4. The Threat Of Breaking The Streak (Act 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9My_lvydYDs Despite experiencing Sweet Chin Music in both his Wrestlemania matches with Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker had managed to continue his winning streak. Michaels on the other hand had retired. Knowing that Mr. Wrestlemania was no longer an active wrestler, many fans assumed that The Undertaker would never have to deal with Michaels at a Wrestlemania match again, let alone fall victim to his legendary super kick. Yet two years after Michaels had wrestled his last match, The Undertaker would indeed come face to face with Michaels at Wrestlemania 28, as The Heartbreak Kid would be the guest referee in his Hell in a Cell match with Triple H. Rumours abounded at the time, questioning Michael's allegiance. Would he stop Triple H from achieving what he could not? Or in an act of revenge would it eventually be Shawn Michaels who would end The Undertaker's streak by proactively engineering a Triple H victory? It was in this air of uncertainty as to what Shawn Michaels would do at Wrestlemania 28, that the Cell was lowered around the three legendary wrestlers. The match began with Shawn Michaels officiating without interfering in the match itself. Yet when Michaels got too close to the action, The Undertaker inadvertently put him into a Hells Gate submission hold in the assumption that he was Triple H. Michaels was eventually released but what happens seconds later is perhaps the closest The Undertaker has come to being defeated at a Wrestlemania event. As The Undertaker negotiates out of a Triple H reversal, he finds himself carried by momentum into the corner of the ring where Michaels suddenly connects with Sweet Chin Music. Triple H then grabs a stunned Undertaker to deliver a brutal Pedigree whereupon Michaels executes a swift pin. In this moment the WWE Universe looked on wide eyed and open mouthed as the tagline of the match was about to seemingly happen, that 'The End of an Era' was to be realised by The Undertaker losing his winning streak. True to form, The Undertaker was able to pull through and eventually win that match, but the Sweet Chin Music/Pedigree combination will be memorable for the fact that perhaps it will be the last real time WWE fans can look back on an Undertaker streak match and admit that, just for a second, they thought that the streak was over!