In the wake of Sting retiring in AEW after a near-forty year career, The Undertaker has reflected on the possibility of one more match.
The Undertaker last wrestled at WrestleMania 36 in 2020, facing AJ Styles in a Boneyard Match, part one of which can be seen below this news story.
As he approaches four years of retirement, the real-life Mark Calaway spoke about retiring from the ring in a Patreon Q&A on his Six Feet Under podcast, saying:
“I knew my time had come, but I wasn’t ready for it to come. I just knew that my body couldn’t deliver on what my mind and my heart wanted to give the fans. So it was kind of difficult.
“You have to remember that, for over half of my life, being in the ring is what I did. And then it’s not there anymore. And it does — it leaves a huge void in you. Because you’re trying to fill that void, which was a passion, and you’re trying to find out what that next passion is and what it is that you’re going to sink your teeth into. There just may not be something that will ever refill that void.”
He would reveal that when he’s backstage at a WWE show, there’s something inside him that still wants him wrestle, pointing out that the feeling hasn’t gone away four years later.
As for one more match, it’s something that The Undertaker has definitely seemingly considered, saying:
“It’s still tough for me. I’m still coming to grips with it. And I may or may not have said to my wife recently that I was going to make a comeback. Fortunately, I think I’ve talked myself out of that.
“No, there’s not one more match. It was just like — I just got back from Australia, I was tired, and I knew I had a lot of stuff coming up. And that was me just feeling comfortable saying it… Don’t expect it. There’s not one more match. Don’t even start.”
He would go on to joke that one more match could have happened if Sting hadn’t retired.
The Undertaker will be appearing during WrestleMania 40 weekend, performing his 1 deadMAN Show at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on April 4.
Transcript from F4W Online.
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