Undertaker: The Streak

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So I bought the DVD set The Undertaker: 20-0 at Walmart yesterday, and I’ve been enjoying the trip down memory lane. The set includes all 20 matches The Undertaker has participated in at WrestleMania, in their entirety, although some of the opponents’ entrances are skipped over, and (wisely) they omit the post-WrestleMania XV part where 'Taker hung Big Bossman from the Hell in a Cell.

I haven’t watched Disc 1 yet, which contains the featurette. And I’m up to his WrestleMania XX encounter with Kane.

The set has also answered my question of when WWE first started mentioning his undefeated streak; at least, at the event itself, they mentioned it going into his fourth match, against King Kong Bundy.

Has anyone else picked up this set yet, and care to comment? Also, I’ve got some questions for my fellow wrestling fans.

  1. To your knowledge, has anyone in WWE ever mentioned the exact moment The Streak was conceived? When was the point where they decided, “Undertaker’s gonna go undefeated at WrestleMania”?

1b. If they haven’t mentioned it, when do you think they first decided it?

  1. Do you think Undertaker should ever lose at the event, or should he retire with The Streak intact?

My personal opinion about those questions is:

1b. From the outset.

  1. He should retire with the streak intact.
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There is a “time honored tradition” that you put somebody over on your way out, and 'Taker is an old school guy–but if I was booking, I’d let him retire with the streak intact.

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  1. I’m guessing it wasn’t planned at first…but after the 5th or 6th time, they noticed “Hey, we’ve never had him lose yet at this event”, and figured they’d keep going with it.

  2. I think he should retire with it too, although “retiring” in professional wrestling is always an unknown thing. If he were to retire with it soon-ish (like, in the next 2-3 years), great…but if he’s going to pull a Hogan/Piper/Savage/countless other stars on it and keep going lonnng after he should have retired, I don’t know…because it will definitely come to a point where every Wrestlemania, you know–beyond the shadow of a doubt–that the Undertaker will win somehow. It becomes predictable and more boring, then.
    Not exactly sure it hasn’t hit that point already, in fact.