Its the swerve of all swerves but this one wasnt as satisfying as most of the other examples in our list. Despite that, it has to go on record as the greatest WTF swerve in wrestling history. There are people, four months on, who still cant quite believe it actually happened. For years, WWE had built the Undertakers accidental winning streak at Wrestlemania into a genuine angle. No one had grudge matches against the Dead Man any longer. No, they wanted to beat the streak. Shawn Michaels would fail in two consecutive years, being retired by the Undertaker when he placed his career against the streak at Wrestlemania 26. Not to be outdone, his best friend Triple H would go on to have two consecutive matches with the Dead Man after that for the streak, and CM Punk would attempt to assuage the humiliation of having The Rock end his 434 day reign of terror as WWE Champion with the Peoples Elbow, by aiming to defeat the streak in 2013. Both would fail, as everyone had before them. Then Brock Lesnar showed up again, and people got excited: the Undertakers streak matches had been the match of the night for seven years straight at the biggest event of the year, and Lesnar was a pro wrestling prodigy, a bloodthirsty, brutal marvel in the ring. Seeing the Undertaker taken to the limit as he beat the Beast to keep the streak alive would be glorious. Thats not the way it happened at all. In twenty-five minutes of slow, slightly-above average action, Brock Lesnar defeated the Undertaker after a third F5: a clean pin, even with Paul Heyman at ringside, signaling the end of the streak and about a million broken hearts worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGz7wKDRGo It was a fitting final storyline for the Undertaker, whod taken on the aura of a fading gunslinger in his last few Wrestlemania outings finally outgunned by a younger, faster man. The audience was stunned, quiet, didnt know how to react. It was anti-climactic and horribly disappointing for the vast majority of fans but what a swerve. Whats your favourite swerve in professional wrestling history? Tell us all about it in the comments!
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