#10 Will Professional Wrestling ever be the same again?
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Despite some noteworthy moments, this show will forever go down as Undertaker’s last ride. With no overt indication that this was actually going to be the swan song, fans pretty much read between the lines as soon as they realised that Reigns and Taker would be closing the show.
After all, if you’re going to retire the Undertaker, what could possibly follow that?
The mood was sombre and ultimately pregnant with respect and admiration for arguably the greatest ever talent the WWE has seen. It’s hard to believe that the show is really over, and it will be a few more months before it properly sinks in.
Wrestling as we know it will never be the same again, how could it possibly be?
You see, we didn’t just lose The Undertaker last night, we lost Mark Calaway. If the Undertaker was just some cool wrestling gimmick, anyone with a bit of talent could have ran with it and maybe enjoyed a tiny bit of success for a couple of years.
Someone might have made the character an effective anti-Hogan heel back in the 80s, or the American Badass of the Attitude Era, but only Mark Calaway could have made the persona of the Deadman the consistent featured attraction that it was.
Calaway embodied an era of Wrestling that is unrecognisable today. The guy very rarely broke kayfabe, didn’t get his face to appear on social media accounts across the world, and garnered the highest level of respect from everyone he met in what is a pretty cut-throat industry.
He gave his life for the business and made sure his character stayed at the very top level day in and day out.
After everything the guy has given us over the decades, he has finally earned the right to step aside and enjoy his retirement. Sadly for us, we will never see another like the Undertaker ever again. #ThankYouTaker
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