The Undertaker Infuriated By Some Aspects Of Pro Wrestling Today
The Undertaker is calling for today’s pro wrestlers to make it look more like a fight and less like a dance.
As a WWE Hall of Famer who spent 30 years in the ring as the legendary performer known as The Undertaker, the Deadman knows what he likes in pro wrestling.
When the bell rang during a match featuring The Undertaker, WWE fans knew that they were going to witness an ass-kicking. It was usually Taker who was going to deliver it, but he certainly took a lot from his opponents as well.
After all, pro wrestling is supposed to be a scripted form of entertainment that closely resembles a fight and the ones that do it the best are the ones who get remembered forever.
In a recent episode of his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker spoke with fellow WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley about today’s pro wrestling business and what bothers him about it.
“It’s good for our future to know that you know guys like yourself [D-Von Dudley] are running schools and throwing some of those old school values and keeping some of that stuff alive. Because I think it’s going away. And for me, it’s kind of crucial to have a little bit of that, you know, like you said, not many people will chain wrestle anymore, but man, it’s good to have in the toolbox, and you never know when you’re gonna have to pull it out.”
“I think if things are the right way. There’s sometimes they can do it now [chain wrestling] and it looks like a dance. That’s a complete turn off to me. It just infuriates me to see the dance kind of thing, yeah, where it looks like Cirque du Soleil.
When done correctly, you know, when you watch people like Regal, when he would do it, yeah, you know, Eddie and Fit and all those guys that were really, really good at it. I love watching Fit [Finlay]. He was phenomenal. He would chain wrestle you, and you knew like that. That hurts. Yeah, yeah. You see a little bit. You see a little bit with Gunther right now too.”
The Undertaker Believes GUNTHER Is A Throwback Wrestler
One wrestler who The Undertaker has praised a lot since retiring is Gunther, the World Heavyweight Champion on the Raw brand. Taker made it clear he likes how Gunther handles himself in the ring.
“GUNTHER is a throwback. Yeah, he’s a throwback to a little bit of that stuff. He’s got that old-school mentality. I talked to him at the Netflix premiere. I just like, you know, his mindset and the way he thinks about things. He’s an old soul for this day and age. Yeah, it’s really refreshing to me.”
As the discussion continued, The Undertaker talked about how important it is to have what wrestling once was.
“Yeah, you got to have some of it. I mean, you can understand you can’t get all the toothpaste back in the tube, but it’s nice to know that there’s some guys that are coming along that still have some of those old-school thoughts and values and ways of doing things. Because as simple as it is, or as simple as it looks, it looks different and it looks real, yeah, whereas a lot of the stuff doesn’t necessarily look like it one hurts or is, you know, it’s obviously, it’s a different era.”
While The Undertaker isn’t wrestling anymore, he is going to be a big part of the upcoming WWE LFG (Legends & Future Greats) show on A&E that premieres on February 16th.