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The Undertaker is not from Texas.Ostensibly a supernatural being—a nearly seven-foot-tall, three-hundred-pound goth Western funeral director in a black Stetson, black duster, and eye makeup—the legendary World Wrestling Entertainment character is from “Death Valley.” Not Death Valley, California, but, y’know . . . hell. “REST. IN. PEACE,” he’d boom to each opponent in the ring, both before and after they’d been vanquished, rolling his eyes back in his head. Except the Undertaker is also a guy named Mark Calaway. He’s from Houston, played college basketball in Fort Worth, and started his wrestling career—like nearly all the Texas greats—at the Sportatorium in Dallas. He’s lived in Austin since 2004 and is a massive Dallas Cowboys and University of Texas football fan. He swears by Lockhart barbecue (“I get the meat…

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