The Undertaker has been making the media rounds to promote the WWE LFG series on A&E, which will premiere on Sunday.
While speaking with Collider, The Undertaker was asked what he feels is the biggest mistake young wrestlers make when starting out. According to the former WWE Champion, they try to be wrestlers instead of being present in the moment. He thinks a focus should be on feeling the crowd and being a wrestler.
“Great, great question. I talk about this quite a bit with my kids. I think the biggest mistake—and let me just kind of backtrack here a little bit. A lot of times now, we’re getting athletes that are coming from different sports, and not all of them were fans of wrestling. A lot of times, this is just something they think they might be good at, or they want to give it a shot. So I think the biggest mistake a lot of times is when these kids watch our programming, and then they try to go in the ring and act like wrestlers instead of being wrestlers. They try to emulate what they’re seeing, and it comes off disingenuous to the fans and to people who really know the business. It looks staged. You have to be able to dive into something inside of you and bring it out to set yourself apart. That’s probably the hardest thing for new wrestlers to grasp—not to act like a wrestler, but to actually be a wrestler.”
Taker added that he thinks it is related to video games because they grew up playing them, and it focuses too much on cool moves instead of sticking with wrestling psychology.
