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2. Brock Lesnar Breaks The Undertaker's Streak (WrestleMania 30)

When the referee counted the '1, 2, 3' at the end of The Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 30, the stunned silence in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome was deafening. The cameras immediately caught sight of several members of the WWE Universe whose faces told a story of utter disbelief: was The Streak just broken? The answer was yes. After 21 consecutive wins at WrestleMania, the Deadman was finally conquered but the moment was simply not what it needed to be. Looking back on it, it's hard to see the decision as anything but a huge mistake. First off, the match was nothing to write home about, with both Lesnar and Taker looking exhausted almost from the get-go. It was later revealed that Undertaker suffered a concussion very early on in the match, which may account for some of the lacklustre grappling, but Lesnar suffered no such injury and yet his performance was sub-par as well. In the end, the magnitude of the result sat awkwardly beside the mediocre nature of the match and fans weren't happy. Whoever made the call to end the streak (various reports have said Vince made the choice on the day of the show, whereas others say Undertaker had always favoured Lesnar as the one to beat him), it really should have come at the end of a better match and the loss definitely should have been to a different opponent than Lesnar, who did not need the boost that such a victory gave him. It also lessens the impact of Taker's match with Bray Wyatt at this year's Wrestlemania hugely; the streak has already ended so a huge slice of the intrigue is gone.
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