WWE's The Undertaker Faced Down a Shark That Was Threatening His Wife

Over the weekend, former WWE and World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker faced off against a shark that was hanging out dangerously close to the shore. The Undertaker and his wife, Michelle McCool, were on vacation in the Maldives when the creature appeared in the waves.

“I was simply enjoying a book on the beach when this ‘vegetation’ looked a lot like a shark,” McCool posted to Twitter on Sunday.

McCool is a two-time WWE Divas champion, not to mention two-time WWE Women’s champion. She has been married to Mark Calaway (aka The Undertaker) since 2010.

Accompanying McCool’s Twitter post was a self-recorded video, showing her standing on the beach. Behind her is the silhouette of a large shark lurking in ankle-deep water. It appears to be about 10-to-15 feet from the shore.

“Okay, I text my husband because this guy right here,” [sic] McCool says as she calmly indicates the shadow behind her. “I just knew it was a shark.”

At this point, The Undertaker can be seen over McCool’s left shoulder silently contemplating the shark. McCool pivots the camera to show how close the shark is to the shore.

Later in the video, the shark begins to move towards where The Undertaker is standing, out of frame. McCool, also off-screen, is heard telling her husband, “Oh, oh, oh. This way, babe!”

The Undertaker, however, holds his ground. Hands on hips, he simply stares the man-eater down until the shark diverts his course and swims away from The Undertaker and the shore, back out into the ocean. “Guess I wasn’t big enough to scare him away, but you are?” McCool asks her husband.

The Undertaker, a famously intimidating character, doesn’t speak a word throughout the footage.

Though sharks typically swim within 60–100 feet of the shore, a great deal of shark attacks occur as close as six-to-10 feet from the beach. Attacks most often occur when sharks become confused or disoriented as swimmers enter their waters.

This summer has seen a plethora of risk-averse sharks prowling shallow waters off of packed beaches. Over the July 4th holiday, five shark attacks were reported at beaches on Long Island. Over the same period, beachgoers in Florida received the frights of their life when predators were spotted near Miami and Pensacola.

A four-year study recently found that the largest seasonal gathering of great white sharks in the world may be taking place off Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.

If planning a beach trip this summer, it might serve all of us well to align ourselves with one (or more) WWE superstars.