What if Brock Lesnar hadn’t returned to WWE in 2012?

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Brock Lesnar made a surprise return in 2012 and changed the trajectory of WWE history.

#4 The Undertaker’s Streak Lives On

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If Brock Lesnar hadn't ended the streak, would anyone have?

At WrestleMania 30, Vince McMahon made the call for Brock Lesnar to pin The Undertaker, thus ending his twenty-one-year undefeated streak at the Showcase of the Immortals. It’s easy to say that if Lesnar hadn’t ended the streak, someone else would have. However, when push comes to shove, who else would WWE have bestowed that unique honor onto?

The most likely answer is Roman Reigns, who would become the second man to pin The Phenom at ‘Mania three years later. WWE had to know that whoever ended the streak would get an overwhelming heel reaction, though. While fans heeled on Reigns when he beat the Dead Man, too, it’s unclear they would have had the Big Dog actually be the one to make history against him.

No, for someone to beat The Undertaker, he needed to be both over, and have major things in store, like Lesnar’s monster year to follow that would include squashing John Cena and spending months as WWE Champion. No one else was situated like Lesnar for that spot, and so it stands to reason that no one else would have ended the streak.

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