Undertaker

Question
Hi again Joe, Can you tell me what's going on with the Undertaker, I mean (for real)?? I hope he's on some tropical island sipping margarita's. Hope he's enjoying some GREAT time off.  Thanks

Answer
Under the kaybabe thing we're hearing he's in a vegetative state, and won't be back for a while. However, that's not for a real, but storylined. There is an idea of having the attackers be the Season 1 NXT grads, but we'll have to see. Kane is also rumored to the attacker too, but neither are confirmed.

The reason for the storyline that basically wrote Taker off TV, was that Taker legitimately got hurt at a house show a few weeks ago. He tore his orbital bone, which is a bone in the leg, and was supposed to of had surgery. But he may have declined that for now. Taker has needed knee surgery for years and has put it off, so that's not shocking if he decided against surgery this time.

There is a rumor that he'll be back around Summerslam, but I feel that would be stupid. The best idea to me would be to let him take it easy the rest of the year and bring him back in late December or early January to get prepped for the road to Wrestlemania. By that time, he'd be much healthier to do a storyline and give us some good stuff.

It's uncertain who he'd face at Mania as of yet though. There are always so many rumored names, last year alone we heard John Cena, Jericho, Hulk Hogan, Edge, Batista, Triple H, etc. See what I mean? Neither faced him, the person who did is the now retired HBK of course.. However, many are wanting it to be Chris Jericho this year. We'll see what happens though