How The Undertaker Judged His Opponents
Who's REALLY worth the fight when you've fought them all?
When The Undertaker sat down for a remarkably long and completely out-of-character interview with Pastor Ed Young in 2018, it felt like an otherworldly outlier the likes of which we'd never seen before and likely wouldn't again.
With scant rule-proving exceptions throughout the decades, 'The Deadman' had been fiercely protective of his public image, even during periods where the paranormal aspects of his persona were placed on the back-burner. A sensational "Fab 4" series that opened up the lives of The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith in 1997 saw him blending kayfabe and reality ahead of the on-screen arrival of brother Kane, and a 2002 Off The Record interview came during his fleshed-out 'American Bad *ss' years, but these never became the norm despite the industry-wide shift in a similar direction.
While the aforementioned long-form chat with Young dedicated as much time to religion as wrestling, it was still a shock to the system to see somebody that had spent the bulk of his professional life keeping personal doors locked finally bust them wide open.
It has since turned out why this was. All cameras were rolling, including WWE's. His "Last Ride" was being captured, without him knowing when and what it was going to be...
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