The Undertaker for decades has remained relevant in the wrestling scene, despite having the same gimmick for the most part. There’s just something about him that one can’t help but be mesmerized by. The Undertaker recently sat down with Pastor Ed Young as part of the “Wrastlin’” series. He discussed how he kept his character fresh and would work to keep fans interested.
This is what he had to say:
“You just can’t — I never, once I got to WWE you know I kind of started to realize that we had something special with that character. I was never satisfied. I was like, ‘we’re here and we’re getting a great reaction, but what’s next?’ You know I’m always looking down the road to bring something new to the table that I gotta be true to what my fanbase and what my audience they’ve accepted and what they want. But you’ve also got to figure out other ways to keep it fresh.”
“So you’re watching what everyone else is doing and you’re trying not to do what they do because it happens so often in our business somebody will hit something and then everyone’s trying to do the same thing. So you know I was fortunate in the sense that my character wasn’t that over the top high energy. My energy was high energy but it was in a different and that’s what separated me.”
“So I take The Rock and Cena and Austin and Triple H Shawn Michaels Ric Flair and you’re seeing all these guys and you’re seeing what they’re doing that works and then you figure out okay, that’s what they’re doing. And then you try and figure that the integralness to what they’re doing that works for me and is true to the character and what the fans [expect].”
“I mean the business — and it is a business. There are so many guys who are there and they’re hungry and they’re trying to climb up that ladder, you know? And so if you kind of sit back and ‘check this out, I just sold out Madison Square Garden’ and you sit on it like that… there’s somebody else that’s climbing. So I’m gonna sell it out 5-times in a row, you know what I mean?”
“That was great. That era, everybody was clawing, everybody was fighting for the brass ring, you know. And that 2000’s the Attitude Era, it was insane.”
Only time will tell what Taker’s next plan in the wrestling business will be.
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h/t to Ringside News for the quotes.
