The Inspiring Story of How The Undertaker Started Wrestling

the jurogan experience i was in college i was a basketball player right and my coach tells tells me hey mark there's there's some european scouts that are that are interested in you you know maybe after you know next year you know they may want to give you a tryout european pro basketball right but they all say they want to get you you know they'd like for you to be a little bigger because of the style they played back then okay so i start lifting weights trying you know i'm six foot eight 230 240 which is in in the 80s is huge for a basketball player but still so i started training european league were they just more physical yeah yeah that you know it was like uh rick mahorn and and bill lambiere you know on the gas and they were just monsters and uh so i start training and i'm trying to you know put on size and strength and i met this guy in the gym who was like every day i'd come in he goes hey he goes man i'm going to go and i'm going to i'm going to get in this wrestling what'd you do wrestling with me i was a big wrestling fan as a kid but as i got into you know basketball and football and everything else i kind of you know i kind of drifted away yeah and i was just like man i think i'm gonna go try to play some pro ball in europe and he goes ah man you should really try and do this with me you know so i kind of started getting in touch with the product again you know i kind of started watching again and you know i got no clue uh i think you know i kind of got fall back into it again right like oh that's kind of cool it's different and i think one of the things that's helped me through my career is is being a realist in what my talents are and what my talents are and you know i was like you know kind of start having these conversations with myself like even if you do make a team you know i mean how long do you really have right and being 21 and sitting on the end of the bench in lithuania just really didn't wasn't that appealing yeah of a you know you know i'm trying to weigh it up against what i'm seeing on tv right and i'm like you know i'm like yo you got the von eriks and you got hogan i'm like well [ __ ] these guys are huge household names you know so i'm thinking maybe i'll give it a try so we find this guy by the name of buzz sawyer to train us right now i got to come up with two grand and i ain't got a pot or a window to throw it out of right so i uh i get my brother my oldest brother to co-sign a loan hock everything i own and come up with two grand to pay by sawyer to train train me to wrestle show up to his house first morning of training right and buzz was a he was a he was a good amateur really good amateur and uh show up at his house knocking on the door knocking on there's about 10 of us standing out in the [ __ ] front yard knocking on the door finally [ __ ] door swings open what the [ __ ] you want right he's saying her butt-ass naked i woke him up out of a dead he's just standing there naked and everybody's like uh we're here to train and he goes oh [ __ ] is that today [Laughter] yeah you know and uh so he he gets a another guy that was staying there with him his name was perry jackson who i'm friends with to this day uh he says go out there and warm him up right so he goes out there and we run and do all just i mean everything they can do to blow us up and run us off right totally gassed out about two hours just nothing but cardio [ __ ] right finally buzz comes out all right everybody line up you know all right everybody get down amateur position right so you know everybody gets down [ __ ] he just stretches the [ __ ] out of everybody right like crossface just [ __ ] you know chicken wing and just just hooking everybody and rolling him around in the in his front yard right that was it right then he goes in the house so yeah y'all come back you know a couple other days so this goes on for weeks and like every time i show up there's like one less guy that shows up they just like [ __ ] until i was the last one there so i'm the last one there a knock on the door knock on the door [ __ ] he never answers right so i start peering in the windows [ __ ] all the furniture's gone everything's gone he's gone he's gone to a different territory to work he just left right never never learned any pro wrestling we're just teaching you wrestling he was just teaching me yeah obviously he we signed up for pro you know to teach us how to pro wrestle but he just came out there and his whole goal and this is the way it was back then is they always try to take your money and then they try to run you off you know most of the guys that in that era were all shooters you know they were all you know they were all good amateurs right and that was what they would do they'd take your money then they'd hurt you twist your hurt you know and try and get you to quit and they got your money and they're you know they didn't have to worry about there's some wrestling trainers that were famous for like crazy physical training standards before they ever taught you anything like carl gotcha oh yeah sure you know carl gotchas carl gotch who is uh not just a wrestler but one of the he's like one of the legends of catch wrestling yeah catch wrestling is like uh so it's a lot like submission wrestling that you see in the u in the ufc or in jiu jitsu but it's a very like wrestling oriented so instead of like whereas jiu jitsu maybe would be i don't want to say it's less technical but it's more violent like it's a lot of snapping people down and cross-facing and guillotines and ten finger guillotines and there's still a lot of like um sakuraba was like one of the legends of mma learned yeah from another catch wrestler in japan and a lot of guys who like josh barnett is another one who's a big uh catch wrestling uh enthusiast his style is all and he you know he submitted a lot of like really elite guys but yeah carl gotch was famous for making you had you had to be able to do crazy [ __ ] like i think you had to do a thousand bodyweight squats you had to be able to do like you had to do all these things before you even teach you yeah anything like you had to be [ __ ] tip top magoo before you would ever get into those ropes yeah absolutely and that was the whole goal is to run you off to you know weed out the week read out the week yeah and then if you went through all of that and you were still there okay well this kid you know you know let's see what he you know see if we can teach him how to do this but there was that big weed out process and that was yeah i think buzz's whole deal his whole deal was a scam from the start yeah i mean he he wanted the money and he knew you know what you know back then we had territories before vince kind of you know took it nationwide you know texas had a territory california had a couple of territories oregon you know and guys just went two thousand bucks in 86 is a lot of money money that's a lot of money for a kid in college on you know on a scholarship yeah i didn't have [ __ ] i sold everything i owned you know so you're [ __ ] how do you go from there so uh you know i i lived in my car for a little bit uh you know bounced in bars collected a little money here and there i just did whatever i could just to you know keep eating and and keep training and and and did what i did what i could and i knew so the von erics ran dallas that was their that was their their hub world world championship wrestling and i knew that they were in the office on wednesday like they would come in there and book the cards and the guys would come in get their paychecks and [ __ ] on wednesday so every wednesday for about eight months i would go down there and i'd sit in the lobby and [ __ ] guys would come right walk right by me not even not even acknowledge my presence every wednesday every wednesday for eight months i went and just sat there and eight months did you ask to speak to well yeah so there was there was a referee back there his name was bronco lubitz was the only one that would speak to me right and it would be kind of like yeah you're here again huh kid i was like uh yes sir mr lubich i was you know hoping maybe i get a chance to talk to somebody today all right well just good luck you know and then i would sit there and you know i'd walk by and try like you know as somebody would come through you know i'd kind of start to stand [ __ ] never stop just [ __ ] just blew me blew right by me one day like i was i was right at the end of my rise like [ __ ] this is not i'm not getting anywhere here and uh fritz von eric now the the patriarch of the family right the guy that owned the company came in and he and he walked in and he stopped and he looked at me like and i started to you know once again i started to get up you know and introduce myself and he turned around and went into bronco's office and he had a deep gravelly voice and i could hear him he's like he's like who's that kid out there and uh he said he's been coming here for months he's just trying to get booked and i heard heard fritz go book him [ __ ] friday night i want to see what he can do he looks just like david one of his sons that he had lost i looked i looked a lot like david and that's how that's how i got my first break wow because i was in the right you know i was in the right place at the right time so had you ever practiced no i was practicing i mean yeah i mean i was but i'd never had a i'd never had like a real match right i mean i'm just you know every little outlaw independent kind of deal that i could get i was doing but i hadn't worked with top guys or you know when you say like outlaw independent like so you were doing some matches i was doing some matches but not not professional like not televised not for for a real company right it's just like some jackass like okay i'm a wrestling promoter i'm gonna go to the knights of columbus hall and see if i can put 20 people in here you know that's the kind of [ __ ] you do and then you have to go for no money and then you know you'd set up the ring whatever you had to do but the wrestling the time in the ring was what was so valuable at that point is getting getting those reps and getting that stuff so and then so they booked me and uh i don't know if you've heard of bruiser brody yes yes tough guy uh anybody's standards back then especially is my first match right so now i'm a pretty respectful guy and and and i'm sure in any industry you know even you know a new comic you pay respect to the older guy i mean this is the way it should be and the way it really was back then especially you know in our business you know you just you didn't say much you spoke when spoken to kind of deal and uh so i i'm bruising bruiser brody's my first professional match right so wow i don't know i'm 20 21 maybe and uh i'm you know i'm in the ring and i'm looking at him i'm like [ __ ] i'm bigger than he is this is the [ __ ] that's going on in my head right now i'm so nervous like you couldn't have drove a nail up my ass with a sledgehammer i'm so nervous to start with but i'm looking like that that stupid voice in the back of my head's like you're [ __ ] bigger than he is you know because bruiser brody was bigger than life man he had all that hair and he was just [ __ ] he was just a man he was an animal right so with bell rings and my tie up with him collar and elbow and you know i jam him up into a corner you know he's hey kid lighten up a little bit kid you know relax and i'm just like i mean my body's like angle iron right i'm so just anyway so i go to shove him and my hands you know we're kind of hand fighting a little bit and my hand slips off and i kind of you know kind of palm him in the in the in the face temperature in the room changed a little bit at that moment so we tie up again and i'm about to shoot him across the ring and i kind of shoot him across the ring and i'm yelling like i'm going to hit him with a clothesline so as i tell him that clothesline right he comes off the ropes like [ __ ] like a bullet like a six foot five 300 pound bullet and he kicks me square in my [ __ ] jaw [Laughter] my my eyes roll back in my head and the next thing i know he's grabbing me he's like let's go for a walk right so he throws me out of the ring and uh throws me down on this table and and this place called the sportatorium in dallas they've torn it down now but they had the folding chairs that had they were metal but then they had the wood slats [ __ ] he takes this chair as hard as he you know and not the we're not talking about the metal folding chairs which hurt enough in their own right when you get hit enough times with them he swings as hard as he can this chair just [ __ ] explodes wood slats fly all over the place i'm thinking i've i've never been hit so hard mine i've been hit you know but i've never been hit that hard by anything at that point he throws me back in the ring ties me all up in the ropes right i'm greener and [ __ ] don't know what the hell i'm doing and he just starts hitting the other ropes and coming and just kicking me as hard as he can in the head oh my god and i deserved it you know i mean he was giving me a lesson that i needed to learn anyway a couple of minutes later boom he pins me and you know that was it we go back you know we go back to the dressing room and i'm like holy [ __ ] i just got the [ __ ] kicked out of me and uh went over to him i was like mr brody thank you you know said all right kid just you know relax next time will you and i was like yes sir i i just appreciate you know being in the ring with you and you know went back off from my corner to kind of gather where i was and you know and i could over him telling the promoter he's like [ __ ] you you ought to book this kid some more they were trying to find someplace else to send me he's that kid that kid's going to be something and uh but you know at the time i was too green i didn't know what the [ __ ] i was doing so i had to go somewhere else but that was my first my first uh introduction into into wrestling and i i got thumped pretty good catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience

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Length: 15min 37sec (937 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 21 2021