As this year’s WWE Survivor Series 2020 pay-per-view continues to draw closer, The Undertaker keeps making the media rounds to promote the event that will mark his 30th anniversary with WWE and feature the heavily advertised “Final Farewell” segment featuring “The Deadman.”
As noted, during a recent discussion with The Wrap, “The Phenom” spoke about talking with WWE executive and longtime friend Paul “Triple H” Levesque about possibly becoming a coach for the WWE Performance Center.
Additionally, “The Deadman” spoke in the same interview about his current take regarding his decision to allow WWE to air “The Last Ride” multi-part docu-series that chronicled the final chapter(s) of the legendary 30-year WWE career of Mark Calaway.
Featured below is another excerpt from The Wrap interview with The Undertaker, where he talks at length about his thoughts on The Last Ride docu-series, which is currently available on the free version of the WWE Network, and how he still questions his decision to reveal so much of his out-of-character personality and behind-the-scenes footage surrounding some of his most famous and memorable moments in WWE.
“Very proud, very proud of how it turned out. That part of it I was extremely happy with. But it took a while for me to let my guard down. Initially, to even give that access, I was fighting it… Funny story, I may have said it already at some point, but Dan Pucherelli, who is the main producer on this thing, they were following me backstage somewhere. And I turned around and I snapped at him and was like, ‘Why the hell are you guys filming me?’ And Dan is such a respectful guy, and he just kind of was like, ‘Um, you asked us to?’ ‘Oh, yeah, you’re right, you’re right. That’s my bad. Just give me a second.’ So, yeah, I had to work through a lot of it, especially talking about behind-the-scenes things. It just was so unnatural for me to do. Even today, as proud as I am of ‘The Last Ride’ doc, it’s like, man, should I have done that? I have this internal struggle with myself, like, should I have just kept protecting the gimmick? Everybody has been very happy and receptive to it, but there’s also those ones that are like, ‘Oh man, you just ruined my childhood.’ And I laugh at it, but it’s like, man I should have just rode off into the sunset and not give anything. Obviously, I know that’s probably not the right thing to do, but that’s my nature just due to the fact of how I protected [the character and the business] for so long.”
Check out the complete interview with The Undertaker at TheWrap.com.
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