On his Keepin’ It 100 podcast, Konnan revealed that The Undertaker was backstage at WWE Worlds Collide and wants to join the WWE creative team. Here’s what the WCW Veteran said: “Yes, bro was running around (backstage at Worlds Collide). So I think that Undertaker wants to get into creative. He likes it a lot, and he was in creative at Money In The Bank. He was at the other one (Worlds Collide) and he’s very interested in being part of the creative team. I’ve heard some of his ideas, and he’s got a great philosophy when it comes to wrestling.”
Undertaker Reveals Which WrestleMania 41 Match Captivated Him
The Undertaker was impressed by IYO SKY vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Bianca Belair for the Women’s World Championship at WrestleMania 41. You can read his conversation with Michelle McCool on Six Feet Under below:
Undertaker: It’s a new era, a new generation. But I think you have to have a sense of pride in the dues that you guys paid to get to the point where, I mean, I know at WrestleMania when we watched that triple threat…
McCool: Oh, man, I was going crazy. That’s the best match I’ve seen in quite some time. Men or women. That was fun to watch.
Undertaker: It was really good. Yeah. And I mean, if you capture like, ’cause I’m a, you know, how critical I am. But they had me captivated. That was really impressive.
Undertaker Underwent Heart Surgery After WrestleMania 41
On the Six Feet Under podcast, Michelle McCool revealed that her husband, WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker, underwent heart surgery after WrestleMania 41 — a situation the couple kept private until now. Speaking about the scare, McCool explained that The Undertaker had been experiencing heart issues for several weeks leading up to WrestleMania. The situation escalated right after they returned from the event, when they rushed to the hospital at 6 a.m. for a heart procedure. “It was terrifying,” she said, revealing they had already spent four nights in the hospital just two weeks before the show. McCool said The Undertaker had been in chronic atrial fibrillation (a-fib), a condition where the heart beats irregularly. Surprisingly, he hadn’t noticed any major symptoms. “You came in a few times out of breath,” she recalled, “and I’d bust your balls like, ‘Dude, you were just throwing the ball with the dog.’”
A scheduled heart scan that McCool had arranged back in January turned out to be lifesaving. Undertaker visited a doctor on March 28, but they initially wouldn’t run the exam. She managed to secure another appointment that same day — which ultimately revealed the chronic a-fib condition. “By the grace of God, we found out that day,” she said. Medication failed to help, and they ended up in the ER after a weekend of flag football and increasing symptoms. McCool recounted how Undertaker’s heart rate and rhythm were dangerously off, and his blood ejection fraction had dropped to just 30%. Doctors had to shock his heart back into rhythm, a procedure known as cardioversion. Unfortunately, that normal rhythm only lasted a day or two.
Despite the gravity of the situation, The Undertaker still made the trip to Las Vegas — something he wasn’t supposed to do, according to McCool. She admitted that while she understood his decision, it had been incredibly stressful. “All I wanted to focus on was you, your heart, and getting you in with the best cardiologist,” she said. Ultimately, the couple credits early testing and persistent follow-ups with potentially saving The Undertaker’s life. McCool emphasized just how close the call was, quoting the doctor who told them the outcome could’ve been much worse if they hadn’t caught it in time.
The Undertaker appeared at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony before WrestleMania 41 to induct McCool. You can read their exchange below:
McCool: It’s because of the heart issues you’ve been having weeks prior. Which, by the grace of god, we found out just by — It ended up being terrifying. The day we got home from WrestleMania, the next day at 6 am, we were at the hospital for a little bit of heart surgery.
Undertaker: Just a little bit.
McCool: It was your heart.
Undertaker: There was that little sidebar going on.
McCool: A sidebar for five weeks. It was terrifying.
Undertaker: I wasn’t supposed to go to Vegas.
McCool: You weren’t supposed to go anywhere. You didn’t want me to tell anybody. Not fair to me, not fair. We were in the hospital for four nights two weeks before WrestleMania. Yeah, you weren’t supposed to go. I’m not mad at it because I’d probably be the same (way), but it was terrifying, I couldn’t focus on anything else. All I wanted to focus on was you, your heart, and getting you in with the best cardiologist, which we eventually did but that took a lot of phone calls. Several nights in the hospital. By the grace of god you are here, but out of the words of the doctor himself, it could’ve turned out badly had we not found it that day.
Undertaker: You did. You made me go have a test done.
McCool: I did. That I had scheduled in January, that’s crazy about it. You went to the doctor March 28th, I’ll never forget. Then you called me and you were like, ‘They won’t run the heart exam.’ Just a routine heart scan that we were gonna do.
Undertaker: I didn’t even know that anything was wrong.
McCool: Got you into another (appointment) about an hour later. They had one appointment open. Come to find you, you had been in chronic a-fib for who knows how long. But the scary part was that you didn’t feel any symptoms, so we didn’t know. Yeah, you came in a few times out of breath and I’d bust your balls like, ‘Dude, you were just throwing the ball with the dog, why are you so out of breath?’ Or going up the stairs to pray with the kids, ‘Why are you out of breath’, not thinking it was an actual heart issue. So, yeah. Medicines didn’t work and we ended up in the ER on a Friday. Of course you wouldn’t stay the night. At the end of Kai’s flag football all day Saturday, you looked at me and said, ‘I’m still in a-fib’, because you were doing it with the watch. I was like, ‘If you’re not out of a-fib when we’re getting ready to go to church tomorrow morning, we’re going to the hospital.’ Thankfully you agreed.
We went to the hospital, numbers were out of wack. Heartbeat was out of wack. Your ejection fracture of how the blood was pumping or whatever was 30%, it wasn’t much. Supposed to be 100%, obviously. We ended up staying in the hospital for four nights where they actually had to cardiovert you and shock you back to a normal rhythm. That sadly lasted, what, 24 hours. Maybe 48. After four days we go home, two days later you’re back in a-fib. Man, I was stressed.
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