WWE Corridor of Famer Mark “The Undertaker” Calaway addressed those that thought he was embellishing issues when he mentioned wrestlers used to hold weapons into the locker room.
Previous to his 2020 retirement, Calaway had spent many years sharing the locker room with a who’s who of wrestling icons together with Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels. Throughout which period, he witnessed a lot of the trade change and evolve, particularly recalling it being commonplace for weapons to be carried within the locker room throughout a 2021 look on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the place he additionally known as the present product comfortable. The diminishing remarks towards right this moment’s wrestling sparked debate afterward, and Calaway himself has clarified that a number of the change noticed has been for the higher. However he touched on the topic as soon as extra throughout an episode of “Six Ft Underneath,” this time addressing those that did not consider what he had mentioned.
“Folks known as bulls*** on me once I went on Rogan and instructed, again within the day, that individuals carried weapons and knives of their luggage,” he laughed. “There was bulls*** known as on me, ‘How d’you undergo TSA?’ There wasn’t a TSA again then and we have been within the automobile. I am telling you man, it was an entire completely different ball recreation again then. It was the wild, wild west. I am glad, I’m so comfortable that the enterprise has developed to the place it’s now so guys do not have to fret about it… You simply did not mess with the individuals, there have been fights however you simply did not.”
Calaway’s description of the wrestling days of yore is just compounded by real-life happenstances, together with his 1987 debut opponent, Bruiser Brody, stabbed to dying in a Puerto Rico locker room the subsequent 12 months by Jose Huertas Gonzalez.
