Sports are all about numbers. Longtime baseball fans know what 755 or 61 means. Basketball fans know what 100 means. For wrestling fans, it's 21-0. "The Streak" probably did not start out with the intention of becoming what it is today, but WWE is not looking the proverbial gift horse in the mouth. They are taking the mystique and allure of the Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak and trying to wring everything they can out of it. But as the cliché goes, all good things must come to an end. At some point in the coming years, Undertaker is going to retire, his body too banged up to recover for even one match a year. When that day comes, WWE will lose a major marketing tool they have come to rely on for their biggest show of the year. "The Streak" is almost synonymous with WrestleMania it's hard to imagine a 'Mania without it being put on the line. So once 'Taker hangs 'em up, what can succeed or follow (because you can't really replace) The Streak? Here are a few options that could be implemented to draw fans in and take the place of wrestling's most revered record.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
