10 Shocking Wrestler Ages That Will Blow Your Mind
Arn Anderson, Earthquake and the Undertaker all had a rather hard paper round...
The Undertaker recently courted controversy for his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The man who at 35 years old started listening to Limp Bizkit to better fit in - your writer did the exact same thing at the age of 15 - lamented the make-up of the modern professional wrestler and WWE itself. To him, the product is "kind of soft," and it is "tough" for him to watch it. That might have something to do with the fact that it's f*cking impossible to tell who you're meant to like, and how Monday Night RAW with all of its rematches is effectively a house show loop that makes one town with no real people in it.
He went on, moaning that when he came up, things were different. They didn't sit around playing video games; they carried guns and knives. They were "crusty f*cking men" unconcerned about making sure "they look pretty". "I miss those eras, man. I liked when men were men," the man who had a treehouse club named the Bone Street Krew and literally wore make-up and dressed up continued.
'Taker is right in one respect. Researchers believe that the process of biological ageing has slowed in recent years. It must have.
How else can one explain the wild ages of...
10. Dok Hendrix
A former territorial legend of the 1980s, the former Fabulous Freebird is most commonly seen now teaching the stars of NXT 'The Safety Dance' ("We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands"). But before becoming a highly influential Producer in WWE, he shored up in the New Generation WWF as an all-too enthusiastic announcer going by the name of Dok Hendrix.
That name didn't help.
'Dok' felt like some hilarious, desperate reach to misspell something to make it cool. That was actually A Thing in the 1990s. It was a more innocent time, apart from the c*cks and t*ts you'd see all over barely post-watershed television.
And 'Hendrix'!
Christ. The mall kids of America were sure into their psych rock.
Radiating incredible divorced dad energy, the former WCCW mega-heel presented on WWF television in the mid-90s like an older version of the older cool guy in Saturday morning high school sitcoms where the high schoolers themselves were played by actors in their 30s. The man had to be at least 40. At least.
He was, in fact, 36.
36!