The Phenom Undertaker recently appeared as special guest on the Victory Over Injury Podcast and discussed about several topics including his Survivor Series retirement speech.
The Undertaker announced his retirement during teh final episode of The Undertaker: Last Ride documentary. Later, he had final farewell at Survivor Series 2020 and gave an emotional farewell speech but his retirement speech wasn’t long as fans expected.
During the interview, Undertaker (real name Mark Calaway) revealed the reason why his retirement speech was short. He said that he already come to peace but it was one last time to put hat and coat. He then, feared it would turn into a blubbering idiot and he didn’t want to kill 30 years of his work. Here what Undertaker said:
“I’d already come to peace with my decision, but it was really real once I put the hat and coat on. Knowing I was putting the hat and coat on for the last time and walking to the ring in that capacity, it was tough. It was probably best that I didn’t say much more than I did or I would have killed 30 years of work and turning into a blubbering idiot. It was a tough moment. I had already come to grips with the fact that I had gotten everything out of this sponge that you’re going to get, but when I put the hat and the coat on, things feel different. ‘I might have one more in me.’ No, that was it.” – (H/T: Fightful)
During the same interview, The Undertaker was asked about how’s feeling in his day-to-day life currently after having a such a long career in professional wrestling. Then, Undertaker said that it was pretty rough in mornings and it takes some while to get things move.
He also stated that some mornings he wake up with pains, that he struggles to figure out and thinks that how would I hurt myself in sleeping. Here what Undertaker said:
“It’s pretty rough most mornings. It takes a while to get things moving. There has to be that initial assessment when the feet hit the floor in the morning, you know, what’s hurting? What do I need to kind of bring along a little slower than everything else? So the first thing I do is assess. It’s such a strange thing after all the years and all the matches and all this, it’s like I have to sit there and figure out how on Earth – because I’ll wake up some mornings with something hurting that I had no idea that I’d strained, pulled, whatever – and I’m trying to figure out, “How did you hurt yourself sleeping?!”… That comes with the game. The human body is definitely not made for the abuse that professional athletes put their bodies through. Especially football, hockey and wrestling. I mean, all sports, but the high-impact sports, the body is not made to do that.”
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