10 Veterans Who Would Be Ideal Role Models For Younger Wrestlers

Being stoic and seemingly impervious to everything helps create the image of a wrestler as ‘larger than life’, and there’s no one who does it better than the Undertaker. While it wouldn’t make sense for every young wrestler to start emulating the Deadman and become as stone-faced as possible, exuding a sense of focus and concentrating on the ring over the fans helps perpetuate the image of a big star.

There’s a certain way of entering an arena that differentiates a low-level guy from a real star. Most new wrestlers look to the crowd, show a lot of emotion and wave their hands, in an attempt to get the crowd amped up for the upcoming match. In many cases, those kinds of Superstars won’t ever break the threshold from midcarder to main-eventer. Why? Because they look like ‘normal’ people who happen to be wrestlers, instead of being ‘larger-than-life’ or ‘not-your-average’ person.

In the Undertaker’s case, he has rarely ever shown any emotion in his expressions, and has been ‘the stoic’ in almost every photo. Speaking rarely, being stone-faced, and actually ignoring crowd reactions actually helped boost fan intrigue, which in the end helped build him into the best gimmick in WWE history.

So if there are younger wrestlers who’re trying to figure out why they’re not connecting with the audience, maybe they should be as stoic as possible and focus on the match, and let their moves, and not their faces, get the crowd’s attention.