Ranking all 35 WrestleMania endings

#23 The long "goodbye" (WrestleMania 33)

Should've just stayed gone.

The WrestleMania 33 main event was sad. In every way that Shawn Michaels' retirement match (well, kind of, let's pretend Crown Jewel never happened) was a celebration, this one was the opposite. The aftermath was memorable, though, as the Undertaker removed his coat and hat, broke kayfabe by kissing his wife, and slowly descended beneath the WrestleMania stage, never to be seen again.

Or at least that's how it appeared at the time. It was a sad way to end a WrestleMania (unlike the bittersweet ending to WrestleMania 26 seven years before), but poignant, and again, memorable, and perfectly within character.

Unfortunately, like many other times, this, too, was a false end to the Undertaker's career, soiling the legacy of this segment in the process. After seeing his matches in 2018, it would have been far better for him to have just left this as the final curtain.