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Originally Posted by TGR
TL;DR Summary: "Streak is fake, it's not insulting to UT to end it."
I think people are missing something here with regards to the Streak.
It's not real.
Dont be so quick to respond. Just think. Many of the arguments I've heard from the Streaking camp (for lack of a better term) seem to think this is a badge of honor for Mark Calloway. I have to admit - I cant think of a single hall of famer who cherishes his win/loss record. Why?
Because it's not real. It's an imaginative construct. It would be the same argument that, when I played Caesar for my school's production of the same name, I had a 0-3 win/loss record against the Brutus and Cassius characters. (Three days of the same play.)
The Undertaker's story, if he were to write it, will talk about his glory days on the road, his highlights of his career, the matches he is most proud of, and friends/family he is fond of. One thing I dont think he will take with him is the fact that in the back, a group of writers decided that, once a year, for twenty years, he should never lose. What he probably will take with him would be the classic matches that he put on with everyone from Hulk Hogan to Yokozuna and everyone in between. The man is a craftsman. And a true craftsman is more concerned with the quality of his work then any other statistic.
To end the streak is not an insult to the Undertaker. It does not diminish the monumental impact his career has had upon the business. I will still be an Undertaker mark if he's 17-1. And many, many more will still honor him for what he's done, and for what he's created in the Undertaker character. Win/Loss records are not even a factor.
Perhaps the streak is different, one would say. But in the end, I think, Undertaker's streak will be a minor footnote in the epitaph of his career.
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That said, if Tipsters was tomorrow...well to be perfectly honest, I dont know how I think it will go. Every time I think "They cant end the streak..." I think "But they cant end Shawn Michaels' career..."
I couldn't tell you who the favorite is for UT vs HBK II. But I can tell you who I'll write down to be the true winner of this match for Tipsters purposes.
Us.
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I understand your point, and its well said. But in the same logic all title matches are fake but people get bent out of shape for that. Even though its fake Mr. Perfect, Davey Boy Smith, & Owen Hart still can't be called World Champion, yet David Arquette, Vince Russo, and Vince McMahon can.
By that logic when someone loses a match that people diagree with, say Orton/HHH at Wrestlemania last year. You can't be pissed off that Orton lost at Wrestlemania because it's fake.
To take it a step further that's like saying you can't be annoyed in a movie doesn't end the way you want it because it's fake. Like say at the end of Star Wars the Emperor killed Darth Vader and Luke that'd be bullshit, it would be an awful ending and make no sense. But why get annoyed it's fake?
I don't know, it might be apples and oranges but its a wrestling forum the arguments are all just personal opinions so to say "but it's fake" isn't really an argument at all it's just stating what we all know already.