The Undertaker: The Moves That Wrestlers Are Doing Nowadays To Get Reactions Makes It More Dangerous Than It Has To Be
The Undertaker is not a fan of double backflips off the top rope.
On the latest episode of the Hall Of Fame podcast. The Undertaker spoke with Booker T. and Brad Gilmore about today’s generation of pro wrestling and how he feels what the wrestlers are doing nowadays in the ring makes it more dangerous than it has to be. You can read the full quote below.
“It is completely two different worlds. Never in a million years could I imagine how athletic these guys are today. I don’t know if it was the video games they played as kids, but they’re doing video game type stuff in the ring. I think, sometimes it’s a curse because they’re so athletic and they rely so much on that aspect that they forget the most important aspect of what we do — and that is storytelling. I’ve mentioned it to different people higher up and they’re like, ‘Well, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.’ I think at some point, we’re gonna have to figure out a way to get it back in there. I’m just thinking about their health if nothing else. I tell people this all the time and people look at me like I’m crazy, but any given wrestling match, at some point in that match, you’re two inches away from something catastrophic happening. The stuff that these guys are doing to get reactions from the crowds, it just makes it exponentially more dangerous than it has to be because after a while, people get desensitized to the crazy moves, the double back flip off the top rope onto the floor. I’ve seen it done a couple of times, now what do you have for me? So you have to continue to push the envelope where, ‘Okay, what am I going to do to get a reaction?’ It’s hard to argue with them because look, the business is great. It’s their era, it is what it is. Being there through the years and knowing what it does to your body, it’s like, man, you’re not going to have careers like we did. You’re gonna burn out, you’re gonna get hurt.”
The Undertaker last appeared on WWE TV when he assisted Cody Rhodes in defeating the Bloodline once and for all at WrestleMania 40 this past year.
H/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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