9 Wrestling Personalities Killed Off In Mainstream Wrestling Storylines
1. The Undertaker
When you're nicknamed "The Dead Man", there's a good chance you have at least a tiny bit of zombie-ism in your medical history. And The Undertaker has lived up to his moniker by rising from the dead time and time again after getting "killed" onscreen more than any other wrestler in the history of the WWE.
He's been on the receiving end of a good ol' fashioned murder in a variety of ways: being buried alive, or stuffed into a sealed casket, or buried alive inside a sealed casket, or stuffed into a sealed casket that was then set on fire. Plenty of death-centric storylines to choose from in Taker's lengthy career.
Perhaps The Undertaker's most notorious death, though, involved his Casket Match against Yokozuna at the 1994 Royal Rumble. With a little help from a lot of friends, Yokozuna managed to get The Phenom in the casket and close the lid. During his celebration, however, the lights in the arena suddenly go black and footage of The Undertaker -- from inside the casket -- is shown on the TitanTron.
His eyes snap open, and he says some vaguely mystical mumbo jumbo about his eternal flame being inextinguishable. Then his spirit escapes the coffin and literally levitates up and out of the arena. It was just as ridiculous as it sounds.