5 WWE Superstars who reluctantly agreed to put someone over

#2 The Undertaker reluctantly agreed to lose to Mark Henry (WWE WrestleMania 22)

Eight years before Brock Lesnar defeated The Undertaker at WWE WrestleMania 30, Mark Henry attempted to conquer The Deadman’s legendary undefeated streak at WrestleMania 22 in 2006.

Speaking on his Something to Wrestle With podcast in 2019, WWE director Bruce Prichard recalled that Vince McMahon originally wanted Henry to defeat The Undertaker at WrestleMania.

“I was sitting at my desk in Houston and Vince calls me and says, 'I've got an idea. What do you think about ending Undertaker's streak?' I said, 'Well, with the right guy he's made.' He says, 'God damn, that big b***ard Mark Henry - he's ready!' There was silence.” [H/T Wrestling Inc.]

Prichard also confirmed that The Undertaker reluctantly agreed to McMahon's idea, as he is usually happy to go along with anything that the WWE Chairman asks of him.

“[Undertaker] came back and said, 'OK, if that's what you guys want to do - if that's really what Vince wants.’ Vince, as we got closer to it, got cold feet, I guess, and just realized that maybe Mark wasn't ready at that time for it.”

While the match still ended up happening, The Undertaker picked up the victory to extend his WrestleMania undefeated streak to 14-0.

The iconic WWE Superstar went on to defeat Batista, Edge, Shawn Michaels (x2), Triple H (x2), and CM Punk at WrestleMania events between 2007 and 2013. He then finally lost on WWE’s biggest stage against Lesnar in 2014.