The Undertaker opens up about frustrations in one of his final matches with WWE.
SuperShowdown 2019 in Saudi Arabia saw The Undertaker and Goldberg go head to head for the first and last time. The bout didn’t go to plan, with Goldberg suffering a concussion during the bout, and Undertaker was dropped on his head later when Goldberg attempted a Tombstone Piledriver.
Speaking in a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, Undertaker admitted the match was “scary,” and put the issues down to both men getting older and not wrestling very often.
“It was a scary match to be in and it was just Father Time. The worst thing as you get older are the breaks. When you have long periods of time where you don’t work and as you get older you lose that sharpness, the mental quickness to figure out things. That was something that I always really prided myself on [that] if something happened, knowing what to do.
So in that match, I was so just like, I’m gonna make this good. I’m gonna make it good, I’m gonna make it good and I don’t think I had enough mental acuity and the physical attributes to turn that around, and it just continued to go backwards. It was nobody’s fault. Just, you know what happened.”
Recently Ryback seemingly challenged Goldberg to a retirement match at WrestleMania 41.
“Yeah, I Was P*ssed” – The Undertaker
When asked if he was angry when he went to the back after the disastrous bout, Undertaker replied:
“Yeah, I was p*ssed because you don’t get many opportunities, especially that late in your career to do a first, I had never worked with Goldberg. And the Saudis for all the good and all the bad, they paid a lot of money to get us to come over there for that.
And regardless, I always like to live up to my name and I really felt like I had let people down I’d let myself down. Because I hold a higher standard for myself than what anybody else does. I can get over what other people think of me but what I want out of me is the very best. It happened and it’s it turned into a train wreck and yeah, I was extremely p*ssed.
But yeah, mostly because I knew it wasn’t good. And we both, he thought he had a concussion and my back, I thought was broken. It was just one of those moments, it was a frustration of the whole thing.”
Back in May, Matt Hardy recalled watching the Undertaker vs. Goldberg bout backstage with Randy Orton and detailed their reactions.
Goldberg recently indicated that he’d love to have one more match.
In a rare social media post, The Undertaker gave a shout-out to rock band Blink-182.
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