Almost three years in the past, the Undertaker went on Joe Rogan’s podcast with a actually unhealthy take on as we speak’s WWE product being ‘mushy.’ A number of wrestlers like Xavier Woods and Drew McIntyre shortly pushed again on Taker’s nonsense, mentioning that as we speak’s wrestlers typically make more healthy life choices than employees from Taker’s time, whereas nonetheless coping with the extraordinarily demanding bodily necessities of their craft.

Right here we’re a number of years later, and the Undertaker now admits that he was mistaken. On his Six Ft Below podcast, Mark Calaway says it was laborious to just accept, however he realizes that the professional wrestling enterprise is now smarter, not softer.

Right here’s what he needed to say about it, courtesy of Fightful’s transcription:

“It’s superb now, all of the protocols which are in place. We’re handled, as we speak, like NFL gamers, NBA gamers, Main League Baseball guys. There are an inventory of protocols that it’s important to clear when you get injured earlier than you get again within the ring. Again within the day, we didn’t have trainers that traveled with us. If any individual had a roll of white athletic tape, that was the coach as a result of he had one thing that you might probably use. These days, we have now two or three trainers that journey, we have now docs that journey, concussion protocols. I’ve to be trustworthy, for me, it was laborious to just accept that in the first place as a result of it was ‘ah man, all the pieces is getting mushy now.’ I appreciated that badge of honor, as foolish as that sounds. It was laborious for me to just accept that. ‘Man, our enterprise is getting mushy.’ It wasn’t getting mushy. It was getting smarter. I’m glad that I used to be a part of the era that led into that as a result of, as we speak, you see the referee they usually throw the X up, you realize one thing unhealthy has occurred. You’re not going to get a bunch of blood within the ring. If somebody is concussed or injured to some extent, the match goes to cease and the athletes are going to be handled the way in which they must be. Even with all that happening, the damage and tear and the chance of harm is loopy.”

Kudos to the Lifeless Man for having an open thoughts on this subject and being prepared to reevaluate his authentic opinion.

So there you might have it, Cagesiders. Do you agree with the Undertaker’s take this time?