The Undertaker was recently on the Pardon My Take podcast to discuss several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
How many surgeries he has had throughout his career:
I think it’s 17-18 probably. Yeah.
The worst bumps he has taken:
Years ago, I was working Yokozuna. I give him a flying DDT. Yoko, at the time, was closing in at about 600 lbs., his body weight. He hit like a half second before I did on the mat, and it drove up a piece of wood that caught me in the ribs and snapped two of my ribs. That was pretty painful.
Obviously, I’ve had a few recently. The bump that I had in Saudi when I was working with Goldberg, I think that one was a couple of inches from being catastrophic. The way I hit on that one, it kind of set out nerve impulses to all of my injuries at once. It was like an electrical charge went through my body.
His Inferno Match with Kane:
When you’re young, you think you’re invincible, and so anything that they throw at you, you look at like, OK how are we gonna do it? WWE doesn’t leave anything to chance. It’s well thought out. The one match I guess I lifted an eyebrow a little bit to was the Inferno Match. I was just like wait a minute. How are we gonna work and do our stuff with the ropes on fire? So that one I lifted a brow on, but they told me how they were going to do it. Of course, I was in there with Kane, who I had the utmost confidence in, so it turned out to be really good. Fortunately, he got lit up, and I didn’t.
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H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
