9 Pitches For WWE Ruthless Aggression Season 3

By 2002, The Undertaker was already an industry legend, but the fact is, much of his past 12 years in WWE was spent doing pretty boring in-ring work. While the character was great from the off, early deadman bouts featured plodding and no selling almost exclusively; he was a little adrift in the Attitude Era, and spent the Invasion with a chip on his shoulder doing everything in his power to keep the new guys from getting over.

Things started to shift for the better in 2002, with most of ‘Taker’s most enjoyable matches and feuds coming from the Ruthless Aggression era and beyond. There was the superb TV ladder match with Jeff Hardy, and some scorching main events against The Rock and Kurt Angle. ‘Taker helped Lesnar rise to the top, with their 2003 Hell In A Cell match one of the format’s best.

And then there’s the streak, which really took form around this time. Randy Orton, Batista, and Edge helped certify this as the most exciting part of each year’s ‘Mania.

We’ve seen in The Last Ride that Undertaker is happy to speak about his failures. This is a low key redemption story for someone who’d be a hall of famer anyway, but was set on the path to true all time great status in the Ruthless Aggression era.