WWE Legend The Undertaker Steps In To Save Wife From Large Shark During Beach Trip

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WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker is a very large man.

The legend is billed at 6-foot-10, 309 pounds. And while that may not be entirely true, he’s still pretty intimidating.

Is he intimidating enough, however, to scare off a large shark? We got the answer to that question recently.

He and his wife Michelle McCool, who is also a former WWE wrestler, were vacationing recently at the beach when McCool says she saw a large “vegetation” that looked like a shark.

As it turns out, it was a shark. A large nurse shark, to be exact. McCool texted her husband to come down and check out the shark. At which point he stepped into the water and the shark swam away.

So yes, it does appear that even sharks are afraid of The Undertaker.

But are nurse sharks actually a danger to swimmers?

Apparently not, according to National Geographic. That is, unless you accidentally get a bit too close.

“Nurse sharks are slow-moving bottom-dwellers and are, for the most part, harmless to humans. However, they can be huge—up to 14 feet—and have very strong jaws filled with thousands of tiny, serrated teeth, and will bite defensively if stepped on or bothered by divers who assume they’re docile,” the site says. “They use their strong jaws to crush and eat shellfish and even coral, but prefer to dine on fish, shrimp, and squid. They are gray-brown and have distinctive tail fins that can be up to one-fourth their total length. Unlike most other sharks, nurses are smooth to the touch.”

So there you have it. Maybe The Undertaker didn’t have to step in and guide the shark away. But the shark has watched Mick Foley get thrown through Hell in a Cell one too many times to stick around and find out.