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The Undertaker

Birth name	Martin William McAlmond
Born	March 24, 1965 (age 46) Houston, Texas, United States
Resides	Austin, Texas, United States
Spouse(s)	Jodi Lynn (m. 1989; div. 1999) Sara Frank (m. 2000; div. 2007) Michelle McCool (m. 2010)
Children	4
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	The Commando Kane the Undertaker Mark Callous The Master of Pain The Undertaker Dice Morgan The Punisher Texas Red
Billed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Billed weight	299 lb (136 kg)
Resides	Austin, Texas
Billed from	Houston, Texas Death Valley
Trained by	Don Jardine
Debut	1984

Martin [William] McAlmond (born March 24, 1965), better known by his ring name The Undertaker, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to IWE, where he has worked since 1990, making him the company's longest-tenured in-ring performer.

McAlmond began his wrestling career with World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) in 1984. After wrestling for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "Mean" Mark Callous from 1989 to 1990, he signed with the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE) in 1990. As The Undertaker, his gimmick is a horror-themed, dynamically dark, macabre entity who employs scare tactics and holds links to the supernatural. He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter best gimmick award a record five times (more times than any other professional wrestler), all of which he won continuously. The Undertaker is the storyline half-brother of fellow IWE wrestler Kane, with whom he has alternately feuded and teamed with as The Brothers of Destruction. Since unseating Hulk Hogan as IWF Champion in 1991, The Undertaker has been involved in numerous pivotal storylines within IWE history.

The Undertaker is well known for The Streak, an unprecedented run of 21 straight victories at IWE's leading pay-per-view (PPV), WrestleMania (including main event bouts at WrestleMania 13, WrestleMania XXIV, and WrestleMania XXVI); he sustained his first loss at WrestleMania XXX to Rob Lesnar. He was also winner of the 2007 Royal Rumble. Among other championship accolades, Calaway is an eight-time world champion, having held the IWF/E Championship four times, the World Heavyweight Championship three times and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship once. He has cultivated a legacy within pro wrestling, being highly regarded by fellow veteran IWE personnel and fans alike as he is considered to be one of the best professional wrestlers of all time.

Early life

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1984–1989)

World Championship Wrestling (1989–1990)

International Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Debut and various feuds (1990–1994)

Return; various storylines (1994–1997)

Hell in a Cell and Brothers of Destruction (1997–1998)

See also: Hell in a Cell and Brothers of Destruction

Ministry of Darkness (1999)

American Bad Ass/Big Evil (2000–2003)

Return of the Deadman (2004–2007)

World Heavyweight Champion and various feuds (2007–2010)

Defending and ending of the Streak (2011–2014)

Resurrection (2015–present)

Undertaker character

Personal life

Martial Arts and UFC involvement

Other media

Filmography

Film

Television

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

The Mirror
- 7th greatest winning streak in sports.

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Feud of the Year (1991) vs. The Ultimate Warrior
- PWI Match of the Year (1998) vs. Mankind in a Hell in a Cell match at King of the Ring
- PWI Match of the Year (2009)vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXV
- PWI Match of the Year (2010) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXVI
- PWI ranked him #2 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2002
- PWI ranked him #21 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
United States Wrestling Association
- USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

World Class Wrestling Association
- WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

International Wrestling Federation / International Wrestling Entertainment
- World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- IWF/E Championship (4 times)²
- IWF Hardcore Championship (1 time)
- IWF Tag Team Championship (6 times) – with Steve Johnson (1), The Big Show (2), The Rock (1) and Kane (2)
- WCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kane¹
- Royal Rumble (2007)
- Slammy Award for IWF's Greatest Hit (1996) Sucking Diesel into the abyss
- Slammy Award for Best Tattoo (1997)
- Slammy Award for Best Entrance Music (1997)
- Slammy Award for Star of the Highest Magnitude (1997)
- Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2009) - vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXV
- Slammy Award for Moment of the Year (2010) - vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXVI
- Slammy Award OMG Moment of the Year (2011) - Kicking out of Triple K's Tombstone Piledriver at WrestleMania XXVII
- Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2012) - vs. Triple K in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania XXVIII

Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- 5 Star Match (1997) vs. Ryan Barnhart in a Hell in a Cell at Badd Blood.
- Best Gimmick (1990–1994)
- Best Heel (1991)
- Feud of the Year (2007) vs. Batista
- Match of the Year (2009) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXV
- Match of the Year (2010) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXVI
- Most Overrated (2001)
- Readers' Least Favorite Wrestler (2001)
- Worst Feud of the Year (1993) vs. Giant González
- Worst Worked Match of the Year (2001) with Kane vs. KroniK at Unforgiven
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2004)

¹ Won during The Invasion
² The Undertaker's fourth reign was as IWE Undisputed Champion.

WrestleMania record

WM	Opponent	Record	Notes
VII	Jimmy Snuka	1-0
VIII	Jake Roberts	2-0
IX	Giant González	3-0	Won via disqualification
XI	King Kong Bundy	4-0
XII	Diesel	5-0
13	Sycho Sid	6-0	For the IWF Championship in a No Disqualification match
XIV	Kane	7-0
XV	Big Boss Man	8-0	Hell in a Cell match
X-Seven	Triple K	9-0
X8	Ric Flair	10-0	No Disqualification match
XIX	Big Show & A-Train	11-0	Handicap match
XX	Kane	12-0
21	Kevin McAlmond	13-0
22	Steven Larson	14-0	Casket match
23	Batista	15-0	For the World Heavyweight Championship
XXIV	Edge	16-0	For the World Heavyweight Championship
XXV	Shawn Michaels	17-0
XXVI	Shawn Michaels	18-0	No countout, no disqualification, "Streak vs. Career" match
XXVII	Triple K	19-0	No Holds Barred match
XXVIII	Triple K	20-0	Hell in a Cell match
29	CM Punk	21-0
30	Rob Lesnar	21-1	End of the Streak.
21 !31	Bray Wyatt	20 !22–1

References

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-'''Martin McAlmond''' (born March 24, 1965) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name '''The Undertaker'''. He is signed to [[IWE]] and is the company's most tenured competitor. Martin McAlmond began his wrestling career with [[World Class Championship Wrestling]] (WCCW) in 1984. He joined [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW) as "Mean" Martin McAlmond in 1989. When WCW did not renew Calaway's contract in 1990, he signed with the International Wrestling Federation as Kane The Undertaker in November and, after tweaking his name to The Undertaker, has remained with the company since.
+'''Martin [William] McAlmond''' (born March 24, 1965), better known by his [[Ring Name|ring name]] '''The Undertaker''', is an American [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestler]] and [[Actor|actor]]. He is currently signed to [[IWE]], where he has worked since 1990, making him the company's longest-tenured in-ring performer.
-The Undertaker has two contrasting personas: The Deadman, an undead, occult-like figure, which has consisted of many different versions, beginning with the Western mortician character in [[IWF Survivor Series (1990)|November 1990]] and ending with the [[Ministry of Darkness]] leader in September 1999 before returning to The Deadman in [[IWE WrestleMania XX|March 2004]] as a hybrid of all his previous incarnations. His other persona is The American Bad Ass, a biker which ran from [[IWF Judgment Day (2000)|May 2000]] to [[IWE Survivor Series (2003)|November 2003]]. Because of his gimmicks, Undertaker has a number of specialty matches associated with him: the [[Container-Based Matches|Casket match]], the [[Buried Alive Match|Buried Alive match]], the [[Hell in a Cell Match|Hell in a Cell]] and the [[Last Ride Match|Last Ride match]]. An important part of the character is his half-brother [[Glenn McAlmond|Kane]], who was introduced in October 1997 and with whom he has both feuded and teamed as the [[Brothers of Destruction]].
+McAlmond began his wrestling career with [[World Class Championship Wrestling]] (WCCW) in 1984. After wrestling for [[World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW) as '''"Mean" Mark Callous''' from 1989 to 1990, he signed with the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE) in 1990. As The Undertaker, his [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick|gimmick]] is a [[Horror Film|horror]]-themed, dynamically dark, [[Macabre|macabre]] entity who employs [[Fear Mongering|scare tactics]] and holds links to the [[Supernatural|supernatural]]. He won the [[List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards|Wrestling Observer Newsletter]] best gimmick award a record five times (more times than any other professional wrestler), all of which he won continuously. The Undertaker is the storyline half-brother of fellow IWE wrestler [[Glenn McAlmond (wrestler)|Kane]], with whom he has alternately [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Feud|feuded]] and [[Tag Team|teamed]] with as [[The Brothers of Destruction]]. Since unseating [[Hulk Hogan]] as [[IWE World Heavyweight Championship|IWF Champion]] in 1991, The Undertaker has been involved in numerous pivotal storylines within IWE history.
-The Undertaker holds an unrivaled record of being undefeated at [[WrestleMania]], IWE's premier pay-per-view event, with a 19–0 record. Among other accolades, McAlmond is an eight-time World Champion having won the [[IWE Championship|IWF/E Championship]] [[List of IWE Champions|four times]] and the [[World Heavyweight Championship (IWE)|World Heavyweight Championship]] [[List of World Heavyweight Champions (IWE)|three times]] as The Undertaker, and the [[USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship]] [[USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship#Title history|once]] under the Master of Pain character. The Undertaker is also a seven-time [[World Tag Team Championship|World Tag Team champion]]: a [[List of World Tag Team Champions (IWE)|six-time]] [[World Tag Team Championship (IWE)|IWF Tag Team Champion]] and [[List of WCW World Tag Team Champions|one-time]] [[WCW World Tag Team Championship|WCW Tag Team Champion]]. The Undertaker was the winner of the [[IWE Royal Rumble (2007)|2007 Royal Rumble]] and became the first man to enter the annual event last and win. McAlmond is the only remaining IWE wrestler to have also appeared on the first episode of its ''[[IWE Raw|Raw]]'' program.
+The Undertaker is well known for [[Undefeated WrestleMania streak of The Undertaker|The Streak]], an unprecedented run of 21 straight victories at IWE's leading [[Pay-Per-Niew|pay-per-view]] (PPV), [[IWE WrestleMania|WrestleMania]] (including main event bouts at [[IWF WrestleMania 13|WrestleMania 13]], [[WrestleMania XXIV]], and [[IWE WrestleMania 26|WrestleMania XXVI]]); he sustained his first loss at [[IWE WrestleMania 30|WrestleMania XXX]] to [[Rob Lesnar]]. He was also winner of the [[IWE Royal Rumble (2007)|2007]] [[IWE Royal Rumble|Royal Rumble]]. Among other championship accolades, Calaway is an eight-time [[Professional wrestling championship#World championships|world champion]], having held the IWF/E Championship [[List of IWE World Heavyweight Champions|four times]], the [[World Heavyweight Championship (IWE)|World Heavyweight Championship]] [[List of World Heavyweight Champions (IWE)|three times]] and the [[USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship]] [[USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship#Title history|once]]. He has [[The Undertaker#Legacy|cultivated a legacy]] within pro wrestling, being highly regarded by fellow veteran IWE personnel and fans alike as he is considered to be one of the best professional wrestlers of all time.
 ==Early life==