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Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), better known by the ring name <mask>, is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Best known for his professional wrestling career in WWF/E from 1990 to 2020, Calaway spent the vast majority of that time performing his critically acclaimed "Deadman" Undertaker gimmick. Although retired from professional wrestling, Calaway remains employed for WWE through a 15-year contract signed in 2019. Calaway began his career in 1987, working under various gimmicks for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and other affiliate promotions. He became USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion and WCWA Texas Heavyweight Champion during this time. After signing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1989, he had a brief stint in the mid-card as "Mean" Mark Callous, before joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1990.Calaway was rebranded into a horror-themed Deadman gimmick with the name, "<mask>", once joining the WWF. Portraying an undead, funereal, macabre character, he gained significant mainstream popularity and won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards for Best Gimmick a record-setting 5 years in a row. A textbook example of WWE's Golden Age of freakish gimmicks, <mask> was intent on disrupting the confidence of his rivals while feuding with and combating them, done through varied alarmist tactics: delivering caskets, corpse-like effigies, theatrically chilling entrances, funeral tolling, etc. The longest-tenured wrestler in company history at 30 years, <mask> is one of the most prominent figures of the Attitude Era–a high ratings, envelope-pushing generation of the WWF/E in the latter 1990s. Desiring to perform under a gimmick truer to himself, Calaway expanded on <mask>taker gimmick by assuming a biker identity, dubbed "American Badass", in 2000. Calaway resurrected <mask>man Undertaker in 2004, with residual elements of American Badass Undertaker remaining. For the better part of his career, <mask> was observed as a focal point of WWE's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, where he became esteemed for <mask> Streak—a series of 21 straight victories.He is also known for pairing with his in-storyline half-brother Kane, with whom he had alternatively feuded and teamed off and on with as The Brothers of Destruction from 1997 through 2020. During his active career under <mask> gimmick, Calaway won the WWF/E Championship four times, the World Heavyweight Championship three times, the Hardcore Championship once and the World Tag Team Championship six times. He also won the Royal Rumble match in 2007. He is one of WWE's most prolific pay-per-view performers, headlining several pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania on five occasions. The Undertaker retired from professional wrestling in 2020 and made a farewell appearance at that year's Survivor Series, 30 years to the day from his on-screen debut for the company at the same pay-per-view brand. On February 18, 2022, <mask> was confirmed as the first inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2022, and vastly praised by WWE fans, the professional wrestling community and media outlets alike following the announcement. Early life
Mark William Calaway was born in Houston, Texas, on March 24, 1965, the son of Frank Compton Calaway (died July 2003) and Betty Catherine Truby.He has four older brothers named David, Michael, Paul, and Timothy (died March 2020, age 63). He attended Waltrip High School, where he was a member of the football and basketball teams. He graduated in 1983 and began studying on a basketball scholarship at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas. In 1985, he enrolled in Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, where he majored in sport management and played as a center for the Rams in the 1985–1986 season. In 1986, Calaway dropped out of university to focus on a career in sports and briefly considered playing professional basketball in Europe, before deciding to focus on professional wrestling. Professional wrestling career

Early career (1987–1990)
Calaway began training under Buzz Sawyer in late 1986; he disliked Sawyer, who reportedly lacked commitment and provided a limited education. Calaway learned "on the job" thereafter.Performing under a mask as Texas Red, Calaway wrestled his first match on June 26, 1987, for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), losing to Bruiser Brody at the Dallas Sportatorium. He was accompanied to the ring by Percival "Percy" Pringle III, who would later serve as his manager in the WWF (as Paul Bearer). Two myths have circulated regarding Calaway's beginnings in the industry, the first being that he made his in-ring debut in 1984, and the second being that he was trained by former WCCW colleague Don Jardine (aka <mask> Spoiler). While never trained by Jardine, Calaway was an admirer of his work and would emulate Jardine's top rope walk. PWInsiders Mike Johnson stated, "Undertaker using some of Jardine's style eventually morphed into this story that he was trained by Jardine." In 1988, Calaway joined the Continental Wrestling Association (which became part of the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) after Jerry Jarrett bought WCCW and merged the two organizations into one), wrestling under several gimmicks. On February 2, 1989, managed by Dutch Mantel, he was reintroduced as The Master of Pain, a character fresh out of the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta after serving five years (much in solitary confinement) for killing two men in a fight.After his second match the next week, he stayed in the ring by challenging USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion Jerry Lawler to an impromptu match. The Master of Pain easily dominated Lawler until Mantel entered the ring and called him off. Lawler agreed to a title match and on April 1, <mask> of Pain won his first professional wrestling championship. He held it for just over three weeks before Lawler became the first man to pin him, winning it back. While performing as <mask> Punisher, Calaway won the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship on October 5, 1989, when Eric Embry forfeited the title. World Championship Wrestling (1989–1990)

In 1989, Calaway joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a villain and adopted the ring name "Mean Mark" Callous, a name devised for him by Terry Funk. He was portrayed as a morbid character; he wore predominantly black ring attire and was described by announcer Jim Ross as having a fondness for pet snakes and the music of Ozzy Osbourne.Callous was promptly drafted into The Skyscrapers tag team to replace a legitimately injured Sid Vicious and he made his debut on January 3, 1990, in a match later televised against Agent Steel and Randy Harris. The new team gained some notoriety at Clash of the Champions X when they beat down The Road Warriors after their match (the Road Warriors were actually very impressed by this). However, Callous's partner Dan Spivey left WCW days before their Chicago Street Fight against The Road Warriors at WrestleWar. Callous and a replacement masked Skyscraper were defeated in the street fight and the team broke up soon afterwards. Now a singles wrestler, Callous took on the guidance of Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman) and defeated Johnny Ace at Capital Combat and Brian Pillman at Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush. Calaway began to question his future in WCW after being told by company booker, Ole Anderson, during contract renewal discussions, that nobody would ever pay money to watch him perform. It was during this time that Calaway sought to achieve noteworthy success in professional wrestling by making numerous efforts to join the World Wrestling Federation, going to many lengths to land a meeting with Vince McMahon.However, accessing and securing an interview with McMahon was described by Calaway as a despairing task. Among routes Calaway took to land a meeting with McMahon, he convinced individuals acquainted with McMahon or already existing WWF talent to recommend him into WWF, including Hulk Hogan, Paul Heyman, Bruce Prichard, etc. While linking up with Hogan in a small role as "Hutch" during the making of the movie Suburban Commando, Calaway was able to get a recommendation sent to McMahon from him. Hogan's effectiveness is questioned because he was reportedly on bad terms with McMahon at this particular point. Callous wrestled Lex Luger for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship at The Great American Bash, but was pinned. According to WWF/E executive Bruce Prichard, "feelers" had already been sent out to the WWF by Heyman: Calaway wrestled the match with a dislocated hip knowing that he was being watched by McMahon. McMahon initially wasn't expressing any interest, but Prichard managed to encourage him to speak with Calaway when WCW traveled to New Jersey for a house show in the Meadowlands on August 24.The meeting between the two went well and Calaway gave notice to WCW on August 27. His final match was on September 7 at a WorldWide taping in Amarillo, Texas in which he defeated Dave Johnson. During his time in WCW, Calaway briefly wrestled in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as "Punisher" Dice Morgan. After leaving WCW, he briefly returned to the USWA to participate in a tournament to determine the new USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion; he defeated Bill Dundee in the first round, but lost to Jerry Lawler in the quarterfinals. World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE

WWF debut and early feuds, Old West Mortician Deadman (1990–1991)
In October 1990, Calaway signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), set to portray a gimmick that was originally entitled Kane The Undertaker—a menacing derivative of the Wild West undertakers depicted in television westerns. Resulting from that, this very first edition of <mask>taker's series of Deadman incarnations has been distinguished by external media as "The Old West Mortician". The gimmick was created and assigned to him by Vince McMahon.Despite Calaway's perplexed, pessimistic feelings about the gimmick, he readily accepted the role. He made his debut as <mask> <mask> for a taping of WWF Superstars on November 19, 1990, quickly defeating his very first WWF opponent, Mario Mancini (although this match was filmed three days prior to <mask>’s November 22 Survivor Series elimination tag match, it did not air on television until the December 15, 1990, edition of WWF Superstars, thus not commonly recognized as his debut). Calaway's official televised debut was the Survivor Series event in which he was presented as the heel mystery partner of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Team. Approximately one minute into the match, <mask> eliminated Koko B. Ware with his finisher, the Tombstone Piledriver. He also eliminated Dusty Rhodes before being counted out; however, his team won the match with DiBiase being the sole survivor. During the match, Calaway was referred to as simply <mask>, omitting the portion "Kane", which was dropped shortly after the event (and seven years later, given to another wrestler once he took on the role of <mask>'s younger brother). Throughout the end of 1990, <mask> mostly picked up squash victories against jobbers on Superstars of Wrestling and Wrestling Challenge tapings.He was a participant in the 1991 Royal Rumble match which was won by Hulk Hogan. In February 1991, Brother Love delegated his short-lived management role of <mask> Undertaker over to Paul Bearer (real-life funeral director), Love communicating the need for someone who better aligned with <mask>'s deadman themes. Histrionic, wailing and ghostly in character, Bearer complemented <mask> and was almost always seen bearing an urn which he raised in the air to transmit supernatural healing powers to <mask>; this typically resulting in <mask> recovering from attacks and counterattacking his adversaries. During his early years, <mask>taker took to a post-match routine of placing his defeated opponents (almost always jobbers) in a body bag and carrying them off to the back. He continued picking up victories in squash matches leading up to his first feud in the WWF with "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. WWF Champion (1991–1994)
<mask>taker made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania VII on March 24, 1991, quickly defeating "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. He began his first major feud with <mask> Warrior when he attacked Warrior and locked him in an airtight casket on the set of Paul Bearer's Funeral Parlor interview segment.Resulting from this, the Warrior enlisted the assistance of Jake "The Snake" Roberts to get him mentally prepared for <mask>'s morbid alarmist tactics: Roberts would drill the Warrior with "know your enemy" training, setting up the Warrior in a series of creepy, terrorizing circumstances, such as by locking him in caskets and in rooms with snakes. This culminated in a final stage of Roberts's training in which Roberts proved to be stringing Warrior along the entire time by assisting <mask> in an ambush. The <mask> would later suffer his first losses in the WWF to <mask> Ultimate Warrior, including in a first ever body bag challenge, a casket match, and (at house show) standard pin-fall match. The feud was, however, cut short after the Warrior's suspension and ongoing issues with Vince McMahon. In the 1991 King of the Ring, <mask> defeated Animal in a qualifying match before fighting Sid Vicious to a double disqualification in the semifinal, which saw both men eliminated from the King of the Ring tournament. The <mask> defeated Hulk Hogan to win his first WWF Championship at Survivor Series with the help of Ric Flair and thus became the youngest WWF Champion in history to that point, later having this record broken by Yokozuna in April 1993 at WrestleMania IX. WWF President Jack Tunney ordered a rematch for This Tuesday in Texas six days later, where he lost the title back to Hogan.However,

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Following the death angle at the Royal Rumble during The <mask>'s absence, the WWF promoted reported sightings of him through video clips of random people who claimed to have seen him. After WrestleMania X, Ted DiBiase introduced an Undertaker back to the WWF.This Undertaker, however, played by Calaway's real-life cousin, Brian Lee, was an impostor <mask> (dubbed "The Underfaker" by fans) rejuvenated by Dibiase's money rather than Bearer's urn. His actions led to the return of the real <mask> at SummerSlam, defeating the impostor and appearing as a reincarnation of his Deadman gimmick, one of a more shadowy, mysterious and secret presence. Represented now by cool colors, <mask> replaced details of his wrestling gear that were previously colored gray with purple, and effected scenes with blue/purple semidarkness. Many details that would become associated with <mask> for the remainder of his career were produced during this incarnation, such as the addition of sleeve tattoos and Godlike elements (thunder, lightening and windy weather-like effects used to indicate <mask>'s presence and wrath). Seeking retribution, <mask> revisited his feud with Yokozuna and eventually faced him in a casket rematch at the 1994 Survivor Series. Chuck Norris (portraying his Walker, Texas Ranger persona) was involved in this match as special guest/ringside security guard. In this manner, he prevented interference from WWF athletes that Yokozuna, Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji had again enlisted for help.Unable to rely on interference this time around, Yokozuna was defeated by <mask> and sealed in the casket. Throughout most of 1995, <mask> feuded with members of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. The chain of athletes DiBiase enlisted to do away with <mask> started with Irwin R. Schyster at the Royal Rumble for which <mask> was victorious, but assaulted by another member of the Million Dollar Team, King Kong Bundy. At WrestleMania XI, <mask> made short work of Bundy in a singles match. This edition of WrestleMania is noteworthy in that it produced the first mention of <mask>'s historic WrestleMania-winning Streak, acknowledged by Vince McMahon as <mask> made his entrance: "The Undertaker, on his way to the ring—a man who's never lost at WrestleMania." During <mask>taker's WrestleMania encounter, DiBiase issued him with yet another antagonist in "The Supreme Fighting Machine" Kama, who had stolen the urn from Bearer during the match. Kama followed this up with a series of malicious acts, including destroying the stolen urn and recycling it into bling.While sporting the flashy bling around his neck, he repeatedly cost <mask> matches and attacked <mask>'s fans, dubbed "creatures of the night". In August, <mask> settled the score with Kama, defeating him in a casket match at SummerSlam. Several weeks later, <mask> suffered a serious orbital bone injury when King Mabel unintentionally struck him in the eye with his fist during a house show, forcing <mask> to a period of absence for surgery. Due to the incident happening at a house show, Vince McMahon had it presented to the audience as though it had occurred from Mabel and Yokozuna's exchange of leg drops and splashes on <mask> on the Monday Night Raw that had aired 2 days prior. The <mask> returned a couple months later at Survivor Series, in which he single-handedly eliminated an entire team of athletes led by King Mabel, <mask> leading his own team to victory. It was at that Survivor Series return in which he began wearing a Phantom of the Opera-like, gray upper-face mask to safeguard his orbital injury while it healed. The following month in December, <mask> defeated Mabel in a casket match at In Your House.In the main event of the Royal Rumble in January 1996, <mask> was unmasked of his Phantom of the Opera-like facial covering in a WWF Championship match against Bret Hart. The <mask> was eventually able to hit the Tombstone Piledriver on Hart, but Diesel interfered, costing <mask> the championship. A rematch for the title on the February 5 episode of Raw saw similar interference. At that month's In Your House: Rage in the Cage, while Diesel was facing Hart in a steel cage match for the WWF Championship, <mask> delivered a surprise attack, emerging from a hole he had ripped through the ring canvas and dragging Diesel with him down under, allowing Hart the victory. After several weeks of more tit for tat between Diesel and <mask>, the feud culminated in a singles match between the two at WrestleMania XII, where <mask> was victorious. The <mask>'s next feud started the next night on Raw, when Mankind made his debut and interfered in <mask>'s match against Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw. For the next few months, Mankind ambushed and cost <mask> several matches.Mankind cost <mask> the WWF Intercontinental Championship by interfering in his casket match against Goldust at In Your House 8: Beware of Dog, Mankind appearing from inside the casket and sealing <mask> inside; <mask>, however, disappeared once the casket lid was opened. As a result of the interference and repeated ambushes from Mankind on <mask> throughout the ensuing weeks, <mask> and Mankind competed in their very first on-screen bout at the 1996 King of the Ring. During the match, Bearer inadvertently hit <mask> with the urn, allowing Mankind to incapacitate <mask> with his finisher, the Mandible Claw, and score the win. With Mankind continuing to interfere on <mask>'s matches even following the King of the Ring encounter, <mask> began to rage and the feud intensified. The two took to battling at random moments outside of arranged matches, the chaos spilling into audiences, backstage areas, and the boiler rooms of varying arenas, all of this unprecedented at the time. As a result, the first ever Boiler Room Brawl (Mankind's specialty match) was booked between the two at SummerSlam. After more than 20 minutes of brawling with Mankind in the Cleveland Gund Arena's boiler room, the arena corridors and the entrance ramp, <mask> reached for Paul Bearer's urn to take the win, but Bearer hit him with it, betraying <mask> and allowing Mankind to incapacitate him with the Mandible Claw, giving him the win.After Bearer's betrayal <mask> took his rivalry with Mankind to a new level, a specialty match of his own, and at that time unprecedented Buried Alive match to take place in the main event of In Your House 11: Buried Alive. The <mask> won the match after chokeslamming Mankind into the open grave and subsequently shoveling enough dirt on him so that he was covered. However, after interference from <mask> Executioner, as well as the help of several other heel wrestlers, Mankind escaped the grave and together the mob all shoveled dirt onto <mask> to the point that the grave was completely filled, ultimately resulting in <mask> fully buried alive. Not without a parting message, however, <mask>'s hand emerged from the ground amid a bolt of lightening. The Lord of Darkness Deadman (1996–1998)

After being buried alive and a following month-long hiatus, <mask> returned at the Survivor Series again pitting him against Mankind, but with a unique stipulation; hanging  above the ring was Paul Bearer, enclosed in a steel cage. If <mask> won the match, he would be able to get his hands on Bearer. Even though <mask> won the match, interference from <mask> Executioner enabled Bearer to escape <mask>'s clutches.It was also at this event that <mask> had developed a comparatively more informal, more humanized yet still superhuman "Deadman" incarnation. In this then new form, he took on a Goth appearance and persona, with a brash, rebelling, Championship-driven mean streak (perhaps to better fit in with the then-budding, more adult-oriented Attitude Era). This delivering, dubbed "The Lord of Darkness", was the 3rd incarnation of his Deadman persona. Following Survivor Series, <mask> briefly turned his attention to <mask>, who had been interfering in his matches since his arrival. At In Your House 12: It's Time, <mask> defeated <mask> Executioner in an Armageddon Rules match even with Mankind heavily involved throughout the entire encounter. The <mask> then moved on to feud with Vader, whom he faced in January 1997 at the Royal Rumble in a singles match, which <mask> lost after Bearer interfered on behalf of his new protégé. The two then clashed in the Royal Rumble match itself as they made it to the final moments of the match, but both were eliminated by Stone Cold Steve Austin, who had crept back into the match after his elimination was unseen.He faced both Vader and Austin in a four-corners elimination match for the vacant WWF Championship at In Your House 13: Final Four, but Bret Hart won. However, the following month, <mask> managed to win the WWF Championship for the second time by defeating Sycho Sid at WrestleMania 13. Reviving his first Deadman incarnation for that night only, <mask> appeared as the "Old West Mortician", donning the trademarked gray wrestling gear accessories (boot spats, tie, stetson hat ribbon and gloves), along with a pitch-black entrance with only a white spotlight shined over him, contrasted from the purple/blue semidarkness associated with the rest of his Deadman incarnations. Following his WWF Championship win at WrestleMania 13, Paul Bearer attempted to rejoin <mask> as his manager. After <mask> refused and attacked Bearer, Bearer had Mankind set a fireball to the Undertaker's face, leading up to a match at In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker, for which <mask> was victorious. Evening the score at "Revenge of the 'Taker", <mask> set a fireball to Bearer's face directly following the match. Following the event, Bearer bandaged up from fire burns, likened <mask>'s "deepest, darkest secret".Through giving <mask> the ultimatum of revealing his deepest, darkest secret to the world, Bearer was able to reunite with him as manager and protégé. After only a few months of abrasive behaviors from Bearer, however, <mask> lost his patience and rejected Bearer as his manager. In retaliation, Bearer disclosed that <mask> had intentionally killed his family by burning down his parents' family funeral home for which they raised him and his younger brother. (Note that the younger brother, Kane, was not revealed to be <mask>'s half-brother until the following year, April 1998, when Bearer disclosed to the world that he is Kane's father, <mask>'s mother having had an affair with him. Bearer later verified this with DNA test results). At this point in his career, <mask> denied the charges of committing the arson murder that killed his family; however, Bearer claimed to have proof in the form of <mask>'s alive and well younger brother, Kane, who had survived though scarred and burned. Bearer raised Kane after the fire, having him institutionalized from the date of the fire into adulthood.Ever since the fire, Kane had been awaiting to exact vengeance on his older half-brother. In defense, <mask> responded that Kane, a "pyromaniac", had been the one to set the fire and, as a result, could not have possibly even survived. (Note that it would not be until a year later from this point in which <mask> shamelessly confessed to intentional acts of arson to the funeral home that

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After the duo's very first match, which was a chaotic and uncontrolled encounter that resulted in a double count-out draw at Ground Zero: In Your House, <mask> challenged Michaels to the first ever Hell in a Cell match to take place at Badd Blood: In Your House.Despite the inclusion of the cell for more order and to prevent Michaels escape, the encounter ended up even more uncontrolled and savage than their first and is considered among one of <mask>'s best matches of his career. Seemingly about to emerge the victor after striking Michaels with a chair shot of his own, <mask> was interrupted by his storyline half-brother Kane, finally making his debut. Under the control of Paul Bearer, Kane stormed the arena, ripped off the cell door, and laid out <mask> with his own trademarked finisher, <mask>, allowing Michaels to pin him for the victory. As the storyline progressed through Bearer having Kane mow down much of the WWF roster, Kane repeatedly challenged <mask>, going to lengths of tormenting and humiliating him. However, <mask> consistently refused to fight his half-brother, claiming he had made a vow to his parents never to do harm to his own "flesh and blood". The <mask>'s final encounter with Michaels during this chapter of his career was in a casket match for the WWF Championship at the Royal Rumble. The week before on Raw, Kane had seemingly allied with his brother against Michaels's D-Generation X; however, at the Royal Rumble, Kane trapped <mask> in the coffin, padlocked the lid shut, and set the casket ablaze, allowing Michaels another victory.After a two-month hiatus, <mask> returned on the March 2, 1998, edition of Raw in a most notable resurrection after his druids interrupted Kane and Bearer by presenting them with a coffin on the entrance stage amid repeated bell tolls. The coffin was struck and dismantled by a lightening bolt, revealing a lied out <mask> who sat up in fury and challenged Kane to do battle with him. At WrestleMania XIV in their first match, <mask> defeated Kane. Kane challenged <mask> to a rematch—Kane's specialty and first ever Inferno match—that occurred one month later at Unforgiven: In Your House. The <mask> won the encounter by setting Kane's right arm on fire. The Undertaker and Mankind's violent, outlandish feud was revived over the next months, ultimately taken to a new graphic height and decisively resolved when they faced each other in a Hell in a Cell match at King of the Ring. The match became one of the most famous matches in professional wrestling history.During the match, <mask> threw Mankind off the roof of the  cell onto a broadcast table below, in what was a preplanned move. He later performed a chokeslam on Mankind through the roof of the cell into the ring, which was not preplanned and legitimately knocked Mankind unconscious. In jumping from the top of the cell to the ring canvas, <mask> suffered a broken ankle. Escalating as things progressed, Mankind introduced multitudes of thumbtacks scattered across the ring canvas, but was back body dropped on them, and subsequently chokeslammed onto them before <mask> won the match with the Tombstone Piledriver. At Fully Loaded: In Your House, <mask> and Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Kane and Mankind to win the WWF Tag Team Championship. The <mask> and Austin's reign as tag team champions lasted only two weeks, as Kane and Mankind regained the titles from them in a fatal four-way tag-team match on the August 10 edition of RAW. The <mask> then became the number one contender for the WWF Championship at SummerSlam, now held by Austin.Shortly before SummerSlam, however, <mask> revealed that he and Kane were working together as brothers. Despite this revelation, <mask> told Kane that he did not want him to interfere in the match with Austin and even though <mask> lost the match at SummerSlam, he handed Austin his championship belt back after the match in a show of respect. In September, the storyline continued and <mask> began to show some heel characteristics when he and Kane revealed the fact that they were in cahoots to rid Austin of his title for Mr. McMahon. At Breakdown: In Your House, <mask> and Kane were booked in a triple threat match with Austin for the WWF Championship, in which McMahon stated that the brothers were not allowed to pin each other. The Undertaker and Kane pinned Austin simultaneously after a double chokeslam, ending the match in a no contest, so the title was vacated by McMahon. This event led to a match at Judgment Day: In Your House between <mask> and Kane for the title, with Austin as the special guest referee. Near the end of the match, Paul Bearer seemed about to assist Kane by handing him a steel chair to hit <mask> with, but as Kane had his back turned, both Bearer and <mask> hit Kane with the chair.The <mask> went for the pin, but Austin refused to count the fall, attacked <mask> and counted out both of them. Finally, <mask> turned heel the next night on Raw for the first time since 1992, reconciling with Bearer and claiming that he and Bearer would unleash their "Ministry of Darkness" on the WWF. As part of the then new storyline angle, <mask> admitted that he had indeed intentionally set the fire that killed his parents and scarred Kane, for which he had previously blamed on Kane. The Ministry of Darkness Deadman (1998–1999)

After Survivor Series, <mask> returned his attention to his previous feud with Austin for costing him the title at Judgment Day, hitting Austin in the head with a shovel during a title match with The Rock on the November 16 episode of Raw, returning the favor for what happened a month earlier. With this twist in the storyline, Mr. McMahon scheduled a Buried Alive match between <mask> and Austin at Rock Bottom: In Your House. In the weeks leading up to Rock Bottom, <mask> attempted to embalm Austin alive, tried to have Kane committed to a mental asylum, and had his druids chain Austin to an immense structure of <mask> Undertaker logo before having the structure lifted up high into the air. However, <mask> lost the Buried Alive match to Austin at Rock Bottom after Kane interfered.After the buildup to his second heel run in the latter part of 1998, <mask> introduced an updated version of his Deadman identity by January 1999—a dark priest-like character who in the initial period of this persona reigned over a stable known as The Ministry of Darkness. In this form, he took on a wicked, demonic presence, much more so than ever before. He often claimed to be invoking and taking orders from a "Higher Power". Moreover, he often appeared in a hooded black robe and sat on a throne that was specially designed into his Undertaker logo. With the help of his minions, he often performed sacrifices on select WWF wrestlers, using various incantations and magic words with intent to extract out the dark side of the wrestlers in question to recruit them into his Ministry. The completed Ministry of Darkness consisted of The Brood (Christian, Edge and Gangrel), The Acolytes (Bradshaw and Faarooq), Mideon and Viscera. Calaway himself did not wrestle for a period, having undergone a hip replacement.As part of the angle, <mask> expressed a desire to take control of the World Wrestling Federation, displacing its owner, Mr. McMahon. These ambitions culminated into a rivalry between The Ministry and The Corporation, ultimately resulting in a match between Undertaker and Corporation enforcer, Big Boss Man. The two faced off in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania XV, which <mask> won. At Backlash: In Your House, <mask> defeated Corporation member Ken Shamrock after interference from Ministry member Bradshaw. Thereafter, <mask> kidnapped Stephanie McMahon, forcing Mr. McMahon to enter into a reluctant alliance with his longtime nemesis Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Undertaker attempted to marry Stephanie before sacrificing her in an eldritch ceremony conducted by Paul Bearer, but Austin was able to rescue her. At the Over the Edge pay-per-view, <mask> defeated Austin for his third WWF Championship with help from Shane McMahon, the special guest referee.The Ministry eventually merged with Shane McMahon's Corporation alliance to form The Corporate Ministry. The Undertaker later revealed that Mr. McMahon had been his "Higher Power" all along. After <mask>taker lost the WWF Championship back to Austin on the Raw following King of the Ring and lost to him in a First Blood match at Fully Loaded, his relationship with the McMahons dissolved and The Corporate Ministry disbanded. The <mask> then began a storyline where he teamed with Big Show in a tag team known as "The Unholy Alliance", which held the WWF Tag Team Championship twice. After their victory at SummerSlam, <mask> suffered a groin tear and was seen limping in several matches. He avoided competing in wrestling matches in the following weeks, instead tyrannically ordering Big Show to fight all his battles and oblige all his many wishes. Developing a smart mouth and thus horror comedy traits, <mask> began a subtle transition into his biker identity that he would introduce in 2000.According to an interview with Kevin Nash, this was a move to allow Calaway to enter World Championship Wrestling with a non-trademarked persona. Had he entered WCW, it would have been as Mark Calaway. Although negotiations were described as close, Calaway ultimately re-signed with the WWF. To compensate for his lack of physical activity, <mask> became more vocal on the mic, often making smart-aleck remarks and performing commentary. On the September 23, 1999 episode of SmackDown!, Mr. McMahon threatened that he would remove <mask> from the Unforgiven main event if he refused to participate in a casket match against Triple H. <mask> retorted that he did not care and maybe he would not be participating in anything, thus walking out of the WWF. In reality, Calaway went on a hiatus from the WWF in order to treat his groin injury. He made his return to action on December 14, teaming with Viscera in a losing effort against Kane and <mask> at a house show in Coamo, Puerto Rico.The Undertaker was advertised on the Armageddon promotional poster to return, but meanwhile also tore his pectoral muscle, making him take almost eight months out of action. American Badass Undertaker (2000–2001)

In May 2000, Calaway expanded on <mask> gimmick, returning under a redneck, biker identity, dubbed "The American Badass", known for motorcycle-riding, tobacco chewing, and donning a sporty appearance and manner. In stark contrast to his horror-themed and fully fictional Deadman persona, Calaway's Badass persona was only semifictional with traits and features adopted from who he is out of character—hence, why he desired to transform <mask>. When <mask> returned near the end of the Iron Man match for the WWF Championship between Triple H and <mask> Rock at Judgment Day, he took out all the members of the McMahon-Helmsley Faction, which caused him to turn face. He also targeted their leader, then WWF Champion Triple H. At the King of the Ring pay-per-view, <mask> teamed with <mask> and Kane to defeat the team of Triple H, Shane McMahon and Vince McMahon. Afterward, he was booked to team with Kane to contend for the WWF Tag Team Championship. They defeated Edge and Christian, earning the right to face them the following week for the championship, which Edge and Christian retained.During a August 14 Raw bout against Chris Benoit, Kane became involved and betrayed <mask> by hitting him with two chokeslams, the second one causing the ring apron to cave in underneath <mask>. This incident led to another match between the two at SummerSlam, which ended in a no contest as Kane ran from the ring area after <mask> removed Kane's mask. The Undertaker then challenged Kurt Angle for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series. Angle, however, defeated <mask> after he switched places with his real-life brother, Eric Angle. The Undertaker demanded and was awarded a spot in the six-man Hell in a Cell match for the WWF Championship at Armageddon. The Undertaker promised to make someone famous and did so when he performed a chokeslam on Rikishi from the roof of the cell. In 2001, <mask>taker reunited with Kane as The Brothers of Destruction, challenging for the WWF Tag Team Championship once again.They received a title shot at No Way Out, facing Edge and Christian and then-champions The Dudley Boyz in a tables match, but they were not successful. The <mask> then went on to defeat Triple H at WrestleMania X-Seven. He and Kane continued a storyline that focused on Triple H, who formed a "surprise alliance" with then WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Brothers of Destruction were granted an opportunity to face Triple H and Austin for their titles (Triple H was the WWF Intercontinental Champion). After <mask> and Kane won the WWF Tag Team Championship from Edge and Christian on the April 19 episode of SmackDown!, Triple H pinned Kane after attacking him with a sledgehammer at Backlash, where The Brothers of Destruction lost their championships. With Kane

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After The Alliance was defeated, <mask>taker turned heel by inducting commentator Jim Ross into Mr. McMahon: Kiss My Ass Club, which involved <mask> planting the lips of Ross against McMahon's exposed buttocks. In transitioning his "American Badass" biker identity into a heel, <mask> eventually cut his long hair short and went by the nickname "Big Evil". At Vengeance, <mask> defeated Rob Van Dam to win the WWF Hardcore Championship.The <mask>'s next storyline began at the Royal Rumble in January 2002, when Maven eliminated him by hitting him with a dropkick from behind. Subsequently, <mask> eliminated Maven in return and brutally assaulted him backstage. On an episode of SmackDown!, <mask> mentioned <mask>'s elimination at the Royal Rumble, angering <mask>, who responded by costing <mask> the number one contendership for the Undisputed WWF Championship. The storyline continued when <mask> cost <mask> his match with Maven for the Hardcore Championship. The two faced off at No Way Out, where <mask> lost due to interference from Ric Flair. This interference began a storyline with Flair, who declined a challenge to wrestle <mask> at WrestleMania X8. As a result, <mask> assaulted his son David Flair.Flair eventually accepted the match after <mask> threatened to inflict the same punishment on Flair's daughter. A no disqualification stipulation was added to the match and <mask> defeated Flair at WrestleMania. After the storyline with Flair, <mask> was drafted to the Raw brand after the WWF split its roster into two brands and defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin at Backlash to become the number one contender to the Undisputed WWF Championship. Later that night, he helped Hollywood Hulk Hogan win the title against then-champion Triple H. The <mask> then defeated Hogan for the renamed WWE Undisputed Championship at Judgment Day. The next night on Raw, <mask> lost to Rob Van Dam for the WWE Undisputed Championship; however, Raw owner Ric Flair restarted the match (Van Dam pinned <mask> when his foot was on the rope, thus invalidating the pin attempt) and <mask> retained the championship. On the July 1 episode of Raw, <mask> turned face once again after defeating Jeff Hardy in a ladder match to retain the WWE Undisputed Championship and raising Hardy's hand as a show of respect. The <mask>, however, lost the title at Vengeance to <mask> Rock in a triple threat match that also involved Kurt Angle.On the August 29 episode of SmackDown!, <mask> was moved to the SmackDown! brand (where he remained until the first brand extension ended in 2011), alongside former Raw talent Brock Lesnar, Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero. <mask> defeated Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle in a triple threat match to become the #1 contender for the renamed WWE Championship and challenged Brock Lesnar for the title at Unforgiven that ended in a double disqualification. Their feud carried over to No Mercy in a Hell in a Cell match, which <mask> performed in the match with a legitimately broken hand and eventually lost to Lesnar. The <mask> took a break after Big Show threw him off the stage on the October 24 episode of SmackDown!, sparking a feud. The <mask> returned at the Royal Rumble in January 2003. He immediately continued his feud with Big Show and defeated him by submission at No Way Out with a triangle choke.A-Train entered the storyline by attempting to attack <mask> after the match, but Nathan Jones came to his aid. The storyline resumed as <mask> began to train Jones to wrestle and the two were scheduled to fight Big Show and A-Train in a tag team match at WrestleMania XIX. However, Jones was removed before the match, making it a handicap match, which <mask> won with the help of Jones. Over the remainder of the year, <mask> entered a brief feud with John Cena (defeating him at Vengeance) and was booked to have two WWE Championship opportunities. The first, on the September 4 SmackDown!, against Kurt Angle, ended in a no contest, due to interference from Brock Lesnar. The second, at No Mercy, was a Biker Chain match between <mask> and Lesnar, which Lesnar won with the help of Vince McMahon. This match resulted in a feud with McMahon, culminating at Survivor Series where <mask> lost a Buried Alive match against McMahon when Kane interfered.The Undertaker disappeared for some time following the match, with Kane claiming that he was "dead and buried forever". Half-Badass Hybrid Deadman reincarnation (2004–2005)

In the storyline leading up to WrestleMania XX, Kane was tormented by paranormal activities, haunted-like tactics and vignettes proclaiming <mask>'s Deadman return. The first was during the Royal Rumble when <mask>'s bells tolled, distracting Kane and allowing Booker T to eliminate him. Accompanied by Paul Bearer at WrestleMania XX, <mask> returned his Deadman identity, defeating Kane in a singles match. Introduced was a more dramatic, theatrical and supernatural Deadman than in years past, his presence, mannerisms, and entrances significantly elaborated on as well, such as with special effects and rising and falling flames. Combined with this, <mask> maintained elements of his American Badass identity, thus a composite character more humanized than all of his previous Deadman incarnations (<mask> would present in this particular hybrid Deadman form until No Mercy 2005 when Randy Orton sealed him in a casket and set it on fire). At Judgment Day, <mask> defeated Booker T. One week later, Paul Heyman ordered The Dudley Boyz to kidnap Bearer.Thus, Heyman "took control" of <mask>. At The Great American Bash, <mask> fought a handicap match against The Dudley Boyz, with the stipulation that if he did not lay down and purposely lose, Heyman would bury Paul Bearer in cement. The <mask> won and stopped Heyman from burying Bearer, but after claiming Bearer was merely a liability he had no use for, buried him himself. The <mask> began a feud with then WWE Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) by challenging him to a title match at SummerSlam, which <mask> lost by disqualification. At No Mercy, <mask> and JBL competed in the first-ever Last Ride match, although <mask> lost after Heidenreich interfered. After defeating Heidenreich in a match at Survivor Series, <mask> turned his focus to the WWE Championship once again. Along with Eddie Guerrero and Booker T, he challenged JBL to a championship rematch at Armageddon in a fatal four-way match, in which <mask> was unsuccessful, again due to Heidenreich's interference.The feud culminated in a casket match between <mask> and Heidenreich at the Royal Rumble, where <mask> sealed Heidenreich in a casket for the victory. Soon after, Randy Orton challenged <mask> to a match at WrestleMania 21 and claimed that he would end his WrestleMania winning Streak. Even with help from his father, Orton lost and <mask> improved his WrestleMania record to 13–0. After a two-month hiatus, <mask> returned on the June 16 edition of SmackDown!, but lost to JBL due to interference from Randy Orton, revealed as a new draft switch to SmakhDown!. Despite his interference, the Randy Orton/<mask> feud was put on the back burner until late summer of that year, resulting from Orton on the injured list. In one of the most controversial moments in WWE history, on the episode of SmackDown! taped on July 4, 2005 (aired July 7), the SmackDown!General Manager <mask>Teddy" Long put Muhammad Hassan in a match against <mask> at The Great American Bash and placed Daivari in a match that night against <mask>, who quickly defeated Daivari. After the match, Hassan began to "pray" on the ramp, summoning five masked men, dressed in black shirts, ski-masks and camouflage pants. Armed with clubs and a piano wire, the masked men beat and choked <mask> and Hassan put <mask> in a camel clutch. Afterward, the masked men lifted Daivari above their heads and carried him away. Three days later, the London bombings took place. The footage aired unedited on UPN in the United States and on The Score in Canada with an advisory warning shown several times during the broadcast. It was removed from the Australian and European (including in the United Kingdom) broadcasts.The angle elicited national attention in the New York Post, TV Guide, Variety and other major media outlets. In response to the criticism, UPN decided that it would monitor the storyline closely and that it did not want the Hassan character on its network that week. Hassan later delivered a promo to the live crowd for the July 14, 2005, episode of SmackDown!, but when UPN announced that the segment would be edited, WWE decided to host the video of the segment on its official website. In the segment, Hassan reiterated that he was an Arab-American and that the American people automatically and unfairly assumed that he was a terrorist. Despite being in character, he referred to the real-world media coverage of the storyline, singling out the New York Post's Don Kaplan by name and denouncing his description of the events on SmackDown!, such as Kaplan's comment of the masked men being "Arabs in ski masks". On the July 14, 2005, episode of SmackDown!, Hassan's absence was explained by a statement delivered by his attorney Thomas Whitney, Esquire which said that Hassan refused to appear on the show until The Great American Bash due to the way he had been treated by the media and WWE fans. It was revealed in late July 2005 that UPN had pressured WWE to keep Hassan off their network, effectively removing him from SmackDown!.<mask> defeated Hassan at The Great American Bash to become the number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. After the match, <mask> delivered a Last Ride through an open stage ramp onto a concrete floor to Hassan. It was reported that Hassan sustained serious injuries and had to be rushed to a nearby medical facility, writing Hassan off television. Several days later, WWE.com hosted a video of a kayfabe announcement from <mask>, where he reiterated the stipulation that Hassan would no longer appear on SmackDown!. It was revealed years later that Hassan was about to receive a major push by winning the World Heavyweight Championship from Batista at SummerSlam and thus breaking Randy Orton's record for being the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in WWE history. On the following episode of SmackDown!, <mask> lost to JBL in a number-one contender's match, once again due to interference from Orton, reviving their feud that was put on hiatus. At SummerSlam, Orton defeated <mask> in a WrestleMania rematch.The storyline intensified as the two taunted each other with caskets, leading to a handicap casket match at No Mercy, in which <mask> lost to Randy and his father "Cowboy" Bob Orton. After the match, the Ortons poured gasoline on the casket and set it on fire. When the charred casket was opened, however, <mask> had once again vanished. Dark Side Hybrid Deadman (2004–2005)
The <mask> resurrected at the Survivor Series when the druids delivered a casket that was struck by lightening and went up in flames. The Undertaker then burst from the flaming casket in rage, battering and brutalizing an entire ring full of athletes as a message to Orton. Here, he reappeared as a less two-dimensional Deadman/Badass incarnation, eliminating many elements associated with his biker identity that previously made for a full hybrid, such as replacing loose-fitting athletic pants with spandex tights, less use of the last ride as his finisher, etc. (The dark side slant hybrid form would later become a central storyline when <mask> revisited the feud with Shawn Michaels, who was represented conversely as the celestial bright side).The <mask> returned on SmackDown! in early December to haunt Orton and set up a Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon. After <mask> won the Hell in a Cell encounter, in effect, settling their 9 month long feud, Calaway took a brief hiatus from professional wrestling. In January 2006 at the Royal Rumble, <mask> returned during Kurt Angle's celebration of his World Heavyweight Championship defense against Mark Henry on a horse-drawn cart; in the appearance, <mask> signaled for a title shot by using his supernatural powers to collapse the wrestling ring that Angle stood in as a means to spook him. As part of their storyline feud, <mask> lost his match with Angle at No Way Out after a 30-minute match—described as underrated and among <mask>'s top matches, in which <mask> versatilely took to a more ground-based submission style to combat Angle's trademarked freestyle wrestling. The <mask> cornered Angle after the match and told him he was not finished with him. In a rematch with Angle (similarly described as underrated and among <mask>'s top matches that utilized the wrestling styles of their previous encounter) on the March 3 edition of SmackDown!, Henry attacked <mask> from behind, costing him the title.This led to <mask> challenging Henry to a casket match at WrestleMania 22 and Henry vowing to end <mask>'s WrestleMania winning Streak. The match resulted in <mask> sealing Henry in the casket, winning the match and extending his streak to 14–0 at WrestleMania. During a rematch on the next episode of SmackDown!,

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<mask> won his first Royal Rumble match, on January 28, 2007, in doing so becoming the first man to enter the Rumble at number 30 and win the match, after lastly eliminating Shawn Michaels. On the February 5 episode of Raw, <mask> elected to face World Heavyweight Champion Batista at WrestleMania 23, before attacking him with the chokeslam. At No Way Out, <mask> and Batista reluctantly teamed together to challenge John Cena and Shawn Michaels for the World Tag Team Championship, but failed to win after Batista gained revenge on <mask> by hitting him with a spinebuster, allowing Cena to pin him. At WrestleMania 23 on April 1, <mask> defeated Batista to win his first World Heavyweight Championship and extend his Streak to 15–0. <mask> faced Batista in a rematch at Backlash, this time in a Last Man Standing match.The match ended in a draw after neither man got to their feet by the referee's count of ten, meaning <mask> retained the championship. The <mask> and Batista then fought once again in a steel cage match on the May 11 episode of SmackDown! that also ended in a draw when both men's feet touched the floor at the same time. After the match, Mark Henry made his return and assaulted an already exhausted <mask>, after which Edge ran to the ring and cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase, forcing <mask> into a second title defense. Although he kicked out of two quick pin attempts, <mask> was pinned by Edge after two spears and lost the World Heavyweight Championship. After this match, <mask> took time off due to a torn right biceps. During his rehabilitation, Henry bragged about his assault on <mask>, until vignettes began playing promoting <mask>'s return.The <mask> returned at Unforgiven on September 16, defeating Henry. Batista and <mask> reignited their feud at Cyber Sunday with the fans choosing the special guest referee Stone Cold Steve Austin, but Batista retained the World Heavyweight Championship. They battled again inside Hell in a Cell at Survivor Series, where Edge returned and interfered to help Batista retain the World Heavyweight Championship. In response to this, <mask> delivered a Tombstone Piledriver to General Manager Vickie Guerrero on the November 23 episode of SmackDown!, sending her to the hospital. Returning assistant-General Manager <mask> declared a triple threat match for the title between the three men at Armageddon, which Edge won after interference from <mask> Brothers. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> competed in the Royal Rumble match on January 27, 2008, entering at number 1, but was eliminated by Shawn Michaels. At No Way Out, <mask> defeated Batista, Finlay, <mask> Khali, MVP and Big Daddy V in the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match to become the number one contender for Edge's World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXIV, where he defeated Edge with the Hell's Gate submission hold, to win his second World Heavyweight Championship in his 16th WrestleMania win.In a WrestleMania rematch, <mask> defeated Edge once again at Backlash to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. Vickie Guerrero then banned <mask>'s Hell's Gate submission hold and stripped him of the title on the May 2 episode of SmackDown. The <mask> battled Edge for the vacant title at Judgment Day, which he won by countout. Guerrero ordered that the title remain vacant, because titles could not change hands in this way. Edge and <mask> faced each other again for the vacant championship at One Night Stand in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, which <mask> lost after interference from La Familia. As a result of the stipulation, <mask> was forced to leave WWE. On the July 25 episode of SmackDown, Vickie Guerrero reinstated <mask> and scheduled Edge to face him at SummerSlam inside Hell in a Cell, which <mask> won.After the match, <mask> chokeslammed Edge from the top of a ladder and through the ring canvas. Following this match, Guerrero tried making a peace offering with <mask> on SmackDown by apologizing, but <mask> told her that he was not the forgiving kind. At Unforgiven, as <mask> approached the ring to "take Guerrero's soul" and take her in a casket, Big Show, who appeared at first to aid <mask>, betrayed and assaulted him. As a result of this altercation, <mask> and Big Show faced each other in a match at No Mercy, where Big Show won by knockout. At Cyber Sunday, <mask> defeated Big Show in a Last Man Standing match after choking him out with Hell's Gate. At the same time, <mask> was engaged in a short feud with Jeff Hardy, who interfered during his match with Vladimir Kozlov on the November 7 episode of SmackDown. Hardy defeated <mask> in an Extreme Rules match the following week on SmackDown due to interference from Big Show.The <mask> then went on to defeat Big Show in a casket match at Survivor Series and again in a steel cage match by submission on the December 5 episode of SmackDown to end the feud. At No Way Out, <mask> was part of the WWE Championship Elimination Chamber match along with Triple H, Jeff Hardy, Big Show, Vladimir Kozlov and Edge; however, he was unsuccessful at winning the match as he was the runner-up behind Triple H.

The <mask> then began a second chapter to his unresolved feud with Shawn Michaels from the late 1990s, over a decade prior to this point. This renewed feud was two-dimensional, in part focusing on the wonder of <mask>'s undefeated WrestleMania Streak in relation to, however, the fact that he had never before defeated Michaels in a singles match, only vice versa. Michaels also made the buildup to their WrestleMania encounter personal, repeatedly demonstrating his Christian objections to the demonic dark side nature of the Undertaker's Deadman gimmick, even creating his own heaven-esque bright side anti-Deadman variant of the gimmick (Michaels is a real-life born again Christian). The feud culminated in a WrestleMania 25 singles match between the two in which Michaels made a heaven-sent entrance from high in the air portraying his bright side anti-Deadman, while <mask> made a grave-risen entrance emerging from the ground. After a suspenseful, competitive wrestling match, <mask> defeated Michaels, thus extending his WrestleMania winning streak to 17–0. Their match was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike and is now considered by many to be one of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time.On the April 24 episode of SmackDown, after losing a match against Big Show by knockout with Big Show taking advantage of <mask>'s battered neck state from his previous WrestleMania encounter, <mask> attacked Big Show. Following this, <mask> took another hiatus from the WWE. After a four-month hiatus, <mask> returned at SummerSlam in August by attacking CM Punk, who had just won the World Heavyweight Championship from Jeff Hardy in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. At Breaking Point, <mask> faced Punk in a submission match. The <mask> had originally won the match with his Hell's Gate submission hold, but the match was restarted by SmackDown General Manager <mask>, who ruled that the ban placed on the move by Vickie Guerrero was still in effect. Punk went on to win the match with his anaconda vise when referee Scott Armstrong called for the bell, despite <mask> never submitting in a recreation of the Montreal Screwjob, which took place in the same venue in 1997. On the September 25 episode of SmackDown, <mask> officially lifted the ban, after being released from a casket <mask> had placed him in.The feud between the two continued and at Hell in a Cell, <mask> won the World Heavyweight Championship from Punk in a Hell in a Cell match. The <mask> successfully defended the title against CM Punk on the October 23 episode of SmackDown, in a fatal four-way match at Bragging Rights against Punk, Batista and Rey Mysterio and in a triple threat match against Chris Jericho and Big Show at Survivor Series. He faced Batista at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in a chairs match for the championship and won when the match was restarted by Long, after Batista had originally won after utilizing a low blow. The next night on Raw, <mask> competed in a tournament to crown the 2009 Superstar of the Year, losing to Randy Orton by countout in the first round after a distraction by Orton's protegès Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. After successfully defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Rey Mysterio at the Royal Rumble, <mask> lost the championship at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, where a pyrotechnics malfunction momentarily engulfed <mask> in flames on three occasions during his ring entrance, but he was able to continue with his scheduled match, with first and second-degree burns on his chest and neck that, according to a WWE spokesman, "looked like a bad sunburn". The <mask> lost the title to Chris Jericho after interference from Shawn Michaels; Jericho has said on multiple occasions that the pyrotechnician responsible for the accident was immediately escorted from the arena and relieved of his employment with WWE, following a threat of violence from Calaway. Calaway himself explained that he had previously expressed concerns to the technician regarding the pyro arrangement, but was ignored.He feels he was saved from severe injury by applying water to his hair, and altering his attire from a sleeveless to a sleeved jacket, just minutes before the accident. The Undertaker then accepted Michaels' rematch offer, after initially declining, at WrestleMania XXVI in a Streak vs. Career match, where <mask> was victorious and Shawn Michaels was forced to retire. This match also made both <mask> and Michaels the first men in WWE history to main event WrestleMania in three different decades (<mask> main evented WrestleMania 13 and XXIV in 1997 and 2008 and Michaels main evented WrestleMania XII and XIV in 1996 and 1998 and XX and 23 in 2004 and 2007 respectively). After a hiatus (which included wrestling two matches on Raw), he returned to SmackDown on May 28, defeating Rey Mysterio to qualify for a spot at the Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view to compete for the World Heavyweight title. During the match, <mask> suffered a concussion, broken orbital bone and broken nose; he was visibly bleeding profusely on camera by the end of the match. To cover for the injury, Kane revealed that <mask> had been found in a vegetative state; Mysterio took his place in the match and won the World Heavyweight Championship. While attempting to learn which wrestler had attacked <mask>, Kane defeated Mysterio to win the World Heavyweight Championship.Kane and Mysterio continued to clash as they accused one another of being the assailant behind the attack. At SummerSlam, <mask> returned to confront Kane and Rey Mysterio, only to be attacked with a Tombstone Piledriver by Kane. With Kane revealed as his attacker, the two feuded for the next few months over the World Heavyweight Championship. After losing to Kane in a No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions, Paul Bearer returned as <mask>'s manager on the September 24 episode of SmackDown. However, Bearer turned on him at Hell in a Cell to help Kane win once again in a Hell in a Cell match. The feud ended at Bragging Rights when The Nexus helped Kane defeat <mask> in a Buried Alive match. <mask> needed surgery for a torn rotator cuff, causing him to be written off.Final years of <mask> Streak (2011–2014)

After the 2011 Royal Rumble, promotional videos began airing, showing <mask> entering and standing within a Western-style old house on a rainy desert. Each promo ended with the date 2–21–11 being "burned into" the screen. On the February 21 episode of Raw, <mask> returned, but before he could speak, Triple H also returned and confronted him. The two challenged each

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 other to a match at WrestleMania XXVII, which was later made a No Holds Barred match and which <mask> won by submission. However, he had to be carried away from the ring on a stretcher. Following WrestleMania XXVII in 2011, <mask> would take on a more part-time role within the company; he would not have another match on Raw or SmackDown until 2013. On the January 30, 2012, episode of Raw, <mask> returned after a nine-month hiatus to confront Triple H. On the February 13 episode of Raw, Triple H refused <mask>'s challenge for a WrestleMania rematch.After <mask> accused Triple H of living in the shadow of Shawn Michaels on the February 20 episode of Raw, Triple H accepted the challenge on the condition that it would be a Hell in a Cell match; Michaels was later inserted as special guest referee in the match. At WrestleMania XXVIII, <mask>, while debuting his new look, a mohawk, defeated Triple H to extend his Streak to 20–0. After the match, <mask> and Michaels carried Triple H to the entrance stage, where the three embraced. Later in 2012, <mask> appeared on the 1000th episode of Raw on July 23 to help Kane, who had been confronted by Jinder Mahal, Curt Hawkins, Tyler Reks, Hunico, Camacho and Drew McIntyre. The Brothers of Destruction overcame and dominated the six other wrestlers. The <mask>'s next television appearance was on Old School Raw on March 4, 2013, where he opened the show by performing his signature entrance. CM Punk, Randy Orton, Big Show and Sheamus fought in a fatal four-way match to determine who would face him at WrestleMania 29, which Punk won.After the real-life death of Paul Bearer on March 5, 2013, a storyline involving Punk regularly spiting <mask> through displays of flippancy and disrespect towards Bearer's death began. Punk interrupted <mask>'s ceremony to honor Bearer on Raw, stealing the trademark urn and later using it to attack Kane, humiliate The Brothers of Destruction and mock Bearer. <mask> defeated Punk at WrestleMania 29 to extend his Streak to 21–0 and then took back the urn. The following night on Raw, <mask> came out to pay his respects to Bearer, but was interrupted by <mask> Shield, who attempted to attack <mask> before Kane and Daniel Bryan made the save. <mask> would wrestle his final Raw match (his first since 2010) on the April 22 episode, teaming with Kane and Bryan against The Shield in a losing effort. Four days later, he wrestled his final SmackDown match (also his first since 2010), defeating Shield member Dean Ambrose by submission. Afterward, <mask> was attacked by Ambrose and the rest of The Shield, who performed a triple powerbomb through the broadcast table on him.On the February 24, 2014, episode of Raw, <mask> returned to confront Brock Lesnar and accepted his challenge for a match at WrestleMania XXX. After 25 minutes and three F-5s, Lesnar won the match at WrestleMania by pinfall, ending <mask>'s Streak in what was described as "the most shocking result in WWE history". Following the match, <mask> was hospitalized with a severe concussion which he suffered in the first minutes of the match. In a December 2014 interview, Vince McMahon confirmed that it was his final decision to have Lesnar end <mask> Streak and that <mask> was initially shocked at the decision. McMahon justified his decision that it would significantly enhance Lesnar's formidability to set up the next WrestleMania event and that there were no other viable candidates to fill Lesnar's role. Later career (2015–2020)

In February 2015, Bray Wyatt began a series of cryptic promos which led to Fastlane, where Wyatt challenged <mask> to a match at WrestleMania 31, which <mask> accepted. At WrestleMania on March 29, <mask> defeated Wyatt after two Tombstone Piledrivers.At Battleground in July, <mask> made his return by attacking Brock Lesnar as Lesnar was on the verge of defeating Seth Rollins during his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match, which caused the match to end in a disqualification win for Lesnar. The next night on Raw, <mask> explained his actions as revenge – not for Lesnar breaking <mask> Streak, but rather the constant taunting he allowed Paul Heyman to engage in. Later that night, after <mask> and Lesnar brawled throughout the arena and had to be separated, a rematch was scheduled for SummerSlam in August, where <mask> controversially defeated Lesnar. Lesnar put <mask> in a kimura lock and the timekeeper rang the bell after seeing <mask> supposedly indicating submission, but since the referee had not seen a submission and never stopped the match, the match continued. The confusion allowed <mask> to surprise Lesnar with a low blow and apply Hell's Gate, in which Lesnar passed out. At Hell in a Cell, <mask> was defeated by Lesnar in a Hell in a Cell match after Lesnar hit him with a low blow and executed the third F-5 of the match. While the crowd gave <mask> an ovation after his loss to Lesnar, he was attacked and captured by The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman), who carried him away from the ring.After ambushing and capturing Kane the next night on Raw, Wyatt explained that he had claimed their souls and stole their demonic powers. The Brothers of Destruction returned on the November 9 episode of Raw and attacked <mask> Family, setting up a tag team match at Survivor Series, which honored <mask>'s 25 years in WWE. At Survivor Series on November 22, The Brothers of Destruction defeated Wyatt and Harper. On the February 22, 2016, episode of Raw, Vince McMahon placed his son Shane McMahon, who returned to WWE for the first time since 2009, in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania 32 against <mask> with the stipulation that if Shane won, he would gain control of Raw. Vince later decided that should <mask> lose the match against Shane, it would be his final match at WrestleMania. After weeks of mind games and physical confrontations between the pair, <mask> defeated Shane McMahon at WrestleMania 32 on April 3. The <mask> made his return on the 900th episode of SmackDown on November 15, issuing a threat to Team SmackDown if they failed to defeat Team Raw at the upcoming Survivor Series pay-per-view.The <mask> then appeared on the January 9, 2017, episode of Raw, where he announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match and said he was a free agent. The <mask> appeared on the January 23 episode of Raw, confronting Brock Lesnar and Goldberg. During the Royal Rumble on January 29, <mask> entered at number 29, eliminating Goldberg, <mask>z, Baron Corbin and Sami Zayn, before being eliminated by the number 30 entrant, Roman Reigns. <mask> returned on the March 6 episode of Raw and performed a chokeslam on Reigns. This led to a No Holds Barred match between <mask> and Reigns at WrestleMania 33 on April 2, where <mask> lost to Reigns after five spears in his fourth WrestleMania main event. After the match, <mask> left his gloves, coat and hat in the center of the ring before slowly making his exit. <mask> took part in the Raw 25 Years episode of Raw on January 22, 2018, his first post-WrestleMania 33 appearance.In the months prior to WrestleMania 34, John Cena challenged <mask> to a match. At WrestleMania in April, after Elias confronted Cena and was beaten down, <mask>'s hat and coat appeared in the middle of the ring, where he had left them the previous year and were struck by lightning. The <mask> then appeared and beat Cena in an impromptu three-minute squash match. Three weeks later, <mask> defeated Rusev at WWE's Greatest Royal Rumble event in a casket match. At Super Show-Down in Australia on October 6, <mask> faced Triple H in a no disqualification match billed as the "Last Time Ever"; they were accompanied by Kane and Shawn Michaels, respectively. The Undertaker lost the match after interference from Michaels. After the match, the four men shook hands as a sign of respect, however, <mask> and Kane would attack them.As a result, the duos reunited their respective tag teams – The Brothers of Destruction and D-Generation X – and faced each other at Crown Jewel on November 2, where <mask> and Kane lost. On April 8, 2019, episode of Raw, the night after WrestleMania 35 – the first WrestleMania in 19 years without his involvement – <mask> made his next appearance, interrupting and attacking Elias during one of his musical performances. The <mask> made his return to the ring to face Goldberg at Super ShowDown in Saudi Arabia on June 7, defeating him in the main event of the night in what was their first match against each other. On the June 24, 2019, episode of Raw, during a handicap match in which Roman Reigns was dominated by Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre, <mask>taker suddenly appeared and attacked McMahon and McIntyre. It was later announced that <mask> and Reigns would face McMahon and McIntyre in a No Holds Barred tag team match at Extreme Rules. At Extreme Rules, <mask> and Reigns won. The <mask> returned at Super ShowDown in Saudi Arabia on February 27, 2020, as a surprise replacement in a gauntlet match.He entered the match last replacing Rey Mysterio and he then defeated AJ Styles to win the Tuwaiq Mountain Trophy. On the March 2, 2020, episode of Raw, Styles taunted <mask> during a match with Aleister Black and at Elimination Chamber, <mask> made another surprise appearance by attacking Styles during a rematch with Black in a no disqualification match. The following night on Raw, Styles challenged <mask> to a match at WrestleMania 36. Over the following weeks, Styles would continue to provoke <mask> by departing from bashing his Deadman gimmick, instead bashing <mask>'s true self as Mark Calaway. The feud saw Styles refer to <mask>taker by his real name, Mark Calaway, and level zingers and criticisms at him in relation to Calaway's wife, Michelle McCool. In response, <mask> Undertaker would cut promos of ominous warnings in which for the first time in years, he broke from the Deadman gimmick, speaking as Mark Calaway. Taking on some American Badass elements, Calaway made appearances in leather jackets, bandanas, etc.At WrestleMania 36, <mask> presented his 3rd and final identity, "The Unholy Trinity," a combination of <mask>man, American Badass, and himself as Mark Calaway. He and Styles fought in a secluded rural locale, in a cinematic narrative-heavy brawl, the encounter dubbed a "Boneyard match". Despite the assistance of Gallows and Anderson, <mask>taker would bury Styles in an empty grave to win the match and record the 25th WrestleMania victory of his career. This retirement match was later lauded in the media as "campy, corny and yet somehow incredibly entertaining. In an absolutely incredible match, which can be best described as a truly cinematic experience, it was Taker who claimed yet another soul at the grandest stage of them all." Retirement and Hall of Fame (2020–present)
On June 21, 2020, during the final episode of the Undertaker: The Last Ride documentary, <mask> retired from the industry; in a November interview he confirmed that he was "officially retired". Many wrestlers and other public figures also paid tribute to him on their own social media pages.Madison Square Garden, regarded as the most important venue in professional wrestling, also paid tribute to him. The Undertaker, wearing his trademark mortician trench coat and stetson hat, made an appearance at the conclusion of the Survivor Series event on November 22, which commemorated thirty years since his WWE debut, where he reiterated that his career was over, giving an emotional farewell speech which ended in typical Undertaker fashion: "My time has come to let The <mask> Rest in Peace." A ten-bell salute was also given for <mask> character as he did his traditional kneeling pose, and a holographic image of Paul Bearer, the Undertaker's former manager, was projected in the ring. On February 18, 2022, it was announced that <mask> would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2022. The news was responded to with extensive praise from WWE fans, the professional wrestling community and media outlets alike. In the week following the announcement, media outlets observed that many WWE fans have advocated for the idea of a one-man show Hall of Fame dedicated to <mask> alone, reasoning that his legend status in the company would warrant such an honor. Undertaker gimmick, identities and character evolution

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Under his undead, funereal, and macabre horror-themed gimmick, in which <mask> is subtitled "The Deadman", he routinely took to alarmist tactics to disrupt the focus and confidence of his rivals.Often, these alarmist tactics were morbid and applied the use of props to reflect his opponent's demise: caskets (sometimes personalizing casket designs to represent his opponents), body bags, corspe-like effigies, cemeteries,  hearses, and the like. To that end, the gimmick evoked funerals and death down to subtle details, such as in the character's birthplace of Death Valley, catch phrase of "Rest in Peace", signature maneuver of the Tombstone Piledriver, a wrestling pin that had the opponent resemble a corpse with their arms crossed over their chest, etc. In addition, The Undertaker frequently served a list of specialized matches that were personalized to his Deadman gimmick: Casket Match, Body Bag Match, Buried Alive Match, Last Ride Match, Hell in a Cell, etc. Filled with bells and whistles, The Undertaker's presence and indignation were signaled by funeral tolls, settings of pitch-black darkness turned blue/purple half-light, hazy fog, thunder, lightning strikes, and other bone-chilling scenes and sound activity. Portrayed as miraculously resilient to destruction, The Undertaker yielded numerous resurrections, which sometimes gave way to reincarnations of his Deadman gimmick. While maintaining his general character premise as death personified with accompanying alarmist tactics throughout all sagas of the Deadman, each

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