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Old 12-09-2008, 09:26 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by DrA View Post
It's a meaningless streak that means nothing because it is meaningless. If they didn't go out of their way to hype it every chance they get no one would even notice or care.
This seriously has to be the stupidest thing I have ever read related to wrestling (including anything Noid has ever said.) And I have to believe that you don't even believe what you're saying, because you do seem to actually watch wrestling. If the Undertaker's streak is meaningless because it's predetermined, then absolutely nothing about wrestling has any meaning. I will concede one very small point, and that is that it would be absolutely asinine for Mark Calloway to walk into a bar and start bragging that he's a huge badass because he won at Wrestlemania. That's obvious. But the idea that the streak is meaningless to the Undertaker as a character is ridiculous. The Undertaker is not a guy who's never lost. Percentage-wise, He may well have lost more high-level matches than anybody out there (excluding over-the-hill scratch-and-clawers like Foley and Flair.) His Wrestlemania streak gives his appearances there something specific, something that can be built on. Fuck, it even gave Taker vs Mark Henry a reason to watch (albeit a very small reason.)

If a winning streak or an undefeated streak is meaningless, then just about every part of wrestlign is meaningless. Titles are meaningless. Feuds are meaningless. Matches are meaningless. Take it all the way to its conclusion - any given wrestling move is fake because, well, it's fake, right? That's what you're getting at, isn't it? The Undertaker's WM streak is meaningless because his wins were predetermined? These are views that can only be held by someone who holds a "wrestling is fake" mentality.

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It's like with that Michaels/Flair match earlier this year, where Michaels "retired" Flair. The only reason why he retired Flair was because of some stupid storyline where Flair had to win all of his matches in order to stay a wrestler, which was all an antic for that match to take place in the first place.
Really. If you want storyline-less wrestling, go watch ROH. (Or TNA, they barely have storylines.)

As an aside, if you think an undefeated streak is meaningless in wrestling, look at Goldberg. He HAD NO MEANING without his.
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