Not Brock Lesnar, but This WWE Legend Could Have Ended Undertaker’s Streak if Referee Committed This Unthinkable Sin

The legendary streak of WWE Hall of Famer, The Undertaker had got ended at the hands of Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 30 in 2014. But what if you learn that the streak of The Undertaker almost came to an end, way before Brock Lesnar did?

Mark Calaway, aka The Undertaker, has put himself for the WWE Universe for over three decades. However, one of the most outstanding achievements that the pro wrestling world has witnessed was the undefeated streak of The Deadman at WrestleMania.

This man had a series of 21 victories at the Grandest Stage of them all. And no other man in WWE history ever came close to solidifying the glorious streak of The Undertaker.

How did the streak of The Undertaker had almost ended before WrestleMania 30?

Well, if it wasn’t for Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 30, then probably Shawn Michaels could have done the unthinkable at WrestleMania 25. In 2009, ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ Shawn Michaels faced The Phenom at the Biggest Show of the Year.

Notably, a former WWE referee, Marty Elias, revealed that the undefeated streak of The Deadman almost ended at the hands of Shawn Michaels. Marty Elias recently appeared on the Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast and opened up how vital a role a referee plays in pro wrestling.

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He said, “At WrestleMania 25 when I did my counts on Taker after the dive. That count was a shoot count. The only instruction I ever got out of that match was from Taker. He said, ‘If I don’t get back in, you shoot count me out.’ And we came very, very close to counting him out.”

“But if you go back and look at that, I was drawing my counts out. And I was drawing 74,000 people in with my counts,” Elias added.

At one point during the match, Taker dived from inside the ring to put his body across Shawn Michaels. However, ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ was wise enough not to take the nasty bump and pulled a cameraman in between. Unfortunately, this was when referee Marty Elias found himself in trouble because he took his time for a count-out.

Former WWE referee Elias Marty did a splendid job in keeping the streak alive!

The Undertaker bumped hard to the ground when Michaels saved himself and threw a cameraman under the bus. In this attempt, Michaels also pushed Marty Elias by the barricades, which hurt him a little. However, Marty Elias knew what it meant by the legendary Undertaker streak.

So, the former WWE referee improvised and made a slow and elongated count. It was the most intense moment at WrestleMania 25 because Taker could not stand after his dive.

“But at the same time, I was still dramatizing it, and I was elongating that count. So I was getting the people behind me. I was looking at Taker, and Taker and I didn’t make eye contact until nine (of the 10 counts). So that streak almost ended at WrestleMania 25 on a count-out,” Marty Elias continued.

According to the former WWE referee, Taker suffered a concussion and broke his ring finger and collarbone because of his dive off the top rope. But luckily, The Undertaker made himself inside the ring at the 9th count. Marty Elias improvised the count-out in such a spectacular manner.

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But, finally, The Undertaker caught and converted Michaels’ moon sault into a Tombstone Piledriver. This move by Taker kept the streak alive at WrestleMania 25 in 2009.