10 Shocking Wrestler Ages That Will Blow Your Mind

8. The Undertaker

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Not to undersell the Undertaker's immense longevity or anything, because it's obviously very impressive, but the man was barely asked to move, much less bump, for a good six years there before the brilliant Mick Foley spoke to his working ambitions.

So in effect, 'Taker worked like a man in his 20s in his 30s because he debuted under the persona at just 25 years old and worked matches against the likes of Giant Gonzalez and King Kong Bundy as if teetering on the edge of a swimming pool.

25!

He was a giant of a bloke, which helped, as did the corpse make-up that cast him as the ageless living dead. But it's still a brain-scrambler, particularly since there was a surplus of seasoned talents on the circuit in an era that hadn't yet grieved the pronounced death of the territories. It's also wild given WWE's philosophy in 2021.

If the Undertaker came up at 25 today, he'd be made to wear a 'Property of the WWE Performance Center' t-shirt and left to rot on NXT, since the future is 35 years old.

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