Nightcap WrestleMania Takeover ft. The Undertaker LIVE from WWE World

25:13Shannon Sharpe:Right. I think that's kind of a problem. If it solely dictates on that, then you lose focus of what it is you're trying to do. AJ Styles revealed recently that you gave him the gloves in your final match, the Boneyard match, during the pandemic. How did that come about? Because I guess in wrestling, like, when you're done with it, you leave your boots in the center of the ring. And so you knew this was it for Taker. Yeah, there was no coming back from the Boneyard win, lose, or draw. That was definitely it for me. I got everything out of the sponge that I could possibly get. Right. I rung it up.

25:48So, you know, I always, my WrestleMania opponents, I've just always, you know, when the streak came into play and then just my part as WrestleMania, I always wanted to leave my opponents with something that they were going to remember that with. So at the conclusion of the Boneyard, people say I'm crazy for it, but I gave the gloves that I wore in that match to AJ Styles. And he has them. AJ has the last pair of gloves that I ever used. So, yeah, and it means the world to him. It was cool. And he gave me his. so I have his gloves that he fought in and he's got mine and it's kind of a cool deal.

26:42I can look up on the shelf and like, you know what? We tore it up that night.

26:47Shannon Sharpe:So you knew going into that match, 20 plus two decades plus, yeah, this is it for me. The ride stops here. Whether they wanted to stop or not, I'm getting off this ride. Were your body beat up? Oh my gosh, yeah. My body was beat up 10 years prior. Yeah, no, actually, that night in the boneyard, like, I was looking for one particular match that I could hang my hat on and walk away. Like, I could put my six shooters up and go home and stay. And it just happened, you know, that match was filmed all, it started at about 8 o 'clock at night, and we finished that match at some time at, like, 5 in the morning.

27:33Wow. And it was at about three in the morning when I was standing there and I was like, I had a moment. And I was like, I'm done. Right. Like there is no, this is it. And it was a moment of clarity. And it wasn't any sorrow. There wasn't any like, man, I wish I got to do this. It was as clear as day. I knew that I got everything. The desire was still there. Right. But I knew my body could not, it just couldn't deliver. and I didn't want to live on equity that I'd built through the last 30 years. You know, this is a very gracious audience, but there's at a point you've got to decide, like, my legacy becomes involved in this.

28:16And I was already skirting that. They deserve the best taker. Absolutely. I would hate it. It always would kill me to know, like, a father. And I had a lot of them today in my signing today or in my photos with their kids. And they had watched me as a kid, and they hyped me up to their kids like, man, we're going to see The Undertaker. He is so awesome, right?

28:44Shannon Sharpe:Right. And then you get there, and you're like, oh, he ain't quite what I remembered, right? But so just the thought of that, it bothered me. And I just didn't want to end up in that. I didn't want to be a caricature of my former self. So I knew it was time. And, you know, I got back. I got no regrets. And I got no regrets, no worries. And it was a moment of clarity. And I got to leave with the match that I wanted. Have you found something else to fill that void? Think about as long as you've been wrestling. That's something that you love. You get up, you're forced to want to work. It gives you inspiration.

29:30It gives you motivation. Like Unc and I, football was all we had. That was my identity. It's all I knew. So every single day, that's what I wanted to do, and I loved it. What has filled that void now that you've stopped wrestling, that you can't wait to get up for and you're excited for once again? I don't know that I have just one thing. When you're focused, to play in the NFL, Well, you have to, you have to, people just don't understand the amount that goes into that. Like they say, oh, well, man, you know, there's Ocho Cinco on the sideline with his Hall of Fame jacket on, you know, cutting up.

30:08Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. You don't just do that by chance. You have to be great. Yes. To be able to do those things. But what people don't see are you in June, in July, with your boys going and working out in the heat and all the effort and the work that goes into all that. So, you know, it does become your identity. And everything that you do is revolved around not only being on a team, but starting, being great, winning Super Bowls. It's the same thing for me. my whole identity was involved was just being the undertaker. And I don't know that I, you know, hindsight being 22, I didn't, I don't know that I built an exit strategy.

30:55I thought I was going to do it forever. Yes. Like, you know, you're not, but just in your head, you don't think about it. I said, I'm going to, I'll do this forever. And then forever got here one day. So it took me a minute to, to like, okay, well now what? Right. You know, and I love, like, I mean, I love hunting and fishing and doing all that, But, you know, you guys do a great job. Like, podcasting, I don't know that it's it. I have my moments. It's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. It's a lot of work. And, you know, I don't know that I'll ever have that thing that gets me going.

31:33Shannon Sharpe:The podcast for wrestling. You said something very interesting that, you know, people see us play the game or play basketball, play baseball. Everybody sees the destination. Nobody saw the journey. So that's the hard part. The destination is, okay, yeah, I'm here. How did he or she get there? That's the very interesting part. I heard you say on the podcast is that you, and maybe I'm paraphrasing, maybe I misheard you, but you said, man, I wish we wouldn't tell all the secrets of how the sausage is made. Yeah, I'm guilty of it too. I believe, you know, everything is open. Everything's talked about openly now.

32:14And, again, I'm as guilty as anybody about it. But I think as a whole, for the sake of the business, there needs to be a stopping point. A little secrecy. I think, I don't think you like, I don't know. I just, I could be wrong there. And, you know, in my day, obviously, I came in the generation where you don't talk about the business outside of you just don't do it. People in the business. Yeah, exactly. So obviously, you know, we're not. I just think they don't that our audience, even though they think they might want to know, I think that there was a certain amount of secrecy being able to have that.

32:56I think it would be I think the product would be more fun.

32:59Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Right. Because if you already know what's going to happen or if this is going to happen, then it's like, okay, I'm just going to wait for that part to happen. Right. Like, that was the great thing about Monday nights, again, in the attitude era. You had no clue what was going to happen. And, again, you had to wait. I think there needs to be a little bit more protection of the business. And I only use that word because, I mean, that's just the words we've always used. Right. Who revealed that secret? Because for the longest time, my grandfather would put you out if you told him wrestling was fake.

33:35Shannon Sharpe:He'd put you out of the house. You could not tell him it was. And I thought it was real, too, for the longest time. Who was the first person to appeal the layer back? It's like X, Y, and Z. Well, I don't know that there was just one person that, you know, there was the time period where Vince went and he had to, we were having to fight athletic commissions. Right. And pay an exorbitant amount of money to these athletic commissions for what? Right. So, I mean, I think everybody knows what wrestling is, but I don't think you want it thrown in your face. Right. Yeah. And it's okay. Everybody says, oh, wrestling is fake.

34:13Wrestling is not fake. It is a form of sports entertainment, and it's a specific form of sports entertainment.

34:22Shannon Sharpe:what we do is genuinely real for what it is that we do yeah well if i'm breaking bones tearing my acl and achilles that's real yes but i got i got 20 surgeries that say it's as damn as real as it needs to be i remember the first uh i don't know if you remember this taken ocho you remember what uh i think it was fox had a series where they had this guy that was revealing all the magic tricks and so you remember that and it was kind of like we knew come on yeah but i'm just like i don't even want to know i just after the first i was like i don't want to watch anymore because i still want to have the illusion exactly that he's doing something that nobody else can do that is a perfect analogy and it's the same same thing with with wrestling i just i think it's just better if you know i don't i don't want to go to i don't want to know how the trick's done i just don't I want to be entertained.

35:12I want to think about how it's done. Yeah. Right? I just, it just, to me, it suspends everyone's sense of reality. And that's a brilliant analogy. It's really good.

35:22Shannon Sharpe:Is there a lot of father-sons? Because we see in basketball father-sons, we see football father-sons, baseball father-sons. Are there a lot of father-sons in wrestling? Yes, there is. I just know Cody. I just know Cody and Dustin. Yeah, no, there's plenty. And unfortunately, I've wrestled dads, and now I've wrestled their sons. I've been around. But, yo, man, there's tons, and there's more coming. Coming, okay. Right? I'm sure that Seth and Becky's kids will probably wrestle. Yeah. You got all the damn Samoans. You know they're going to wrestle. Oh, yeah. The Uso, they're coming. I have a daughter that's ate up with it.

36:01Wow. Yeah. I think, yes, nepotism in the wrestling world is going to be. You got Rick and Charlotte. Yeah, man. It's just. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, it's a. There's a long lineage of second generation, third generation. Randy Orton, third generation.

36:21Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Cody Rhodes, I think he said Don Mysterio. He thinks he's going to be the next generational talent. He says his work ethic is unmatched. and we were talking to a lot, we were talking to Naya and Lash and even Charlotte said, you know, there are a lot of people, just because you have the talent, you know, you're athletic, you can spin, you can jump and do all these things, that doesn't necessarily equate to you being a great wrestler. No, absolutely not. No, there's a lot of great athletes that try this and just scratch their head and are befuddled. Like, I'm a world-class athlete. Why can I not do this fake thing?

37:03Right. There's so much to this. Yes, you do have to be athletic. Yes. Two, you have to have a different kind of mental toughness. And two, you have to be able, once again, you have to be able to connect. And just being a great athlete doesn't do it.

37:20Shannon Sharpe:That's not enough. I mean, in football, basketball, there's a lot of guys. Absolutely. that are just incredible. But for whatever reason, that team situation, it doesn't work out. Right. You know, and the same goes with wrestling. You have to have that thing that connects. There's a lot of guys that come along and, you know, we kind of call them ham and eggers. They're middle-of-the-road guys. It's just because they can't spark that extra interest. And that's what makes wrestling so difficult, is to have people interested in what it is that you do. I mean, the funny thing when I think about it, just being a wrestling fan over the years, it's an art.

38:07It's an art in itself. And everybody paints that picture differently. And when it comes to all the attributes and all the variables that makes a great wrestler, everybody doesn't have it. Sometimes there's an it factor. Like when it comes to football, you can look at somebody, just based off looking at him and say, you know what, he has the it factor. He passes the eye test. But when it comes to playing a position of tight end or whether it's receiver, when it's time to get out there and the lights are on, they don't show up. It's different. It's a different ballgame. It is the same. It's the same in the wrestling world.

38:41Yeah, it's just some people have it and some don't, man. And it's crazy. Like, you know, we were talking earlier about mentoring and all that different thing. It was so crazy for a young wrestler. Like, they'll come up to you and like, hey, take, you know, I got this match with so-and-so. What will you watch my match and, you know, give me some feedback? And I'm like, yeah, absolutely. And then you'll also see him going. Like, I think Shawn Michaels is somewhere here, right? So now he's got Undertaker watching. He's got Shawn Michaels watching. Maybe he's got Triple H watching. now we're all three going to watch that match and we're all three going to give you different advice and it's all right right it's all different you because you have to figure out what works for you right and what worked for me may not work for you it ain't working for sean michael sean yeah exactly and that is what makes it so difficult to be a top guy for wwe because it's just it's just you've got to have something that's different and that resonates again with your audience.

39:49Shannon Sharpe:But when you look at it, the promo is very important. You look at a guy like a Ric Flair, you look at a guy like a Dusty Rhodes, you look at a Rock, you look at a Stone Cold, they can hold this microphone, look into that camera and convince millions and millions of people to tune in and watch me kick somebody butt. You, you're like, hey, I'm not supposed to have a personality. I'm a knight. I'm an old school Western undertaker. I just come in. I just, hey, this is the body that I delivered to you. Hey, that's it. That's all I had. How is it that some guys just have that God-given ability? Ocho and I, we were best with a God-given ability to just be able to talk.

40:27Shannon Sharpe:Some people can work at it and get good at it. I think Muhammad Ali, rest his soul, he just had that God-given ability. That was just born in him. How do guys get, if you're not as gifted as some, how do you get better at it? Do you have to, like, practice like you do, like, football or basketball? Do you have to practice and practice until you get good at it? Reps. Reps. Reps, man. I mean, how many routes have you got somebody? How many routes have you run? And how many times have you figured out how to make that route better? It's the same thing. It's standing in front of a mirror. Standing in front of a mirror.

41:01Well, let me tell you something, brother. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Somebody might be doing that. Let me, you know. it's yeah i mean it just it's just time and time again until you figure out to one that you're so comfortable yeah you know like somebody i would have somebody come into the room and just throw something random out and then this is way even before undertaker it's like just give come give me a random topic and then try to riff on it and and make it like oh yeah that's that's normal like I can't even come up with really an example, but just throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, getting to a point where if you do get stuck, how to just be your way through it.

41:49Again, that's the hardest part. That's probably for me the biggest key. If I can give you a mic and you can go out there and you can captivate your audience, I can teach you to wrestle. I can teach you well enough. There's been great guys that drew a lot of money that could barely tie their... Copenhagen Spit Free packs American-grown tobacco into pouches. Made for when your elbow's deep in an engine block. They're masked up, torching deep cuts into stubborn pipes. Her helmet's on, riding deep into backcountry. When there's no time or space to spit, grab Copenhagen's spit-free pouches. Find them in stores today.

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46:05Shannon Sharpe:Is that all a part of it also? So when you go to NXT or they come see you guys, is that all a part of it? It's just not ring work. Obviously, you have to get in front of the camera and do other things and things of that nature. So is Is that a part of the schooling process that you have to go through and not just ring and how to come off a rope or jive off a turnbuckle or something like that? Yeah, the actual in-ring stuff is probably the easiest part. Oh, okay. I mean, obviously there's guys that are so gifted that can do incredible moves and all that. But to me, watching somebody who's going to be great, the wrestling part of it is that simple.

46:48having this and being able to again keep them in the palm of your hand yep that is the gift right that i mean there's been a million guys like i'll tell you rock for instance when rock debuted in madison square garden i looked at you know he's a you know he's a second third generation as well yep and i remember him coming out and he had that ridiculous thing around him and he was going to be right and I think it was Godfather I was like oh this guy who he gonna make it man and I missed I missed but somewhere in that time period he got a hold of the mic and then he separated himself like wow yeah this guy is really talented but you have to yeah I mean if you can do it with the mic and you can make people you got to there's two that you got to make people love you you got to make them hate you right there ain't no in between and it doesn't matter right and i could care less you can love me you hate me but you have to have a feeling right if you don't if you don't feel you're you're wasting your time how do they determine

48:02Shannon Sharpe:whether you're going to be good or the heel or do you determine that how does that go how does that happen if and then how does it flip yeah a lot of times it's it's kind of trial and error okay you know some people like oh this guy looks you know he looks like this or he looks like that and you kind of got you get kind of stereotyped into a role right um and then you know i get it's it's trial and error like okay maybe he's not a you know maybe he isn't a maybe he isn't a bad guy So let's see what his tendencies are. And everybody usually has some type of tendency you pick up on really, really quick.

48:38Like, you know, he didn't like losing. He doesn't like doing that. He's a baby face. He's a good guy. Okay. And this guy, he'll, you know, he'll put his thumb in your eyeball. He's a little more edgy. So, again, and again, I remember back in the day when the honky-tonk man came in. And they built Honky Tonk Man up like he was going to be the biggest good guy that ever came down the pipe. And the audience absolutely just destroyed him. They booed him so badly, and he turned into an incredible heel intercontinental champion. So again, a lot of it relies on your audience. And that was not the plan.

49:25Right. The plan was not for the honky-tonk man to be, you know. He's supposed to be the good guy. Yeah, he's going to be a good guy. And so you just have to, sometimes you can't fight it. You just got to go with it and make the most of it.

49:39Shannon Sharpe:Signature move. How do you get a signature move? I mean, do you have to have a signature move? I mean, some people have the figure four and some people have the sleeper hole or the full Nelson, Van Rompreski had the claw. How do you develop a signature move or do they say, okay, this is going to be your signature move? Well, a lot of guys that come in and they've already kind of got a move set and things that they've been doing. Okay. One, hopefully you're fortunate enough to be in a situation where you have to have a finishing move, right? You come in and they don't care, well, you're going to be in trouble.

50:15So, yeah, so then you want to, you got to have something that kind of resonates with your character. Right. Like, obviously, mine being the tombstone. Right. You know, in my head, I envisioned, well, this old undertaker was picking up the tombstone, and he was, you know, he was planting it at the grave. Right. So it made sense. Right. But, yeah, it's just, one, you got to do something different. Mm-hmm. You know, and think about all the wrestlers doing all these different, you have to have something that is different and catches people like, oh, man, you know, it has that wow factor to it. Right.

50:55Shannon Sharpe:Of all the WrestleManias, if I said, okay, Taker, give me your Mount Rushmore WrestleManias, the matches, who would you say is the four best WrestleManias out of, here we are, what, 42 now? Your four best, if you can recall.

51:14Twice. And I'm definitely not one to. So, WrestleMania 25, Undertaker versus Shawn Michaels. Okay. If I was going to show a young kid that's coming up in the business what our business is supposed to be about, it's that match. That's the one. It encapsulates athleticism, story, character, years of feuding. I think it encapsulated all of those things into one match. What? Another one. What?

52:04You know, Hogan and Andre. You know, I mean, that was so significant.

52:10Shannon Sharpe:That was the passing. Because Andre, really, that was the, he started out, I remember Andre in Georgia Championship Wrestling. I remember seeing him in Savannah Civic Center, and I saw him in Vidalia, Georgia. Back then, a lot of times, you guys were, I don't know if you were way back then, Taker, but they was wrestling in high school gyms. They was wrestling in really, really small venues. Maybe 100 people. Maybe 200 people would be. If that many. And so he was like the old, and here come Hogan. Right. And like I said, wrestling used to be very, very regional. You had Georgia Championship Wrestling.

52:43Shannon Sharpe:You had Florida. You had Mid-Atlantic. You had the North Atlantic. You had the Midwest. And so now here was the combination and McMahon and what they were able to do now, the WWF, WWE. Now is that all this was merging together and Andre the Giant, excuse me, Hogan was going to be the guy to move it forward. Yes, and that was the significance of their WrestleMania match. It was Andre moving aside. You know, Andre was the first global superstar of a wrestler. So he went from territory to territory. Like he would be in this territory for a couple of days, and he would go. I mean, he was a global attraction.

53:23Shannon Sharpe:Yes. And just incredible. And then, again, so Vince has taken over, and he's gone to cable television, and, you know, Hogan was his guy. So a lot of people don't realize the significance of that match just for the sake of the industry. And Andre did. So that's why Andre did business. Because if Andre didn't want to, he didn't have to. You know what? Hogan and Vince were saying, I think it was a documentary or something, and they were saying Andre could barely walk. At that point in time, his body had betrayed him. He's so big. He's 500 pounds. He's 7 foot tall. And now all of a sudden, his body has started to betray him.

54:05Shannon Sharpe:They brought him out on like a scaffolding. And they drove him down to the ring. and the guys get in the ring and they're going through it and all of a sudden he tells Hogan, slam. Yeah. Which means, okay, body slamming. Okay, not a leg. And Hogan's like, already? Okay, this is what he asked for. Boom, boom, and the match is over. Yep. I didn't realize, like, and I was talking to Lash and Nia yesterday, it's like, sometimes you forget the sequence. And, you know, you gather and they're talking and you have a referee that has the producer. Not back then, but yes. You did. So you so basically you had to memorize kind of like an Easter speech.

54:45Shannon Sharpe:You had to memorize Easter speech taker. Well, sort of. So back in the day when when wrestling was kind of at its purest art form. Yes. Is everything was more ad libbed. OK. Right. OK. It was it was kind of on the spot kind of a deal. OK. TV came along and you had to hit breaks and live TV. So the product kind of changed then. But, yeah, there wasn't anything really to remember back then. It was like whatever Andre wanted to do. And that was what Hogan was going to do, whatever Andre told him. And Andre knew that they were selling quality, not quantity. And when it's time, that's a problem that you have to be able to, you have to know when to go sometimes, when to go home.

55:36Shannon Sharpe:Right. You can go out there like, well, I got six more moves that I haven't done yet. Right. You don't need to get the whole hit record in there. You just got to get the key points. Take a – look, when I was a kid, wrestling came on once a week. It came on Saturday nights. It came on really, really late. Yep. What's so hard for me to fathom is that it comes on – you might – you're able to see it three nights a week, and the fans are still craving it. Just like we did when it only came on once a week. And now you get an opportunity to see and you see Raw and you see SmackDown and you get these manias.

56:13Shannon Sharpe:And it's just it's still the same. Yeah, it's crazy because the the amount of content that's out there. Yes, it's it's incredible. I've always and have for many years like, man, are we overexposing ourselves? but that comes from decisions farther up the pay grade than what I'm doing. But you have to, again, if you're not, you know, the crowds are full, if you're not putting it out there and they want it, they want it. They want good. They want good wrestling. Now that I think about it, too, being a wrestling fan for so long, watching it over the years, myself, you being on the creative side, I want you to think about this.

57:01Now you have creative control. Uncle and I, tag team partners.

57:09Who are we wrestling? Like right now. And we really want to make this come into fruition. Uncle and I want to wrestle.

57:18Shannon Sharpe:Okay. Uncle don't want to wrestle. No. One match. We want to relive our childhood dream. I want to be Bobby the Brain Heenan. I want to be Paul Heyman. I want to be somebody like that. You want to talk. You don't want to take no bumps. I want to talk. You want to talk? No bumps. Tag team. Who are you putting up against? Modern day? Right now. That's what I'm saying. Tag teams are out there now? Let me think. Let's see.

57:48You got definitely baby faces, right?

57:52Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We'd be good guys. We'd be good guys. No, we got to be the heels.

58:02See, we already got dissension. Y 'all ain't wrestling one match and y 'all are already going at it. I think we're going to book one-on-one, lose or leave. I like that.

58:13Shannon Sharpe:I want a Texas bull rope match. No, you don't. Those are fun. That bull rope's real, believe me. But there used to be a lot of matches. You know, Texas death match. You had a steel cage match. and you had, you know, wrap the hands up and all kind of. You guys have kind of gotten away. Are they still steel cage matches? So occasionally they'll do a steel cage. I think we have war games. I guess it's kind of considered, you know, a cage match. But then you have, you've got Hell in a Cell. Okay. And then you have, what's the other one in February? Chamber, yeah. Chamber. Punchy. The bumps are real.

58:59Yeah. Yeah, so we have those themed matches. Yes. And occasionally something will happen through the course of a storyline where you'll lock them up. It's a different vibe these days, but that used to be the be-all to end-all was going to Steel Cage. Yeah. You knew you were going to get blood and it was going to be a violent.

59:26Shannon Sharpe:Nobody can bleed like Ric Flair. Nobody can bleed like Dusty. Dusty. Dusty Flair. Yeah, hey, yeah. Those are probably two of the best bleeders. Wildfire Tommy Rich. Yeah. He was a good bleeder. The fabulous Freebird. Do you, if I'm not mistaken, I think Rey Mysterio might be the only one that still wears a mask. You know, back then, they used to have a lot of guys, Mr. Wrestling No. 1 and 2, the Super Destroyers. There are a lot of guys that had masks on. You guys don't have guys with masks very much other than Mysterio, right? Well, we've got Dragon Lee. Oh. Yeah. We got, hey, if you want mask guys, come down to AAA.

1:00:12We got lots of mask guys down there. Libre. Lucha Libre, brother. Yes, yes. But, yeah, you know, the thing with wearing a mask, and a lot of people don't really think about this is you can't see their face. You can't see their face, right? That might have been the most silly thing that I've said. But when you watch something, when you watch wrestling, you kind of key in on the face. Yes. The face tells the whole story. Yes. The face tells you whether you're happy, whether you're sad, whether you're pissed off, whether you're hurt, whether you're happy to see the other guy hurt. So you lose a lot of storytelling ability when you wear a mask.

1:00:50Shannon Sharpe:Okay. And that's a lot of people don't think about that. I used to love when they tried to take the mask off in the ring. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's big business down south of AAA, man. We got a huge mask coming up. A huge mask match coming up. Mask versus mask. Right. The El Grandes. You guys have been, yep. Thank you guys so much. Here he is, The Undertaker.

1:01:21Oh, man.

1:02:00We'll be right back.

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