On a recent edition of his “Six Feet Under” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker discussed working with Jake Roberts early in his career, his violent gimmick matches with Mick Foley, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On learning from Jake Roberts in WWE: “I was already traveling with Jake and the amount of knowledge of the business and why he did things and how he did things, I learned so much. I learned a lot of bad habits from Jake … but the knowledge that he spit traveling up and down the road, wow. He was honestly a wrestling genius in everything that he did.”
On when the match really starts: “He goes, ‘Your match starts as soon as you walk through that curtain. It doesn’t start at ding ding ding, the match starts as soon as you come out of Gorilla Position.’”
On his matches with Mick Foley: “You would expect us to be in a Boiler Room Brawl because of his character. You would expect a Buried Alive [Match], you would expect a body bag. It just all made sense to where we were at in our story and what we were doing. I think a lot of times, nowadays, you could sit and scroll through social media and all these wrestling sites and there’s just, these smaller independent, outlaw promotions just doing violence to be violent. It’s almost like, like gore movies, kind of. It’s just how graphic can you be?”
On not going to that level just for the sake of it: “You don’t go to that level just for the sake of going to that level. Obviously, you’re not going to see that stuff with WWE anymore … that’s off the table for what they can do.”
