The Undertaker is one of WWE’s most iconic figures—but stripping down for a photoshoot? That was a hard no, even when his wife Michelle McCool tried everything to convince him otherwise.
On a recent episode of the Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker revealed that McCool once urged him to do the ESPN Body Issue—an annual spread featuring top athletes posing nude to celebrate their physique and power.
“She tried to talk me into this, the ESPN Body Issue. This one was trying to convince me years ago.”
Apparently, McCool had a whole vision for it, and even Charlotte Flair backed her up. She pictured the Deadman covered in tattoos, flexing by the turnbuckle in true Undertaker fashion.
“You with all the tats, you could just have the turnbuckle right there. Taker right there with the turnbuckle, just with the W logo, and flexing like this.”
But for The Undertaker, that idea clashed with the mystique of his character. He joked about how fans wouldn’t want to see what’s under the iconic black attire.
“That’s not my Undertaker! They do not want to see under the black…”
Even after McCool insisted it would’ve been “so beautiful,” the WWE legend stood his ground.
“I mean she tried like hard to convince me, like, ‘You’re gonna diet and get stuff.’ Yes, of course I turned it down.”
McCool couldn’t help but poke fun at the fact that despite being married to The Phenom, she didn’t get her way on this one.
“See, he wouldn’t even do that for me. People think I get everything because of him — the one thing I ask him for, he shot it down.”
The Undertaker explained that his image is too sacred to risk compromising for a photoshoot.
“Exactly, that’s all I have, it’s my character!”
McCool added some extra context, revealing that nudity itself wasn’t the issue—it was the platform.
“He’s like, ‘I’ll walk around the house naked all the time but not be in the magazine.’ He really does walk around naked all the time.”
In the end, The Undertaker stayed true to his persona, opting to keep the Deadman’s mystique intact rather than showing the world what’s beneath the gear.
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