The Many Faces Of The Undertaker Ranked - From Worst To Best
From mortician to nearing the morgue, let's judge the heck out of The Deadman.
If Dean Malenko was the man of a thousand holds, then The Undertaker may very well be the man of a thousand faces. Okay, not quite a thousand, but The Deadman has terrorised World Wrestling Entertainment on and off for almost 9,500 days now so I dare say he’s up there in terms of tweaks to the face.
Although not really, as 'Taker hasn’t needed to do much to his persona over the last decade or so on account of being The Undertaker. I mean, that is all the gimmick he requires, right? We’re talking about the chap whose yard we happen to be standing in, and the old pro knows enough about professional wrestling to mix things up from time to time.
The Undertaker entered our collective entertainment schedule as a zombie wrestling mortician managed by an overly tanned preacher of love. Things improved from there, although Brother Love was pretty awesome.
In the 26 years that have passed since that fateful night, The Phenom has been an angry ginger biker, a legitimately terrifying cult leader, an old guy with a mohican and a dead man, with several changes and variations in between.
At what point was everyone’s favourite dead guy at his best? Let’s rank his faces from least awesome to awesome.
9. The Post-Streak Wilderness
Let’s be honest - since The Streak ended, the Deadman simply hasn’t been the same.
His feud with Bray Wyatt was lacklustre as a result of that whole ’21 and 1’ thing, his winter appearances last year did nothing more than stomp Bray and his boys a little further into the soil and the less said about his feud with the McMahons at the beginning of this year, the better.
It is without question (as sad as it is) that Slowly Dying Mohican Deadman is the least wonderful of Mark Calaway’s World Wrestling Entertainment forms. Sure, as the Road to WrestleMania gathers pace I still enjoy hearing the foreboding gong of his impending arrival, but outside of the idea of The Undertaker there isn’t really that much left.
He’ll probably wrestle at WrestleMania 33, we’ll all probably speculate that it is his last match, and we’ll probably all be wrong. Again.
You can call it his ‘Last Outlaw’ persona but, quite frankly, 'Taker hasn't been around enough for much of a form to take place. The ‘Last Outlaw’ could be interesting, but ‘Old Crazy Dude With MMA Gloves And Tired Eyes’ isn’t.
Don’t tell him I said that, though.