6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 22

By Michael Hamflett /

2. Buried

WWE

The Undertaker was just a year shy of a match so unbelievably outstanding that it reframed an entire period of his illustrious career. He bid a less than fond farewell to the prior chapter by dumping 2006's monster of the week into his longest-tenured contraption.

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The casket match with Mark Henry wasn't below the bar set by some of his 1990s stinkers, but it also felt incredibly dated in contrast to some of the other efforts elsewhere on the card.

'The Deadman' had risen two years earlier but only during WrestleMania 21's clash with Randy Orton did he truly appear born again. Another Evolution escapee would provide the permanent path to new found glories.

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