This time the WWE creative team offered the honor to Edge, who, at the time, sat atop "Smackdown" as the World Heavyweight Champion. At the last moment, McMahon got cold feet and decided to keep the streak alive instead.įast forward to the road to WrestleMania 24, and once again the Undertaker's streak nearly came to an end. For a few weeks, Henry's WrestleMania win was in the cards, but as we know, he didn't come away from the event as the victor. He said that the idea came from Vince McMahon himself, and Taker even agreed with the plan. The Undertaker was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame as the headline inductee for the class of 2022.On the Something to Wrestle podcast, Bruce Prichard recalled backstage discussions around the time of WrestleMania 22 that Mark Henry should end the Undertaker's undefeated streak. The Undertaker retired from professional wrestling in 2020 and made a farewell appearance at that year's Survivor Series, 30 years to the day from his on-screen debut for the company at the same pay-per-view brand. He is one of WWE's most prolific pay-per-view performers, headlining several pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania on five occasions. He also won the Royal Rumble match in 2007. During his active career under The Undertaker gimmick, Calaway won the WWF/E Championship four times, the World Heavyweight Championship three times, the Hardcore Championship once and the World Tag Team Championship six times. He is also known for pairing with his in-storyline half-brother Kane, with whom he had alternatively feuded and teamed off and on with as The Brothers of Destruction from 1997 through 2020. Calaway resurrected The Deadman Undertaker in 2004, with residual elements of American Badass Undertaker remaining.įor the better part of his career, The Undertaker was observed as a focal point of WWE's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, where he became esteemed for The Streak-a series of 21 straight victories. Calaway expanded on The Undertaker gimmick by assuming a biker identity, dubbed "American Badass", in 2000. The longest-tenured wrestler in company history at 30 years, The Undertaker is one of the most prominent figures of the Attitude Era-a high ratings, envelope-pushing generation of the WWF/E in the latter 1990s. As one of WWE's most popular and enduring characters, The Undertaker was known for his undead, funereal, macabre persona, which gained significant mainstream popularity and won him the Wrestling Observer Newsletter award for Best Gimmick a record-setting 5 years in a row. After signing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1989, he had a brief stint in the mid-card as "Mean" Mark Callous, before joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1990.Ĭalaway was rebranded as "The Undertaker" once joining the WWF. He became USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion and WCWA Texas Heavyweight Champion during this time. Calaway remains employed for WWE through a 15-year contract signed in 2019.Ĭalaway began his career in 1987, working under various gimmicks for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and other affiliate promotions. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Calaway spent the vast majority of his career wrestling for WWF/E, and is best known for his critically acclaimed "Deadman" Undertaker gimmick, for which he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022. Mark William Calaway, better known by the ring name The Undertaker is an American retired professional wrestler.
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