Undertaker signs 15 year deal with WWE

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Report: Undertaker Signed A 15-Year Deal With WWE In 2019 <a href="https://t.co/LN7x5shYiG">https://t.co/LN7x5shYiG</a></p>&mdash; Fightful Wrestling (@FightfulWrestle) <a href="https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1261472822943051776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[slik]

I am very excited for the long future of NXT callups getting frightened by a man in his 60s wearing eyeliner.

[Vastardikai]

LOL at people just assuming he's going to be wrestling for 15 more years. I mean, it's not impossible. I just find it more likely that he'll be spending the vast majority of them as a producer of some sort.

[slik]

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[slik]

LOL at people just assuming he's going to be wrestling for 15 more years. I mean, it's not impossible. I just find it more likely that he'll be spending the vast majority of them as a producer of some sort.

He'll prob just flat out retire at Survivor Series or Mania and WWE will drag him occasionally out for random RAW segments like they do Ron Simmons or The Boogeyman.

[slik]

They could always rename the Andre the Giant Battle Royal at WM to the Boneyard Battle Royal and have Undertaker make a big entrance at the end and give someone a trophy.

[Droford]

He will be dead before the 15 years is up

[xrodmuc316]

Doesn't anybody remember last year? He was booking events on his own, and Vince gave him the "deal he couldn't refuse" and then no more outside bookings for Mean Mark.

Good for him taking Vince for every cent possible after being a constant pro for all those years.

[Sepholio]

Is it one of those "legends" contracts? Either way, this was bound to happen. Undertaker is one guy Vince would never risk going elsewhere, even at his age.

Probably going to see Michelle McCool win one of the womens titles out of nowhere now because Undertaker wanted it as a perk for signing the new deal lol.

[RaginRonic]

Doesn't anybody remember last year? He was booking events on his own, and Vince gave him the "deal he couldn't refuse" and then no more outside bookings for Mean Mark.

Good for him taking Vince for every cent possible after being a constant pro for all those years.

Yeah...loyalty should be rewarded handsomely here.

Taker's done the work to get the phat paycheque, and it's good that Vince woke up and realized that.

I think that, as it concerns this deal, Taker's 30th anniversary 'season', between Survivor Series 2020 and WrestleMania XXXVII, will probably be his last competitive one. I'd say that(hopefully with the Covid-19 vaccine or cure found before then(hopefully no later than Nov. 2020)) he would truly lay it down for the final time in SoFi Stadium, then return in 2022 for his HOF induction and final speech on the post-Mania Raw that year.

Then, he could take up a producer/advisor role within WWE. Who knows...maybe be the 'Consigliere' to H if/when he would take over once Vince has had his fill.

Sounds like a plan here.

=P

[Mr. Nerfect]

I don't think he will actually be actively producing, so much as just maintaining a relationship with WWE, hosting the occasional seminar, going to check on talent, appearing at PR events and the like. He doesn't seem like the sort of dude that would be hanging around every week to put together matches with guys.

[Sepholio]

I don't think he will produce a lot but I could see him being behind the scenes on a couple major angles a year in the buildup to the bigger PPVs. Maybe a little creative advice here and there between. Handful of appearances every year. But def not anywhere near full time between all the diff things he would do.

If he is going to be there a bit more often than that I could see them trying him in the GM role for one of the brands maybe.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I don't think he will produce a lot but I could see him being behind the scenes on a couple major angles a year in the buildup to the bigger PPVs. Maybe a little creative advice here and there between. Handful of appearances every year. But def not anywhere near full time between all the diff things he would do.

If he is going to be there a bit more often than that I could see them trying him in the GM role for one of the brands maybe.

I could definitely see him taking an interest in certain programs and helping put together Baron Corbin's match for WrestleMania or something.

[xrodmuc316]

He won't ever be a producer of agent, because if that was the plan he would have already been doing it.

Theatrical matches though, I said it when the boneyard match aired, they could extend his career 5 more years. From age 60-70 it will basically be him getting pension checks.

[XL]

This is just going to lead to a Death Valley Screwjob when Vince decides he can’t afford to pay the contract anymore.

[Blue Demon]

He will be dead before the 15 years is up

He already IS :roll:

[LibSuperstar]

This is just going to lead to a Death Valley Screwjob when Vince decides he can’t afford to pay the contract anymore.

Wouldn't be the first time Taker got buried.