Mark Calaway

Ringtones for motorola Image:UndertakerLegDropHeidenrich.jpg/thumb/250px/A classic high-elevation leg drop by the Undertaker to Kylies Secret Jon Heidenreich/Heidenreich'''Mark Calaway''' (also spelled [incorrectly] as either Callaway or Calloway; born Hotlink caller ringtones March 24, Kiss Kristin 1965 in Alltel ringtones Houston, Texas), better known by his stage name of '''The Undertaker''', is an Gotta Love Lucky American Samsung ringtones professional wrestler with Play With Paris World Wrestling Entertainment. He is a four-time Real ringtones WWE Champion and eight-time Keeani WWE Tag Team Champion. He also holds a unique record; he is currently undefeated in matches at the yearly Cingular Ringtones WrestleMania events, with a record of 12-0. He is one of the few wrestlers to be consistently promoted (or ''pushed'') throughout his career, and is frequently seen as a company loyalist and prominent 'ambassador' for WWE. He currently lives in his manhattan you Texas ranch with his wife Sara and their daughter.

Wrestling history

=Pre-professional wrestling=

Mark Calaway experienced his first-ever wrestling training session in 1984. However, Calaway went on to begin his wrestling career properly by training and wrestling at the Dallas Sportatorium in ever willing Dallas, Texas, wrestling in losing burnitz Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW). He would later go on to wrestle in the USWA, winning the USWA Heavyweight and USWA Texas Titles before signing with handled terry WCW in late 1989. During the mid to late 1980s, Calaway used a number of wrestling names, namely, The Commando, The Punisher, Texas Red, the Master of Pain and the Punisher Dice Morgan.

=Early career in WCW=

Mark Calaway's nickles r professional wrestling career and shot at fame began properly with a short stint from late 1989 until late 1990 in storyteller and WCW. Whilst there, he would be known as '''"Mean" Mark Callous'''. He wrestled as part of the Sky Scrapers tag team along with '''"Dangerous" Danny Spivey''' and then as a singles wrestler. His most famous match in four on WCW was against and underpowered Lex Luger for the US Title at the 1990 Great American Bash, which he lost. At the end of 1990, corridor views WCW did not renew Calaway's contract, thus he went to seek work with whether chinese Vince McMahon's WWF.

=Career in the WWF/WWE=

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Calaway debuted at Survivor Series 1990 as '''The Undertaker'''. In the weeks after he used the name ''Kane the Undertaker'' at house shows and on marked man WWE/WWF television. The ''Kane'' part was dropped awhile after, and Calaway was again referred to as simply ''The Undertaker'', the name he uses to this day.

It was also at this time that ''Undertaker'' switched managers from filming to Bruce Prichard/Brother Love to country yokel William Moody (WWE)/Paul Bearer. The story given on offensive been WWE/WWF television was that fake therefore William Moody (WWE)/Paul Bearer simply bought out Undertaker's contract from character befriends Bruce Prichard/Brother Love.

The Undertaker's leopold stokowski gimmick (professional wrestling)/gimmick has changed over the years. At first he appeared as a 'normal' undertaker; a silent giant who was subservient to exact duplicate William Moody (WWE)/Paul Bearer. As with many wrestlers in the cartoonish ''Rock and Wrestling'' era, he had an over-the-top gimmick—namely an undead zombie wrestler (complete with thick gray, then purple gloves) with vague occult powers, most notably being able to control darkness and light and gain extraordinary recuperative power from the ash urn that Paul Bearer carried.

In 1997, his on-screen brother, owen behalf Glen Jacobs/Kane, was revealed to be alive and they have feud (professional wrestling)/feuded off and on for several years.

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In recent years, in line with wrestling's change to a more realistic approach, his gimmick became that of an intimidating redneck biker, first referred to as the "American Bad Ass" (pictured) due to his new entrance music being the Kid Rock song of the same name. Unlike many gimmick (professional wrestling)/gimmick changes, this was generally well-received by fans.

At the Wrestlemania XX pay-per-view event, he would return in the "deadman" Undertaker persona, again with William Moody (WWE)/Paul Bearer to defeat Kane. Currently, his gimmick could be best described as a hybrid of the classic Taker and American Bad Ass gimmicks (Biker Taker was buried alive by Kane several months prior to WrestleMania XX). Several months later, Paul Bearer was kidnapped by The Dudley Boyz at the direction of Paul Heyman, who then took "control" of Undertaker in the storyline. At the June 2004 WWE PPV The Great American Bash, Taker buried Bearer in a crypt of cement after winning a handicap match against the Dudleys as a means of removing his "weakness" so that Heyman or others could no longer control him. Fans were later told that Bearer was merely "seriously injured".

At this time, The Undertaker is feuding with Jon Heidenreich/Heidenreich and will face him in a Casket Match (a match generally acknowledged as being created by The Undertaker) at the 2005 Royal Rumble.

Finisher and signature maneuvers
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* Professional_wrestling_throws#Elevated_powerbomb/The Last Ride
* Professional_wrestling_throws#Chokeslam/Chokeslam
* Professional_wrestling_aerial_techniques#Flying_clothesline/Old-School (top rope-walking followed by Clothesline to the back of the head)

Championships and accomplishments

''USWA Heavyweight Championship Title''

:April 1, 1989 - ''USWA Heavyweight Title'' (1)
:Defeated Jerry Lawler - Memphis, Tennessee
:Lost to Jerry Lawler on April 25, 1989

''USWA Texas Championship Title''

:October 5, 1989 - ''USWA Texas Title'' (1)
:Defeated Eric Embry - Dallas, Texas
:Lost to Kerry Von Erich on October 20, 1989

''WWF/WWE World Heavyweight Championship Title''

:November 11, 1991 - ''WWF World Heavyweight Title'' (1)
:Defeated Hulk Hogan - Detroit, Michigan
:Lost to Hulk Hogan on December 3, 1991

:March 23, 1997 - ''WWF World Heavyweight Title'' (2)
:Defeated Sid Eudy/Sycho Sid - Rosemont, Illinois
:Lost to Bret Hart on August 3, 1997

:May 23, 1999 - ''WWF World Heavyweight Title'' (3)
:Defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin - Kansas City, Missouri
:Lost to Stone Cold Steve Austin on June 28, 1999

:May 19, 2002 - ''Undisputed WWF World Heavyweight Title'' (4)
:Defeated Hulk Hogan - Nashville, Tennessee
:Lost to The Rock (entertainer)/The Rock on July 21, 2002
:'''Note''': Losing match was a three way with Kurt Angle.

''WWF/WWE & WCW Tag Team Championship Titles''

:July 26, 1998 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (1)
:Defeated Glen Jacobs/Kane and Mick Foley/Mankind with Stone Cold Steve Austin - Fresno, California
:Lost to Glen Jacobs/Kane and Mick Foley/Mankind on August 10, 1998
:'''Note''': Glen Jacobs/Kane and Mick Foley/Mankind defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker, The Rock (entertainer)/Rocky Maivia & A.C. Connor/D'Lo Brown (subbing for Owen Hart), and The New Age Outlaws in a Four Corners match.

:August 22, 1999 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (2)
:Defeated Glen Jacobs/Kane and Sean Waltman/X-Pac with Paul Wight/The Big Show - Minneapolis, Minnesota
:Lost to The Rock (entertainer)/The Rock and Mick Foley/Mankind on August 30, 1999

:September 7, 1999 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (3)
:Defeated Glen Jacobs/Kane and Sean Waltman/X-Pac with Paul Wight/The Big Show - Albany, New York
:Lost to The Rock (entertainer)/The Rock and Mick Foley/Mankind on September 20, 1999
:'''Note''': Defeated The Big Show, Dennis Knight/Mideon & Nelson Frazier, Jr./Viscera in "The Dark Side Rules" match in which any of Undertaker's followers can be involved.

:December 18, 2000 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (4)
:Defeated Adam Copeland/Edge and Jason Reso/Christian with The Rock (entertainer)/The Rock - Greenville, South Carolina
:Lost to Adam Copeland/Edge and Jason Reso/Christian - December 19, 2000

:April 17, 2001 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (5)
:Defeated Adam Copeland/Edge and Jason Reso/Christian with Glen Jacobs/Kane - Nashville, Tennessee
:Lost to Stone Cold Steve Austin and Paul Levesque/Hunter Hearst Helmsley on April 29, 2001

:August 9, 2001 - ''WCW World Tag Team Title'' (6)
:Defeated Chuck Palumbo and Shawn O'Haire with Glenn Jacobs/Kane - Los Angeles, California
:Lost to Booker T and Test on September 27, 2001

:August 19, 2001 - ''WWF World Tag Team Title'' (7)
:Defeated Page Falkenberg/Diamond Dallas Page and Chris Klucsaritis/Kanyon with Glenn Jacobs/Kane - San Jose, California
:Lost to The Dudley Boyz on September 17, 2001

''WWF/WWE Hadrcore Championship Title''

:December 9, 2001 - ''WWF Hardcore Title'' (1)
:Defeated Rob Szatkowski/Rob Van Dam - San Diego, California
:Lost to Maven Huffman/Maven on February 5, 2002


'''WWE Championship'''

Preceded by:'''Hulk Hogan'''
First reign
Followed by:'''Hulk Hogan'''

Preceded by:'''Sid Eudy/Sycho Sid'''
Second reign
Followed by:'''Bret Hart'''

Preceded by:'''Stone Cold Steve Austin'''
Third reign
Followed by:'''Stone Cold Steve Austin'''

Preceded by:'''Hulk Hogan'''
Fourth reign
Followed by:'''The Rock (entertainer)/The Rock'''



External links
*http://smackdown.wwe.com/superstars/undertaker/index.html
*http://www.undertaker-wwe.com/
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