10 Other Fighting Games That Should Feature Wrestlers In Their Rosters
3. Mortal Kombat
If Street Fighter ever had a foil in the arcades of the 90s, it was Mortal Kombat with its digitized graphics, pixelated blood, and gratuitously violent fatalities. In a way its appeal mirrors that of pro wrestling with the climactic nature of the fatality echoing the exclamation of a wrestler's finishing move.
Technically the series has already had a connection with WWE, since Sonya Blade was voiced by MMA legend and former WWE women's champion, Rowdy Ronda Rousey. The series though, has yet to actually include a character from the squared circle, and with all the borderline nonsensical guests they've welcomed like Predator, Robocop, and Freddy Kreuger, they seem due to bring in someone with some wrestling acumen.
No wrestler fits MK's otherworldly aesthetic more than WWE's own king of darkness, straight out of Death Valley, The Undertaker. Taker had been digitized once before for Midway's Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game, and featuring him again would be an excellent return to form.
Taker, with all his dark powers and viscious pure strikes could even make someone like Shao Khan begin to shudder. In addition the possibility of what Big Evil could do when presented with the opportunity to finish his opponent is something a fan of either the series or the federation could fantasize about for days.