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Undertaker, take one,
common mark, silent six.

What does it mean
to be the Undertaker?

What does it mean
to be the Undertaker?

It means that...

You hit me right out of
the get-go with something.

What the hell?

There he is!

The Prince of Darkness!

People have all these preconceived
ideas of who you are, what you are.

Your life is
surrounded by mystery.

The darkness that looms over the
character evokes imagination and fantasy.

Can you bread warp the books of the
pastihi strap the What's gonna happen here?

I've got two hands that play
my way This is hell on Earth!

I've got two hands that play my way And
one more fool is on his way I've got two

hands that play my way It's
just one of those characters that

people were really drawn to
because it was just so different.

Rest in peace.

1986, when all this gets started for
me and you're just trying to get booked

somewhere and trying to make enough
noise to grab some promoter's attention.

And I would have never
imagined taking a car service to an

arena where you're about to
be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Here we are.

Man, what a day.

I've been waiting for
this for quite a while.

Oh my goodness.

God bless you.

What's up, buddy?

How you doing, man?

I'm good, brother.

You look sharp.

Thanks.

It's half the battle, right?

Yeah.

All right.

Love you.

Love you.

That'd be so bad
if you looked so...

You had to call me.

It means a lot.

For 30 plus years, you know,
all they got was The Undertaker.

They didn't get what
they're going to get tonight.

They get Mark Calloway tonight.

I knew that was going
to be hard for him.

You know, that's a scary thing.

Like, who am I as Mark
Calloway the person?

Or where do I go from here?

Wrestling's all he's done and
all he's known for 30 plus years.

This man is the most revered
superstar in WWE history.

The greatest quality our inductee
brings to the Hall of Fame is love.

Because you cannot accomplish
what he has in 30 years for

any other reason other
than the love for his business.

It is now my honor to introduce

you to the newest member of the
2022 Hall of Fame, Mark Calloway.

Spent quite a lot of time on
these basketball courts right here.

The neighborhood, I mean,
it really, it doesn't, it doesn't

hardly resemble what it did
when I was still living here.

So we moved in here in what?

69?

1969.

Wow.

That's amazing.

If these walls
could talk, right?

It'd be interesting.

Yeah, to say the least.

I had a pretty normal childhood.

People ask me all the
time what led me down this

dark path of digging
holes and taking souls.

There wasn't anything.

My parents are salt
of the earth people.

My mom was a stay-at-home mom,
raised five boys, bless her heart.

Here's a shot of all the boys.

Brother David's the oldest.

Mike.

Paul.

And Tim.

Tim, we lost the, um, lost Tim the
day before my last WrestleMania match.

So what was I like as a kid?

You were very good.

That's why y'all
had five, right?

Y'all had, it took you
five times to get it right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Then I quit.

Then you quit
once you got it right.

My dad, hard worker.

I think he instilled
that work ethic in me.

During the day, he would
do plumbing jobs, roofing jobs,

whatever to put, you know,
food on the table for us.

Uh, and then he would work all night in the
press room of the Houston Post newspaper.

From the early age, it
was always about respect

and hard work and your
name and your word.

And those things were instilled
in me at a really early age.

Growing up in
Houston, I was a father.

I was a fan of
wrestling early on.

You remember taking me and Wayne to
Sam Houston Coliseum to watch wrestling?

Big mistake.

Big mistake?

Well, how's that?

Well, look what
you ended up doing.

Well, it was a somewhat
honest living, I guess.

We didn't have a lot of money,
but every, every now and then,

you know, my parents would
scrape up some money to

take us to the Sam Houston
Coliseum and watch it live.

The original Sheik
was coming into town.

Man, he was the
nastiest of nasty bad guys.

And we built ourselves up all
week long, what we were going

to do and what we were going to
say to him when he came by us.

And here he comes
and we're yelling at him.

And man, he just made
a quick dart towards us.

And we about took out a whole
row of people trying to run away.

I mean, I was just mesmerized
by it all at a really early age.

Kind of got away from it as I got
older and started playing team sports.

Remind me how to
play knockout now.

I watch y'all play.

I think we called it 21.

Hey, I'm being a wind here.

Knockout.

Knockout.

What is it?

Two six.

You only have two?

I have six.

Oh, kidding me.

Oh, no.

I've never played basketball.

I think I was 13.

And a kid I went to
school with needed

somebody else to fill
out their YMCA roster.

And I guess that was me.

I was tall.

So I figured, hey,
let's get Mark to play.

And kind of fell in
love with the game.

It was real.

We were constantly eating.

I mean, Mark could
never gain weight.

So I think this right here
used to be the pizza hut.

So we would play in the morning
and then we'd go hit that buffet.

Finally, they told
us to stop coming.

I would just put a
huge dent in their buffet.

During the summer of
my junior and senior year,

that's when I kind of
started lifting weights.

I was 6'8 and 215
pounds for within.

In that time period, that was a
big high school basketball player.

Started getting a lot of interest
at that point to go play college.

Lon Krueger, he was at Pan American
University and recruited me really,

really, really heavily.

I don't know.

It was a couple of
days before signing.

And Coach Krueger
called me and said, he goes,

Mark, he goes, I need to
win right out of the gate.

He says, I'm going to go with a
couple of junior college players.

And I'm like, uh, okay.

That's where I went to the
University of St. Thomas.

That was in Houston.

After one year of athletics,
the school went bankrupt.

And that's where I ended up
at Texas Wesleyan University.

Mark was kind of passive.

He listened to
a lot of soft rock.

A lot of easy rock
bands like, you know,

Huey Lewis and the
News and things like that.

He kind of kept to himself.

In the basketball realm, his
style of play was a bruiser.

He liked to push.

He liked to shove.

My destiny was
already predetermined.

I was a very physical player.

There was a lot of times
I'd have more points

scored than minutes played
because of foul trouble.

He was big into lifting weights.

He started to fill out.

So it was 230, 235, you
know, and just solid muscle.

There was this gym
that I was going to.

There was a guy there.

He was like, I'm going
to go to this wrestling

camp and I'm going to
be a professional wrestler.

Oh, that's cool.

He goes, man, you
should do this with me.

And I was like, well, I think I'm gonna
go try to play some pro ball overseas.

And every day I come in, we'd
have the same conversation.

The more I thought about it, it
was like, well, you know, maybe.

You know, this
would be kind of cool.

From St. Petersburg, Florida,
Buzz Sawyer, the Mad Dog.

Buzz Sawyer was
training guys to wrestle.

Look at the Mad Dog.

Back with his own kind.

He feels so at home.

He says, OK, $2,500.

I'm going to teach you to wrestle
and then I'll get you a booking.

And we're like, OK,
that sounds great.

Buzz Sawyer, he can be a good
guy and he can be a bad guy.

Shut up!

You know, he tried to
take people's money.

I said, you can't do that, Buzz.

He said, you know, they'll
come back and hunt you.

So it was the first
day of training.

And we're going to meet, you
know, at Buzz Sawyer's house.

I don't know, close
to 15 guys, probably.

Standing around in his driveway.

And, you know, we're
all kind of asking the

question, like, well,
where's the wrestling ring?

We didn't have no ring.

We were just always in the
backyard or in the front yard.

It's just like grass and dirt.

He had 15 rock walkers out
there, you know, in the backyard.

Man, for like the next two hours,
we do nothing but conditioning.

We had to run around the
block and they all tied and stuff.

And I said, no, we
ain't through yet.

Just throwing up
everywhere, you know.

Everybody's thinking that
we're about to get a fight.

Get in our cars and,
you know, and go home.

And out comes Buzz.

He said, all right,
you know, get down to

the down position and
like amateur wrestling.

He came up there and
started stretching them out.

Twisting them all sideways
and everything, you know.

Basically, you know, it was
the way it was done back then.

Guys would take your
money and then they try

and run you off so that
you don't come back.

And that was exactly
what he was trying to do.

Stop!

The only thing was, is I was too stupid to
know that I was supposed to not come back.

I kept coming back till
not only was there no

one else there but me,
but Buzz was gone as well.

This is the receipt when I finally
paid my last $1,000 to Buzz Sawyer.

It says, I acknowledge receipt of
payment of $1,000 from Mark Callaway.

Boy, that was a heck of a
lesson that I learned there.

I was left $2,000 in the hole and not
knowing what the heck I was going to do.

Basketball is becoming
less and less important.

Do I want to be the 12th guy on the bench
in somewhere like Lithuania or something?

And now I'm watching wrestling
and I'm studying wrestling.

The more I thought about
it, it was like, well, you

know, maybe, you know,
this would be kind of cool.

And like I said, I
was a fan as a kid.

I'm going to be a
professional wrestler.

Things were rough.

But I knew that this
is what I wanted to do.

Neither my mother nor my
father were very excited about me

leaving college to pursue this
career in professional wrestling.

I was going to be the first one to,
you know, get a degree in the family.

And, you know, I was
right on the cusp of it.

I don't think y'all approved too
much of that decision initially.

No, you called me dad.

I said, you're on your own.

Don't call me for money.

You're on your own.

Yeah.

I didn't have any
kind of legacy.

I didn't really know anybody.

So I was kind of left to my
own creativity on trying to

figure out how I was going
to get someone's attention.

So at the Sportatorium in Dallas, that's
where a lot of the wrestlers would come in.

They would pick their checks up.

So every Wednesday for nearly
eight months, I would go up there.

And I said, well, if someone doesn't speak
to me or acknowledge me in some positive

sense, I said, I'm going to, you know,
I'm going to have to stop coming because I

couldn't afford the
gas to drive out there.

And lo and behold, who walks in?

The office is Fritz Von Erich.

One of the great all-time
names in wrestling, the

famous father of the Von
Erichs, Fritz Von Erich.

Great to see you, Fritz.

It's great to be here, Bill.

I just hope that these
folks appreciate the new

world-class championship
wrestling they're about to see.

And he's kind of standing right in
front of me and he's just looking at me.

He goes, who's
that kid out there?

Next thing I heard was probably
what changed everything for me.

He goes, let's book
him Friday night.

He looks like David.

The state flag of Texas indicates
who David Von Erich is for.

David being one of
his sons that he had just

lost in Japan, that I
happened to resemble.

And that's what it took.

Next thing you know, that Friday,
I'm working in the Sportatorium on their

TV show under the mask,
under the moniker of Texas Red.

Weighing in at 315
pounds, from the Lone

Star State, Percy Pringle
presents Texas Red.

Roddy with that big elbow to
take young Texas Red down.

A talented young man who
probably wonders how he got

this match with the experienced
superstar, Bruiser Roddy.

I think I got five or
six, seven bookings.

I'm green.

I don't know anything about
the wrestling business, really.

Inside or outside of the ring.

And that's where I
met a South African kid.

His name was Steve Simpson.

Here's Steve Simpson.

Criss-cross, cross again.

Oh, what a high
cross body right there.

He saw me work and invited me to
go to South Africa for four months.

So we got some promo pictures.

All his pictures
were in a graveyard.

And I thought to
myself, wow, that's odd.

You know what I'm saying?

Anytime the foreigners came in, the
Americans or whoever the English came

in, they were always
going to be the bad guys.

So they give me this chain.

And they, you know, they
said, just take this chain with you.

So my first night out, I'm
working against Tiger Singh.

Tiger Singh had a
massive following.

Very successful wrestler.

And they loved him.

I hit him with the chain.

I bust him open.

He goes flat,
right, in the crowd.

The fans, they just
completely circle the ring.

I'm getting hit with
bottles, rocks, chairs.

You name it, I'm
getting hit with it.

They were still trying to riot.

But I made it out.

It was the wild, wild west.

And I'm, what, 22 years old.

And, yeah, just getting subjected
to rocks, bottles, chairs everywhere.

Every week.

I grew up a lot in South Africa.

That's for sure.

You were basically being
paid to learn the business.

But it was by no
means a fortune.

No.

I got this break as Texas Red.

And then I got to
go to South Africa.

You know, I'm right
back in the same situation.

I don't have any place to live.

You know, I don't
have anything lined up.

But all of those things made
me a stronger, tougher person.

I've been in the Atlanta
State Penitentiary.

It's a shame to know it.

I went up there on a bad... By the
time I got to Memphis, I was pretty salty.

And now they're
pushing up daisies.

I'm learning now.

I'm learning what the
world of professional

wrestling is and what I
have to do to protect myself.

And the Master of Pain grabs and
power slams him down to the mat.

And also to continue
to grow as a talent.

He calls himself Master of Pain.

Yeah, that's right.

Master of Pain.

Because where I've been the last five
years, you have to know how to handle pain.

At this point, I've
gone to South Africa.

I've come back and
couldn't get booked again.

There's some nights I'm sleeping
in my car, starved to death.

I get the call to Memphis
to work with Jerry Lawler.

Jerry Lawler, whatever you call yourself,
if you get out alive, you'll be thankful.

And Jerry Lawler loved
working with big guys.

And beating big guys.

Master of Pain,
look out for this guy.

My goodness.

He's huge and he's mean.

You're always looking for
something that is eye-catching.

And Mark's physique,
his size, his height.

I mean, you couldn't
ignore this guy.

With one arm, baby.

One arm.

And holds him.

I get a new name.

I'm the Master of Pain.

I'm straight out of Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary.

All right, either one
of you jerks, let's go.

I mean, he was green.

But the great thing about
it was, he knew he was.

And he was really eager
and anxious to try to learn.

Master of Pain climbs in there.

Against the king, Jerry Lawler.

This is a world
unified title match.

The belt is on the line.

The next thing you know,
I'm beating Jerry Lawler.

And now I'm the Mid-South
World Heavyweight Champion.

Master of Pain covered.

Lawler is out.

Three.

My goodness, he has just
won the unified world belt.

Just a sense of being in
the ring with certain guys.

Yeah, I knew immediately that
he had a big future ahead of him.

Not only are they big when
we talk about the poundage, Jim.

They're so tall.

6'8", 6'9".

Skyscrapers in
blue for these two.

At the time in WCW, Dan Spivey
and Sid Vicious were the skyscrapers.

And Sid broke a
rib, punctured a lung.

There's not a lot of guys in the country
that are 6'8", 6'9", that aren't just,

you know, just massive
blobs of people, right?

Jim Cornette had seen me, and
he had let them know there's a

kid down in Tennessee that
could probably take over for Sid.

That's how I got that break.

I fit the description of
what a skyscraper was.

Get out of here!

That was my first big company.

Get a good shot!

It's over!

He was green, but, you know,
he knew all the fundamentals.

I could tell he
was a good athlete.

Have you seen such size,
strength, and pure tenacity?

When we come down on your head,
man, you're not going to know what hit you.

The skyscrapers are working
against the road warriors.

Hey, skyscrapers!

It's time to get ready
to walk the plate!

WCW was in turmoil
the whole time.

It was terrible.

It was absolutely terrible.

You know, they make all these promises,
and, you know, here you got two great big

guys that were athletic and could
move and do the things that we could do.

And, you know, they
never did anything with us.

Fingers dance fighting!

Dean Mark Ellis!

The sky!

Screamer!

So, Danny comes to me, and he goes, look,
he goes, just tonight, just follow my lead.

Man, I was like,
what's that mean?

He was just, just follow me.

Just do, you know,
just stay behind me.

Oh, okay.

You know, I just got tired
of all the bull with WCW.

For some reason, that
just ticked me off that night.

Just going crazy.

I mean, I just kind of lost it.

And nobody...

You know, nobody beat
down the Road Warriors.

Danny beat down
the Road Warriors.

The chair was all
bent up and stuff.

And I could look at Mark,
and he was just like, wow.

They have laid the
Road Warriors out!

The Sky Screamers!

That was the last night
I worked with Mark.

I went back to Japan.

You know, I was so mad at the
WCW for not doing anything with us.

They handled it terribly.

Mark was good.

I mean, they didn't do anything.

I didn't do anything
with him after I left.

Again, I'm getting hit with these shots
that are just, you know, major setbacks

for, you know, me trying
to progress in the business.

I thought Mark's pairing with
Dan Spivey was terribly miscast.

I found Mark Callaway
behind the scenes was more

fascinating than WCW's
presentation of me and Mark.

Mark was a natural leader.

Was a man's man.

Great athlete.

Anyone, I don't care if you're 4'9", that
can walk the top rope the way that he

did and drop an elbow,
let alone someone his size.

We needed to showcase this.

I had been with WCW now
about eight or nine months, I guess.

And it was time to start
renegotiating my contract.

I was happy there.

I like being in WCW.

So I get called in and Ole Anderson
was there who was booking the territory.

At the time.

They basically offered me the exact
same deal that I had just worked on.

And I was like,
well, I was like, okay.

I was like, I was, you know, I was
hoping for just a little bit of a bump.

You know, Ole looks right at me and
he goes, Mark, you're a great athlete.

But no one's ever going to
pay money to watch you wrestle.

Wow.

Okay.

I was really taken aback.

Like, you know, how do
you, how do you react?

To that?

Like, this is like the
passion of my life.

And then, you know, here's somebody of
Ole Anderson's stature, someone that you've

looked up to basically telling
you that, you know, you ain't got it.

And Ole told me that that big redheaded
stepchild will never draw any money.

And that was it.

Mark had to get out of there.

WCW fumbled their opportunity with
Mark from the first day they had him.

That was a definite
shot in the gut.

But it ended up fueling me that much more
because then I had a chip on my shoulder.

It took my determination
to even a higher level

because I knew within me
that I had something to offer.

And they were the
ones making the mistake.

For those of you who don't
know by now, the rumors are true.

The bad seed of the Big Apple, Paulie
Dangerously, is now managing the

roughest, toughest, meanest, leanest,
lewdest, rudest, crudest man in the NWA.

Mean.

Mark.

Kill it.

Press slam down.

I didn't like that, huh?

Down goes Mean Mark.

Weight elevation and a big one.

That's 300 pounds.

I was doing things that guys
my size, they didn't do in the ring.

I'm a big guy, but I've got
this agility and I'm athletic

and I can do a lot of things
that guys my size can't do.

When you're thinking you're going to
get a raise and then you get hit with...

No one's ever going to pay
money to watch you wrestle.

That was a definite
shot in the gut.

There wasn't much
to say after that.

I think that they kind of
looked at Mean Mark Callis

as very one-dimensional
and I dare say boring.

It was a big guy, skyscrapers, they
weren't doing an awful lot with him.

Nor did they allow either guy to
show much of their personality.

At that time, Paul
Heyman was my man.

He was my manager and he
had been in contact with Bruce

Prichard and they were trying
to get me a meeting with Vince.

Well, I was under
contract at WCW.

And I betrayed that contract.

I breached it.

I violated it.

Mark wanted out.

And I had a conversation
with Bruce Prichard.

Paul said, hey, Mark's
contract is coming up.

Are you guys interested?

And I was very interested.

I wanted to talk to him.

And we covertly arranged a meeting
between Mark and Vince McMahon.

We had had a meeting scheduled and it was
the day after WCW had a pay-per-view event

that Mark, Mean Mark had
wrestled Lex Luger in that match.

Bruce Prichard
thought he had talent.

Vince McMahon watched the tape
and didn't think he had any talent at all.

We got a phone call
from Vince saying, he's just

another tall, red-headed
basketball player to me.

I don't see anything and
canceled the meeting.

I didn't know Mark from Adam, but there
was something about him that was unique

and there was something
about him that thought,

you know, we could do
something with this guy.

Finally, Vince took
a meeting with him.

We had worked the
Meadowlands the night before.

So, Paul Heyman wanted us to go out in
the city the night before my big meeting.

I was like, sure, Paul.

Well, there's no sense in having a meeting
with Vince McMahon if you can't unwind in

advance and let loose a little bit before
your big meeting that would affect the

rest of your entire life
and generations to come.

So, my dumb self wears the clothes
that I'm going to the meeting in, right?

We're going to the China Club.

I got to look nice.

Yeah.

I had a sports car that
sat very low to the ground.

So, when the six foot six,
six foot seven, however

tall Mark is, bent down
to get into my sports car.

I ripped the whole ass
out of the seat of my pants.

Completely blown out.

Crotch down to the calves.

I said, I just ripped my pants.

Don't worry about it.

We'll fix it.

Don't worry about it.

There weren't many emergency
tailors in New York City.

At one o'clock in the
morning, at least that I knew of.

We finally get back
to Paul's house.

I don't know, three,
four in the morning.

And I'm trying to
find a sewing kit.

And I've never at this point in
my life, never sewed up anything.

I get them put back together.

Go out, go out to Vince's house.

And, you know, very conscious of not like
turning my back to anybody so they can see

like this unmatched
seam and all the strings

and stuff hanging out
of the back of my pants.

I thought it was funny.

I thought he should show up at
the meeting with the pants ripped.

I figured at least Vince
McMahon will remember it.

Mark didn't share that opinion.

I meet with Vince.

It seems like it's
going really well.

What was supposed to be a 30 minute
meeting ended up going four hours.

Vince really fell in love with the human
being, Mark Calloway, instantly and

thought that, you know,
this guy's got a future.

I think he's going to work out.

How could that man
walk into a room?

And someone like Vince McMahon with all
of his big visions not go, whoa, ka-ching.

I'm aware of the fact
that they're discussing

and they're trying
to get me booked.

But they still, you know, they haven't
figured out what they're going to do.

A lot of mystery
surrounding the massive oval.

They start this promotion where
they've got this gigantic egg on the set.

And it's going to be
hatched at Survivor Series.

And as soon as I
saw it, I was just like.

Oh, no.

No, they're going
to make me Eggman.

They're going to make me
shave my eyebrows off and

shave, you know, and I'm
going to look like Mr. Clean.

And I'm going to be I'm
going to be a giant egg.

To be clear, Mark Calloway was never
a candidate to be hatched out of an egg.

Also, to be clear, it was also a great
idea and a great rib to make Mark Calloway

think that he could be
hatched from an egg

and be the Eggman and
maybe shave his head.

And we could have a
whole nother career.

Who knows?

I had worked myself up so much that I
just knew the phone was going to ring.

And hey, Eggman.

And and sure enough,
the phone rings one day.

It's like, hello.

Is this the Undertaker?

It was Vince that called me.

So that alone was
really cool to me.

That was his character
that he had come up with.

So I was stoked.

I was I didn't sleep that night.

OK.

This is it right here.

This is the opportunity that
you've been preparing yourself for.

Don't screw this up.

Let's go to work.

The concept being the Ying to
brother love Zhang was black and white.

I was white.

This character would be black.

So Creative Services does
things like put a black cloak on him.

All this black.

And they show it to Vince.

And when Vince sees
it, he looks at it and goes.

Oh, my God, he's an Undertaker.

Which was, again, a perfect
complement to brother love.

Originally, we named him Kane,
the first man to commit murder.

And it couldn't get any
more opposite than brother

love than to manage
someone by the name of Kane.

And our creative services department
came up with some different sketches and

different ideas as to what
would this character look like?

There were a variety
of different sketches.

But one of them was essentially.

What you saw on
Undertaker's debut.

And it was very looked
like an old timey Undertaker.

And then when I saw the
actual storyboards with the

likeness on there, the wheels
were starting to turn already.

And it was really cool.

Mark Calloway had the character traits of
an older soul and kind of cool hand Luke,

the gunslinger
from the Old West.

And fit that Undertaker
role in real life.

What do I

do now, my mystery partner?

At the time, nobody had any idea how this
Undertaker gimmick was going to get over.

I mean, I don't think
anybody, I don't even know if

Vince envisioned just how
big the Undertaker would get.

Weighed in at 320
pounds from Death Valley.

I give you the Undertaker.

The Undertaker, the mystery
partner is now revealed.

I never heard of him.

Holy cow.

The entrance was unbelievable.

Everybody was like,
oh my gosh, wow.

The fact that the million dollar man, Ted
DiBiase, was introducing the Undertaker.

That let the audience know,
okay, this is not a good guy.

This is a bad guy.

Then he's dressed all in black.

He's got a pale face.

Deep sunk eyes.

And the music was so ominous that it
brought the mood of the entire arena down.

And you felt like
you were at a funeral.

It was extremely nerve-wracking.

It's my debut with the WWE.

It was such a
different character.

There was nothing
happy about it.

This dude was an ominous figure.

He was a killer.

It landed right perfectly in my
wheelhouse of what I wanted to do.

That character had to move slow.

That was the hardest thing to do is to walk
that slow and be that ominous character.

When on the inside, man, I am
just bouncing off my internal walls.

I'm just trying to keep
it together and do what

I'm supposed to do and
make this first impression.

And then you have to take into
consideration, waiting in the ring,

Dusty Rhodes, Bret the Hitman Hart,
Jim the Anvil Neidhart, Coco Beware,

all these top guys at
the time are in the ring.

And I'm about to go
lay waste to all of them.

Nasty, nasty look.

Look at that.

Just looking to hurt
people, are you?

It was quiet.

You could hear people
talking like, holy crap.

What is this?

Whoa.

They're just completely
focused in on what this is.

It hits like a ton of...

People were just mesmerized by
this character that was coming out.

So it was really cool.

Vince McMahon's
big vision comes to life.

Everything WCW could have had.

But didn't.

Because the one
thing WCW didn't.

didn't have was imagination.

And Mark was going
to make this work.

And he was gonna make it stick.

Because he's already
experienced the failure in WCW.

And he's not
gonna let himself...

or even WWE screw this up.

The Undertaker is absolutely running
rampant through the ranks of the World

Wrestling Federation, leaving
a trail of devastation in his wake.

The eye roll just happened.

I was wrestling Greg the Hammer
Valentine and I slapped a choke on him.

And I don't know what made me do it,
but I rolled my eyes back into my head.

When I went backstage, everybody
was freaking out like, whoa, what was that?

That was the coolest
thing I'd ever seen.

And then, like, I always knew I had a
fairly long tongue and I remember Gene

Simmons from Kiss, you
know, and he would do that.

So that I probably stole from
Gene Simmons, but obviously

became kind of an iconic
part of my pin combination.

When you first start with WWE, you
have to have your signature finisher.

I kind of came across
that inverted pile driver.

Somebody used the analogy,
well, it looks like you were grabbing a

tombstone and placing
it on a grave and bang.

There you go.

Tombstone pile driver.

The rest is history, I guess.

Crossing the arms, the tongue and the
eye roll, which we dubbed as Shakespeare.

When the producers would say, okay, what's
going to happen after the one, two, three?

It would be, you know, straight
Shakespeare at that point.

They knew that I
was going to cross the

arms, roll the eyes
and stick the tongue out.

And another precursor that I really,
I've never really talked about is when I

was young, my mother actually
worked in a funeral home.

So I was around this
stuff at an early age.

I think it's all your fault.

My whole career.

You used to take me
to wrestling as a kid.

And then you worked
in a funeral home.

You let me run around a funeral
home and you let me go to wrestling.

Please don't tell
me I created this.

I'm just saying the evidence is
all pointing towards you, mom.

What do you like most about
The Undertaker, the character?

I didn't like him at all.

You didn't like him at all?

No?

He was mean.

He was mean.

I was mean?

I was a, I was a,
are you kidding me?

I was a, I was a favorite
for all those years.

I was just a little dark.

Too weird.

Too weird.

Well, it all comes out now.

What is going on here?

Soon all mankind will witness
the rebirth of The Undertaker.

It didn't affect me that much.

In fact, there were, there were some times
on a TV day where I'd get there early and

go and find a casket and
lay down and take a nap in.

Take a look at The Undertaker.

Does he look like
he has any friends?

Does he look like he
needs any friends to win?

Bruce Prichard was doing
double duty as Brother Love,

but he was still helping
Vince write TV at this point.

So...

He didn't really have the time
to go out on the road with me,

and that character, especially
early on, needed that sidekick.

I chose not to do that.

I chose to stay in the office.

I chose to stay
home and produce.

And at the same time, Percy Pringle
had come up to interview about a job.

And when the question was asked
to Percy, tell me about yourself.

When he said he was a
licensed mortician, I think,

you know, everybody's
jaw dropped in the room.

You made me afraid.

Oh, yes, you made
me deathly afraid.

If that wasn't fate, I
don't know what was.

When Pat and Vince heard
that, they were like, oh,

my God, he would be
perfect for The Undertaker.

Brother Bearer, what
is your first name?

And frankly, Paul Bearer
was much better as a

manager for The
Undertaker than Brother Love.

Ding!

Did you feel the presence
of my Undertaker?

What was so cool about Paul
and The Undertaker mix was,

like, Paul had the high-pitched,
squeaky, creepy voice.

There on the inside, inscribed,
glowing in the dark, who's saying...

And then you had, you know, you had the
Grim Reaper come in with the, you know,

the rest in peace, and
it was low and slow.

Rest in peace.

It was just a rekindling of a friendship
and a union that took place when Mark was

first breaking in the business, to have a
veteran like Percy Pringle to manage him.

Now, later on, when Mark is first
embarking on a new gimmick and a new

place, to have a familiar
face in Paul Bearer and an

experienced one to help guide
him through this new journey.

It was... It was such a
cool dynamic that we had.

It was the perfect match.

Rest in peace!

Early 90s.

I'd come into town, and I went
by my mom and dad's house.

I got them a bunch of tickets, and
I'm working against Big Sid Vicious.

I was like, hey, my
mom's out there tonight.

She's a pistol.

We get in the
middle of the match.

He's got a rear chin lock on
me, and we're straight at my mom.

And it goes something like,
what are you going to do, old lady?

What are you going to do?

Am I beating your baby boy up?

Shut up!

What are you going to do?

And he didn't get it out of his
mouth, and here she comes.

And she's reaching for
the barricade as my brother

and my dad are grabbing
onto her and holding her back.

And I kid you not.

She had bruises the next
day on the inside of her

arms from where they
were having to hold her back.

She was not having it.

That's when mom got
banned from wrestling.

Was anything I said a lie?

Did I make anything up?

Did you not have
to get restrained?

Well, yeah, but you
just told the worst part.

That was your baby boy
up there getting his butt

handed to him, and you
were going to help me out.

Yeah, and I couldn't get to him.

I remember coming home
from that match, and one of

the kids said, how do you
like listening that close?

I said, I don't like it.

I never want to
sit that close again.

And you turned around and
you said, don't worry, you won't.

So far, the competition
here at the World Wrestling

Federation hasn't been all
that tough for The Undertaker.

The Undertaker is such
a dominant force that

you have to have an
equally dominant opponent.

And we had damn near run out of
dominant opponents for The Undertaker.

So we had to create one.

So I'm back in Memphis and I
got this call that they had this idea.

You're coming back from
the theater, you gotta hate me.

It's like, well, we'll put
Glenn under a mask and

we'll come up with this story
of why he's under a mask.

And they'll have
one match together.

We just kind of went through the
whole history of The Undertaker.

And, you know, I thought
my family was burned

up in a fire, including
my little brother.

And come to find out that my
little brother was always alive.

Kane is alive, Undertaker!

Burned from head
to toe, disfigured.

Forever.

He'd been institutionalized
and kind of forgotten in history.

But the whole time, his brother had
been watching the rise of The Undertaker.

Oh my God!

Wait a minute!

It's Paul Bearer!

And that's gotta be Kane!

That's gotta be Kane!

The rage, the envy, all those
emotions of a sibling rivalry.

The Undertaker!

Looking at him!

Looking into the eyes!

Of that giant who
stands in front of him!

It was just an unbelievable
story that started from day one.

When they introduced me from the first time
that I came out as Kane the Undertaker.

Kane!

The Undertaker!

You know, I took Kane off of the
name and was just The Undertaker.

But when he showed up and was Kane, it
was so, so good and it always made sense.

The Undertaker!

Turned up from the tombstone!

Driven down to the canvas!

This is shocking!

Vince is like, why are we
wasting one match on this?

This is actually a storyline
that we need to develop.

Oh!

I threw a lamb into the casket!

Undertaker is my
favorite superstar.

And the fact that they
were building me, they

were building Kane into
The Undertaker's name.

The mythology.

It simply did not get
any bigger than that.

I think that the audience liked both
characters so much that the audience

didn't want to see
Undertaker and Kane fight.

And when we finally
brought the two brothers

together, now the
audience was happy.

The evolving storyline of
two brothers over 20 years.

I can't believe it, Derek!

Kane and The Undertaker!

People were so into the
Brothers of Destruction.

There's no doubt that Undertaker and Kane
combined make the most destructive force

in the history of the World
Wrestling Federation.

And it didn't matter whichever direction
we went in, if we came back together,

it was box office.

You don't have no
fury but these two!

It didn't matter whether
we were wrestling

against each other or
we were tagging together.

People were enthralled
with those two characters.

There wouldn't be a Kane if there
hadn't been an Undertaker in the end.

So I owe him a lot, both
professionally and personally.

I get it all the
time to this day.

Are you and Kane
really brothers?

I look at him as a brother,
so brothers in spirit.

I rank Undertaker-Kane
number one.

I think it ranks right up
there with Austin McMahon.

I think it's either number
one or number two

of the greatest storylines
that it's ever been.

The Undertaker will
bury those deaths.

Not with these WWF
figures right along.

Now Boston is
laying down the law.

It's lights out.

He was the leader.

He was the head of
everything we were doing.

And I know your real name.

Nah.

What?

My name's not Mark.

I'm the Undertaker.

Hey girls, don't you know
he's not a real athlete?

He's just a wrestler.

Easy little man.

It was always that next level, and
that next level was the Undertaker.

No matter what the sort of
version of the character is,

every single one of them
captivated people's imaginations.

All right, bud.

Like, I can remember, you know, late
90s, like, fans sending him vials of blood.

Their blood in these vials.

And, you know, they
would bring him stuff

backstage, and he
would be like, vial of blood.

Sleeves of tattoos of him, or tattoos
all over their bodies of him, or just stuff

that you would think, you know,
we should call the cops, maybe.

I've had this tattoo
for a long time.

Today it's finally going to
get signed by the Undertaker.

And it'll be tattooed straight
over, so it'll be part of me forever.

He's a badass.

You know, you love
to beat up your boss.

You love, you know,
you don't get to do that.

So when other people get to
do it, it's just a great thing to see.

This is like Babe Ruth
when my father was little.

It was so many people.

And, you know, people that would come in
character as him, or that would be there,

you know, he'd walk by, and it's
people dropping down and bowing to him.

And, like, as if he was
this real demonic overtaker.

Like an overlord in a
movie or something.

The Undertaker mistake is legit.

You know, when he's standing out there
and that purple haze would come up and the

lighters would go up, you know,
like the old Grateful Dead concert.

Every night when his music would go
off, Paul Bearer would roll up his jacket

sleeve and show me that the hairs
on his arm were standing on end.

And I'll never forget watching
The Undertaker come out.

And I thought to myself for a second, I was
like, oh, my God, that's The Undertaker.

It's overwhelming
in a wonderful way.

You're just sitting there
thinking, this is cool, this is cool.

He's coming after me.

This is cool.

I was awe-stricken.

It was really an amazing moment.

And that's when I truly knew
that I had arrived in WWE.

It was unlike
wrestling anybody else.

Like, you understand
as it's happening what

an honor it is to be
in the ring with him.

And then you just have to
convince yourself that you belong.

That you should be hanging
with him, that you're on that level.

Mick Foley figured out
what his niche would be.

And he capitalized on it.

And his deal was
extreme violence.

The rivalry between Undertaker
and Mankind had gone

through different machinations
and gone the whole gambit.

And we got to
the Hell in a Cell.

Ladies and gentlemen, as
you take a look at this apparatus,

one would have to imagine
that it was conceived in Mankind.

Which was the definitive match.

Fifteen-foot walls.

Surrounded by a cage roof.

Twisted steel.

To this day, it's hard for me to have
a conversation with anybody, any fan,

that they don't bring up
Hell in a Cell with Mick Foley.

Two men enter.

Only one man can leave.

Probably one of the most
extreme, violent matches ever.

He knew that I'd had
an incredible match with

Shawn Michaels,
the first Hell in a Cell.

And he didn't feel like he would be
able to deliver in the way that Shawn had.

I watched with Terry Funk and
I said, what am I going to do?

He started laughing and he went,
you know what you ought to do?

You ought to start the
match on top of the Cell.

Mankind is climbing the cage.

You're supposed to start
out inside the cage, isn't he?

And then he kept laughing.

And I got serious and I
said, I think I can do that.

Mick talked Vince into it,
but then they had to sell Mark.

Every day he would
just shoot it down.

And then finally he said, Jack, why
are you so intent on killing yourself?

The Undertaker says,
you want me up there?

You want to come
up there and fight?

I'm going to come
up and whip your butt.

Oh my God.

People didn't know as Undertaker went into
that with a hurt ankle and was hobbling

through the whole match with an ankle
that he shouldn't have been walking on.

There were a lot of things to that match
that just were that holy s*** moments.

A lot of them.

What's going to happen here?

You know, that was
Mick's calling card.

Not only how much he could dish out,
more so probably how much he could take.

He was willing to put his body
on the line to entertain his fans.

You carry a lot of responsibility
because if you don't do it the right way,

you know, he over rotates.

He doesn't make it.

You have to deal with that.

Never in my wildest dreams
would I have thought either one

of these guys would come
flying off of that hell in a cell.

You look up there and it's
just, no, that couldn't happen.

It'd be impossible.

Somebody would be dead.

To be completely honest, I'm
just hoping that he hits the table.

And as morbid and weird
as that sounds, there's a big

difference between hitting the
table and hitting the concrete.

A normal human being
doesn't get up from that.

I don't know if I can get up.

But if I can get up, I'm
gonna roll off that gurney.

And I'm gonna climb
that son of a gun again.

We knew from the get-go,
as soon as we got up on top

of the cage, the supports
that wrap the fence mesh.

You know, when you stepped on one of those
panels, you could hear them shooting off.

It was giving away so much.

He throws him up
on the other side.

It knocked me out legitimately.

Boom.

I realized I don't have as
many teeth as I used to.

It was pretty intense.

I was just looking down,
waiting on him to move.

You'll notice when he goes
through, all those people that

run and jump back into the
cage, none of that was planned.

That was people that saw that.

And didn't think he
was gonna get up.

And I'd seen that Undertaker
and Terry Funk exchange words.

The Undertaker looked at
him and said, See if he's alive.

Harry goes over it and
said, He's still breathing.

I remember time and time
again just saying, Mick, stay down.

Just stay down.

Oh my.

And he's smiling.

That was one of the most
violent matches that I've ever seen.

I've ever witnessed in the WWE.

You say sum up, Undertaker versus
Mankind and Hell in a Cell in one word,

train wreck.

And it was absolutely horrifying
as an audience member watching it.

He's just an incredibly
tough human being.

I would definitely say that Mick and
I took years off each other's careers.

In any given match on any given night,
you're really only a couple of inches away

from something catastrophic
happening at one point or another.

It's a tough way
to make a living.

At present count, I'm
somewhere around 17 to 18

different surgeries to repair
wrestling-related injuries.

Both my hips have been done.

I have torn my bicep.

I have torn...

my shoulder apart.

Two orbital blowout
fractures in both eye sockets.

Torn pec.

Broken ankle.

Broken hands.

More stitches
than I care to count.

When you're out with injury,
it's a very nerve-wracking time.

So you have to be able to get over
the mental aspect of being off TV.

And then where do you fit in?

On the back side on your return.

Yeah, injuries are tougher
mentally than they are physically.

It's a tough way
to make a living.

When I started with the
Undertaker character, it

basically took over almost
every aspect of my life.

It just seemed to me that there couldn't
be a Mark Callaway and an Undertaker.

Mark Callaway
became the Undertaker.

So it wasn't about getting
in or out of character.

That was one of the secrets to
the success of the Undertaker.

You didn't get to see
much Mark Callaway at all.

Mark Callaway didn't exist.

Mark would show up to
places as the Undertaker.

And he would limit his exposure.

And every move was calculated.

The man didn't speak for years.

You want to talk about
somebody who's all in?

If you went to a nightclub or saw
him in an airport, it wasn't the costume.

But there was no denying
that was the Undertaker.

Long hair, black
sunglasses, all black clothing.

Like, his demeanor
was the Undertaker.

I presented myself like that
because I didn't want to disconnect.

I didn't want people to see me in public
and be jovial, carefree Mark Callaway.

It just didn't work in my mind.

And fortunately, early in the
90s, I was able to protect all that.

And how are you, Undertaker?

Fine.

Oh, good.

Are those enough words?

What would you like to hear?

Rest in peace.

Yeah.

In those early years,
you basically got

Undertaker and a slightly
toned-down Undertaker.

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.

And I didn't really let a lot of people in,
other than my close inner circle of people.

We're on the road
250, 270 days a year.

I was with those guys more
than I was with my family.

Just a bunch of good
dudes that hung out.

The members were Masafuji, Paul Bearer,
there was Crush, Savio Vega, the Godwins,

Rikishi, Yokozuna,
Taker, and myself.

And that was the group.

BSK.

We played dominoes.

And that was a Yokozuna thing.

And Yoke used to be, come
on, time to play some bones.

Yoko, BSK, let's
play some bones.

Bones.

That's the slang for domino.

Bones.

And in the street,
we was on the streets.

We travel all the time.

And then the crew, of course,
we changed the C to the K.

And now you have it.

We went out night
after night after night.

We never got any trouble.

We didn't get into any fights.

Nobody messed with us.

We ain't got no problem.

Just don't run out
of Jack Daniels.

We have been through it, bro.

And I don't mean like
wrestling through it.

I mean, we've been
through it in life together.

And he knows what I mean.

You have those guys that
are going through the same

things you are and understand
what's going on at home.

And, you know, because they're
going through the same stuff.

And they know the
grind of the road.

He's the leader
of the locker room.

And a lot of that is
based on respect.

And he asks for respect.

And he wants respect.

Pretty simple exchange.

There wasn't anything in the wrestling
world that I didn't have the answer for.

Now, my personal life
was a little bit different.

I had more holes in that
than a piece of Swiss cheese.

This business is tough.

It's not an excuse.

But it's tough to be a
star in this business.

Because the only way you do
that is you've got to be on the road.

And you've got to be gone.

I love my children.

And hopefully they understand
how much I mean to them.

I do love them.

But I missed out.

I missed out on so
much of those early years

with them because I
was pursuing this dream.

It's just hard to be that guy on the road
and then come home and try and be dad.

It was the hardest, I think,
with my oldest son, Gunnar.

I think he got the
worst end of the deal.

And it wasn't that
I didn't love him.

I did.

I loved being home
and doing things.

With my girls, you know,
I didn't have really an

option to spend as much
time with them as I wanted.

So I'm very blessed
and very fortunate to, you

know, have a second
chance with Kaia and Colt.

I consider myself really lucky to
have another opportunity to be a parent.

In the very beginning, when The
Undertaker came out, it was gray and black.

And he was very simple.

The Undertaker was this
dark, sinister character.

And The Undertaker in our
vernacular would be a heel.

He was a bad guy.

But he was so good at being a bad
guy, the audience loved the character,

The Undertaker.

I was constantly trying to
keep that character fresh.

Look at this!

Look at this!

Oh!

He went to purple.

Whether it be The
Undertaker's tie or his gloves.

And you heard a little bit
more from The Undertaker.

My whole existence is death.

Mark made The Undertaker
character work over the years.

Because he evolved it
and made it change in a way

that I don't know if anybody
else could have done it.

Well, here we are.

Middle of Death Valley.

And the current fleet of
Undertaker motorcycles.

This is really a special part of my
career, being able to do this now.

You know, it gives them
an opportunity to see a little

bit more of, you know, what
I am away from wrestling.

In the motorcycle riding, jean-wearing
badass, is who Mark Callaway is.

And now you have the
American badass who's born.

Any time you take something that's working
and change it, you run the risk of pissing

off the people that support
you because you're doing

something different than
what they got attached to.

This place has just gone crazy!

For the American
badass, The Undertaker!

And instead of evolving the American
badass, you go back to the familiar.

You go back to your roots, go back
to your origins of The Undertaker.

I mean, the roots of the
character are always the same.

But it was just
the presentation.

And that was just my way of evolving
and trying to evolve with the audience.

The Phenom is back!

The return of the dead man!

American badass!

There he is!

The Prince of Darkness!

He's back!

WrestleMania, the
showcase of the immortals.

It's the way that Vince lets you know that,
what you're doing, you're doing right.

And you're on that card, and you will be
immortalized for being at WrestleMania.

One day, while we were on the road to
WrestleMania and promotion, Michael Hayes

was like, Hey, Undertaker's
undefeated at WrestleMania.

I was like, really?

Well, we need to do something
with this and make this something.

I don't think I was really
aware of it until my 10th.

That's the first time that
I really acknowledged it.

You know, after I pinned
Flair and I do the finger

thing where I count
them all off of my hands.

Hey, get it out!

Get it out!

So the streak really wasn't
anything that anybody realized.

Once people started talking to it,
Vince, of course, took it, looked at it,

and said, Of course I
meant to do it that way.

Okay.

Let's start making
a big deal out of it.

Who can be the winner?

Pete Undertaker at WrestleMania.

We got something here,
and then it just got bigger

and bigger and bigger
for the next 11 years.

He is 12-0 at WrestleMania.

It's an unparalleled record
for the dead man, Tony Mando!

The fact that it
became its own thing, I

really think it speaks
to how dedicated he is.

His ability to constantly perform
on the grandest stage of them all.

Tombstone!

We have a new...

world champion!

And he taps out!

And the streak is intact.

There were spots you want
to be in at WrestleMania.

You want to be in a
championship match.

You want to be
in the main event.

Or you want to take
on Taker for the streak.

I don't think there's four matches
back-to-back that are any better than the

two that I had with Shawn, followed
with the two that I had with Triple H.

Catching Michaels in midair!

Tombstone!

WrestleMania's phenom.

That was a four-year spell.

That was a four-year
story at WrestleMania.

And most people don't
really understand that.

The Undertaker is 18-0!

Not having any idea when I was having
my first match with The Undertaker or the

second, where this
whole storyline would go.

But then to have my two
buddies going in there.

The magic of that for Taker is that he was
able to make that be believed every year.

That, okay, this might be
the guy that beats The Streak.

And then, nope, it continues on.

The friendship, the real-life
friendship between the three.

And the rivalry between the three
also was absolutely legendary.

Three amigos.

Two guys that think the world
up, personally and professionally.

I think it sort of told the
story of a generation.

We all took that journey
together, almost from start to finish.

When we said end
of an era, it really was.

And that's what makes
magical matches.

And that's why those four matches,
they were just, obviously, the four best

matches, I think, that
I've probably ever had.

It would have been great to
retire undefeated at WrestleMania.

It would have been something that no
one would have ever been able to beat.

I don't think anybody ever believed
that someone would beat The Streak.

But there comes a time
with any performer where

they just, they can't
do this on their own.

They can't do this on an
everyday basis anymore.

Vince saw that opportunity,
an opportunity to do what was

right for business and get
somebody over in that process.

Whoever would beat that streak
would become a massive heel.

What Vince didn't see was
that he would become the heel.

Well, the decision to end The
Streak was made by Vince McMahon.

It went back and forth a
couple times, so much to

where I still thought The
Undertaker was going over.

And Mark looks at me and he goes,
Michael, they changed the finish.

And I was just stunned.

A third and five
to The Undertaker!

Brock Lesnar into the cover!

Hooks the leg!

The Streak is over!

I'm speechless.

So are 75,000 people here.

I hated it when I watched it.

I still hate it today.

If there was ever one character
that deserved to live on undefeated,

the granddaddy of them
all, it was The Undertaker.

You have to think
about business.

And, you know, that's kind
of what it came down to.

You know, it is what it is.

I'm very grateful that
The Streak went to 21.

And, oh, at the end of it, I'm
also very thankful and proud

that, you know, I was able
to pass the torch along too.

This could be a game changer.

There were two people I
did not want to meet when

I went to WWE, and that
was Kane and Undertaker.

Just from their personas on TV, who would
actually want to bump into them, right?

I walk into catering.

One of the first
people I see is Kane.

Lo and behold, he is the
nicest guy in the entire world.

And then there's Mark.

He wears black eyeliner,
black trench coat.

Like, he looks creepy
as can be on TV.

I'd say hi, but I didn't want
anything to do with him at first.

Man, she just chased me around.

Man, wouldn't leave me alone.

He'll say that I chased him
and I wanted him, and not true.

2007, when she came
on the road with WWE, you

know, we had worked
with a younger talent.

So he kind of started
helping me in the ring.

And then some of my girlfriends
and some other guys started

noticing, like, Undertaker
doesn't help girls in the ring.

We were actually in an arena one day,
and I was throwing the football inside the

arena with some other guys, and one
of these guys had dropped a pass again,

and it bounced,
rolled up to her feet.

She grabbed it.

She hummed about a
30-yard spiral right at me.

And I was in love.

The truth of the story is, he
saw me throw a football, and

he said he fell in love, and
that's just how simple he is.

How simple-minded.

Finally, I just gave in, like,
look, if you'll leave me alone,

I'll go to dinner with you.

Now happily married for
11 years, have two kids.

Hey, dude.

I'm basically learning how to be
a dad and be present all the time.

Now you're styling.

It's been a process for me to
learn to switch the priorities around.

It's been fun, and I'm just very fortunate
that I was given that opportunity.

Because my older children,
they didn't get enough of me.

He puts a lot of
unfair guilt on himself.

You know, he doesn't give
himself enough credit as a father.

As a husband.

Well, I think in any relationship, it's
always nice for your spouse or your

significant other to truly
understand what your job entails.

She's been phenomenal
in the sense that she

understands what being
the undertaker means to me.

She realized that I was getting
older and my body's breaking down.

I knew that had been
his identity for so long.

And it's something that obviously he still
loves so incredibly much until this day.

And I knew that was going to be hard
for him to leave something that he loved so

much behind and that had
been a part of him for so long.

You know, I never wanted anybody to have
to cover for me because I was too gimped

up or I was too beat up
and I couldn't move around.

There were many, many long
heartfelt discussions that I had to have.

It was about what's best for our
family, what's best for me personally.

It definitely wasn't an easy decision
or a decision that I made by myself.

I was like, I just physically...

I can't perform at a level that
people expect for me to perform at.

And that reality really
hit me that I was done.

How long did Stone Cold Steve
Austin's run at the very top last?

Two and a half, three years?

How about Dwayne Johnson's?

John Cena got a decade,
a decade and a half?

Thirty years!

Thirty years!

As a top attraction, as
a legend, the enormity

of that longevity can
never be understated.

Well, Vince thought he was going to
have to talk Mark into the Hall of Fame,

but lo and behold, the
Undertaker was absolutely ready.

I'll catch up with you later.

All right.

Love you.

Love you.

He's so fat.

He's so fat.

You should have...
You had to call me.

The Undertaker agreed on one condition,
that my dad had to do his induction.

Other than my father, he's probably
been the most influential man in my life.

This man is the most revered
superstar in WWE history.

Not only in the realm of sports
entertainment, but just in being a man and

the way I conduct myself and
the way that I deal with people.

The greatest quality our inductee
brings to the Hall of Fame is love.

You know, I don't know where I would
be or what I would be without Vince.

The newest member of the 2022 Hall of
Fame, Mark Chalaway, The Undertaker.

That one net.

Dum.

Hits.

Everyone knows.

Everyone knows who it
is and everyone stands up.

Anyone catches their breath
about to see The Undertaker.

In terms of all-time
characters, I mean, one.

I think why I say one is because there's
a lot more to Mark than The Undertaker.

Mark Chalaway
is one of my idols.

He is a mentor to me, both
professionally and personally.

To this day, I think The
Undertaker is the greatest

character in the history
of professional wrestling.

The longevity, whether
it be in the streak or

it be in that character,
no one could do that.

There'd never be another.

The only person that
rivals that in their positioning

of the lore and the
history of WWE is Vince.

Being inducted into the Hall
of Fame was just the icing

on the cake of just an
incredible, 30-plus-year journey.

None of that happens without, you
know, those humble beginnings waiting for

somebody to talk to
me at the Sportatorium.

Perception is reality.

Respect and loyalty
go a long way.

And no matter what,
never be content.

Why'd you want me
to get this so bad?

So you'd think through.

Had nothing to do with my
career or what I achieved.

You just wanted me to be done.

And that's supposed to be final.

Well, it is.

You can rest assured that
now that The Undertaker has

entered the WWE Hall of
Fame, that I will rest in peace.

Thank you.

I'm one of the people that believe that
The Undertaker's career will never be over.

This character could go
to the ring on a walker,

and the audience would
still stand and cheer.

They don't care.

They just want to
see The Undertaker.

That character is that strong.

Never say never.

I've got one bit in the grave.

I've got one foot in the grave.

I've got one foot in the grave.

Two empty pockets
and nothing to crave.

I've got one foot in the grave.