,

but it's then it's what do you do with it from there?

I try to give some type of advice

that there was actually some content merit

to what was happening.

A lot of times, it would be a good laugh, honestly.

And you could just kind of go there,

and it was this ridiculous spectacle.

Anything you can do to kind of alleviate

some of the stress and tension of the road,

it was, more times than not, good, harmless fun.

I thought about the story that Xavier was giving you,

the gift of a gap.

Yeah, I was kind of blown away, really.

One day I showed up at TV and lo and behold

Xavier presented me with my official gavel. I was really impressed with that and meant a lot. I still have the gavel

I just happened to have it on me, you know right here

But that's it man. It's really nice. It says judge undertaker on it

I haven't actually had to use it in wrestlers court, but

my kids have definitely had the gavel slam down on

on their actions.

One of the cooler gifts that I've been given through the years

means a lot to me.

The Undertaker truly was judge, jury and executioner

when it came to matters of grave concern,

both backstage and in the ring.

These are but a few of the tales that enhance the myth and legendary status of the phenom a

Mere glimpse into the great book of secrets that have made the dead man

the most enduring figure to all who experienced his presence and

Until the time comes to reveal more of the great untold tales of the Undertaker

They like many souls the Undertaker has taken

Dressed in peace.

There is only one man who has stood the test of time.

I want them thinking this guy's got a lot left in the tank.

If I can leave with that, I'll be content. I can walk away.

I say that, but I've been saying it for a long time.

You start to hear things, people talking,

ah, he's too old, he shouldn't do this,

he shouldn't do that, but that's up for me to decide.

I think that's the danger that you don't know

when it's time.

As we get older, even though our brain says go,

our body says no.

The red light hits, all of a sudden, you can't help it.

For the last few years, I've had this internal struggle of,

I don't want to stay too long and become a parody of myself.

Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.

People have no idea how much pain he's in physically.

You're about to put your whole legacy on the line

and you know that you have no business being in that match.

I have no doubt Art can do anything he puts his mind to.

I sometimes wonder if he knows.

You start second guessing yourself.

Is it me? Have I lost that big a step?

Are you the reason why this stuff is happening?

Oh, my God!

I was two inches away from making my wife a widow.

My kid's father was.

You guys have enough of this, please. Thank you.

All the time, sitting there, just tapping on the back of the shoulder, waiting for him to turn around and say,

Hey, dude, it's time.

Hey, help me, man. Keep running up that road.

I'm trying.

It's really tough getting older in this business.

It just comes with time.

Your body's gonna break down.

Clare O! You're coming in hot!

He's given his life to his business.

It's hard to let go.

I'm either gonna go out with a match

that's a fitting undertaker at WrestleMania,

or I'm going out on my shield one way or another.