The Undertaker Turned Down Being In ESPN The Body Issue
The Undertaker didn’t want his coffin on display in ESPN The Body Issue.
From 2009 to 2019, ESPN would release The Body Issue of its magazine that highlighted the bodies of various athletes. Among wrestlers, Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair took part in the issue. Top athletes like Jerry Rice, Saquon Barkley, Dwyane Wade, Bryce Harper, Michael Phelps, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams have also posed in the issue.
On Six Feet Under, Taker, with his co-host and wife Michelle McCool, spoke with Charlotte Flair and revealed he turned down an appearance in the issue.
Undertaker: She tried to talk me into this. You [Charlotte] did the ESPN Body Issue?
McCool: I did try to talk him (into it).
Charlotte: I made sure they had all the cameras covered. I was like, ‘I’m not going in there naked without all those little cameras covered.’
Undertaker: I totally get that. This one [Michelle] was trying to convince me.
McCool: Years ago. Not now.
Undertaker: Definitely (not now).
Charlotte: Why not? You and all the tats? You could just have the turnbuckle right there [over your crotch]. Is that too much? Is the turnbuckle too much?
Undertaker: Ay, man.
Charlotte: Taker right there in front of the turnbuckle with the WWE logo. He can flex on one side.
Undertaker: When this airs, people are going to cringe so hard. That’s not my Undertaker. They do not want to see anything under the black.
McCool: They’re seeing it now. Yes, back then, maybe not. I thought it was a beautiful way…
Undertaker: She tried hard to convince me.
McCool: People think I get everything I want.
Charlotte: You turned it down?
Undertaker: Yes, I turned it down.
McCool: He wouldn’t even do that for me. People think I get everything because of him. The one thing I ask him for, he shot down hard. Come on, man.
Charlotte: He’s probably like, ‘My character wouldn’t do it.’
Undertaker: Exactly!
McCool: That’s exactly what he said.
Undertaker: That’s all I have is my character.
McCool: He’s like, ‘I’ll walk around the house naked all the time, but I’m not about to be in the magazine.’ He really doesn’t walk around naked all the time.
Charlotte: I’m being the creative director.
McCool: Hope is still alive. Guys, can we make this happen? Put a coffin. ‘Undertaker is dead. Mark Callaway has arrived.’
What could have been.
Elsewhere during the interview, Charlotte revealed she has the original Divas Championship. You can find her full comments here.
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