8 Wrestlers Who Saved Their WWE Careers (By Being Awesome At Something Else)
4. The Undertaker - Motorcycle Riding
A couple of caveats here: The Undertaker's career didn't require saving, but the Ministry iteration of the character had descended into parody. His eyes weren't the only set that were rolling.
Rolling.
Rolling.
Rollin'.
That's the ticket to relevance: become a biker, and adopt the work of Limp Bizkit as an entrance theme!
Second caveat: The Undertaker didn't excel in the field of motorcycle riding. He wasn't Carl Fogarty, though gauging by some old behaviour, he may have bastardised that name for the purposes of an insult. He rode cycles recreationally. But he had to be fairly bloody good at it, in order to fly down that ramp with such pelting speed at WrestleMania X-Seven without risking embarrassment and injury.
There was, after all, precedent for such disaster on the immense pressures of the major stage; at SummerSlam 1992, a severely inebriated Road Warrior Hawk parked his bike right next to his partner Animal. His leg was trapped next to the hot tailpipe, and the scalding melted his tights onto his flesh.
People were and are divided on 'BikerTaker' - he was either a cool badass or amid cringe-worthy midlife crisis - but he certainly looked and owned the part with a real authenticity.