The Undertaker's 10 Greatest Pre-WWE Moments

Only six years in length, The Undertaker's pre-WWF career is a prime example of a wrestler taking a situation where much is not expected, but motivating themselves to earn the absolute most out of each seemingly dead-end stop along the way. As "Texas Red" in World Class Championship Wrestling he faced the likes of Bruiser Brody as a rookie, moving onto to Memphis as ex-convict Master of Pain and gaining experience with the likes of Dutch "Zeb Colter" Mantel and Jerry "The King" Lawler. The great benefit to being in Memphis in 1989 was the co-promotional deal that Memphis and World Class had signed to create the USWA, allowing Calaway to also wrestling in Dallas as masked grappler The Punisher, too. By the time he made it to New Japan as "Punisher Dice Morgan" in 1990, he was moving quickly along, an abbreviated stop in WCW as Mean Mark Callous being important insofar as gaining prime-time global television airplay. Appearing in Suburban Commando with Hulk Hogan before signing with the WWF to debut at November's Survivor Series, The Undertaker certainly had ten pre-WWE moments that ultimately portended his greatness.

10. Punisher Dice Morgan & Scott Hall vs. Shin'ya Hashimoto and Masa Saito - New Japan (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rpopuegCA There was an era between 1988-1990 where literally every major wrestling promotion in the world wanted to sign The Undertaker to a contract to wrestle. Nobody of course knew that Mark Calaway would be best as "The Undertaker," so you get moments like New Japan Pro Wrestling bringing over Calaway as "Punisher Dice Morgan" to be paired with yes, the one and the same soon-to-be "Razor Ramon" Scott Hall to wrestle New Japan legends Shin'ya Hashimoto and Masa Saito on Pay-Per-View. Seven months before he signed with the WWF, here's Calaway showing off just what made him (at a time) easily one of wrestling biggest (in so many ways) free agents ever.