Undertaker reveals how he got into professional wrestling

UNDERTAKER is one of the most iconic names in the professional wrestling business. The Phenom is set to face off against Roman Reigns at this year’s WrestleMania and ahead of the match, he was seen giving a pep talk to the Texas Longhorns team.

During the talk, Undertaker revealed how he got into the professional wrestling world. Below is what he had to say.

"When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University. I was starting to get a little notice overseas about playing pro basketball overseas. I didn't quite have the skill set for the NBA, I'm OK with that, I knew that, but I was thinking you know what, maybe a couple years over there, it'll be fun. So they wanted me to put on a little weight, get a little bigger, a little stronger. So I started working out in the offseason … I just happened to run into this guy at the gym who was looking for a guy to go through a wrestling school with” he said.

Undertaker continued and mentioned that his brother gave him an advice which turned his life upside down.

"It's a highly competitive scene, so I started thinking, and I was a big wrestling fan as a kid, so I started catching up with the product. I was looking around like you know there aren't a lot of guys that are 6-foot-8 and that can move around in a wrestling ring … I beat myself up, I tried to decide. Finally, I went to my oldest brother. My brother gave me this advice, he said, 'You gotta live your life for you because you're gonna be ultimately the only one you have to answer to for the decisions you make in life.' That was all it took. I left school (he paused here to tell the players to not do that), and I started my passion, my search, my desire to get trained in the wrestling world” he added.

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