The Undertaker's 24 WrestleMania Matches Ranked - From Worst To Best

22. Vs. King Kong Bundy - WrestleMania XI

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1995 was probably the Undertaker's worst in-ring year ever, but it was more a reflection of the times than an incrimination of his quietly improving in-ring game.

The Undertaker was for years lumbered with lumbering behemoths in what seemed like an endless cycle of tedium, but there was no pressing need to break it. The character had become one of the Federation's most popular acts, and was entrenched as a special attraction. He didn't need the title. To judge his match with King Kong Bundy as a tedious waste of his talents is pointless, in hindsight - the paradigm was far removed from what it is now - but no less accurate.

The match centred around the possession of 'Taker's urn, which at one point beamed into the arena rafters as if literally highlighting its ludicrousness, but it was as pointless as it was naff. 'Taker had already knocked Bundy on his a*se (after an eternity of comical staggering, naturally) before reclaiming it from Ted Dibiase. He was hardly weakened without it.

Future opponent Kama Mustafa then claimed the urn, to set up a future match, but again, it mattered not a jot. 'Taker defeated the bulbous Bundy with, erm, a clothesline.

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