Ranking The Undertaker’s Post-Streak WWE Matches From Worst To Best

The Undertaker is, without a doubt, the greatest superstar in the history of WrestleMania. Not only did he once hold an unprecedented record of 21 consecutive victories at the marquee event, he is also responsible for some of the greatest matches in its history. As a result, The Streak became an integral part of the 'Showcase Of The Immortals' with 'Taker annually returning to defend it in what was usually his only match of the year. However, after suffering his first 'Mania loss to Brock Lesnar, he was never quite the same.

Without The Streak to return for, the aged 'Phenom' has lacked purpose. In spite of that, he continues to make his presence felt on the WWE landscape and, although he has teased retirement on multiple occasions, he doesn't appear to be heading off into the sunset quite yet.

While an Undertaker return is always a welcome sight that reminds us of the good old days, the unfortunate part is that the standard of his matches have rarely returned to their former glory. There was once a time when a 30-minute Undertaker battle was considered an all-time classic, but now they're just a painfully long bouts that are often hard to sit through.

Having said that, he has risen to the challenge on a number of occasions...

The Undertaker's 2017 clash with Roman Reigns was essentially all about 'The Phenom' handing the keys of his yard to his successor. It would have made a lot more sense had he not already done that with Lesnar three years prior by relinquishing The Streak, but WWE has a selective memory.

The match marked the fourth time that 'Taker main-evented the 'Showcase of The Immortals' but it just couldn't hold a candle to his previous outings.

It started off quite well, but the standard quickly slipped. 'Taker was out-of-shape at the time and off-balance for much of the match (due to his hip issues) and, although he came out of the box looking fairly decent, the slow-plodding affair was just far too long and drawn-out. There were moments where it seemed like it might pick up some steam (the Chokeslam onto the announce table for example) but after the Tombstone-reversal botch, the whole thing just fell apart.

In addition, it certainly didn't help that the ending sequence was a poor man's rip-off of both his WrestleMania X-Seven encounter with Triple H and his infamous Streak-stopping WrestleMania XXX clash with Brock Lesnar. Not only was 'Taker nowhere near as fit as he was in those matches, Reigns wasn't anywhere near as equipped as Trips or Lesnar to carry him through it.

Reigns going over was also unnecessary because, at this stage he had already been forced down fans' throat enough and, without The Streak, the rub just didn't mean as much.