The Undertaker drew a close to his legendary career with his induction into the WWE Hall Of Fame ahead of Wrestlemania 38 in Texas last April, but the Dead Man believes he was just inches away from an abrupt end to his tenure after an incident during a 2019 match
The Undertaker believes he was two inches from serious injury
The WWE legend was already in the final chapters of his storied career by the time he stepped into the ring with fellow WWE Hall Of Famer Goldberg at the 2019 Super ShowDown in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in a highly anticipated match but he revealed to the True Geordie Podcast that disaster nearly struck after Goldberg suffered a concussion early in the match and was unable to correctly perform his Jackhammer finishing move.
People are expecting big things because it’s Goldberg and it’s Undertaker… I’m thinking, ‘We gotta pay this off’. Maybe if I was working more often I would have recognized the fact that, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t do that.’ That was one of those instances where two inches [difference in landing], I don’t get up.
Despite a hyped build up, the error strewn match lasted less than 10 minutes but The Undertaker insists he holds no ill will towards the former WCW Champion
It’s one of those things that happened. He’s done that move a million times. I don’t know if he was concussed at that point yet. Part of that is because I’m not working a full schedule at that point. I’m not kicking on all my cylinders where I can recognize that, ‘Okay, maybe we shouldn’t do this’
Thankfully injury was avoided and the Dead Man was able to draw a line under one of the great careers of all time on his own terms, defeating AJ Styles in the critically acclaimed Boneyard Match at Wrestlemania 36.
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