Former WWE referee Marty Elias recently talked about the legendary undefeated streak of WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker. He talked about his match against Shawn Michaels that took place at WrestleMania 25 in 2009 and explained how the streak nearly ended.
The match between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 25 is considered most of the professional wrestling fans and critics as the best ever match in the history of Wrestlemania. No match in 38 years’ history of WrestleMania could ever surpass the glory of this match.
Marty Elias Reveals That WrestleMania Streak Of The Undertaker Nearly Ended In 2009
The rivalry between Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker is also considered as one of the best rivalries in the history of WWE. It started way back in the 1990s. There first mentionable feud took place in 1997 and who can ever forget their epic clash at the Badd Blood In Your House pay per view event which took place inside the first ever Hell in a Cell in which also legendary professional wrestler Kane made his debut.
WrestleMania 25 was not the best WrestleMania in the history of WWE but this match between Taker and Shawn Michaels single handedly saved the day for WWE. The match was so good that WWE decided to rebook it at very next year and Wrestlemania 26. It was also an amazing match but not as good as their previous encounter.
Marty Elias recently spoke on Talk Is Jericho where he talked about the legendary undefeated streak of WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker. He talked about his match against Shawn Michaels that took place at WrestleMania 25 in 2009 and explained how the streak nearly ended. He said;
“At WrestleMania 25, when I did my counts on Taker after the dive, that count was a shoot count (When Taker went for the dive, didn’t get caught, and landed on his head). 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. I took my time because I was still selling because they had bumped me earlier. So I was still selling that. 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 on the 10 count. So that streak almost ended at WrestleMania 25 on a count out. He was concussed. He had a broken collarbone. He broke his ring finger. So yeah, he was pretty fu*ked up.”
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