10 Biggest Missed Opportunities From The Undertaker's WWE Career
1. A Post-Streak WrestleMania Renaissance
'Taker spent the twilight years of his full-time career and the beginning of his semi-retired years turning back the clock to continue his streak of show-stopping WrestleMania matches, cranking out classics against Batista, Edge, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and CM Punk. And then Brock Lesnar's Streak-stopping trainwreck came along and made it seem like time had finally caught up to The Phenom.
Though he continued to wrestle well past the death of the Streak, WWE really missed the boat by not allowing him to prove that he still had it at 'Mania. Following that, he'd have a decent battle with Bray Wyatt, a lacklustre Hell In A Cell match with Shane McMahon, another travesty with Roman Reigns and a serviceable squash against John Cena... all before he finally had a brilliant Boneyard Match with AJ Styles earlier this year.
This all gave off the impression that he had genuinely lost it when, in fact, WWE continually paired him with the wrong opponents. After all, he thrived on multiple occasions outside of 'Mania during the Post-Streak years, shining in epic bouts against Brock Lesnar and even taking part in a few tag team classics.
But, for some reason, the creative team always got it wrong at 'Mania, giving him opponents who just couldn't get the best out of him. And, as those aforementioned non-Mania bouts proved, he still had fight left.
Another seven years of Undertaker classics at WrestleMania would have certainly given the post-Streak years more of a purpose.
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