WWE’s The Undertaker is one of the most mysterious characters in wrestling history, but sometimes living the gimmick only goes so far. For the Deadman, an encounter at a tattoo convention went way over the line.
In a piece describing tattoo artists’ “craziest client stories” to INKED, Paul Booth detailed an unusual story that included ‘Taker as a bystander. Booth mentioned inking up the Undertaker around the early 90’s in his hotel room so no one would bother the Deadman. Booth’s manager interrupted the session because some fans were “dying” to meet the tattoo artist and had brought him a special gift.
“So they brought them upstairs to the room and they said, ‘yeah, we got a head for you.’ I’m like, ‘a head?’ They were like, ‘yeah we were partying in a cemetery the other night after it rained and there was a mudslide and we found a head in the mud and we thought you should have it,'” Booth said.
“I said, ‘oh cool, let’s go get it’ — it’s in the trunk of the car and The Undertaker was kind of freaked out by the whole thing so he didn’t come along but I ran down, because I’m weird and disturbed, so why wouldn’t I?”
Booth says he went to the car without ‘Taker, felt the head and declined taking the head because it was full of maggots.
If you take anything away from this, make sure if you’re thinking of presenting the Deadman with a gift, don’t make it a decapitated head you found in a cemetery.
(Via Wrestling Inc)
