How The Undertaker Judged His Opponents
There's a terrific bit in the first episode of "The Last Ride" where he recoils at the 80-yard length of the WrestleMania 33 aisle. He's been in every match imaginable and put through the physical and mental ringer along the way, but this was the reality of the once-beloved fantasy - The Undertaker is now a wrestler that fears a long walk and doesn't mind admitting so on camera.
But this mattered more to him than ever before - it became clear in that split second tell, he loves this sh*t as much as the rest of us. As much as the fan that gets to experience it for the first time in adulthood and pops with the same enthusiasm as a child in 1993 when they first ingeniously shut the lights off, 'The Deadman' is a guy that still understands the value of that entrance.
The man takes his time getting to the ring, and this was going to take a f*cking age. It was in reconciling the scale of his task that time stood still and remembered when this was a stylistic choice rather than an enforced one.
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