The Undertaker Speaks Out Against WWE Exposing Wrestling Business

The Undertaker isn’t happy about the curtain being pulled back too far in WWE.

The Undertaker is the epitome of a wrestler who maintained kayfabe and stayed in character at all costs.

For years, he built up his Deadman persona, a dark and mysterious figure hailing from Death Valley, who would take the souls of other wrestlers. He would never do interviews, and even if he did, he would stay in character during those appearances.

The Undertaker felt it was important to protect his character’s mystique to keep fans intrigued. When he wanted to show his real-life side on camera, he adopted the “American Badass” persona in the early 2000s. During this time, he would dress up like himself and speak in his real voice for a brief period before returning to his Deadman gimmick.

The Undertaker has strong opinions about WWE now pulling the curtain on the wrestling business all the way back by airing shows like Netflix’s docuseries WWE: Unreal. He feels that too much is being exposed and doesn’t like that at all.

The Undertaker Thinks WWE Is Exposing Too Many Of Its Secrets

Speaking on his Six Feet Under Podcast to Cody Rhodes, The Undertaker shares his unfiltered opinion about WWE exposing too much of its workings.

He says that people have always known the nature of wrestling, and it’s no surprise to anyone that it is scripted, which makes revealing all the tricks of the trade all the more unnecessary, according to him. He gives the example of how not knowing how a magician does his magic makes watching the magic more interesting.

Everything is wonderful, right from my aspect and my end of the business, I don’t like it. Everybody’s gonna, Oh, my God, it’s old school. That’s an old school guy trying to protect kayfabe. Look, I don’t care if it’s 2025, it’s 1990, or it’s 1984. Everybody understands what wrestling is, everybody knows. Ain’t no big veil been lifted. Except I don’t want to go to see a magician and know how he’s doing everything.

And I understand that there’s a huge part that like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting. I want to do that.’ But there’s still that aspect, because you tell me and I’ll give you my perspective. Everybody knows what we do, right? But when I’m in the ring, my whole goal, my motivation, is to get one person to think, Wow, yeah, Undertaker just clocked him. Yeah, I don’t care what everybody else is doing that right there. That was the real thing. There’s always the doubt. Yeah, right. And again, I know there’s you know, the IWC and the kids out there, they’re going to rip all that apart. And I don’t really care.

I don’t think we have to throw it in people’s face. I think we’ve got too comfortable. I think we’re too comfortable now in talking about our business, and I struggle on these podcasts, too. Because it’s hard to talk, it’s hard to talk and tell stories without, you know, without lifting it up a little bit. But I think we’ve gone too far. And again, I understand. Everyone knows what it is, what we do, but there’s got to be a little bit of mystery.

Cody Rhodes then shared his perspective with The Undertaker, saying that the challenge now lies in creating a new layer of storytelling that accounts for the audience’s knowledge.

Here’s the challenge I’ve been presented with, and this is how I try to be positive about anything that’s showing our cards. It’s something that Shawn [Michaels] told me a long time ago, and I heard it from you as well, that you just said it in terms of making one person think, that was so when I look at it, I try to think, what’s the work under the work? That’s what I try to think, because there’s an opportunity now to tell them, Hey, you guys do know everything, but do you, right?

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