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The Undertaker Discusses His Major Character Shift in the Year 2000

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Speaking to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on the Broken Skull Sessions on WWE Network, Undertaker opened up about his three-and-a-half-year run in WWE as “The American Bad Ass”:

“I think that’s my best attribute is being able to figure out — I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me. You get wrapped up in what you’re doing. The small changes, the breaks at the right time. I don’t think I would have made it through if I hadn’t changed when I did to go to the American Badass. I don’t think the [Deadman] character would have lasted through the Attitude Era. I was too handcuffed for our content. I had already been there for 9-10 years. I needed the handcuffs off and let them see a different variation, which opened the door to when I brought the gimmick back, I kept a little bit of everything.
“So many variables there. One, the bike. I had been off close to a year. I had a big-time groin injury. And about three weeks before I came back, I tore my peck. It ended up being close to 8 or 9 months that I was off TV. Not only am I coming back, I’m coming back as a completely different dude. You’re running through all those (scenarios). Everything that could go wrong. If this doesn’t work, you’re dead right there. Fortunately, it was the right move at the right time.”

SEE ALSO: Steve Austin on Why Undertaker Had to be his First Guest on Broken Skull Sessions

(h/t: Fightful)

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