Brock Lesnar def. The Undertaker

NEW ORLEANS — Records are made to be broken. 

Heroes fall. Legends fade. History is rewritten. We’ve learned to accept these truths about many

things in this world, but not The Undertaker’s

Streak. It was WWE’s one constant — a decades-

long unbeaten WrestleMania run that had never

been done before, and will never be done again.

Every year, The Deadman would face down a worthy adversary — be it Triple H, Shawn

Michaels, his brother Kane — and every year he

would add another number to his win column until it

stood at a towering 21-0. The Undertaker’s match against Brock Lesnar at

WrestleMania was meant to make it 22-0. The

Phenom would conquer The Beast — although he’d

suffer a tremendous beating in the process— and

he’d return at WrestleMania 31 to do it all over

again. However, stories don’t always end the way we want

them to. And numbers never lie. On April 6, 2014, Brock Lesnar did the very thing

his T-shirt promised he would do: He beat The

Streak. It took countless punishing blows, multiple

wrenching submissions and three F5’s, but Paul

Heyman’s manmade monster became the first

competitor to pin The Undertaker on The Grandest

Stage Them All, and mark a 1 in The Deadman’s

loss column. There’s a story about the night Bruno Sammartino

lost the WWE Title to Ivan Koloff in Madison

Square Garden to end his 11-year reign as

champion. The crowd was so quiet you could hear

the whoosh of the cars passing on the street

outside. A new generation of WWE fans will talk about the night The Undertaker lost with the same

reverence. The sound of 75,167 rowdy people going

silent all at once? It’s indescribable. To see The Streak end was the single most

shocking moment in the grand history of WWE. No

one imagined it could happen. Even The Undertaker

himself had made his victory all but guaranteed by

preparing a specially made casket for Lesnar,

which sat at the top of the entrance ramp next to a long row of coffins — one for each of The

Deadman’s WrestleMania victims. If Brock was intimidated by this psychological

freak-out, he didn’t show it. As an athlete who fist

fought the world’s most dangerous men inside

cages for a living, Lesnar doesn’t scare easily, and

he went at The Undertaker from the opening bell

with an unbridled rage that has become his trademark.