#3 He’s tough as hell
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It’s a well-known fact that often, MMA fighters have to fight through numerous injuries, whether they come in camp or during the fight themselves. A couple of examples would be Chuck Liddell taking on Tito Ortiz at UFC 66 with a torn MCL, and Georges St-Pierre fighting through a torn groin to defeat Thiago Alves at UFC 100.
Although his character has often shown itself to be impervious to pain, the man behind the gimmick is as human as anyone else and he’s gotten badly hurt on numerous occasions. Thankfully for him, he’s also tough as hell and so he’s no stranger to fighting through injuries.
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In 1995, the Phenom suffered a horrible injury in the form of a broken orbital bone when King Mabel botched a legdrop that landed directly on his face. Rather than take months off, the Undertaker simply wore a Phantom of the Opera-style protective mask and got right back into action.
He also took on Mankind in a Hell In A Cell match at King of the Ring 1998, while suffering from a broken ankle and fought through a severe concussion to finish his Wrestlemania 30 match with Brock Lesnar.
He even went through an Elimination Chamber match, despite suffering serious burns to his back and shoulders following a pyrotechnic accident. While today’s UFC stars are covered by a health insurance policy for injuries suffered in training camp and also inside the Octagon, plenty of them end up fighting on through bad injuries as they just don’t want to drop out of a scheduled fight.
With his history of fighting through injuries, would you bet against the Undertaker doing the same? I don’t think so.
