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| 20 & 0 Photo courtesy: WWE |
@chadsmart & @my12cents on Twitter
I’ll admit I’m not a fan of
The Undertaker coming back for matches at Wrestlemania. Ever since “the streak”
became a focal point of Wrestlemania, only the match against Randy Orton had me
thinking Undertaker was going to lose. Now Taker takes most of the year off,
comes back for the match at Wrestlemania, performs his signature moves, rolls
his eyes back in his head while sticking out his tongue while the video screen updates with the new number in the win column. YAWN.
When the rumors starting
floating around saying CM Punk would be Undertaker’s opponent at Wrestlemania
29, I questioned what WWE hoped to accomplish with the match. Had CM Punk not
lost the WWE Title to The Rock, I could understand a Streak vs. Longest Title
Reign in 25 years build up, even though we’d already seen Taker win the World
Title at Wrestlemanias 23 and 24.
Still, there would be something on the line in the match. After Punk
lost two pay per view matches to The Rock and a match to John Cena on Raw, I
felt putting him into another no-win match wasn’t the most sensible decision to
make. Not to mention the manner in which WWE initially set up the match. It all
seemed like “we don’t really have anything else for these guys to do so lets
put them into a match against each other.” Then something happened.
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| Punk mocks Taker Photo courtesy: WWE |
The death of Paul Bearer,
while saddening and unfortunate, may have been the best thing to happen for the
Punk/Taker match. The death gave
Punk ammunition to use during promos and helped humanize Undertaker. While I
still feel Undertaker should have retired after Wrestlemania 28 since 20-0 was
a good round number to end the streak, I am now of the opinion the streak
should end this year.
While Paul Bearer hasn’t
been in Undertaker’s corner at Wrestlemania since Wrestlemania XX, the fact he
can’t be in the corner this year could be used to make Undertaker appear weaker
than normal. Since it’s a pretty safe bet John Cena will avenge his loss to The
Rock from last year and, even with the retirement stipulation, Triple H will
most likely avenge his loss, having Taker fail to make CM Punk pay for his
disrespecting Paul Bearer, would make Wrestlemania a tad bit more
interesting.
CM Punk doesn’t need to be
the person to end the streak, yet it would give him something to brag about
whenever he needs to get the crowd riled up. As much as I don’t think the
streak should be broken, if there were any time to break it, that time would be
now. I don’t know how many more matches Undertaker has left in him. I do know
I’m tired of the streak and the sporadic appearances of the Undertaker. If CM
Punk were to beat the Undertaker, I would imagine the crowd would go crazy and
WWE would get one of the most vocal reactions from an audience that for all
likely purposes could be in a frozen silence if the weather doesn’t get better
in the next two weeks. Plus, Twitter and Tout would be burning up with
reactions from fans at home.
The Undertaker’s matches at
Wrestlemania have become stale. It’s time to shake it up and the best way to do
that is to end the streak. I’m either crazy or a jaded fan but that’s how I see
it. I know I’ll be sitting in the stands chanting, END..THE..STREAK (clap clap
clap). Who is with me?
NOT WITH YOU!
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