The Undertaker: 5 WrestleMania matches that should have been against different opponents

#2. WrestleMania 19 vs The Big Show and A-Train

Undertaker competes against The Big Show and A-Train at WrestleMania 19

Should have wrestled: singles match against Big Show

By the time WrestleMania XIX rolled around, Undertaker transitioned out of his "Big Evil" heel character, and back into a babyface. At the start of 2003, Undertaker commenced a feud with both A-Train (now head NXT trainer Matt Bloom) and Big Show, defeating Train on the January 23, 2003 episode of SmackDown. Subsequently, he also defeated Big Show on the February 23, 2003 No Way Out pay-per-view.

A-Train competed against Undertaker once again on the March 6 episode of SmackDown, and won by disqualification. On the previous episode, Big Show and A-Train gang attacked Undertaker, which led to Nathan Jones making the save.

This angle was supposed to lead to a tag team match with Undertaker & Nathan Jones against Big Show & A-Train. That didn't happen. WWE executives felt that Jones' in-ring work was not up to par and, as a result, the match was turned into a handicap match, although Jones did eventually get involved at the end of the bout.

The whole angle was odd, and appeared to be for the purposes of giving the new big man a spotlight right from the start. Instead, Undertaker was placed in a handicap match that did not fit the overall quality of most of his bouts on the big stage. While the fact the Undertaker competed by himself was a good thing, the angle was not WrestleMania worthy, and even a single match against the Big Show would have looked better on paper.