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17th July 2016
10:43am BST

(Yes, The Undertaker is lowkey a ginger.)
The unhappy chappy on the left is "Mean" Mark Callous", a long forgotten character The Undertaker used to go by when he had a short stint wrestling in the NWA (a federation that would eventually become the WCW).
In 1989-90 Mean Mark wrestled in a tag team called "The Skyscrapers" with another fellow called "Dangerous Dan Spivey". Legendary commentator Jim Ross described Mean Mark as "having a fondness for pet snakes and Ozzy Osbourne". Footage of this time period is thin on the ground because of the pre-HD, pre-video tape everything era, but here's a short video of him backing up managers Teddy Long and Paul E Dangerously. (Yes, that's a young Paul Heyman. As in Brock Lesnar's advocate).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yvn4DF2pUI
Want to get really weird? Well for a VERY short time after playing this character, The Undertaker wrestled in Japan as a character known as Punisher Dice Morgan.
He looked like this.
Mean Mark and Punisher Dice are just a few small chapters in what has been an amazing career for The Undertaker. Not many men can claim to have beaten Hulk Hogan for the title, but you pulled that off as The Deadman back in 1991. And then again in 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaW7jHFcIw
Then there was that time he reinvented himself as "The Real American Badass" Undertaker. A man so cool, no one laughed when he made a Limp Bizkit song his theme song.
Now 51 years old, you'd think The Undertaker would rest up his boots and look to retire, but only this April he was fighting Shane McMahon in a Hell in a Cell cage match at Wrestlemania 32. Much like The Undertaker himself, the match was brutal, a little bit ridiculous, but utterly jaw dropping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWI2l4ZbdA4
So here's to you, Undertaker. You've been one of our favourite heroes for the past 25 years. We'd get you a cake to say thank you, but it doesn't seem like you like those.
https://twitter.com/Onnit/status/712966141161943040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Oh, and while we're here, this is what The Undertaker looked like in high school.
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