While everyone still picks their jaws up off the floor from last night, there are plenty of questions that need to be answered: Why Brock? Why lose at all? What are the plans going forward for Brock and for the Undertaker? Fans can and are going to argue for some time over whether Brock was the right guy to end The Streak or even if it should have been ended, period. Those debates are inconclusive at best until it's seen how WWE uses Brock Lesnar going forward. If he's pushed in a more prominent role as the monster he should have been all along, then it will be clear that beating The Streak was used for something positive. But now that The Streak has been ended, the question has to be asked: Who on the current roster would have benefited the most from ending it? There are some guys who could have catapulted to the top of the promotion with a career-defining win like this. A year ago (even a week ago), there was the feeling that there were very few guys on the current roster who could credibly challenge The Streak after all, Shawn Michaels and HHH failed in four straight years. But with hindsight, maybe there are a few more who could have given it a go...
10. John Cena
Cena was one of the few on the current roster who never locked up with Undertaker at WrestleMania but could be seen as a serious threat to The Streak. A Cena-Undertaker match is one of the only Undertaker "money matches" left involving current superstars. And given how Cena always seems to "rise above" every challenge in front of him, The Streak would not have presented an insurmountable obstacle. Cena obviously has his own legacy firmly in place, but this would have been a great twilight career win for Cena, putting him into that "special attraction" phase of his career. You could have easily seen a WrestleMania 32 victory being the equivalent to a horse winning the Triple Crown: Cena gets put out to pasture and comes out for big money matches a few times a year rather than being a workhorse wrestling 200 nights a year.
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Cena was one of the few on the current roster who never locked up with Undertaker at WrestleMania but could be seen as a serious threat to The Streak. A Cena-Undertaker match is one of the only Undertaker "money matches" left involving current superstars. And given how Cena always seems to "rise above" every challenge in front of him, The Streak would not have presented an insurmountable obstacle. Cena obviously has his own legacy firmly in place, but this would have been a great twilight career win for Cena, putting him into that "special attraction" phase of his career. You could have easily seen a WrestleMania 32 victory being the equivalent to a horse winning the Triple Crown: Cena gets put out to pasture and comes out for big money matches a few times a year rather than being a workhorse wrestling 200 nights a year.