WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker recently appeared on Mighty with Demetrious Johnson, where he talked about a number of topics including trying to get noticed in WCCW.
Undertaker said, “So, every Wednesday I would go to the offices or where they had the wrestling and I would sit in the lobby. And I’d sit there and like the booker – the one who made all the decisions – he would come in and I’d go to stand up; he would never stop. They just walk right by me… I would like sit there every week and I was like ‘Man – ‘and I was at my wit’s end. Like, I was like ‘This isn’t working. I don’t know what else I’m gonna do.’ And it was probably one of the last couple of times that I was going to make this trip because I couldn’t even afford the gas anymore.”
On running into Von Erich:
“Who walks through the door? It was Fritz Von Erich. And he was the one that owned the company and did all that. Here’s the thing: he walks in, and so he’s standing at the door and he’s staring at me… And I can hear him like he said ‘No, this kid’s been coming for months, he’s just trying to get a – he’s just trying to get a booking.’ And Fritz? He just had a really deep gravelly voice and I heard him say ‘Let’s book him Friday night.’ It’s crazy.”
On getting booked:
“And he said ‘Let’s book him. He looks like David.’ And I hear that, you know, and then he came by, and get up again, and he walks right by me. But I showed up and that was the start and so I showed up Friday night and so I was ‘Texas Red.’ That was the first name, the first time I got a paycheck.”
You can check out Undertaker’s comments in the video below.
