The Undertaker’s undefeated streak was one of the most memorable parts of WrestleMania each and every year, all the way until its end at WrestleMania 30.
The man of the hour, 2022 WWE Hall of Fame headliner The Undertaker, recently spoke with Today to discuss his career, namely his famous undefeated WrestleMania streak which ended at WrestleMania 30 at the hands of current WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. Taker mentions that it’ll be nearly impossible for someone to duplicate the importance of the stream.
“It’ll be really, really difficult to match the streak. It’s so hard, and the things that guys are doing today, to stay healthy enough to last that long, you know — I put a lot of stock in modern medicine, but, you know, there’s a lot of factors that are going to play into that. It’ll be tough to keep somebody that relevant with so much exposure. I think guys really will burn themselves out before they get that kind of opportunity.”
The Undertaker also spoke about his experience working an “Inferno Match” against Kane, noting that it was one of the rare times that he thought twice about the stipulation beforehand.
“I don’t think I ever really lifted a brow at anything until they got to the Inferno match. Well, the Hell in a Cell was, that lifted a brow as well but it was to me, I’m kind of going at it as, OK, well, it’s a souped-up cage match. OK. That’s one thing,” he shared. “But the Inferno match was the first time that I kind of went, ‘Now, wait a minute (laughs). You’re going to light the ring on fire and we got to get out of the ring and not …’
“Yeah. So that was one of probably the first times that, you know — and that was just, I just wanted to know how it was going to be done without, you know, us completely burning our flesh completely off our skin or our arms. But even that worked out well.”
The Undertaker and Kane met in two Inferno Matches, with the first taking place at WWF In Your House 21: Unforgiven in 1998.
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