Brock Lesnar: 5 Awesome WWE Matches And 5 That Sucked

2. Brock Lesnar Vs The Undertaker (WrestleMania 30)

Most of the hostility towards this match stems from the result, but the actual match itself was one of the most disappointing of Takers career. Wracked with age, and injuries that just will not heal, The Undertaker is not the same as he once was. Far from the wrestler who tore it up with Brock in the Hell in a Cell match twelve years earlier, Taker had none of his previous mobility and endurance. It was the first time fans really saw the human side of Mark Calaway. We knew for a long time that he was getting on in years, but he always returned one night a year and wrestled with a toughness and stamina that convinced fans he may really possess some supernatural powers. Not this year unfortunately. Seeing Taker in obvious pain as he attempted his signature moves, seeing his knees buckling as he hoisted Lesnar up for the Tombstone Piledriver, was an unpleasant experience. Seeing him fall below the standard of his previous WrestleMania matches, with an opponent he had already had brilliant encounters with, was worse than disappointing. And that was watching the match on TV. The live crowd was subdued. Your writer was actually in the audience at the Superdome and it seemed like half the crowd was actually bored. At the time it seemed like they were refusing to suspend their disbelief. After all, the result was a foregone conclusion. It's WrestleMania, it's the Undertaker, there can be no other outcome. So how do you get the crowd invested when they already know the result? As it turned out, we did not! It takes a lot to surprise a wrestling crowd in 2014. That result shocked the entire wrestling world and it certainly woke the fans up in the Superdome. First came the stunned silence. Then came the boos. Then came the "Bulls**t!" chants. It is not a match fans look back on fondly. Yet it is still not the worst match Brock Lesnar ever had at WrestleMania.