A dead-man has no age, and you have proved it more than anyone. 44 and still kicking top-grade a** in all of the WWE - You are truly ageless!

Thank you for providing us with the most memorable moments in wrestling and the most phenomenal performances. I will never forget the moments when you threw Mankind from the top of the cell to the announce-desk or choke-slammed him from the top of the cell to the ring below or on a mat full of thumb-tacks, or when you did the suicide-dive, launching your 6'10/ 300+ pound body by flying over the top rope when the ring was surrounded by fire in the Inferno match against Kane.

You are the greatest of all time - without you, wrestling would be nothing as we would not have any aspects of the dark-side, the incomparable persona/ gimmick that you started with, the exciting rivalries that you had with superstars of all sizes/ skill in all kinds of matches, the matches you introduced or derived like hell in a cell/ casket/ inferno/ last ride/ body bag, the superstars you promoted like Kane/ Mankind/ fake Undertaker/ many giants/ current stars as Orton/ Batista/ Edge, the evolving personas you showed us from the mortician to the dead-man to the lord of darkness to the ministry of darkness to the American bad-a** to the big evil to the current Hybrid, the moves you introduced to the WWE like the tombstone piledriver/ chokeslam/ last ride/ triangle choke/ Death Valley Vice (Gogoplata/ Hell's Gate)/ old school (top rope walk)/ suicide-dive, the list never ends.

Your influence on wrestling and in popular culture is unparalleled (there are even Hindi movies as far away in India which have characters derived from yours and which mention your name very often). Your greatness and contribution to this business is unprecented. Thanks for also being the back-stage locker-room leader and mentoring all the younger wrestlers, keeping them on track. There is only one Phenom, and there never will be another.

On this day, I wish that I could get just one opportunity to meet you and tell you how much I respect you, tell you that every time you got hurt in the ring - I took the beating with you, and to kneel down in front of you to show you my absolute respect.

May you have many more such birthdays, and continue to keep kicking a** because nobody does it better than you do. On to 17-0 at Mania!