Staying on the athletic big man trope, Undertaker vs. Samoa Joe was one of the dream matches of the 2000s that was considered generally unthinkable. Undertaker was WWE through and through, where as Samoa Joe was one of the biggest names outside of the company, sitting towards the top of the card of the number two promotion in the US, TNA. We could think about a Taker/Joe battle, but it wasn't going to happen. All of this changed when Samoa Joe strolled out on to the NXT stage at TakeOver: Unstoppable in June. What was unthinkable a few years prior was now a reality, and Samoa Joe was on WWE TV. Dream matches began to look like they could be reality. Samoa Joe vs. John Cena? Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar? Samoa Joe vs. Undertaker? Whilst it is closer to being a reality now than ever before, with Taker likely to retire in the next year it might be another 'what could have been' battle. Still, it is pretty exciting to think about.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
