13. Vs. Big Show & A-Train - WrestleMania XIX
As much as WWE hype up The Undertaker's WrestleMania winning streak, it's worth mentioning that a sizeable portion of those matches (particularly his earlier ones) were just awful. Most of that was down to the limitations of the zombie-like original Undertaker gimmick. At WrestleMania XIX, he had no excuse. Without the restrictive character, 'Taker had managed to have thoroughly entertaining matches with Triple H at WrestleMania X-Seven and Ric Flair at X8. There would be no threepeat at XIX, however, as 'Taker had a God-awful match with the gruesome twosome of Big Show and A-Train. The match was originally supposed to be a tag match, or course, with The American Badass teaming with Nathan Jones. When management realised just how utterly inept (and legitimately dangerous) Jones was, they removed him from the match on the day of the show and had 'Taker go it alone. It was the worst match on the card, and by some distance. It just dragged on and on, its ten minute length being at least three too long. 'Taker was clearly having more fun during his Limp Bizkit entrance.
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