The Undertaker On Never Breaking Kayfabe, Retirement, Cody Rhodes, WrestleMania (Interview From June 2024)

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Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Mark Calaway (@undertaker) is a legendary professional wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer. He is best known for his 30+ year career in WWE as The Undertaker. Chris Van Vliet sits down with him at his home in Austin, TX in this interview from June 2024. They talk about his incredible career, his podcast "Six Feet Under With Mark Calaway", appearing in the main event of WrestleMania 40 to help Cody Rhodes with the WWE Universal Championship, his tag team with Kane, memories of Paul Bearer, the hilarious story of his coat that wouldn't come off, not remembering anything from his match with Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 30, his legacy as both The Deadman and The American Bad Ass, his iconic entrances, never breaking kayfabe and much more.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.1	What chair do we have you on there?
0:21.0	Who am I on?
0:22.1	You are on... I'm not on myself, am I? You're sitting on your own face. I'm sitting on my own face. That's disgusting. Your Survivor's Series 2015? What am I on? It's the 25th anniversary. I think you're on hell on the cell. I'm going to sell 2010. Oh, I'm sitting on you too. Yeah.
0:17.7	Should have picked other people to sit on.
0:20.1	Well, they're probably, you're going to have 2010. Oh, I'm sitting on you too. Yeah. I should have picked other people to sit on.
0:39.3	Well, they're probably, you're going to have a hard time in this jump finding, finding different faces. Well, there was a WrestleMania over there.
0:46.5	I love that you keep these chairs, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, these are really cool. And they've served their purpose. Most of the time, their decoration, but
0:56.5	like if we have a kids party or something like that, we'll break them out and be really vain
1:02.9	about all of our faces on the chairs. People like, it's funny that my daughter you know some but not all of her
1:13.6	friends you know realize who who her dad is and they'll like why's your dad on a chair she'll have to
1:20.5	explain to him and and they look at me differently just Mark. What did they think you are or otherwise?
1:29.4	Just dad, I guess.
1:30.4	Yeah, I think that, just Kai's dad.
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:32.2	And then, you know, they think, then they, then they look and then the parents will pull it.
1:38.3	No, this is, this is Mr. Mark.
1:42.4	It's so scary.
1:45.2	How's retirement treating you?
1:47.7	For the most part, good.
1:50.3	I'm actually, I have spurts, though, now where I'm out more than I was, you know,
1:56.0	the last few years that I actually wrestled.
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