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Wrestler Name: The Undertaker
Real Name: Mark Calaway
Hometown: Death Valley, California
Date of Birth: March 24th, 1965
Height: 6'10"
Weight: 299 pounds
Signature Moves: The Tombstone Piledriver, The Last Ride Powerbomb, The Chokeslam, Hell's Gate (Gogoplata)


Bio:

 The Undertaker is one of the most Iconic figures in the history of professional wrestling.

- The Undertaker's perfect win/loss record at "WrestleMania" is something that will most likely never be equaled in all of sports.

- Calaway began his wrestling career with World Class Championship Wrestling in 1984

- He joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "Mean" Mark Callous in 1989

-  Calaway joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1990 making one of the longest servering WWE superstars.

- Calaway made his WWF debut as "Cain The Undertaker" at a taping of WWF Superstars on November 19, 1990

- Undertaker made his first official WWF debut on November 22 at Survivor Series 1990 apart of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar team.

-  In his first WrestleMania VII, he defeated "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka.

-  He defeated Hogan to win his first WWF Championship at Survivor Series 1991

- In February 1992 Undertaker turned face and went on to defeate Jake Roberts at WrestleMania VIII.

- One of Undertakers most memorable mactahes was against then WWF Champion Yokozuna in a  casket match. He lost and was not seen for a while

-  Ted DiBiase introduced an Undertaker back to the WWF after  WrestleMania X however this was a fake Undertaker played by Brian Lee.

- The real Undertaker returned in at SummerSlam 1994

- Undertaker had a memorable fude with Mankind which resulted in new matches such as  Boiler Room Brawl and the Buried Alive match.

- At WrestleMania 13, The Undertaker defeated Sycho Sid for the WWF Championship

- The Undertaker challenged Shawn Michaels to the first ever Hell in a Cell match. Undertaker's storyline half-brother Kane made his debut.

- Undertaker resumed his fude wit Mankind leading to one of the great matches in wrestling History - Mankind vs. Undetarker at King of the Ring 1998 in a Hell in a Cell.

-  Undertaker threw Mankind off the roof of the 16 ft cell onto the Spanish announce table.

- Undertaker was a Tag Team Champion with Stone Cold for two weeks.

- In January 1999, Undertaker formed the Ministry of Darkness which later merged with the The Corporation and become the Corporate Ministry.

- Undertaker took some time off from WWF and returned in returned in May 2000 was a new gimmick. He abandoned the Gothic mortician-themed attire, his funeral dirge ring music, allusions to the supernatural, and the accompanying theatrics of his ring entrance. 

- Undertaker now took on the personality of a biker, riding to the ring on a motorcycle, and wearing sunglasses and bandanas to the ring. His ring music was now replaced with popular rock songs of the time, like Limp Bizkit's "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" and Kid Rock's "American Bad Ass"

- In 2001, Undertaker reunited with Kane as the Brothers of Destruction

- Undertaker was a big part of the  "The Invasion" storyline fuding with former WCW/ECW stars such as  Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon,  Booker T, Rob Van Dam, 

-  Undertaker lost a Buried Alive match against Vince McMahon The Undertaker disappeared for some time following the match. 

- Undertaker returned as the gothic deadman in at  WrestleMania XX in a match against Kane.

-  Randy Orton challenged The Undertaker to a match at WrestleMania 21, in a storyline where Orton claimed that he would end The Undertaker's WrestleMania winning streak. Orton lost and took takers mania record to 13–0. 

 - In early 2006 Undertaker began a fude with  Kurt Angle and Mark Henry.

-  Undertaker then challenged Henry to a Casket match at WrestleMania 22 and won. 

- The Great Khali made his debut and assaulted the Undertaker 

- Since 2006 Undertaker has been on a very reduced apperance schdule he reunited with Kane and re-formed Brothers of Destruction for a short period.

- Undertaker won his first Royal Rumble match in 2007

- He then began a storyline with Batista, whom he defeated at WrestleMania 23 to win his first World Heavyweight Championship

- In 2008 Undertaker began a long fude with Edge and Big Show during this time he several gimmick matches such as Last Man Standing match, Hell in a Cell and  Elimination Chamber

-  Undertaker defeats Shawn Michaels for the first time at "The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania". Undertaker won to extend his WrestleMania undefeated streak to a record of 17–0.

- After WrestleMania, Undertaker took a hiatus from WWE.

- The Undertaker won the World Heavyweight Championship from CM Punk in a Hell in a Cell (2009)


Trivia/Fun Facts:

- The Undertaker has probably had more theme songs than any other athlete in history. Only a handful of his themes have been released through albums. Some speculate that he has had possibly up to 40 different theme songs. This is because most of his themes have undergone countless amounts of remixes/remakes.

- The Undertaker is also an Internet sensation. Internet searches for the term "Undertaker" almost always match that of this wrestling Legend. He is also extremely popular on video websites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, and other video websites.

- The Undertaker remains, along with Shawn Michaels, one of only two people that made an appearance in the very first episode of Monday Night Raw, who are still with the company today.