Ranking The Undertaker’s 27 WWE WrestleMania Matches From Worst To Best

Unquestionably the most surprising contest in the history of The Streak in terms of overall match quality, The Undertaker's classic with Batista at WrestleMania 23 caught just about everyone off-guard.

A hard-hitting affair, the viciousness was everything you'd expect from two huge brutes doing battle for the World Heavyweight Championship, but the thing that really stood out was their impressive in-ring chemistry as they ended up working a great match that utilised some brilliant physical storytelling to make us all think that The Streak was genuinely in jeopardy.

It wasn't, and 'Taker went 15-0 while claiming the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career, but the absolute barn-burner that these two men delivered had the 80,000-plus in Ford Field on the edges of their seats for its respectable 15-minute run-time.

Rumour has it that both men were very unhappy that they didn't get the main event slot - and rightly so - so they went out there and proved exactly why they deserved it. And to make things even better, it wasn't just lightning in a bottle as they produced four cracking rematches throughout the remainder of what may have just been the best year of The Undertaker's in-ring career.

And that, folks, is how 'The Deadman's mid-career renaissance began...