10 Wrestling Fates Worse Than Death

9. The Undertaker’s Streak Ends

At WrestleMania XXX, Brock Lesnar stepped into the ring and put down The Undertaker all the while putting an end to the legendary 21-0 streak he’d procured over the past 25 years.

For The Phenom, his streak was everything, his legacy being tied to the fact he’d beaten 18 dominant wrestlers (Shawn Michaels, CM Punk, Randy Orton - the list goes on) on ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’ year after year. So when he ultimately lost the streak most fans thought would last until he finally hung up the hat, The Dead Man was never the same, especially after being manhandled by Brock so viciously for 25 minutes.

The real-life Mark Calaway has received heavy criticism for continuing to wrestle after the streak came to a sudden end. He was noticeably older and slower in later performances, with his matches against Goldberg and D-Generation X being horrendously bad. The belief amongst fans was he was tarnishing the legacy of The Undertaker character. The streak coming to an end was a fate worse than death for ‘Taker (but then again Undertaker was always dead to begin with…)

Not to mention seeing a broken down and not-in-great-shape Undertaker post-streak was a sliver of death for fans to digest too.