The Undertaker says the closest he ever came to physically fighting Vince McMahon happened in McMahon’s office, and that McMahon was right.
Speaking on the latest episode of Six Feet Under, The Undertaker said the incident came near the end of his career, when he was only working a handful of dates a year and was dealing with a difficult stretch in his personal life. He was not booked. He had gone to the building to say hello.
“I went into his office just to say hello, and see how he was doing. And anyway, we get to talking, and I kind of start going off, and telling him all this stuff. And he looks at me, and it was as straight a face as it could be. He goes, you know what, Mark? I really think you need to quit feeling sorry for yourself.”
“I was like, what? He says, yeah, you’re feeling sorry for yourself, man up.”
“There was a sense of rage that come over me at that moment. Like, man, I thought me and you are friends, and I’m just talking to you as a friend. I’m not talking to you as my boss, and I’m just letting you know what’s going on in my life.”
He said what he told McMahon next.
“I did tell him. I was like, you know, if you were anybody else, we’d probably be fighting right now. No one talks to me like that. You don’t talk to me like that. He said, well, damn it, somebody needs to.”
The Undertaker left rather than escalate it.
“Eventually, I said, well, you know, I just came in to say hello. I get up and I walk out. And it kind of dawns on me after I calm down. Like, you know what, get your s*** together, handle your business.”
The two spoke again weeks later.
“Then it become a big, then we laughed about it, like a few weeks down the road, and I finally called him and I was like, you know what, I still wish I’d have whooped your a**, but I think you’re right.”
He said McMahon read him correctly.
“He knew with me. He knew when to, he knew when I needed a foot in the a** or whether I needed a hug. He was always pretty much right on all of that stuff, and I appreciate his frankness and his candor sometimes, although maybe not in the moment. But once I would calm down and really think about things, I realized, damn it, the old man was right again.”
