The Undertaker has accepted that Brock Lesnar ended The Streak at WrestleMania 30. What he apparently hasn’t gotten over is Paul Heyman still reminding everybody about it 12 years later.
Speaking with Heyman on Six Feet Under, Undertaker finally called him out for constantly making Brock’s victory over him the centerpiece of Lesnar’s résumé despite everything else Brock accomplished.
“Like every interview, like Brock has been in so many big matches. Why is it, it seems like the only thing you ever talk about is how he beat me?”
“Dude’s got some other stuff on his résumé. Why you gotta always go after me?”
Heyman’s answer was immediate: “Because it’s the most impressive stat.” Undertaker couldn’t really argue with that, but Heyman wasn’t finished. He started running through everything else Brock accomplished. NCAA Division I Heavyweight Champion. Youngest WWE Champion ever. UFC Heavyweight Champion after knocking out Randy Couture. Multiple WWE title reigns. Multiple WrestleMania main events.
Undertaker agreed every one of those accomplishments was huge. Heyman still put one above all of them.
“None of them compare to being the one that conquered The Undertaker’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania.”
As far as Heyman is concerned, ending The Streak isn’t simply another line on Brock’s résumé. It’s the first line.
“It’s the greatest claim to fame, and it always will be when it comes to Brock Lesnar. That’s his epitaph: Brock Lesnar conquered The Undertaker’s undefeated streak, former UFC and WWE Heavyweight Champion.”
That’s when Undertaker admitted why hearing it over and over again still bothers him. Twelve years have passed. He’s dealt with the loss. But every time Heyman reaches for the same line, it still manages to hit the same nerve.
“It becomes a sore spot every time I say—obviously, what I was—I mean, no, I mean, I’m dealing with it, but I mean it, you know, but it’s a little old.”
Heyman didn’t exactly apologize. His argument was that 12 years later, mentioning The Streak still gets a bigger reaction than practically anything else he can say about Brock.
“Not very. Like I did, you know, it’s 12 years ago, and to this day it still gets the loudest reaction of anything that we say.”
Michelle McCool wasn’t helping her husband out either: “Sorry, babe. You can’t argue with that.” Undertaker tried one more time.
“I know, but I mean, it’s still, it’s like, come on, man. He’s got some other stuff on the card. You always gotta go to that.”
A few minutes later, Heyman basically proved his own point. While discussing Undertaker suffering a concussion during their WrestleMania 30 match, Heyman admitted people may not remember much of the actual match anymore. What they remember is the three-count, the scoreboard changing and an entire stadium realizing something they thought would never happen had just happened.
“No one remembers the match. Without a joke, you know? No one remembers the match. They remember the finish. They remember the crowd reaction. “=It’s not about everything. It’s about the moment. That people remember the finish, that people remember the moment, that people remember the emotion.”
He even put Brock ending The Streak alongside Hulk Hogan facing Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III and Steve Austin confronting Mike Tyson during the Attitude Era as one of wrestling’s defining generational moments.
“As much as Hogan and Andre from WrestleMania III is the WrestleMania moment of the early days, or Steve Austin and Mike Tyson being the Attitude Era’s moment, to me, this generation—that’s the moment.”
At that point, Undertaker finally had his answer.
The Undertaker: “Which is why he still brings it up.”
Paul Heyman: “Thank you.”
Twelve years later, Undertaker may be tired of hearing Paul Heyman brag about Brock Lesnar ending The Streak. The problem is Heyman knows it still gets a reaction—and apparently, one of those reactions is coming from Undertaker himself.
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