The Road to WrestleMania 27 Part 2: The Streak

“There have been many dragons, who try and lay siege to my kingdom and one-by-one they all suffered the same fate.” –The Undertaker

Defeat is the fate that every wrestler that has stepped up to try and end The Streak at WrestleMania has faced.  Each man hopes that they would be the one to end The Streak and cement their legacy in wrestling history.  It is greater than any accolade, more prestigious than any championship title.  By the majority wrestling fans, The Streak is one of the most sacred and guarded accomplishments in the wrestling business.  For somebody to end such a streak would catapult a superstar’s career to the stars, but also cause riots amongst the wrestling faithful.  If you did not figure out by now, this article is about the Undertaker’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania.

The Streak started at WrestleMania VII with Undertaker defeating “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka.  Since it started, Undertaker has defeated many superstars at WrestleMania such as Shawn Michaels, Kane, Edge and Batista.  In recent years, The Streak has become a stable for WrestleMania.  Either a young superstar wanting to make their mark or an established veteran who has nothing else to accomplish in their career steps up each year to challenge the Undertaker and his streak.  Each year the WWE does an excellent job of building the possibility that the Undertaker could lose at the Grandest Stage of Them All, but in the end there has always been the same result.  Defeat at the hands of the WWE’s resident Deadman.

The Undertaker and The Streak have become synonymous with WrestleMania.  The Undertaker and The Streak have produced some of the best and worst matches in WWE history.  As of late, the WWE has been putting together some formidable opponents such as Edge and Shawn Michaels.  This year for WrestleMania XXVII, “The Game” Triple H has returned to either end the streak or die trying.  In the past few weeks, these two future WWE Hall of Famers have been going back-and-forth in their own war of words.  Triple H has challenged the Undertaker’s streak before at WrestleMania X-Seven.  These two had one amazing brawl that spanned the majority of the stands in the Astrodome.  If this match at this years’ WrestleMania is a half as good as the showdown the Undertaker and Triple H had ten years ago, we are in for one great match. 

There are three more weeks left until WrestleMania 27 and a little more time for WWE to build this match into something worthwhile.  Right now, this feud seems rushed.  WWE should have brought at least one of them back at or after the Royal Rumble in order to give some proper build to this feud.  The set-up for this match came out of nowhere and has had no real build.  We could get one great match at WrestleMania, but the build has not been worthy of something as big as The Streak.

As we continue down the Road to WrestleMania, there are only a few more twists and turns left in the path.  The Road to WrestleMania 27 series returns for its third part, which relates directly to topic of this article, The Streak.  We will be looking back at two of the most anticipated matches in WrestleMania history and two matches that are considered the two of the greatest matches in the shows history.  Next week, we are talking about the Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels I & II.