The Undertaker sat down for a rare out of character interview with Pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church in North Texas. A large portion of the interview revolved around his faith, but Taker dropped some interesting words of wisdom on how important character development is for the younger talents:
“It’s not about the moves — it really isn’t — it’s being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another,” he said. “You have to either make people love you or you have to make people hate you.”
“A lot of times what happens with these young guys is they’re so athletic, they’re so gifted, they’ll do some kind of double crazy back flip off the top rope and land on somebody on the floor and then that’s what the audience takes away from it: ‘this guy does crazy stuff.’ Well, you can only see that so many times before you’re like ‘I’ve seen that. I need something new,’” he said. “And that’s the position they sometimes back themselves into. They have to keep upping the ante. And when you up the ante like that, then you increase your potential for injuries.”
“It’s all about love or hate, you know. There’s a lot of guys that it takes awhile to figure that part out and by the time they do they’re so beat up and injured and hurt.”
Check out the entire interview below:
Credit to Pro Wrestling Sheet for the Transcription.