On the latest episode of his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker had a discussion about the Netflix docuseries WWE: Unreal and how much it pulls back the curtain on pro wrestling.
The WWE Hall of Famer praised the presentation of the series, but made his position clear on how it looks at the creative process of the company by stating:
From my aspect and my end of the business, I don’t like it. And everybody’s going to say, ‘Oh my God, that’s an old-school guy trying to protect kayfabe.’ Look, I don’t care if it’s 2025, it’s 1990, or it’s 1984. Everybody understands what wrestling is. Everybody knows. Ain’t no big veil been lifted — except I don’t want to go to see a magician and know how he’s doing everything.
And I understand that there’s a huge part, they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting, I want to do that.’ But there’s still that aspect… Everybody knows what we do, right? But when I’m in the ring, my whole goal, my motivation is to get one person, just one person to think, ‘Wow, Undertaker just clocked him. I don’t care what everybody else is doing. That right there, that was the real thing.’ So there’s always the doubt.
Undertaker retired in 2020 following his final match at WrestleMania 36, and has been more outspoken in looking back on his career through his podcast, something he admits can be difficult with his own reluctant to take an inside look on the business.
I think we’re too comfortable now in talking about our business. And I struggle on these podcasts too, because it’s hard to talk. It’s hard to talk and tell stories without lifting it up a little bit. But I think we’ve gone too far. And again, I understand. Everyone knows what it is, what we do. But there’s got to be a little bit of mystery.
Source: F4WOnline