The Undertaker was recently interviewed by ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. During the interview, they spoke about WWE’s decision to end his legendary streak at Wrestlemania.
The Undertaker was asked if he thinks that the decision to end the streak was a mistake. He ended up having an interesting answer.
Here is what he said (h/t to Cageside Seats for the quote below):
“Internally, and the way this business works, I knew that some day it probably would [end]. In our industry, you just don’t walk away like Floyd [Mayweather] and retire undefeated or Rocky Marciano. It just doesn’t happen that way in wrestling. So it was always in the back of my mind that it would end. Although most of my peers and people that I work with thought it was a horrible decision. I just asked Vince, are you sure? Is this what you want? He was like, ‘If it’s not Brock, who can beat you?’
So it was like, alright, well, it’s your call. Everybody thinks that I have all this juice, that I can say yes or say no. I mean I could have said no, but what good was that gonna do?…What do I do? Not go out? Or throw a tissy?… That’s not me. I’m business, and business comes first before anything personal. So I just double checked and made sure that he was 100% sure that’s what he wanted to do. And that was the plan, so I went with it.”
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