10 Horrible Decisions That Gave Us Great Wrestling
5. The Breaking Of The Undertaker
Who knew that the Undertakers Streak being broken by Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XXX would push so many buttons? Well, push them it did. Whats more, given the Dead Mans serious concussion at the time, there would be no second match in the feud. WrestleMania was a one-and-done deal. Come WrestleMania 31 and the Undertaker vs. Bray Wyatt match, and the Phenom had no heat going into WrestleMania for the first time in well, it had never happened to him before. Hed been pulverised by Lesnar, made to look old and feeble. Their match had been terrible, to boot: that concussion had meant that the Dead Man was lost or sluggish for the majority of the match, and no one in the ring or backstage had the wherewithal to stop the match and save the angle for another year. The match with bray was a damp squib, and the Undertakers stock dropped further. Fast forward to Battleground in 2015, and Brock Lesnar was pulverising again, this time Seth Rollins, about to take his WWE Championship. Cue the funeral bell, the lights and the Undertaker, suddenly teleporting into the middle of the ring, staring daggers at Lesnar. And he was big. At WrestleMania XXX, wed seen a slimline, older looking Phenom face off against Lesnar, and hed been thrown around like a rag doll. This Undertaker looked like it would take a forklift truck to move him. He exchanged a few blows, and then kicked Lesnar in the crotch before delivering two Tombstone piledrivers. The following night on RAW, the Undertaker all but admitted that hed been dwelling on the breaking of the Streak for a year and a half: he was fed up of being constantly reminded that he'd lost at WrestleMania. This led to an epic pull-apart brawl between the two men, and a match at SummerSlam which - silly ending aside - was ten times the match their effort at WrestleMania had been. The new, exciting feud ended at Hell In A Cell 2015, when Lesnar pinned the Undertaker in another dynamic brawl. Despite the crapulence of the Streaks ending in 2014, the resulting feud between the two most feared men in the WWE may have been one of the most entertaining things that happened in 2015.
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