UNDERTAKER: THE LAST RIDE : The documentary series Chapter 3 dove further into the quest for the right match for The Undertaker to end his iconic career. The episode traces The Deadman ‘s career from his WrestleMania 34 match with John Cena (which he considered disappointingly short) up to his much-maligned tag team match against D-Generation X at the 2018 Crown Jewel’s first event. Taker admitted during the episode that he was jealous of how Shawn Michaels was able to retire at WrestleMania XXVI and was not really tempted to make a comeback outside that tag match.
“I’m so envious of Shawn because he was able to walk away and be…he was good with it. Do I wish I had that kind of clarity? Absolutely,” Undertaker said. “He had the clarity before going into the match. Hopefully, when I have the match I’m looking for, I have that clarity. ‘Okay, that’s it.'”
Undertaker ‘s last match was the dramatic Boneyard Battle against AJ Styles, which he won under six feet of dirt after burying “The Amazing One”
Undertaker (real name Mark Calaway) opened up further about other facets of his career in a series of recent interviews. While on Pardon My Take, he revealed how long the WrestleMania streak originally intended to last
“Selfishly, would I have liked to have gone 25, 26-0? Of course. I mean, that would probably have been the greatest record in all of wrestling,” Undertaker said. “But, business is business, and sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. The most important thing, after that one, afterwards, I mean, I was concussed. So, I didn’t even remember it. I was more concerned afterwards about my head to stop hurting and being able to come out of the dark for a couple weeks.”
In an interview with Ariel Helwani he also said he did not regret letting the unbeaten streak end.
“Internally, and the way this business works, I knew that someday it probably would [end],” he said. “In our industry, you don’t walk away like Floyd (Mayweather) and retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano. It just doesn’t happen that way in wrestling. It was always in the back of my mind that it would end. Although most of my peers and people I work with thought it was a horrible decision. And I just asked Vince [McMahon] ‘Are you sure? Is this what you want.’ He was like ‘If it’s not Brock, who could beat you?’ From the way the streak was built and by that time obviously [nobody could].”
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