Real
Name: Mark Callaway
Nickname: The Undertaker, Master Of
Pain
Birthday: 03/24/65
Wrestling Debut: 1989
Height: 6' 10"
Weight: 320
lbs
Signature Moves: The Last Ride, Chokeslam, Tombstone
Piledriver.
Championships: 4x WWE World Champion
Biography
Mark Callaway begins to make wrestling in 1985 the age of 22
years, its main objective to beginning career was that one to scrape together
some money in the independent federations convinced that a day would have
arrived its moment. In 1986 it works for the Memphis Promotion, that is the USWA
(United States Wrestling Association), its insertion in the federation was work
of Jerry Lawler (then Co-owner of the USWA); in short Mark time, than it was
made to call "The Master of Pain", arrived to the top of the federation, a lot
that succeeded to gain the USWA Unified World Title defeating Jerry Lawler. Once
lost the title it Mark is moved in the texana fraction of the USWA, where it
assumes the identity of Texas Red, but little time after will exchange again it
in The Punisher; Mark conquest the USWA Texas Title confirming itself newly like
a good talent, also this time but its hard reign little seen the defeat against
Kerry Von Erich, but although this in 1989 arrived the first offer from the
NWA/WCW. Its debut, like "Mean" Mark Callous, in the federation happens to the
end of the year, and after little weeks it went in brace with Dan Spivey,
forming therefore the Skyscrapers until then forms from Spivey and Sid (in that
period injured person to you). The brace however did not have much happened as
it could have waited for, a lot that Mark determined to undertake the career
from single where it obtained succeeded more. Guided from manager the Teddy Long
(hour arbitrator of the WWE) it faces Lex Luger in a match valid for the US
Title in the PPV Great American Bash 90, but it comes defeated. The WCW decides
not re-new the contract in expiration of little, and therefore Mark marries to
the WWE where McMahon Wins had in Serb for he great plans. The debut in the WWE,
like The Undertaker, happens in the PPV Survivor Series of 1990, accompanied
from manager the Brother Love: Mark was the mysterious member of the Million
Dollar Team, and the public remained endured made an impression from its tonnage
and also from its way to move extremely slow. In the encounter it eliminated
with facility Koko B.Ware and Dusty Rhodes, before being eliminated same he for
cont-out, but at this point was not spoken that about this new and terrifying
one wrestler that with its gimmick it would have changed in order always the
world of the wrestling. In the Royal Rumble of 1991 it comes eliminated from
Hawk and Animal, but just in these first months of the 91 it happens before
carried out of its career: Brother Love yields the contract of the Undertaker to
a new one manager, Paul Bearer, sure more adapted to the personage of the
Undertaker of how much was not Brother Love. This diabolic pair destroys in
little months many adversaries: Tugboat, Big Boss Man, Jimmy Snuka (to
Wrestlemania WAYS) and Jim Duggan. Although Undertaker is heel worst a public
seems but fascinated from its personage, much from often of the income in the
arena. Bearer while begins to carry with if a urn, which is the source of energy
of pecks. In the following months Undertaker it begins a feud with Completed
Warrior, and the two will be protagonists of one historical television segment
in which Undertaker coffin seals Warrior to the inside of one. It comes
announced a match between the two to Summerslam 91, but little weeks before the
event the WWE changes idea and binds Completed Warrior in a feud against Sgt.
Slaughter in brace with Hogan. Warrior and Undertaker dispute encounter single
in house show (the only one match between the two are present in compilation of
the Coliseum a Video), but it is nearly always Warrior to gain the "Bodybag
Match" (where the defeated one only came closed in a black bag) that they come
disputed, even if in the greater part of the cases for disqualification. After
this feud with Completed Warrior begins for Undertaker a short one feud with Sid
(that it will defeat in the edition of King of the Ring of the 91), then passes
to lay a trap the title it of champion of the world stopped from the champion
Hulk Hogan then. The two will be faced in the so-called "Gravest Challenge" of
Survivor Series 91, and to dull it is glamorously just Undertaker with the aid
of Ric Flair. After a week but it comes granted a rematch to Hulk Hogan in the
PPV This Tuesday in Texas, and this time is Hogan that later on adjudicates
match to one the night. The president of the WWE Jack Tunney assists to the
episode and decides to render the belt vacant, replacing it in racing silk in
the Royal Rumble 92. To Undertaker and Hogan it comes granted the opportunity to
obtain a number of advanced income to the 20, but this is not sufficient in
order to prevent to Ric Flair to adjudicate the title it of the world after one
extraordinary performance.
In its first year to the WWE Undertaker
however it had given the impression to be the champion of the future, also
because it is Hogan that Piper from them little would have left the federation,
and it is also for this reason that the determined WWF to change the image of
Undertaker, making to become face. During an episode of Saturday Night Main
Event Undertaker Elizabeth saves and Macho Man from a aggression to work of Jake
"The Snake" Roberts, then turns completely to face in one aimed of Wrestling
Superstars in which it meets with Jake Roberts (than for all answer it coffin
closes the hand in one after to have attacked Paul Bearer). The two are faced
then to Wrestlemania VIII, and Undertaker is gotten rid of Jake Roberts after to
be exited incolume from one double DDT.
After this passage to feud
Undertaker it begins some feud little interesting with of the wrestlers not to
its height. It is gotten rid of The Berzeker after that these had tried "to kill
it" with a sword, then it begins a feud with Kamala with which it will fight to
Summerslam 92 (to only remember its fantastic entrance to edge of a funeral
machine) and to Survivor Series 92 in a Coffin Match (encounter in which the
defeated one it came closed and sealed in one coffin). After Survivor Series it
begins the short one feud with the Nailz prisoner, then during the Royal Rumble
93 comes attacked and eliminated from the Giant Gonza'les, a wrestler gigantic
guided from that Harvey Wippleman that wanted to be revenged for the end that
Undertaker had made to make its assisted Kamala. Undertaker and Giant Gonza'les
face to Wrestlemania IX (large the entrance of the Undertaker on an accompanied
funeral wagon from a volture) in an ugly encounter, and to dull it for
disqualification it is just the Undertaker. King of the Ring 93 Giant Gonza'les,
with the aid of Mr. Hughes, the urn of ashes puts KO Paul Bearer rubandogli
also, what that it will prevent to the Undertaker to participate to the first
television edition of King of the Ring. The feud between the two however it did
not finish here, and in fact Undertaker and Giant Gonza'les face to Summerslam
93 in a Rest in Peace Match (a normal school Not Holds Barred Match) in which
Undertaker it succeeds to defeat Giant definitively Gonza'les thanks also to the
re-entering aid of Paul Bearer.
In the PPV Survivor Series 93 it fights
in the USA Team composed from the Steiners Brothers and Lex Luger, beginning to
give life to the feud against Yokozuna that Undertaker will face in a Casket
Match with in racing silk the title it of the world in the PPV Royal Rumble 94.
In this moving Undertaker encounter comes defeated from Yokozuna with the aid of
others 10 wrestlers, ending closed to the inside of its same coffin. >From this
Undertaker moment it will remain outside from the scene various months in order
to recover from some accidents and in order to pass of the time with the family.
In the summer of the 1994 Ted DiBiase annucia the return of Undertaker in the
WWE, but the wrestler that DiBiase accompanies in the ring is not the true
Undertaker but a its counterpart, wrestler the Brian Lee. Some weeks after this
announcement Paul Bearer, with one new urn, declares to have found again the
true Undertaker and that this last one would have defied the Undertaker di
DiBiase during SummerSlam. The match of Summerslam between the Undertaker he was
mediocre, and the public did not seem a lot been involved from the particular
one contest. To adjudicate the match it was the true Undertaker after a double
one tombstone that the Undertaker DiBiase put KO. After this Undertaker
encounter one rivincita is taken on Yokozuna defeating it in a Casket Match to
Survivor Series 94, thanks to the aid of Chuck Norris in the garments of Special
Enforcer.
Undertaker begins therefore a feud against the Corporation Ted
DiBiase, and defeats in succession IRS in the Royal Rumble 95, King Kong Bundy
to Wrestlemania XI in order then to meet to King of the Ring 95 against Mabel,
exiting defeated from the comparison for the interference of an other member of
the Corporation, Kama. Undertaker defeats Kama in a Casket Match disputed to
Summerslam 95, but little after she remains victim of a brutal attack from part
of Mabel and Yokozuna during an episode of Monday Night Raw: the two colossus in
fact importuning seriously Undertaker to the face, forcing it to disappear from
the circulation for various time. Undertaker will succeed to only return during
Survivor Series 95, where it will fight with one mask in order to cover the ace
disfigured from the previous accident. In In Your House 5 Undertaker it succeeds
to be revenged of Mabel defeating it in a Casket Match, and above all it
succeeds in overcoming of the urn of the ashes that in the previous months it
had been stolen and transformed in one chain from the Corporation.
After
this mediocre one feud with the Corporation, the career of the Undertaker has
carrying out in the PPV Royal Rumble 96 when it comes name number one contender.
It faces the champion of the world Bret Hart in match terrifying (in sense a
negative) where he comes unmasked for before the time after various months:
Undertaker only obtains a Victoria but for DQ due to the participation of Diesel
engine, and this will give the way to an interesting feud between the two. To In
Your House 6 Undertaker it interferes in the Cage Match between Bret Hart and
Diesel sbucando gives under the ring and attacking this last one. The mind games
from part of Undertaker to the damages of Diesel engine they continue in the
following weeks, and this will carry to the attended encounter between the two
to Wrestlemania XII. To having the better one is Undertaker after a good ones
match, but for Undertaker this challenge is nothing in comparison to that it
attends it in the successive weeks.
Kane, a feud in which initially
Undertaker one refused to fight against its brother, but the facts of the Royal
Rumble 98 made to change idea it: to the end of the Casket Match between
Undertaker and Shawn Michaels Kane took part newly that with a Chokeslam put KO
its brother, the sluices in the coffin and it gave fire to it.
Undertaker
after some weeks of absence returned in the WWE, this decided time to defy Kane
in a match that it would have been disputed to Wrestlemania 14. 3 tombstone to
the Undertaker were necessary (author of a splendid entrance in order to put KO
Kane, but to the fine ones in spite of the Kane defeat Undertaker was raised and
attacked once again. The two were faced newly to Unforgiven in a Match Hell, a
match fought on a ring encircled from the flames in which in order winning it
was necessary to give fire to the adversary, and to dull it it was once again
Undertaker with the aid of Vader.
After a pause in the PPV Over The Edge
98 (in which Undertaker it will be limited to the role of Special Enforcer in
the match between Austin and Dude Love), Undertaker demands one title shot to
the title it of the world stopped from Steve Austin. For all answer McMahon ago
Wins to dispute to Raw a match between Kane and Undertaker with in racing silk a
title shot in the PPV King of the Ring, and to exit winning this time it is Kane
with the aid of Mankind. The feud between Undertaker and Mankind it comes
therefore withdrawn outside, but this time will come caught up summits of
violence never touched previously. To King of the Ring 98 the two are faced in a
Hell in to Cell: Undertaker fights with one broken off ankle, but this enough
not to arrest its silks of vendetta. Mankind comes over for two times from the
roof of the cage, then ends on migliaia of heads some from design before
soccombere to the tombstone of entered Undertaker in a match in the history of
the wrestling.
Finally Undertaker becomes number one contender in a match
against Austin that will come disputed to Summerslam, but before Gains McMahon
orders to Undertaker to fight to Fully Loaded a match in brace with Austin
against the champions of brace Mankind and Kane. Undertaker conquest for before
turns the belts of champion of the world, but its reign in brace with Austin
will last very little. The two will fight therefore the most waited for one
match to Summerslam 98, a good ones match to remember in annals in order to have
seen the Undertaker to lose in clean way for before the time in
career.
Undertaker in the meantime with its Kane brother, and the two
participate in the PPV Triple Breakdown to a Threat Match against Steve Austin:
both schienano at the same time Austin, and the title it comes rendered vacant.
In the successive PPV, Judgment Day, Undertaker and Kane are faced in match with
the racing silk a title vacant it, but special referee the Steve Austin puts KO
both siblings, and the belt comes newly rendered vacant.
McMahon then
wins determined to put in racing silk the belt in a Toronto. It is Kane that
Undertaker participates to the a new world-wide champion, than dispute in the
course of Survivor Series 1998. The two "siblings" meet themselves in the
quarters of end, after to have received a bye to the first turn, in how much
both came consider you first challengers it to the title, and Undertaker
succeeds to strike Kane thanks to the decisive aid of Paul Bearer. In the semi
ends, but, the way of Undertaker towards the firm title it: the wrestler it
comes defeated from The Rock for disqualification, because of an interference of
Kane, that it had just the objective to make to eliminate from the
Undertaker.
Undertaker then begins a feud with Steve Austin, Between the
two a Buried Alive match to IYH Rock Bottom is carried out, and Undertaker loses
it for a decisive participation of its Kane brother. After which Undertaker to
compare from the WWE for some weeks, in order to resume itself from some
accidents and for giving time to the bookers of the federation to rethink its
personage, by now worn away from the time. To the beginning of the 1999
Undertaker it returns to the WWE, to head of the stable of the "Ministry of
Darkness", rising of satanic schism, of which they make part Paul Bearer, Dennis
"Mideon" Knight, "The Acolytes" Faarooq and Bradshaw. In little time they enter
in stable also the Mabel (renamed Viscera after to have been kidnapped in the
course of the Royal Rumble the 99) and members of the Brood, Gangrel, Edge and
Christian. Undertaker tries to make to enter in stable also the Big Bossman, but
it does not succeed to you: between the two a Hell in to Cell Match in the
course of WrestleMania XV is carried out. The match it is truly ugly, but
Undertaker succeeds to prevail and to carry to house the Victoria, hanging quite
Bossman in the end thanks to the aid of the Brood.
Spring 1999 sees the Ministry
of Darkness (deprives hour of the Brood that was removes to you in order to
protest against the ill-treatments that Undertaker reserves to Christian) in one
phase a lot important: Undertaker strikes Ken Shamrock, and to fine PPV raise
Stephanie McMahon. The day after to Raw is War Undertaker celebrates a black
wedding with Stephanie McMahon, but just in the crucial moment Austin takes part
to save Stephanie. Undertaker is said guided from the Greater Power, mysterious
personage of which the identity is ignored. Subsequently the Ministry of
Darkness comes fused with Vince McMahon' s Corporation and takes the name of
Corporate Ministry. Undertaker succeeds to conquer the WWE title thanks to the
aid of Shane McMahon, against Steve Austin to Over the Edge ' 99, in a
surrealistic atmosphere due to the dead women of Owen only happened Hart three
quarters of hour before.
To the shoulders of Undertaker there are Shane
and Vince McMahon, the mind of the stable that it is revealed to be the
mysterious "Greater Power", that is behind the strategies of the stable.
Undertaker succeeds to maintain to its title it to King of the Ring striking The
Rock, but it loses it the successive night Raw just against Steve Austin. To
Fully Loaded 1999 the "End is carried out of an was "match, than it is proposed
to close the feud between Steve Austin and Vince McMahon that is lasted two
years: Austin and Undertaker are met in a first blood match won from Austin, and
thanks to the special stipulations of match Vince McMahon must leave the
federation. Little after, Shane McMahon melts the Corporate
Ministry.
Subsequently Undertaker forms an alliance with The Big Show and
begins a feud against Kane and X-Pac, in which Taker and Big Show gain the
titles them of brace to Summer Slam 1999. They must but abandon the titles soon
them to advantage of the Rock' n Sock Connection, Shortly before Unforgiven 1999
The Undertaker abandons the WWE when McMahon Wins communicates to it that, if
had not taken part to a Casket Match against Triple H, it would have been
suspended from the WWE to indeterminate time.
In Undertaker truth long
solid career has need of a period of rest in order to cure the too many physical
ailments of one by now to fight on the ring of the WWE: victim of a muscular
tear to the inguine, of a problem to the hip that ahead went from much time
(guilt of a Chokeslam of Big Show that it made it to smash in the ring) and of
several accidents it accumulates to you in the course of the time was obvious as
Undertaker made much hard work to fight.
The return to the wrestling
active happens many months after, in May 2000, the course of Judgment Day.
Undertaker abandons the gimmick of "pecks", adopting of one new from "biker",
accompanied to the ring from one theme song of Kid Rock, "American Badass". In
that Undertaker occasion it takes part in aid of The Rock in the course of the
Iron Man Match that saw it opposite to H. However its participation Triple H
costs the disqualification of The Rock in the point of the match and also the
title absolute it for the wrestler of Florida. To King of the Ring 2000
Undertaker fight with Kane and The Rock against Wins, Shane McMahon and HHH in a
match with in racing silk the title it of the world. Its team gains the match,
but the belt would have gone to the author of the pin, for which new champion of
the world it comes announced The Rock. To Fully Loaded it strikes Kurt Angle in
the first one single match of a sure relief from its return, while to Summer
Slam 2000 it faces of new its Kane brother (than it had attacked two weeks
before to Raw): Undertaker tears via to the mask of Kane (of which but it is not
succeeded to see the approval) and the match it finishes with Not a Contest. In
a Fatal Four Way to Unforgiven against Kane, The Rock and Chris Benoit it does
not succeed to win, and same fate touches to it to Survivor Series (PPV that has
marked its ten years of career in the WWE) when, facing Kurt Angle for the title
it of the world, it comes defeated with one stratagem of Angle (in the topical
moment of match the Angle is made to replace on ring from its brother Eric in
order then to a Taker distracted with a simple one rollup). To Armageddon a Hell
in to Cell in which Undertaker is carried out it faces, always with the title it
WWE in racing silk, Austin, Rock, Angle, Rikishi and HHH, but also this other
onslaught to the title it is unfruitful. Undertaker succeeds but to leave a sign
in the encounter when with one Chokeslam ago to fall Rikishi from the roof of
the cage.
Undertaker gathers to its Kane brother during the Royal Rumble 2001
(but it will come eliminated from Rikishi), and thanks to this new pact it goes
close to the conquest of tag the teams titles, lost for a breath Not Way Out in
table match against the Dudley Boyz and Edge & Christian.
Endured
after, Undertaker begins a feud against Triple H, than in the course of an
interview it had asserted to have battered all the WWE had been able offload.
Undertaker never replied asserting not to have been struck from Triple H, and
therefore it was arrived to the match of Wrestlemania X-7. Was one of the match,
match of the year, and Undertaker succeeded to obtain clamorous a Victoria that
it carried its roster of March of Wrestlemania to 9 victories and 0
defeats.
In the successive weeks to Wrestlemania Undertaker it makes of
new brace with Kane, and the "Brothers of Destruction" conquers the tag titles
against Edge & Christian in order then to focus the attention to a feud
against the new alliance of the WWE, the "Power Trip", composed from HHH, Stone
Cold and Vince McMahon. Undertaker and Kane forgiveness their titles them to
More recently the Undertaker has been working on a new gimmick, he has also been
feuding with new sensation “The Next Big Thing” Brock Lesnar, which has just
ended with Brock Lesnar beating The Undertaker in “Hell In A Cell” at No Mercy
2002. Undertaker is currently taking time out to spend time with his pregnant
wife, Sara.
Sara recently gave birth to 'Takers new baby girl, he is
expected to be back in the ring over the Christmas/New Year of
2002.
Bio
by www.wrestlingentertainment.com
Editor Stephen Anderson & contributing sources