What’s the story?
WWE superstar Randy Orton was recently involved in a Q&A session with Yahoo Sports where he shared his thoughts about The Undertaker’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania
In case you didn’t know…
The Undertaker’s 13th victory in his 21-match unbeaten streak came against Randy Orton at WrestleMania 21. ‘The Viper’ had a significant upper hand in the match thanks to his father, Bob Orton, interfering and attacking ‘The Phenom’ with an arm cast.
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Orton also managed to counter The Undertaker’s chokeslam with an RKO. However, it was ‘The Deadman’ who ended up having the last laugh as he reversed an attempted tombstone piledriver by his opponent into one of his own and picked up the win.
The heart of the matter
According to ‘The Apex Predator’, WrestleMania is synonymous with The Undertaker and he found it wrong that his streak was brought to an end. Although the loss did not cause any harm to Taker’s career, he dislikes the fact that the streak was tarnished. Here’s what Orton had to say:
“I think Taker and ‘Mania go hand in hand. It’s unfortunate that he picked up a loss a few years back, I think that was wrong and I think everyone would agree with me for the most part with the exception of maybe Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar. I don’t believe that that loss tarnished his career, I just hate that his streak was tarnished.”
The 12-time world champion also said that he feels The Undertaker’s match with Roman Reigns should close out WrestleMania. Randy Orton stated:
Taker is going to face Roman Reigns and that’s going to be a good one. I honestly believe that should be the last match on the card, I think that everybody will be happy with the outcome of the match.”
What next?
While The Undertaker will be up against ‘The Big Dog’ at WrestleMania 33 this Sunday, Randy Orton will have his sights set on winning his 13th world championship in WWE as he takes on WWE Champion, Bray Wyatt.
Author’s Take
Since this year’s WrestleMania could be The Undertaker’s swansong, it will be interesting to see if WWE has planned a fitting farewell for ‘The Deadman’.
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