During his active career under The Undertaker 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 is also known for pairing with his in-storyline half-brother Kane, with whom he had alternatively feuded and teamed off and on as The Brothers of Destruction from 1997 through 2020.
Desiring to perform under a gimmick truer to himself, Calaway transitioned The Undertaker into a biker in the early 2000s, before resurrecting his horror gimmick in 2004 with residual elements of his biker identity blended.įor the better part of his career, The Undertaker was observed as a focal point of WWE's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, where he became esteemed for The Streak-a series of 21 straight victories. The longest-tenured wrestler in company history at 30 years, The Undertaker is one of the most prominent figures of the Attitude Era, a boom period in the company's business in the latter 1990s. A textbook example of WWE's Golden Age of freakish and outlandish gimmicks, The Undertaker was intent on demoralizing opponents as part of combat, done through theatrically "chilling" entrances, casket matches, links to the supernatural, and various other psychological warfare tactics.
Under this gimmick, he gained significant mainstream popularity as a horror-themed, macabre, funerary entity. 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.Ĭalaway was rebranded as "The Undertaker" once joining the WWF.
Although retired from professional wrestling, Calaway is still signed to WWE.Ĭalaway began his career in 1987, working under various gimmicks for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and other affiliate promotions, and he became USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion and WCWA Texas Heavyweight Champion during this time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is best known for his on-screen career in WWE from 1990 to 2020 under the ring name The Undertaker. Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), is an American retired professional wrestler.