The undertaker 's urn is calling Although the WWE's bread and butter has and always will be sports entertainment action in a ring, they have been known to flex their creative muscles. And now with their latest project, Escape the Undertaker, which stars the Dead Man himself and members of the New Day, Netflix subscribers will get to partake in an interactive film that features some of their favorite superstars.
Live footage of the New Day trying to Escape from the Undertaker. This is a real scene in Escape the Undertaker. While not as involved as Black Mirror: Bandersnatch , Escape the Undertaker does feature some pretty funny uses of the interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style of storytelling.
The story features the New Day tag team going into Undertaker's house in order to take the power of his Dead Man's urn in order to add to their own power of "positivity.
Unsurprisingly, things go awry for the men, who must find a way to escape the Undertaker's grasp. While 'Taker is a tough dude, but totally mortal whenever he wrestles in the WWE, for some reason he's got powers in this movie.
The title features multiple endings depending on which route you take, however, unlike Bandersnatch , they're more akin to cut scenes out of a video game. The length of the flick is also a bit disappointing. In his final match, he faced next-generation superstar Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania , the biggest event of the wrestling calendar, which was attended on this occasion by 75, fans.
At the end of the match, he left his hat, coat and gloves in the ring. Grown men wept openly in the audience: they had just witnessed the final appearance of the one the greats. Or, at least that was the intention. The following day, he made an abrupt U-turn on his decision. Having watched the match back, he was deeply unhappy with his performance. He then underwent a hip operation and began plotting his redemption. This journey — from that moment to his most recent match, in April , is at the heart of The Last Ride , a documentary out now on the WWE's streaming service.
View Iframe URL. But by the time he was in college, his sights were set on a career in professional basketball, with European clubs sniffing around him. A friend eventually convinced him to join him at a wrestling camp, at which point Calaway realised his talents as a large, athletic man could be better put to use in the ring. In , he signed with the WWE and was given the character then known as Kane The Undertaker by chairman Vince McMahon, who had created the persona, and a star was born.
He won his first match at the pay-per-view Survivor Series after introducing his aptly named finishing move the Tombstone Piledriver, wherein he turns his opponents upside down, placing their head between his knees and driving them down onto the mat. He never really thought deeply about centring his persona around death, despite researching the psychology of death as part of his preparation for the role.
Not to get too deep. The WWE's impact upon pro wrestling can't be overstated. It took the sport from a low-budget, carnival-esque sideshow into a global juggernaut attracting tens of millions of viewers each week. In the s, McMahon worked to make his niche product a part of wider pop culture, drafting in celebrities such as Cyndi Lauper and Mr T to feature in recurring storylines and, yes, they both wrestled.
During this period, known as the Attitude Era, the addition of increased violence and sex mud wrestling was a common staple in the women's sector gave them the edge to beat out their closest rivals, WCW and ECW which it then swallowed up in takeover deals in the early s. It was and still is theatre distilled to its most basic elements, with the lines of good and evil drawn as clearly as possible. I remember being wholly engrossed in each storyline as a young fan — in hindsight, that was what drew me to stay up until 3am to watch the live events above anything else, though I loved a backflip off of a ladder as much as the next preteen.
I was terrified of The Undertaker and would look away whenever he did his trademark stare, with his eyes rolled back into his head, yet the church bell that announced his entry to the arena would always elicit excitement over anything else. Over the phone, he is charming, thoughtful and not at all scary. He has appeared at 27 out of Calaway entered the match with a broken foot "It was such an important time in the business. You knew you had to do it.
You just grit your teeth". After a few minutes of thrashing at one another on top of the cell, Calaway threw Foley over the side, sending him crashing down onto the Spanish announcer's desk below it was regularly the Spanish commentators, not the American ones, who were left with a crushed mess in front of them at the end of the show. It was genuinely dangerous: a stretcher was brought out and Foley was taken halfway out of the arena for medical, not theatrical reasons, before he hopped up and rushed back to the ring and scaled the cell again.
Then, Calaway picked him up by the throat and slammed him a chokeslam, naturally onto the roof of the cage. Unexpectedly, the chain mesh material gave way completely, and Foley plummeted down onto to the mat below. AJ Styles said he would be "honoured" if their fight had been The Undertaker's last.
Still floored by the experience and reaction to the BoneyardMatch at WrestleMania. Ring announcer Mike Rome also paid tribute to the wrestling star, saying "thank you for making our childhood so cool. Thank you for making our childhood so cool.
Thank you for the journeys you took us on. Thank you for growing with us, and evolving. Thank you for being larger than life. Thank you for everything you have given to wrestling. You will always be ThePhenom.
There has been speculation in previous years about his retirement. In , after losing a match to Roman Reigns, Mr Calaway dropped his iconic gloves, hat and trenchcoat in the middle of the ring before walking backstage. What it's like being wrestling legend The Undertaker.
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