Undertaker's retirement: the rant

It's official. The Phenom is no more. The Undertaker has retired from wrestling... for real this time... not like last time. I have mixed feelings about this. It's good that he retired because he's not getting any younger and he needs to think about his health. On the other hand his character has been misused these past few years starting with the defeat by Brock Lesnar. Losing to Lesnar, of all people was the biggest disrespect to The Undertaker's character. I know that Mark Callaway wanted to lose to Lesnar, because of Lesnar's skills. Problem is that what Mark, the performer, wanted went completely against everything The Undertaker, the character, was.

I know that Wrestling has tried to move away from gimmicky characters like Taker, in order to validate the Sports part of Sports Entertainment. This is mostly due to UFC stealing some of the WWE and wrestling in general's thunder. The problem is that wrestling is better when it has these cartoony gimmicky characters. I'm also aware how social media keeps ruining kayfabe.

Wrestling was the equivalent of Comic Book movies today back in an era where comic book movies weren't a thing.

Heck, the whole Gimmicky character thing has inspired other things that are still popular today... Think about it:
The showboating Actor, the Sumo guy, The freakish monster, the Real American Hero, the big bad Russian...
Am I describing Videogame characters or WWF era wrestlers?

Crap! I got side tracked again! In any case, Thank you Undertaker...