10 Wrestlers Who Saw WWE As A Vacation

7. The Undertaker

Shinsuke Nakamura
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The Undertaker's WrestleMania XXX loss may forever be the finest and yet-most-fatal shock WWE ever doled out, but it rather neatly drew a line on him ever being particularly good, too. With partial credit afforded to his return scrapes with Brock Lesnar in 2015 for actually making use of his limitations, 'The Deadman' has otherwise been phoning it ever since.

WrestleMania - for years the place he flexed his incredible reinvention as a super-worker - became the highest profile exhibition of his exploitation act. He extracted Bray Wyatt's most competent character work in 2015 without so much as appearing on television, before beating him on the night in a dull dud. Shane McMahon jumped off a steel cage in 2016, but the near-death sentence was the least either deserved for subjecting the world to such a sh*tshow. A 2017 main event stinker with Roman Reigns benefited from sentiment until he rapidly went back on an implied retirement, and his match with John Cena in 2018 still found space for a botch despite the 2:45 runtime.

The less said about his Australia and Saudi Arabia adventures the better - but expect to see plenty more as long as the money's right.

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