UNDERTAKER IS AT PEACE WITH RETIREMENT AFTER WRESTLEMANIA 40 APPEARANCE

Undertaker's spoken recently about how hard it's been to come to terms with his retirement from WWE and Pro Wrestling. Even though the 58 year old said he knows there's no "one more match" coming, he hadn't been able to shake the comeback itch.

But then he chokeslammed The Rock in front of 70,000+ screaming fans in the main event of the biggest WrestleMania ever, as part of the payoff to a multi-year story that's propelled the business to heights it hasn't seen this century.

That, as the Dead Man said on the new episode of his Dead Man Walking podcast, gave him the closure he needed to be at peace with retirement:

“Here’s the coolest thing about the whole week. I’ve only shared this, until now, with Michelle [Taker’s wife, Michelle McCool]. Something happened. I’ve been struggling with it since I retired but this weekend gave me closure. It really did. It was fun, obviously, it was fun. Doing this for as long as I have and being involved and that, and how important that storyline was and is but when it was over and I’m running out of the building, I’m like ‘I’m good now.’”

He doesn’t come right out and say it, but just like Drew McIntyre found his WrestleMania 36 moment at the empty Performance Center lacking, it seems Taker may have needed to say goodbye in a packed house as opposed in a field with AJ Styles after his last match with AJ Styles was a so-called cinematic one:

“I don’t know if I needed... my last match was the Boneyard with nobody there. It was like a moment of clarity that I had like, ‘I’m okay now.’ I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do something like that in the future but I don’t have that feeling in my chest like I’ve had since I retired that I hadn’t come to peace with it.”

Whatever it was, Taker says WrestleMania XL scratched the itch:

“It was such a cool weekend all the way around and then to have closure to the wrestling part of my career, it was so cool. It was really cool, it was a great feeling. It really is an amazing feeling because I don’t have that pressure now. It’s been difficult the last couple of years, especially at Mania. Even going to a regular premium live event, I’ve told you this, I would leave before the matches because I get so to the point where I need to be out there.

“So I was out there, and my goodness what a moment to have. It’s such a great storyline but, man, it was like I can close this book.”

Check out the whole “Undertaker Recaps WrestleMania XL” edition of Six Feet Under here.

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