7 Reasons Why The Undertaker Must Never Return
3. Stealing A Living
With his WrestleMania 33 entrance, match and exit, Undertaker took up around 45 minutes of the most prized airtime on WWE's biggest show of the year. The last major angle he had afforded him similar minutes at last year's show, and as did the year before, and the year before, and so on.
Undertaker has been a part-time player for a number of years now, but for whatever reason, he escapes the vitriol fans have launched at wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Triple H, Kevin Nash and others.
As covered elsewhere, his matches have been on a downward slope too, which removes that excuse to give 'The Deadman' a free pass for any other reason than bias when compared to the aforementioned divisive figures.
Endlessly covered in WrestleMania previews was the shoddy placement of Braun Strowman as an ineffective Andre The Giant Battle Royal combatant, but aside from him, Sami Zayn, Samoa Joe, American Alpha and The Usos and others were left off the card or in nominal roles while one of the yearly money players came in to take a spot. Since then, Strowman in particular has gone on to become the money player, emphasising how short-sighted it was to rob him of something more significant for his first 'Show Of Shows' as a singles star.
Locker room respect or not, Undertaker has been in the real millionaires club for long enough and stepping aside was long overdue. Stepping back would be painfully reminiscent of the behaviour he's always allegedly abhorred.