Undertaker-less WrestleMania Scenarios for CM Punk (Voices of Wrestling)

[FedEx227]

While it’s been only rumored by the internet wrestling media thus far, The Undertaker’s health keeping him out of WrestleMania 29 looks to be a real possibility. While at the end of the day, I think Taker finds, a way to get out there, Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment has to be racking their brain figuring out how to replace the phenom on his marquee show.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/02/06/no-taker-no-problem/

[manchild24]

CM Punk/Brock Lesnar vs. Vince McMahon/Triple H

Is interesting but maybe HHH asks Michaels to tag with him so its more of a match.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Methinks the E leaked Undertaker info so when he returns, it'll be a surprise.

[Cornelius]

what's wrong with him?

[Bigpapa42]

what's wrong with him?

He's been dead for 20 years.

[Guest]

CM Punk/Brock Lesnar vs. Vince McMahon/Triple H

Is interesting but maybe HHH asks Michaels to tag with him so its more of a match.

I can definitely see that. No way Vince gets back out there pushing 70 and just having had hip surgery. A less likely scenario is them trying to get the Miz over as a face this way and have him team with H's. They have all three scenarios set up if they wanted to do them.

[Warner2BruceTD]

what's wrong with him?

Bad shoulder, bad hip, bad elbow, basically the man is falling apart to the point that even one match per year is incredibly dangerous for him at this point.

But then again, they've been saying this since like 1999.

For a guy who spent years working such a slow, low impact style, I have no idea why his body is so destroyed. Somebody like Muta, who basically no longer has knees but kept doing moonsaults for a decade a half after his first surgeries, or even Hogan, who killed his hips & back doing the big legdrop for 20 years, I get it. Undertaker, I don't. Bad genes, I guess.

[Bigpapa42]

Yeah I don't really get the degree of damage either. He's definitelyl been in some high-impact matches, but in the vast majority of those, he was the one dishing it out. All his matches with Foley through the 90s, he beat the fuck out of Foley. Those Cell matches were pretty physical but still... his body is destroyed beyond what I would expect...

[EmpireWF]

Go back almost 20 years and apparently, retirement in the mid-90s was a legitimate possibility for him based on injuries (back, I think). Now, he's in a lot of pain and whether he returns for WM is based solely on whether he can/wants to disregard it.

[FedEx227]

Bad shoulder, bad hip, bad elbow, basically the man is falling apart to the point that even one match per year is incredibly dangerous for him at this point.

But then again, they've been saying this since like 1999.

For a guy who spent years working such a slow, low impact style, I have no idea why his body is so destroyed. Somebody like Muta, who basically no longer has knees but kept doing moonsaults for a decade a half after his first surgeries, or even Hogan, who killed his hips & back doing the big legdrop for 20 years, I get it. Undertaker, I don't. Bad genes, I guess.

I think regardless of what style he worked, his bump card is punched. This is just in WWE, amount of matches per year:

1989: 3
1990: 32
1991: 186 (!)
1992: 151
1993: 158
1994: 84
1995: 140
1996: 169 (!)
1997: 174 (!)
1998: 125
1999: 103
2000: 69
2001: 130
2002: 92
2003: 53
2004: 5
2005: 57
2006: 62
2007: 76
2008: 97
2009: 89
2010: 49
2011 & 2012: 23

That's 2,156 matches in 24 years and that's only the real "2nd" part of his career, not counting WCW/NWA or his other stops. That's A LOT of matches.