I’ve only seen the first three episodes of the Undertaker documentary “The Last Ride” on WWE Network and I need to finish the rest of it still now the final episode of the show is on there.

The Undertaker (real name: Mark Calaway) announced exclusively on his documentary “The Last Ride” that he’s done wrestling for good after the AJ Styles “Boneyard” match at Wrestlemania 36. Originally, The Undertaker and AJ Styles were supposed to have a regular match in the ring at WM-36 but covid-19 forced them to do the match differently. Instead, they made the match “Boneyard” style… filmed like an action/horror movie. Yup, looks like that’s the Undertaker’s last match for sure.

The reason Undertaker is hanging it up is ’cause he feels that he has nothing left to accomplish… there’s nothing more for him to conquer and he also feels that he wants to step away to give the new talent in the business a chance to shine.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2897095-the-undertaker-i-have-no-desire-to-get-back-in-the-ring-after-aj-styles-match

I’m sure another reason he’s done is because his body can’t take it anymore and he had way too many surgeries over the years like his documentary showed.

The Undertaker is definitely one of the most recognizable and most respected stars of all time. How can you not like the Undertaker? Even non-wrestling fans aka people who aren’t even into wrestling at all find Undertaker likeable. He’s the most respected wrestler in the industry for sure. The word “legend” gets thrown around a lot but I think that term belongs to ‘Taker and no one else.

Even though he was a huge man, he was a great wrestler and great mic worker too. He was also known as a locker room leader. Have you noticed over the years, not one other wrestler said something negative about ‘Taker? You know how other wrestlers talking trash at each other in the press in real life? Point me out where a wrestler said something bad about Undertaker? You’re not gonna find much of anything ’cause everyone in the business loved him. ‘taker was like a father in the wrestling business, ya know? Everyone looked up to him and respected him. Even the most hated wrestlers in the business loved him.

‘Taker had a great career for sure… he had matches against everyone in the business pretty much. While he did have a great career ride, I wished the long talked about match against WCW’s Sting could have happened but it never did. Sting, the guy known as a scorpion and wears makeup was dying to make his match happen with ‘Taker at a Wrestlemania but it looks like we’ll never see it happen at all. Looks like Sting’s in-ring career is about over for good too ’cause he has a bad neck.

My favorite Undertaker match of all time, though, was his Hell in a Cell match with Mankind at King of the Ring ’98. That match is such a classic and will go down in history too.

Now that it looks like Undertaker is done, hopefully he gets in the WWE Hall of Fame finally. That will probably happen next year ’cause the Hall of Fame inductees were already announced for this year.

I agree, though that there is nothing left for Undertaker to do. Wrestlemania is never gonna be the same without him.

Kev

I can understand why Undertaker and WWE don’t want to put Undertaker in the WWE Hall of Fame yet. Probably the reason is, they wanted to keep the Deadman gimmick mysterious and if they put him in the Hall of Fame, it would ruin the character. It would have made Undertaker look like a regular person and not a Deadman, know what I mean? Now that the Undertaker is no more, they are probably free to put him in the Hall of Fame. Hopefully that will be for next year’s ‘Mania.

Now that the Undertaker is done, Wrestlemania will no longer be the same without him. I believe Wrestlemania continued on to become huge successes because of ‘Taker. Over the years of his life and career, I haven’t seen anybody say anything negative about him. Not even other wrestlers said anything negative about him ’cause ‘Taker was always considered a locker room leader. Everyone in the business respected him and looked up to him.

I’m sure the WWE are gonna try to create new gimmicks similar to the Undertaker but no matter what they try to pull, no one would be able to replace the Undertaker. No one will top the Undertaker.

He’s gonna be missed but hey, superstars come and go in the wrestling business. That’s just the way it is. Undertaker wasn’t the first wrestler who retired publicly on WWE TV… superstars who also retired on TV: Edge, Daniel Bryan, Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin and maybe some others. There are some wrestlers who are still semi-retired but only perform occasionally like the Rock, Triple H and a few others.

I expect the Undertaker to appear on RAW tonight so he can deliver his farewell speech which should be interesting.

After seeing all this, I’m realizing we don’t have many superstars from the past left. There are only very few longtime superstars that are still with us today… we still have Chris Jericho, Big Show, Goldust and we still have Kane. A lot of rumors swirling around that Kane maybe retiring this year.

This explains why we have so many new wrestlers in the industry today ’cause all the guys from the past are gone from the business so gotta bring in new stars to keep the business alive.

Kev