The Undertaker

Calaway began his wrestling career in 1984 by training and wrestling at the Sportatorium in Dallas, Texas with Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW). Calaway later went on to wrestle in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA), winning the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship and USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. During the mid to late 1980s, he used several ring names: The Commando, The Punisher, Texas Red, The Master of Pain, Punisher Dice Morgan. Mark Calaway had a short stint from late 1989 until late 1990 in the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Jim Crockett Promotions. The NWA became World Championship Wrestling (WCW) during Calaway's time with them.While there, he was known as "Mean" Mark Callous and wrestled as part of the Skyscrapers tag team along with "Dangerous" Dan Spivey and later as a singles wrestler. His most famous match in WCW was against Lex Luger for the NWA United States Championship at the 1990 Great American Bash, which he lost when Luger pinned him after a clothesline. At the end of 1990, WCW declined to renew Calaway's contract, and he signed with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in late October 1990.Calaway debuted in the World Wrestling Federation as The Undertaker on November 22, 1990 at Survivor Series 1990 as the mystery partner to Ted Dibiase's Million Dollar faction. After Survivor Series, Calaway was also called Kane the Undertaker at several shows until Kane was dropped from his name, and he reverted back to simply "The Undertaker".The appearance of Undertaker was modelled on that of a mortician from old Western movies, with the character being supposedly impervious to pain and possessing supernatural powers, such as teleportation and manipulation of flames and lightning. It was also at this time that the Undertaker switched managers from Brother Love to Paul Bearer.In 1991, the Undertaker's popularity grew rapidly. He made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania VII, defeating the legendary "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. After an undefeated year and high-profile feuds with Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan, he defeated Hogan at Survivor Series 1991 to win his first WWF Championship. This made him at the time, the youngest holder of the WWE title at 26 years of age. He lost the title six days later to Hogan at Tuesday in Texas. Between December 1991 and September 1993, the Undertaker did not lose a single match.Early in 1992, he had a falling out with ally Jake Roberts. After Roberts lost a match on Saturday Night's Main Event to Randy Savage, Roberts planned on attacking Savage and his manager/wife Miss Elizabeth with a steel chair. Undertaker prevented this from occuring, thus turning face. He went on to defeat Roberts at WrestleMania VIII. He feuded extensively with wrestlers managed by Harvey Whippleman throughout 1992 and 1993, most notably Kamala and Giant Gonzales. He defeated Gonzales by disqualification at WrestleMania IX, then pinned Gonzales at Summerslam 1993.