WWE: 10 Reasons The Undertaker Will Probably Wrestle Again

3. To Help Fans Forget About The Awful Wrestlemania 30 Buildup

Before their match at Wrestlemania 30, The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar hadn't really done much to justify any sort of rivalry. Lesnar didn't have anyone to wrestle on the grandest stage of them all. Undertaker arrived, stabbed him with a pen, chokeslammed him through a table, and left. The whole feud was built around Lesnar saying he could break the streak, and Undertaker disagreeing. There was no personal animosity, no career stipulation, no title on the line, no real buildup, and WWE didn't even mention their intense rivalry from 2002. In the week leading up to the show, sources were quoted as saying that the top dogs in the WWE were unhappy with the whole thing, and that Lesnar had been booked 'too weak' and needed to look stronger to pose any kind of threat to The Undertaker. Thinking back now, this was a perfect ruse to get people to think that it had been a colossal mess up; even the WWE acted like Lesnar didn't realistically have a hope of defeating The Undertaker. Now that we know the result of the match, it almost plays into this 'Reality Era' idea that the WWE are pushing, with a quite seismic shift in what the fans know and don't know. Putting aside any pokerface bluffing or double bluffing, the buildup was poor. It could've helped show some real psychology, it could've illustrated a real grudge, and it certainly could've been elevated to a point where the less-than-great match wouldn't have mattered so much, because there would have been more of a story to tell. The whole thing was a damp squib, and the resulting outcry after Undertaker's defeat wasn't so much the fact that he lost; it was down to the fact that it seemed wholly irrelevant, on a show where the streak had been a huge selling point for over ten years.