"Company man" is a phrase you often hear used to describe The Undertaker and his loyalty to the company that made him a star after unsuccessful runs in the southern territories and WCW, and while that's a befitting description, it's not exactly the badge of honor some treat it as. After all, why wouldn't you remain devoted to an organization that booked you as strongly and kept you as well-protected as WWE has done for the entirety of his run there? Aside from the fact that Taker was booked to win at 21 straight WrestleManias, this is a guy who rarely did clean jobs for anyone. Ever. In fact, a recent tally has him losing clean less than 20 times, almost all being to top stars. Austin beat him three times, Lesnar twice, Angle, Triple H, Big Show, etc. The only guys he laid down for who could be considered to be getting a rub from it were Rikishi, Kozlov and The Great Khali, and two of those were horrible booking decisions in retrospect while the Rikishi bout was used to hype up the Armageddon six-man Hell In a Cell match. Even at his advanced age, Taker hasn't been asked to put talent over and help establish the roster, WWE only has so many wrestlers capable of providing that kind of rub, and outside of letting The Shield put him out of action (when he was leaving anyway) none of the young guys have benefited from facing The Undertaker. Especially Bray Wyatt.
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