The Undertaker
Mark William Calaway ( born March 24, 1965 in Houston, Texas), better known by his ring name " The Undertaker ", was an American professional wrestler. He is currently under contract with WWE. With a continuous employment since 1990, he is one of the longest standing under contract active players in the league. He was also able to win the highest title of the WWE seven times.
- 3.1 Title
- 3.2 Awards
Private life
Mark Calaway came as one of the five sons of Catherine and Frank Calaway to the world. His father died in 2003 at the age of 76 years.
Calaway is since June 2010, married his third wife with the wrestler Michelle McCool, with whom he shared a daughter (* 2012) has. From 1989 to 1999 he was married to his first wife, Jodi Lynn. From this union comes a son (* 1993). The marriage with his second wife Sara, whom he had met at an autograph session, the WWF and with whom he had two daughters together (* 2002 and * 2005), thought of 2000 until 2009.
Calaway graduated from the University of St. Thomas (Texas ) and is active off his wrestling career with the buying and selling of real estate.
Wrestling career
Calaway had a basketball scholarship at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas, and then attended Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and studied sports management. Here he played basketball as a center and actually pursued the goal of becoming a professional before was offered as a wrestler it a career. He abandoned his studies just before its completion, worked as a bouncer and debt collector, before he was taken in 1984 with World Class Championship Wrestling under contract. After he left the promotion in 1988, he was active in smaller leagues. 1989 won Calaway as The Master of Pain in a match against Jerry Lawler the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion. After he had occurred from 1989 to 1990 as Mean Mark Callous in WCW, he went to the World Wrestling Federation.
WWE
From Mark Calaway is " The Undertaker "
In the WWF the gimmick of The Undertaker, which was officially unveiled at the big event Survivor Series 1990 the general public was born. As a ring support and mouthpiece he got first for a short time Brother Love set aside, but quickly from the " funeral director " Paul Bearer (pun: engl pallbearer = pallbearers. ) Was replaced. A year later, at Survivor Series in 1991 Calaway won the WWF Championship from Hulk Hogan, already six days later to give back to this only to him. From this point, his career really took off. Between the major events Royal Rumble 1992 Wrestlemania VIII was finally transformed the character of the face, so a crowd favorite. There was a feud with Jake Roberts program, which ended at WrestleMania VIII and at the same time being the last match for the WWF should be Roberts, since he fell out with the WWF and announced. This was followed in 1992 and 1993 more programs feud with Kamala, Giant González and the Yokozuna occurring as a sumo wrestler before Calaway had to take a long injury break.
After his return Calaway defeated a doppelganger - Undertaker ( this was played by Brian Harris, who appeared as a wrestler under the name Chainz and Brian Lee and a cousin Calaways is ) and decided the feud with Yokozuna for themselves. In the latter, the actor Chuck Norris supported him as a guest participant. Later, Calaway injured during a backstage reception at the orbital bones, which forced him to further injury.
Calaway returned in 1996 and began after a Wrestlemania victory over diesel a feud with Mankind program, were miteingebunden in the Executioner and Vader. His second WWF Championship at WrestleMania 13 won Calaway against Sycho Sid.
Attitude Era
This was followed by feuds with Shawn Michaels and his storyline brother Kane before Kane Calaway with the Tag Team Brothers of Destruction was formed. They won the World Tag Team Champion title several times. During this time, the feud with Mankind was renewed Undertaker which ended in a legendary among fans Hell in a Cell match.
Millennium - Today
Around the turn of the millennium, the management changed the gimmick Calaways for some time to patriotic bikers, who appeared with his motorcycle to the ring. They began a feud with Vince McMahon program, in which Kane was included later. After Survivor Series 2003 Calaway was sidelined due to injury and came at WrestleMania 20 with the original Undertaker gimmick back. In the following years they booked Calaway in several feuds, some of which revolved around title, partly in special matches such as matches coffin, buried alive ended etc..
He won the Royal Rumble match in early 2007. In a match at WrestleMania he kicked Batista, won the match and the World Heavyweight Champion was. Due to a serious injury to his pectoral muscle Calaway had to leave SmackDown Edge of the title on May 8, 2007.
After his return in September 2007, he feuded until December with the new World Heavyweight Champion Batista. As of November 2007 was Edge and later his La Familia ( Vickie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Bam Neely, Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder ) included in the program. At WrestleMania 24 met Calaway and Edge, who was the reigning World Heavyweight Champion, one another. This match won Calaway and was thus again the World Heavyweight Champion. The World Heavyweight Championship was taken from him on April 29, 2008 by Vickie Guerrero. After the event, One Night Stand June 1, 2008 Calaway was sidelined due to injury again. He returned at SummerSlam on August 17th of the year with a win Hell in a Cell match against Edge back and ended the feud.
After another program with Vickie and Big Show began in the spring of 2009 a feud with Shawn Michaels, whom he defeated at WrestleMania 25 in a acclaimed by the press match. At SummerSlam in 2009 Calaway returned from a break since WrestleMania inlaid back again. He began a feud with CM Punk program to the World Heavyweight Championship, which he finally won in the big event Hell in a Cell 2009.
In the big event WWE Elimination Chamber 2010 Calaway lost the title in the same match to Chris Jericho feuded and then again against Michaels. At WrestleMania 26 in Phoenix Calaway Michaels defeated again, after Michaels ended his career. After WrestleMania, he paused to injury. After a few sporadic appearances he was involved in the events at the World Heavyweight Championship. However, he was sidelined again due to injury after a wrong running seated senton by Rey Mysterio. Calaway returned at SummerSlam in 2010, only to deny a feud program against the reigning World Heavyweight Champion Kane. After losing a Buried Alive match at Bragging Rights Calaway put again a health-related break.
On 21 February 2011, Calaway returned on Raw general back from his injury. After winning the match against Triple H at WrestleMania XXVII on April 3, 2011, he paused again. After almost ten months he returned on January 30, 2012 back on Raw and took the feud with Triple H again. At WrestleMania XXVIII on April 1, 2012 Calaway defeated him in a Hell in a Cell match, in which Shawn Michaels served as a guest referee.
On July 23, 2012 Calaway occurred during the 1000th episode of Monday Night Raw. He is the only wrestler in the current WWE squad that has occurred both in the first and in the 1000th episode.
In the " RAW Old School " edition on March 4, 2013 Calaway returned to the official WWE shows, after he had been two weeks earlier played one match at a house show. In the following WrestleMania XXIX he defeated CM Punk. A few weeks later, he played another team match on RAW, then he paused again.
On February 24, 2014 Calaway returned to contest in the shows back to a feud with Brock Lesnar program. Against Lesnar, he lost at WrestleMania XXX, bringing the undefeated WrestleMania winning streak ended after 21 matches.
Others
- Calaway has focused on one of the plaques of the "Munich Olympic Walk of Stars" (also: glory road of Legends ), which passes around the Olympic Lake in the Olympic Park in Munich, immortalized with hand print and signature.
- Calaway was up to WrestleMania XXX the only wrestlers in the WWE, who lost a single match at the big event WrestleMania. He thus held the record of 21 matches without defeat, which was also referred to as undefeated streak. Each year, tried a counterparty this series to break, according to storyline, what on April 6, 2014 succeeded Brock Lesnar.
- The guided tour of Europe WWE Smackdown roster in November 2009 was called the Undertaker 's Rest in Peace Tour.
Achievements
Title
- United States Wrestling Association 1x Unified World Heavyweight Championship