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"You want me to do WHAT?!" It's The Undertaker's fault, really. In 1990, a man named Mark Calaway took what was the single most ridiculous gimmick, on paper, and somehow manufactured it into a Hall-of-Fame career. This is what I imagined the pitch to 'Taker at the time: "It'll be a guy who is dead, yet he's not. He will be able to take an outstanding amount of punishment, but to no avail for the Punisher. He'll walk around with an urn. He'll take 20 minutes to slowly walk to the ring. Oh! And that urn? It'll have special powers in it! That has to get over!" It shouldn't have. Thank God for Mark Calaway, aka The Undertaker. But should we really be thanking him? The Undertaker's gimmick has proven to be the exception to the rul...

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