Mark calaway age
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By Ryan Satin
FOX Sports WWE Analyst
Born in 1965 to a family with four other siblings in Texas, Mark Calaway’s fascination with the dead began long before his start in wrestling.
"I was always just enthralled by mystery and scare," the WWE icon known for decades as The Undertaker said of his childhood. "When I was a kid, it was more theater of the mind. Later on, the movies, they kind of went into full gore and didn’t leave anything for you to think about. They showed you everything. But early on, they would cut things off and just kind of let your mind figure it out. So I was always fascinated, even with death."
That fascination was only enhanced by the fact that young Calaway had family who worked in the place he’d one day become synonymous with. As early as kindergarten, the man who’d grow up to have his own "Funeral Parlor" segments on WWE TV actually hung out in a mortuary.
"There was a time where I had family members that actually worked in a funeral home, so I was around caskets, and I was in embalming rooms," he explained. "Little did I know, at that poin
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The Undertaker
American professional wrestler (born 1965)
This article is about the American professional wrestler. For other uses, see Undertaker (disambiguation).
Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), better known by his ring nameThe Undertaker, is an American retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time,[13] Calaway spent the vast majority of his career wrestling for WWE and in 2022 was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.[14]
Calaway began his career in 1987, working under various gimmicks for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and other affiliate promotions. He signed with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1989 for a brief stint, and then joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1990.
Calaway rebranded himself as "The Undertaker" when he joined the WWF. As one of WWE's most high-profile and enduring characters,[15][16] The Undertaker is famed for his funerary themeing around an undead, macabre "Deadman" persona, which gained significan
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Full Biography 1965 – 2000
1965-1989
Mark Calaway [1], best known as the professional wrestler and WWE Superstar the Undertaker was born in Houston, Texas on 24, March 1965 [2] into the family of his mother and father, Frank and Catherine Calaway and four brothers. Growing up in Houston, he attended Waltrip High School where he played for the school basketball team and graduated in 1983. With his sights set on becoming a pro basketball player in his teenage years, Mark went to Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas on a basketball scholarship. He later went on to attend Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth where he studied Sports Management and played in the university basketball team. However, being a Texas native, Mark had grown up watching wrestling on TV and became familiar with the famous Von Erich wrestling family. Calaway decided to pursue his wrestling interest, but just before the new basketball season was about to start, his coach asked him to make a bigger, more dedicated commitment to the team and quit wrestling, but Mark, who felt forced to choose between the two, dro
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