 What's good Josh about Ross back again with another video? So we're gonna check out the true story of Undertaker's WWE WrestleMania streak man This should be an interesting one when it comes to the Undertaker and his WrestleMania streak It was one of the things that people Definitely look forward to every time WrestleMania came around who's gonna break the streak? Will the streak continue? Will it actually break? I was one of the people that was in a grudge of keeping the streak intact Unless it was going to build up a potential new start That was my kind of idea to keep it intact unless you plan on using it to build up someone else I wasn't really in a grudge with WWE Taking the streak away from the Undertaker or giving it to Brock is I felt like Brock didn't need the streak to be a made man and WWE I think that was just in my opinion I don't think it needed to happen, but other people may see differently So but this should be a good video appreciate our love and support man, and let's get right into this one No professional wrestler encompasses as much of the historical WrestleMania landscape as the dead man himself the Undertaker His 27 matches across the first 36 events speak to an endurance befitting the infallible spectre that Mark Calloway Portrayed for three decades, but more so than simply the sheer quantity of his first WrestleMania resume is what became known quite simply as The streak In the Undertaker's first 21 WrestleMania matches He defeated a who's who of wrestling royals monsters and oddities without ceding a single loss The unbeaten run grew to mythic proportions and is perhaps the first line of the epitaph that defines the Undertaker's 30 year WWE run I'm Jack from cultaholic and this is the story of the Undertaker's WrestleMania streak legendary streak You know a legendary moment When he actually lost to Brock a moment that I think many of us will not ever forget if you watch it live It's just you'll never forget wrestling any 30 because of that, you know When the Undertaker first arrived in the WWF in 1990 It became apparent that this wasn't going to be any ordinary wrestler when you can convincingly portray an unflinching Zombie mortician and do so with the sort of gusto that gives the youth of the world nightmares Yeah, you've probably got staying power. I used to be hello Frado the Undertaker in Kane like they it just They they embodied the character so much as a kid. I used to be terrified of them A wrestler like the Undertaker isn't beaten all that easily either a magnesium steak or the recitation of an ancient spell to adequately slay as such It's no surprise that his first WrestleMania 4a was little more than textbook enforcement of the overall Undertaker character Undertaker's WrestleMania debut took place at the events 7th incarnation on March 24th 1991 in the city of Los Angeles as was custom in those days the WrestleMania undercard featured a great number of matches That didn't really have a feud or storyline purpose They just existed to get everybody involved and at this time Undertaker was simply collecting victims regardless of the occasion His opponent was aging star Superfly Jimmy snooker whom he dispatched in a matter of minutes The match is mostly unnotable except as retroactive footage It was the beginning of something that would one day be cherished But here it was just ho hum Undertaker squashed a guy Following a face turn in early 92 Undertaker's WrestleMania 4a started coming equipped with grudges at Mania 8 He sent a treacherous Jake the snake Roberts packing after tombstoneing him on the floor a year later He withstood the onslaught of bodysuit wearing mercenary giant Gonzales before Deque victory 1994 take a return to WrestleMania for the 11th event in 95 Waylaying King Kong Bundy in the midst of his long and winding feud with the million-dollar corporation To this point the streak had not been formally acknowledged in any form Which is to say that it probably wasn't even realized at the time the Undertaker was 4 and 0 at WrestleMania At least by those in charge and as the new age Andre the giant in some respects Undertaker was simply a colourful attraction A popular means to an end that wasn't there to have all-time classic battles But rather to vanquish various nuisances on the big stage Him defeating a parade of heels at WrestleMania I can see them booking them like that in the early stages like no Undertaker He's a he's something that people want to see at WrestleMania He's there to kind of just take out, you know, somebody that's a big threat in the company Booking wise so was more out of sensibility Rather than a concentrated effort to make history at the time In fact the first WrestleMania match of his that one could consider really good was his victory over diesel at WrestleMania 12 The battle of the big men was spirited enough and an outgoing Kevin Nash was more than happy to make Undertaker look strong on his way out the door One year later 5 and 0 became 6 and 0 when the Undertaker defeated Psycho Sid in a convoluted main event to become WWF champion the match was pretty bad by most measures But more importantly the Undertaker emerged with his first world title win in more than five years and more important than that Another year passed without him sustaining an arbitrary WrestleMania loss. The streak was still alive But whether one was aware of the streak or not They would have found it hard to fault the WWF if they'd had the Undertaker lose at WrestleMania 40 That's because the most imposing challenge to Undertaker's untarnished slate was his Hellspawn brother Kane Ever since he first confronted take a month earlier Kane had been presented as being just as powerful and just as invincible as his kayfabe Sibley Months of mounting tension led to WrestleMania 14 in Boston where brother would meet brother in the events semi-may Undertaker eaked out the victory that night over Kane to the surprise of those who figured it would have been a major feather in Kane's mask to ultimately overpower the phenom. Yeah, but that would have definitely gave Kane the Extra rub that he needed if he actually would have beat the Undertaker then Kane didn't go down lightly requiring three tombstones to finally leave him in a crumbled heap And so the Undertaker was now seven and oh though the previous year's match against Sid was for the WWF Championship one could certainly argue that this was Undertaker's most memorable WrestleMania match to this point There was an actual storyline to Undertaker and Kane Whereas take a versus Sid was kind of randomly thrown together due to the general disarray of the 1997 main event scene One year later Undertaker won a WrestleMania bout that was far less memorable as it was But would have been even less memorable if not for the questionable ending Now the ruler of the hellish Ministry of Darkness take a battle the corporation's lead heavy the big boss man inside Hell in a Cell but while Undertaker's prior two cell matches are all-time classics This was a dull slog for the finish line, but alas another Undertaker victory Oh, and yeah, the the big boss man was hanged in the post match But that grizzly sight notwithstanding the Undertaker's rest. Yeah Killed this man live on pay-per-view Romania record remained unblemished at eight and oh after missing out on WrestleMania 2000 due to injuries the biker version of the Undertaker was what rolled into WrestleMania x7 in Houston to do battle with sworn enemy Triple H While the brawl was probably take his best WrestleMania match up until then and it brought the record to 9 and 0 at the event And something more notable happened his record was finally acknowledged Now granted this was just a quick offhand mentioned by Jim Ross on commentary But regardless it wasn't until the Undertaker was more than a match as deep into his personal WrestleMania That's what makes this so kind of cool People really wasn't paying attention to it until oh wait a minute. He he's on an actual streak He hasn't lost ever at WrestleMania hold on and that's when they they start to slowly but surely transition to the story of Who's going to beat the streak people start focusing on the streak and beating the Undertaker being that one person Near chronology that the WWF openly broadcast this historic record One year later Undertaker waged war with Ric Flair in a highly contentious battle at WrestleMania x8 or 18 Which one do we call it again? The methodical hate-filled slugfest was an interesting pairing of icons and one that also gave us the lesser-known spinebuster out of nowhere courtesy of Arn Anderson After finishing off flair with his tombstone instead of the last ride Undertaker gave us one of the greatest silent acknowledgements in wrestling history That's because he stood on the apron and slowly unfurled all ten of his fingers before raising both outstretched palms to a sizable cheer Ten and oh indeed To put that record into perspective It took 15 more years for any other wrestler to even reach ten total wins at the event when John Cena gained a win as Part of a mixed-tag match at WrestleMania 3 And at the time of Undertaker's 10th win Cena was still swimming to the shores of the main roster After polishing off flair to reach double digits takers WrestleMania resume picked up a couple more no-doubt victories At Mania 19 in Seattle take it was supposed to team with Australian Goliath Nathan Jones against Big Show and a train But it ended up being a handicap match out of deference to Jones's shall we say profound clunkiness In any event Undertaker winning was the only acceptable result and that's exactly what happened The following year Undertaker's WrestleMania match was all about the pomp and pageantry Canid snuffed him out the prior year and a buried alive match But rather than just you know staying dead the phenom version of the Undertaker was reborn and I like that This is cool. This is arguably Think a lot of people agree here Vince's greatest character creation So the fact that they got rid of the biker gimmick. He was buried alive and now we have the phenom back I love that man. It's it's it's always dope when a wrestler can balance different views of their character like Mick Foley being able to balance all his you know personalities that he has and they have their own characters their own type of style the way they deliver promos the badass gimmick and then the phenom gimmick it just works and Not many people can pull that off being able to have multiple personalities They are distinguishable, but it's in one person and make it somewhat believable It takes it takes some talent to be able to do that And with him came all that old accompaniment the graveyard overture the druids Paul bearer Of course the earn and the heart and the trench coat and with that sort of grand return Kane had a better chance of winning a spelling bee while in a medically induced coma than actually beating the Undertaker that night That win made it a solid dozen Come 2005 however the streak was more than just an accomplishment worth calling attention to it was now a specified target Randy Orton looked to make good on his legend killer nickname by challenging Undertaker's untarnished mark in the closing stages of the very competitive bout Orton definitely reversed a choke slam into RKO All the world like the WWE was about to canonize a 25 year old Randall Keith as the demon slayer Yeah, but then the undertaker kicked out a tombstone later and Orton's dream was all that was killed With the streak now sitting at 13 and 0 and with an understandable opening for a loss passed up on it looked as if WWE was content to let it ride forever Though Mark Henry would eventually pick up traction as the curator of his self-created Hall of Pain The Hall was still very much under construction in 2006 And he was the one getting the lid closed on him in the WrestleMania 22 casket match Make that 14 and 0 for the Undertaker From there a pair of championship bouts loomed large But few truly believed Undertaker's record was in jeopardy and this should take nothing away from Batista an edge But for the respective World Heavyweight title matches at WrestleMania's 23 and 24 The timing just didn't seem right for either man to pull that. Yeah, I Remember watching Batista. I think that was a mania 23 Trying to you know dethrone the Undertaker wasn't gonna happen same thing with age They were enjoyable matches, but you could time to tell those weren't gonna be the guys to do it Sword from the stone and so despite two very excellent matchups with the Batista one Especially surprising a lot of people at the time It was very result never really seemed to be in doubt The tombstone of Drax brought the mark to 15 and 0 while the money planes grounding at Hall in a cell Notched it up further to 16 and 0 After 2008 the Undertaker never wrestled in another championship match at WrestleMania Nor did he really need to in fairness His streak was now reward enough and his matches were about to become the hallmark segment of ensuing manias And this is one of those things where it became bigger than the title the Undertaker streak was bigger than The championship was at this point especially at WrestleMania because it's one of those things where it's like People were coming to see Who could actually get the job done and whoever did would be immortalized in the WrestleMania and be Pushed to the moon. So it was like no one really cares about him having a championship no more is now Can people who can beat them? That's the thing about streaks and sports. You always want to see you really people see Who's gonna lose like people pay to see who's gonna beat this person? Will he ever lose? Is there anybody that's good enough to beat that individual? That's usually how Undefeated streaks grant, you know bring in that attention. So Spell or no belt when Shawn Michaels stepped up to the plate for WrestleMania 25 in 2009 Many wondered if the 240 some things could equal the quality and gravity of the best match way back Depending on who you ask their heaven versus hell epic may not have only surpassed the cell match but could even be the greatest WrestleMania match of all time and it was in Houston and it was Literally one of the best matches. I have ever seen that WrestleMania. It's it. There's no denying it That is a match with I put this match in probably my top 10 favorite matches of all time I have to it's just that goddamn good The half-hour spectacle was a fossil for the ages After undertaker gave the world a meme worthy look of dejection He caught a Michaels moonsault and planted HBK with the decisive tombstone climbing to 17 and 0 a Year later a desperate and freakishly competitive Michaels drew And got the remark so good so good But to receive it he'd have to stake his career and here even the odd undertaker fan was kind of hoping that maybe he'd take The fall otherwise we'd have to say goodbye to Michaels's glittering career But that's exactly what we did at WrestleMania 26 as the two icons nearly equaled their prior effort Yeah defying Michaels went out to another tombstone. It wasn't as good as the first but it was it's damn near close It's damn near close still a fantastic match to watch Michaels is tearful exodus overshadowed 18 and 0 to an extent but 18 and 0 was still 18 and 0 Yeah, by now it was abundantly clear that the undertaker's WrestleMania match was an attraction all to itself Not only because of the streak being on the line But the increased reduction in undertaker's work schedule that put more focus on his mania outings And because of this he was very much saving his best performances for that springtime Sunday The previous four WrestleMania matches had all either been match of the year candidates or at least comfortably in that Conversation and that certainly didn't change in 2011 when what was apparently intended to be undertaker versus sting Pivoted into undertaker versus triple H after staying reportedly got cold feet about a move to WWE The match met the lofty expectations of the new standard for undertaker's mania clashes But rather than build to the usual feverish crescendo the ending took a different route The game managed to beat undertaker down into a writhing shell But just couldn't seal the deal then out of desperation Take a snared triple H into hell's gate and managed to squeeze out a narrow submission way But was shown to be in a bad way afterwards the following year It was now the undertaker who desired revenge wanting to show that he wasn't as decrepit as the events of WrestleMania 27 seemed to indicate With 20 and 0 at the edge of the horizon undertaker goaded corporate triple H into accepting one more match But there will be two counter caveats. It would take place inside hell in a cell one of the better Hell in a cell matches The end of an era match. It was so good It's so good to have true have triple H in there to have the undertaker in there and to have Sean Michaels as the special guest referee all these guys their careers have been entwined in the hell in a cell beautiful Beautiful love this match All of this match And sure Michaels would be the special guest Really, the so-called end of an era match at WrestleMania 28 polarised fans Some consider it an old-timer while others found it a little bit inferior and perhaps a bit too self-indulgent But the end result was indeed 20 and 0 as undertaker vanquished triple H for the third time on the grandest stage of them Oh, and this one featured an extra scary kick out as Michael's super kick taker into a pedigree Possibly the scariest moment of his undefeated streak. I legitimately thought it's over. I'm watching it live I'm getting goosebumps now when that happened. I was like, oh, it's over This is how the industry he kicked out and I couldn't believe it. I literally just I couldn't believe I was getting goosebumps I was losing my shit. I could not believe he kicked out. I was like, oh my god. Oh my god And at the time of this video is recording at least it should be noted that while undertaker reached 20 WrestleMania wins in 2012 No other wrestler before or since has gone beyond 10 wins at the event After four years of battling the two click cornerstones Undertaker moved on to a wrestler in a similar position to Kane and Orton before him He was an undeniable star that could have used the win overtaker at WrestleMania And it would have been an acceptable choice in the eyes of many and his name CM punk though it wasn't punk's first wish of being eliminated first in a John Cena versus the Rockwell title main event It still proved to be the best match of a mostly middling WrestleMania 29 Yeah after some exciting back-and-forth including the timeless anaconda vice zombie sit-up spot punk succumbed like the 17 other Men before him the streak had reached a staggering 21 victories, but it wouldn't see number 22 on the surface It most figured that there was no reason for Brock Lesnar to defeat the undertaker and I still believe in that There's no he doesn't need it. He never needed it. You cannot argue me this point Brock beating the Undertaker streak Still doesn't make sense to me. It's a shocking moment, but it'll never make sense to me because it didn't matter He was going to become the next champion. He was next in line It didn't he didn't need to streak for that, you know, I'm saying I think it was just I don't I just I never understood that booking decision I just don't think he needed it. It's fucking Brock. He's the legitimate UFC fighter former UFC champion at the time like He's legitimate. He don't need that you get it did something else with him But that's just my personal opinion For one thing he was a part-time talent and surely WWE wouldn't sacrifice 23 years of build at the altar of someone that only wrestled a handful of times a year Yeah, and on top of that Brock was already a made man I call it athlete with legitimate credentials. Yes UFC heavyweight champion So it's not like he really needed the boost when Lesnar took a concussed weary undertaker and deposited him with a third F5 at WrestleMania 30 the packed house that New Orleans is Superdome watched with a bit of a half-hearted gaze Here comes the kick out. Yeah figured that's why when Chad Patton's hand slapped them out for a third time It struck everybody's gut I would never just watching it because he hit him with another F5 on my bro He's kicking out and then because the match was it was Luke warm It obviously he was concussed He couldn't really move like he wanted to like that match wasn't really on paper on paper It should have been better But it wasn't as good because you know the undertaker was injured and it just they were it just wasn't that good But the fact when he kicked out. I just I couldn't believe what I saw You're riding the high of Daniel Bryan being triple H being inserted into the triple threat match at the end of the show You're feeling good and then you see that happen. You instantly just like it killed the audience They couldn't they couldn't believe what they saw there was just like no way I couldn't believe it It's a moment in history for for wrestling fans that it changed everything for us because it's now it's like what the what the hell What did we just see? What did we just watch? It felt like a cosmic jostle a profound shock that causes blood within your veins to evaporate The streak is dead. We all thought classic 21 and one graphic that flashed overhead confirmed the unthinkable Yep The 21 event streak seemed so unbreakable that the idea of brock lesnar challenging it didn't faze that many fans and critics That's the brock lesnar who is a snarling killing machine that's portrayed as every bit the terrifying fighter And I get that actually is just another notch for undertaker's belt We all thought another tombstone another number in the And no fan who witnessed it will ever forget how they felt when reality sunk in In the aftermath we learned just how arbitrary the decision to end the streak was Vince McMahon opted to kill off the unbeaten run on the day of WrestleMania 30 believing that one No one outside of lesnar was a viable candidate to end it and two the undertaker didn't have many matches left So the sooner the better that doesn't even make sense to me What the hell? The sooner the better no That was the one thing people wanted to see to see if someone could actually do it And it's like I you you kind of take it away I get it. It makes sense. Brock does make sense on paper to beat it But once again, I feel like if you're gonna do it It needs to be somebody that can benefit from it Brock didn't benefit from it other than he was just a making heel at that time because of it He didn't benefit from it. He was already made man. That's just my opinion But him doing that is just like well you you could have just had him keep the streak going And maybe whoever they want to build up next could be the guy to do it and they Get a you know, they get that boosted boosts from beating the undertaker Now this is a new a new generation a new guy that's ready to take over the mantle like I don't know man I just I just think in hindsight. That was just Oh, well, he don't have that many matches left. Let's go ahead and end it. Why? for why Just because he got that many matches left that means hell Whoever does actually do it. It should be one of those things was like is this his last WrestleMania match That's my opinion if the undertaker's gonna lose it should be his last WrestleMania match So many years later the decision to end the streak is still widely debated Some feel it should have been preserved forever Sanctified and hallowed while others believe that another wrestler should have gotten the honors Instead of someone like lesnar that didn't strictly that's I'm I'm in that boat of someone if I'm okay if he ain't never would have gotten broken cool He would have tired with a perfect streak cool But I'm also okay if someone that could have benefited from the win actually got the win So need it Meanwhile, some were ultimately okay with the booking because to even the most cynical seen it all before fan The streak dying before their very eyes Shook them from their default state The people who relish calling other wrestling fans marks would probably marks themselves when they witness the streak's end Wrestling is at its best when you get caught up in it. Even if it requires pissing you off Sure When undertaker finally pulled himself up after the match He was met with increasing applause from fans and ringsiders alike The pictures told the tale of unanimous respect for a man that sustained such an unforgettable run And if one were to speculate perhaps this was the dead man's so-called last ride Except it wasn't in fact the undertaker wrestled 19 more times between then and 2020 Five of those matches occurred at wrestle mania It was a simple but affable win over bray white at 31 a convoluted sell match with shea mcman at 32 A bit of a hard to watch lost to roman reigns at 33 that appeared to be his official end Yeah, then a bizarre squash of john senor at 34 and finally the well-received boneyard match win over aj styles at 36 25 event wins is not likely to be matched by anyone Close to eight months after leaving styles for dead under a mountain of dirt Undertaker affirmed his retirement bringing to an end not only an unparalleled wrestling career But an event legacy that's just as unequaled WrestleMania 35 was a recent enough reminder that the grand spectacle can in fact occur without the undertaker But it isn't quite the same without him When taker is inevitably the headliner of a future wwe hall of fame class There'll be a deep body of work to retroactively dissect the ghoulish mystique the harrowing gimmick matches The owing brilliance of his character work and the main event rivalries will all spring to mind The strongest threads in the tapestry that is the undertaker's Legacy will be the ones that make up his WrestleMania streak as well as the mania matches that occurred following its end The variety of opponents he faced is a murderer's row of characters. He faced jake robert and cm punk diesel and batista King Kong bundy and john senor. He faced the fathers of charlotte flair and tamina and the sons of irs and seeker He battled members of the clique in six different matches across three separate decades His 10th mania win was over the face of jim crocket promotions And his last was over the face of tna ten of his victims are on the wwe hall of fame While four of his opponents are on wwe's active roster today still Fewer the wrestlers have made such an indelible mark on the business that they share the ring in high profile matches With those many generational waves of talents That in itself may be the ultimate legacy of the undertaker and the streak forever intertwined as constants in a business Underworld where there are fewer constants than we'd like we tend to fear death and its inevitability But ironically wrestling fans embrace the inevitability of both the dead man and his thorough dominance at the most watched wrestling event of the year This was a cool video. I enjoyed this video a lot Uh, it's just it's one of those things where this debate will probably continue on forever On should have should brockett beaten the undertaker at wrestle mania 30 should he kept his streak? Uh intact before retiring or should someone else have beaten the undertaker at some point like this will always be a debate You guys know where I stand on it, but uh comment down below. Let me know Do you guys feel like the undertaker should have kept his streak intact before retiring? Do you guys agree with brock less than beating the streak? Or do you guys feel like someone else should have beaten the streak instead of brock? I want to get your guys opinion on it, man. This is uh, this is one of those topics in wrestling that No one people can't agree on and i'm okay with it because it's just a monumental situation that happened and uh It's one of those scenes where I'll never forget. I'll never forget that moment Appreciate all the love and support road to 70k appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next week. Peace