10 Precise Turning Points Where WWE Did The Impossible

6. Making The Best Of Breaking The Streak

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As shocking as it was in the moment, Brock Lesnar breaking The Undertaker's WrestleMania undefeated streak was a bizarre necessity.

Vince McMahon himself was the one that made the call to have 'The Deadman' lose in genuinely shocking fashion on the landmark thirtieth edition of the 'Show Of Shows', but he was most at fault for Lesnar needing something so huge. Since his return two years prior, 'The Beast' had been brutally normalised in a deathly dull programme with Triple H and looked outmatched in singles contests against John Cena and The Big Show.

Such things seem impossible now, but that's only because he was fed a decades-long legacy to address the issue. Empowered to almost superhuman levels by virtue of this specific victory, Lesnar went from strength to strength after this.

A redefined monster, Brock blew threw John Cena at SummerSlam less than six months later, becoming WWE Champion in the process. This was naturally huge, but wouldn't have scanned as believable without first producing this most earth-shattering of results to make it so. Lesnar was a money-drawing monster for years in the aftermath.

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