7 Reasons Why The Undertaker Must Never Return

7. The End

It was an extended sequence on a show that didn't need it, but The Undertaker's long kiss goodbye at the conclusion of WrestleMania 33 seemed a transcendent moment for a huge section of the Orlando crowd and millions watching worldwide.

It was a telling display.

The fight gloves were placed down, the hat and coat stacked neatly in the middle, with the man himself hobbling to his wife at ringside before departing up the mammoth ramp to bring the show to a poignant conclusion.

Wrestling is an insane business of course, and even the most aesthetically perfect retirement can be flushed away on the promise of a monster payday if things work out as such. Ric Flair was given a WWE sendoff so glorious that the company have fastidiously barred him from ever wrestling for them again, despite his odd independent moments and bizarre spell in TNA.

There are only so many times you can achieve something akin to a real farewell, and the protracted end section of the 'Ultimate Thrill Ride' was as good as any performer could hope to achieve.

Turning back on that to kick another rival in the balls on a B-level network special less than six months later may not afford a go around quite as prestigious.