Undertaker's Calaway Recalls Parking Crash Says He Won't Wrestle Again

WWE Hall of Famer Mark Calaway, known as The Undertaker, on a recent episode of the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast recounted an accidental parking-lot collision in which his lifted pickup ran over the front of a lower-riding car, and used the appearance to reflect on decades of protecting his on-screen persona and to reiterate that he has no plans to wrestle again. The incident occurred a few weeks earlier outside a Whole Foods, he said, when he backed into a spot, returned to load groceries and pulled forward without seeing the lowered vehicle beside him.

"The truck is so high that I didn't see the car next to me. I ran right over the front end of this car. My back wheels ran right over the hood," Calaway said on the podcast. He told the host the other vehicle was a lowered Mazda and that the owner, who witnessed the collision, reacted with enthusiasm upon realizing who was driving. Calaway attributed the accident to the truck's four-inch lift and 38-inch tires and said he was not paying as much attention as he should have been.

The anecdote came alongside a longer discussion of how thoroughly Calaway inhabited The Undertaker during his career. He described deliberately maintaining...