{"id":13984,"date":"2025-04-18T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:05:31","slug":"wwes-undertaker-has-evolved-from-wrestlemania-icon-to-mentor-on-lfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13984","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s Undertaker Has Evolved from Wrestlemania Icon to Mentor on &#8216;LFG&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WWE is in Las Vegas this week for its biggest show of the year, but even a celebrated WrestleMania mainstay like Mark \u201cThe Undertaker\u201d Calaway had to start somewhere. In A&amp;E\u2019s new show LFG (That\u2019s \u201cLegends and Future Greats\u201d), Calaway certainly makes for an intriguing coach. Not only is the legend trying to teach those competing for a pro wrestling contract some of his phenomenal skills, but it also seems that he\u2019s been learning how to be a valuable mentor too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/tom-brady-to-wwe-nfl-legend-hints-at-wrestlemania-41-appearance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tom-Brady-on-stage-at-the-opening-of-his-Card-Vault-store-while-also-talking-about-WWE-wrestlemania-appearance.jpg?w=150&amp;h=84&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 280px\" alt=\"Tom Brady on stage at the opening of his Card Vault store while also talking about WWE wrestlemania appearance\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" data-fallback-img=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tom-Brady-on-stage-at-the-opening-of-his-Card-Vault-store-while-also-talking-about-WWE-wrestlemania-appearance.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For three decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/undertaker-s-top-10-wwe-moments\/\">The Undertaker dominated WWE<\/a> with his supernatural presence and a natural in-ring skill. Indeed, \u201cThe Deadman\u201d was in a class by himself, but as one of the competing coaches on LFG (going up against Mickie James, Booker T, and Bubba Ray Dudley), \u2018Taker is teaching his team all he can in order for one of his students to wrangle a full-time contract with WWE\u2019s NXT developmental system.<\/p>\n<p>While most of us know The Undertaker as being a man of few words, the chance to see Mark Calaway impart his wrestling wisdom has been a joy to see. And, at a specially organized panel at WWE World attended by <em>M&amp;F,<\/em> the Hall of Famer shared how he\u2019s come out of the shadows to be more hands-on as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really shocked at how invested I became, so quickly,\u201d said Calaway, in terms of how responsible he felt in order to make sure that all of the trainee wrestlers on the show were given a chance to succeed. \u201cYou\u2019ll see on any given day, and you\u2019ll see on background footage sometimes, you\u2019ll see Bubba or Mickie talking to somebody, they\u2019re not even on their teams, but it\u2019s because they see things that help. My gosh, what I would have given, at that point in my process (of starting out as a wrestler), to have that kind of tutelage just at my fingertips. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Competition Series &quot;WWE LFG&quot; Continues Sundays at 8pm ET\/PT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LggWRUc9DzU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The Undertaker Once Buried Wrestlers, Now He Lets Their Potential Rise<\/h2>\n<p>While Calaway has been all about supporting the up-and-coming stars on LFG, the WWE Hall of Famer has also been trying to figure out how intense he can be as relates to dishing out some of that Dead Man discipline and wrestling wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying to find out how hard I could push,\u201d he says. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re kind of the dinosaurs from a different era, and we came up (in the business) a lot harder. And we got a lot of \u2018in your face\u2019 (style teaching). So, it took me a minute to figure out how hard that I could push. I could say this, when the next season comes along, there won\u2019t be a feeling out process and I know exactly how much they can take. You look at them: all these are DI athletes. They\u2019ve all been coached hard (even before they got to LFG), and they can take it. So, that was, for me, trying to bring my era to them in a way that they understood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the standout trainees who has benefitted on Team Undertaker is Shiloh Hill, who is also known as college football star Thunder Justice Keck. In 2023, Keck signed the highest name, image, and likeness valuation of any Stanford athlete. His stock has risen ever since, and Keck, or Hill, as he is now known in WWE, was over the moon to have The Undertaker as a mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, getting to work in front of coaches and legends that I\u2019ve watched since I\u2019ve been really young, from the best to ever do it, it\u2019s been truly an honor,\u201d he said. No doubt: with such incredible coaching at their disposal, future stars like Shiloh Hill and the rest of those competing on LFG have a very real chance of one day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch-online\/sports\/wrestlemania\/6511157466832648112?cid=2503orgwmpkpdsearch17170&amp;utm_campaign=2503orgwm&amp;utm_source=pk_ggl&amp;utm_medium=pd_search_acq_srcpy&amp;utm_term=22177364133&amp;utm_content=172953344086_745099057572&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22177364133&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACqYaJoQOjLT06oymOstO-ZhjSFPz&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw8IfABhBXEiwAxRHlsB8Sx5ABZGjygQS1KnZDXh7EwvA5lXXGRC4u7e8zGLVViSB51cnvsxoCtd4QAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">performing at WrestleMania<\/a> just like their mentors. New Episodes of A&amp;E\u2019s LFG return April 27 and stream the next day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/features\/feature-news\/wwes-undertaker-has-evolved-from-wrestlemania-icon-to-mentor-on-lfg\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE is in Las Vegas this week for its biggest show of the year, but even a celebrated WrestleMania mainstay like Mark \u201cThe Undertaker\u201d Calaway had to start somewhere. In A&amp;E\u2019s new show LFG (That\u2019s \u201cLegends and Future Greats\u201d), Calaway certainly makes for an intriguing coach. Not only is the legend trying to teach those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}