WWE: 8 Major Injuries That Ended The Undertaker's Career

4. The Cumulative Issues

With The Undertaker it hasn't so much been one big career destabilising injury like Steve Austin suffered with his neck. Instead it has been a cumulative build over years of mid-serious injuries. In some ways this proves even harder than one big injury, because your entire body then ends up aching in pain. Mark Calaway at this point has been described as chronically injured, constantly having to deal with the wear and tear he has put his body through. In addition to the groin and biceps injuries in 2000, Taker has also endured over his career a shattered ankle, a chest muscle tear, and a sliced ear. Compared to his major problems, these almost seem small scale, but they're not. All of these are only recoverable to an extent, they require un-natural recasting and repairing, every surgery Undertaker has undergone left him worse off than he was before. There's no such thing as surgery making someone stronger, it simply papers over the cracks and the grace of luck then determines how well the body holds up. In Undertaker's case, luck has rarely been on his side. What has been on his side is toughness, the factor which has made him a legend in spite of all of his limitations. He will live the rest of his life with joint pain and nagging aches, he gave his all for the squared circle of the WWE.