The Undertaker Says WWE Has Gotten ‘Too Comfortable’ Talking About The Business

On the latest episode of Six Feet Under, The Undertaker talked about the state of professional wrestling and his hope that WWE will start to protect the business more with kayfabe instead of exposing too much of the magic as they do on WWE: Unreal. You can check out some highlights below:

On the loss of kayabe:

“I don’t like it. Everybody’s gonna say, ‘Oh, my God, it’s old school. 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.

On people wanting to do it:

“And I understand that there’s a huge part that like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting. I want to do that.’ But there’s still that aspect, because you tell me and I’ll give you my perspective. Everybody knows what we do, right? But when I’m in the ring, my whole goal, my motivation, is to get one person to think, ‘Wow, yeah, Undertaker just clocked him. Yeah, I don’t care what everybody else is doing, that right there, that was the real thing.’ There’s always the doubt. Yeah, right. And again, I know there’s you know, the IWC and the kids out there, they’re going to rip all that apart. And I don’t really care.”

On not throwing it in people’s face:

“I don’t think we have to throw it in people’s face. I think we’ve gotten too comfortable. 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, you know, 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.”

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