The Undertaker has gone through many changes throughout his three-decade-long career. One of his favorite gimmicks was the American Badass, and some fans agree with him. He returned to his Dead Man character while still having some bits of his American badass persona.
During Something To Wrestle With, Bruce Prichard revealed The Undertaker hated the idea of going back to his previous character. It was basically a battle to convince him to use it again.
Mark Calaway hated the idea, absolutely hated the idea of coming back as The Dead Man because he thought with the American Bad Ass character he was multi-dimensional and he wasn’t doing the head snaps and everything.
He could work and go out and have a different style of match and he felt that if he came back as the Dead Man that he would have to go back to the Dead Man persona in the ring. We all felt, ‘Look, let’s give them that at WrestleMania (The Dead Man), but then you can evolve in the ring with your work. You can work likethe American Bad Ass, but you’re The Undertaker. You’re in your old garb.’ It was a battle.
It was a multi-month battle to really convince him that this would work and he didn’t think that people wanted The Dead Man back, he really didn’t. He just wanted to continue on with The American Bad Ass and felt it was a step back to go to the old Undertaker.
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h/t to WrestleZone for the transcription.
