For years he was defined by his curly long locks, menacing glare and leather trench coat.
Yet WWE legend The Undertaker was unrecognisable from his boxing heyday as he appeared on a Patreon Q&A for his Six Feet Under Show.
The retired wrestler, 58, swapped the inside of a novelty coffin for a recording studio as he joined his wife Michelle McCool for the podcast appearance.
With his long locks shaved off and missing his signature eyeliner, The Undertaker, real name Mark Callaway, revealed how his legendary status had an impact on two-time WWE Divas Champion Michelle’s career.
He explained: ‘She took a huge amount of grief obviously dating the top guy.’
WWE legend The Undertaker was unrecognisable from his boxing heyday (right, in character) as he appeared on a Patreon Q&A for his Six Feet Under Show
McCool added: ‘Not only did his fans legitimately hate me because they think they’re married to him or something, sometimes it’s like death threats. In that regard I got it.
‘Then of course, anything I did or said not any type of work I put in, because I was dating The Undertaker, even from co-workers, it wore on me a lot.’
Callaway explained: ‘I saw the frustration, I saw the work she put in. I never helped the girls because most of them were only there for a stairstep to go somewhere else.
‘Her work ethic and what she put into it was different. It wasn’t fair, obviously. You know what you’re getting into when you cross that line, but it wasn’t fair because she worked her butt off.’
The couple started dating in the late Noughties and tied the knot in 2010.
They welcomed their first child, daughter Kaia in 2012 and went on to adopt their son Kolt.
Callaway also has three children from his first two wives.
Elsewhere in the chat, Callaway revealed that he recently talked himself out of making a comeback in WWE.
Callaway hasn’t wrestled in WWE since 2020, with his last match being at that year’s WrestleMania against AJ Styles in a cinematic boneyard match.
He has made sporadic appearances in the promotion since, last appearing late last year on NXT, confronting Bron Breakker, and is regularly at the performance centre to help pass on his wisdom to current stars.
But he revealed he still misses wrestling despite his body not matching up to his mind, and a return never seems fully out of the equation.
The retired wrestler, 58, swapped the inside of a novelty coffin for a recording studio as he joined his wife Michelle McCool for the podcast appearance
The couple started dating in the late Noughties and tied the knot in 2010. They welcomed their first child, daughter Kaia in 2012 (pictured) and went on to adopt their son Kolt
‘It’s still tough for me,’ he said. ‘I’m still coming to grips with it. And I may or may not have said to my wife recently that I was going to make a comeback. Fortunately, I think I’ve talked myself out of that.
‘No, there’s not one more match. It was just like, I just got back from Australia, I was tired, and I knew I had a lot of stuff coming up. And that was me just feeling comfortable saying it.
‘Don’t expect it. There’s not one more match. Don’t even start.’
A number of current WWE stars have asked The Undertaker, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last year, to come out of retirement for a match, though that seems off the agenda for now.
That doesn’t mean the love of the game has disappeared, though, and the 58-year-old explained how he was forced to come to grips with retirement.
‘I knew my time had come, but I wasn’t ready for it to come,’ he said. ‘I just knew that my body couldn’t deliver on what my mind and my heart wanted to give the fans. So it was kind of difficult.
‘You have to remember that, for over half of my life, being in the ring is what I did. And then it’s not there anymore. And it does, it leaves a huge void in you. Because you’re trying to fill that void, which was a passion, and you’re trying to find out what that next passion is and what it is that you’re going to sink your teeth into.
‘There just may not be something that will ever refill that void.’
He enjoyed feuds with a number of legends before calling it a day – however he has made sporadic appearances since (pictured with Kane, left, and Edge, centre)
