The Many Faces Of The Undertaker Ranked - From Worst To Best
8. The Zombie Mortician
If you were five years old when he made his debut, The Undertaker was utterly terrifying.
My father was a bodybuilder, a man who gave me full confidence in the ‘my dad is bigger than your dad!’ games of our youth, and even he remarked upon spotting The Deadman that ‘he’s a big boy’. 'Taker came out towering over his opponents, expressionless and seemingly impervious to pain.
I mean, death is scary at the best of times, but a dead mortician who has seemingly learnt how to wrestle and doesn't register when you punch him in the face? How can he be stopped? Well, Hulkamania, of course! But the impact of this character on the WWF fans of my generation can’t really be understated.
Looking back, it is kind of ridiculous, isn’t it? Imagine if the gimmick had been given to Charles Wright (Papa Shango, The Godfather etc) or someone of similar ilk. That is guaranteed WrestleCrap, right there. Undertaker's matches tended to be a whole host of stink at the time, due to the whole ‘he feels no pain’ thing seriously limiting things.
If I was writing this as a five-year-old, this would be number one. As a 30-year-old, the nostalgia is all this has.