10 Big Money Matches WWE Needs To Make
7. The Undertaker Vs. John Cena
It’s a WrestleMania match that’s been in the card for a few years now, and Cena may be the only realistic WrestleMania opponent that the Dead Man hasn’t already wrestled. Both men are reaching the end in their own way - Cena, beginning to finally take a step back into part time special attraction status, and Undertaker bringing his own in-ring career to a full stop sometime soon. So why not have it as a career vs. career match?
Having Cena be the one to actually retire the Dead Man isn’t the worst idea in the world, since there isn’t an important enough heel on the roster to do the job - Bray Wyatt would have been perfect, but they’ve screwed the pooch on that one by wasting Wyatt/Taker on two nothing and nowhere feuds in 2015.
Any other babyface doing the deed would find their shine diminished by it, but Cena may well be bulletproof: he’s going to carry on getting this artificially split reaction until he retires now, and no one’s going to love him less or hate him more if he puts the Phenom out to pasture. The same applies to ‘Taker, when you think about it: he retired the Heartbreak Kid with no ill effects, so retiring Cena wouldn’t affect him in the slightest.
It’s highly unlikely that the match itself would be any great shakes. Cena’s always best when wrestling someone better than he is, and once upon a time that would have described the Undertaker… but not now. Age and cumulative injuries have slowed him to the point where the most agile big man in the business is more or less just another big man. He’s still a great storyteller, but he’s not the guy to raise Cena’s game.
Still, as a epochal event it’s a doozy. The Undertaker putting up his career against Cena’s actually means something when either man could be legitimately stepping away after the match. When Michaels and Flair had their retirement stipulation matches, the outcome wasn’t ever in any doubt. Here, you could build a genuinely fascinating story into the match. Either man could win: either man could retire the other.
Although, let’s face it - in that scenario, it’s LOL Cena wins again, right?