7 Reasons Why The Undertaker Must Never Return
1. Legacy
As highlighted elsewhere, match quality has become a genuine problem with Undertaker contests in recent years.
It's not just that battles in particular with Brock Lesnar, Bray Wyatt, Shane McMahon and now Roman Reigns were below par in general. It's how great the quality deficit is between those and seven years of incredible matches at the 'Show of Shows' that preceded them. As he rocked crowds in matches against Batista, Edge, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and CM Punk, it looked as if The Undertaker was ageing like a fine wine.
It was a false dawn.
Unable to wind down at a clip that would still allow one or two world class matches a year, the WrestleMania 30 concussion against Lesnar seemed to knock his form entirely. Rematches with 'The Beast' divided opinion, but his aforementioned successive WrestleMania contests were objectively poor. It was as though he'd been dodging both father time and his litany of nagging injuries, and they caught him at the same time.
Since then, the displays have been fuelled on nostalgia, and played to mostly indifference. Looking physically disparate in the closing moments of his match with Roman Reigns, 'The Deadman' wasn't just selling defeat. He was living it.
Undertaker always protected his aura, and continuing to perform would reduce it at the worst possible time.