Whatever Happened To The Undertaker's Son, Gunner?

After years of living the gimmick and not giving anyone a glimpse behind the curtain, The Undertaker did a full 180 in 2020, using the docuseries "Undertaker: The Last Ride" to step out of his gimmick. Not only did "The Last Ride" give Taker the opportunity to open up about his wrestling career for the first time, it also gave him the chance to end it, with Taker officially retiring in the series' last episode. And since then, Taker has only become more of an open book, with the most secretive man in wrestling going on to do things like starting a podcast or appearing in reality series like "WWE LFG." And he's also become more public about his family life with wife and fellow WWE Hall of Famer Michelle McCool, who has begun appearing with Taker in "WWE LFG."

While McCool and Taker have been married for fifteen years now, and have two children together (one biological, one adopted), it's easy to forget that this is the third go around for Taker when it comes to marriage. Fans will remember his second marriage to a woman named Sara in the 2000s, a union that saw Sara become a prominent part of a feud between Taker and Diamond Dallas Page during the height of WWE's 2021 Invasion angle. The marriage also produced two daughters, and one tattoo of Sara's name on Taker's neck, which he'd later have removed after the couple divorced in 2007. And then there's Taker's first marriage to a woman named Jodi Lynn from all the way back to Taker's early days in wrestling. The marriage lasted ten years and produced one son, a boy named Gunner, born in 1993.

While all of Taker's children, including his youngest children with McCool, have largely been left alone, Gunner is the one who some have taken interest in, perhaps because he is Taker's oldest child, his only biological son, or because he's old enough to wrestle, unlike the rest. It could also be because he's the only one of Taker's children who has actually talked to someone connected to the wrestling industry, speaking with Chandler Sorrells back in 2018. It was during that same interview that Gunner put to bed any ideas of Undertaker Jr. or El Hijo del Undertaker, stating that while he had some aspirations about becoming a wrestler as a kid, and had good experiences meeting wrestlers when accompanying his father backstage, he ultimately grew out of it and decided to pursue other careers instead.

So what did Gunner decide to do with his life? Unlike other family members of wrestlers who have kept their private lives off the grid, Gunner has lived a public life, attending Full Sail University (oddly enough, the same university that once housed "WWE NXT") and getting a bachelor's degree in order to pursue becoming a video game artist. While he's currently living on the grid, he's more likely to be found under the name "Shogundy" on places like Instagram and Twitch, where he regularly shares gaming content.

Through his content on Twitch and social media, Gunner has become a member of the Artist and Makers Guild for Twitch, through which he helped raise thousands of dollars for the Erika Legacy Foundation, which provides suicide prevention and mental health awareness resources for educators and schools. Just don't expect any major wrestling talk on his stream, as it tends to stick strictly to games.