10 WrestleMania Myths WWE Fans Still Believe

Or maybe not, since just a year after he dispatched King Kong Bundy, the WWE office once more had designs on stopping The Deadman's embryonic 'streak' dead in its tracks.

The company had spent much of 1995 desperately trying to convince the world that mother-truckin' Diesel was their seven-foot tall, oil-sodden hero, but it just wouldn't stick. It didn't help that his credibility had been entirely undermined after being forced to play second-fiddle to a football player at WrestleMania XI, and come SummerSlam, his programme against the oxymoronically lethal human sofa cushion Mabel had fell entirely flat.

By the turn of the year, it was clear the laconic Diesel just didn't have babyface credentials, and after dropping his strap to Bret Hart at Survivor Series, he was already two-thirds of the way to a turn. The story goes that WWE planned to cap off the remaining third in Anaheim by having their Detroit tweener discard The Undertaker in dastardly circumstances.

So what happened? Nash could smell money above petrol coming out of Atlanta, and had already agreed to move to WWE's rivals WCW after WrestleMania XII. After that, the decision was simple: another burial at the hands of The Undertaker.