8 Ups & 6 Downs From The Undertaker's WWE Career

3. Biker 'Taker

The Undertaker's biker era wasn't without merit. It helped pull the character and WWE towards a more realistic era, and yielded memorable bouts with the likes of Jeff Hardy and Triple H. Nonetheless, it was a huge net negative that regularly presented 'The American Badass' at his most unwatchable, with the ailing, out-of-shape hells angel labouring through a mid-career crisis.

It even started with a botch, as a music/video miscue left his Judgment Day 2000 a mistimed mess. The laziest period of 'Taker's career followed. Meeting the surging Kurt Angle at that year's Fully Loaded pay-per-view, Undertaker uncorked a brutal five-minute burial during which he barely broke a sweat, arrogantly breaking his own late-match pinfall to compound the burial. This is far from the only example of his apathy, and the storytelling wasn't strong enough to compensate, with dull-as-piss feuds with DDP, Maven, and others failing to hit the mark.

Though he deserves credit for swimming up the 'American Badass'' river of s**t and somehow coming out clean at the end, this absurdly over-romanticised run would've sunk a less adaptable worker.