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Originally Posted by zane
I have to get something off my chest: I hate the Undertaker. His gimmick is way too fucking old and stale. Every damned year he disappears for three months, only to come back. How the hell can you surprise people a lot when you do it every year?
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Man that aint cool. Undertaker is and always will be my favorite for a few reasons. I was born in 1991 so growing up with my uncle and dad watching WWF and giving me action figures the Undertaker was always the cool guy. He was the scary looking, huge dude that would mess everybody up.
As I grew older I came to enjoy him in a different way. I began to appreciate the longevity he has as both a wrestler and a gimmick. Speak for yourself but to me Taker has the greatest gimmick of all time and one that will never get old. He also has great skills for a big man and has evolved and developed his style over the years. Two of my favorite matches of all time were his Hell in a Cell's against HBK and against Mankind.
Behind the scenes he's respected universally. He's the only top guy in the business that I have never heard bad things about in some form. November will be his 18th anniversary as the Undertaker and he's still at the top of the business. When he finally hangs it up and retires, his departure will have the same impact on me that Ric Flair's did on so many of the older fans.
I can understand not seeing any suspense in his next return or being tired of him rising from a coffin, but no matter how predicatble his latest comeback may be I'll mark out for it like crazy.