One Weird Way the Undertaker Is a Connection to a Bygone Era

The Undertaker was “rumored” to be appearing on tonight’s Monday Night RAW. Now, this is not so much a real rumor as it is a method of trying to entice people to watch RAW to see if The Undertaker shows up. The Dead Man is, ironically, a living legend, and one of the most popular wrestlers from a different era of WWE. There is also one element of The Undertaker that truly makes him a vestige of a bygone era; his name is The Undertaker.

Wrestlers don’t have names like The Undertaker anymore. That sort of gimmick simply isn’t done. The Undertaker is rare in a few ways. He’s still technically supernatural it seems, he is a wrestler with a secondary job (undertaking), and he doesn’t have a real name. Every wrestler these days has a “real” name. That is to say, a realistic name. Seth Rollins. Dean Ambrose. Kevin Owens. Even the wrestlers who have one names (Cesaro, Bayley, et al) have a “real” name. The Undertaker does not. It’s basically just him and fellow legend The Big Show.

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Back in the day, though, The Undertaker wasn’t that rare. The Ultimate Warrior. Diesel. Man Mountain Rock. They didn’t have real names. They were more fantastical characters from a less realistic era of wrestling. The Undertaker is still kicking, though, even if he does appear infrequently. He’s an embodiment of an entire different era, right down to his moniker.

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