Gates said it best. Undertaker just needs to retire. For the past two years the streak actually had purpose. It was what everyone was talking about. Before he fought HBK at WM25 nobody really cared for the streak as much as they do now. HBK's matches with the Undertaker really elevated the quality to the streak. Before HBK vs. Taker the streak was just there. Overwhelmingly predictable, boring match ups, and most of all not great wrestling matches. The past two years have been what the streak should have always been, but WWE puts Taker in some weak matches over the past years.
Come on...Big Show and A-Train, Mark Henry, Edge? (boy was that SHIT) Batista was halfway decent because he was being built up just like superman John Cena, so it was possible he could beat him which sparked interest. Orton's feud with Taker was atleast entertaining.
Doesn't anyone find it strange how everyone thought HBK (a veteran) had a better chance of beating Undertaker than guys like Batista, Edge, or Orton? Who at the time were up and coming or just entering main event status. I don't get where people say new rookie stars should beat the Undertaker. If you ask me that would kill everything the streak is and was. Wouldn't do any favors to the Undertaker's career either.
Undertaker needs to end both his career and his streak on a high note, and that certainly isn't fighting guys like Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, etc.
1. People believed HBK was the biggest threat since he was "Mr. Wrestlemania", the man who always stole the show, who arose to the occasion on the grandest stage of them all. It was a perfect pairing, the man who steals Mania and the most dominant fuck in Mania history. That's what good booking does.
2. Taker should eventually drop the streak. The streak wont define a career that spanned over 20 years with the greatest carny gimmick of the modern history. Going 19-0 will be a fucking testament, then whomever he drops the streak to will get the greatest possible rub left in wrestling. That's called smart business, retiring with a fake streak won't do anything for a man so highly regarded and a career so long. His career speaks for itself.
3. Going out on your back is the highest possible way to end your career. Flair, Michaels, Foley etc. have all "ended" their careers on their back. That's just tradition in the industry and Taker respects the business as much as anyone, he'd easily accept going out on his back, and it makes sense to try and build someone off that win, whos to say that Sheamus or DiBiase wont be more over or better built by the time he decides to hang them up.
4. Taker doesn't need to hang them up. He's still effective and has what 90% of what the rest of workers around the world don't have, keep him fresh with his annual sabbaticals. I hate when internet marks think they know what's best for a worker when they obviously don't. Taker is bankable, when he's healthy he's a top notch worker, and the mass majority of the audience doesn't want to see him go, myself included, he's not to Hogan-Flair-Band level of uselessness, not even close. The only person who should tell the Taker to hang it up is he himself. No one else's opinion on the matter matters.
