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CM Punk or John Cena ending the streak next year at WrestleMania would make sense. This year, I see Punk losing to Taker, but if he really enjoys working with Punk and wants to drop the streak off to him, then I'm sure Punk will do business. Cena seems like the default answer to this question.
There is a chance that someone might swell up in the next year or so that really impresses Taker, Vince, Triple H and all the right people. It could be anyone, from Cody Rhodes to Damien Sandow to Ted DiBiase to Daniel Bryan to, yes, Antonio Cesaro. I've absolutely hated this idea in the past, but if Taker beats Punk at WrestleMania, having the 2014 Royal Rumble Winner challenge The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXX might actually be an interesting story. That you had four guys fighting over the right to face The Undertaker this year was the first step to making guys earn the right to face Undertaker at WrestleMania. If you don't want to use the Royal Rumble, you could have some sort of "Tournament of the Damned" and have eight guys all compete for the right to face Undertaker at WrestleMania. You could release the tournament matches as part of their own DVD set or something. The winner of the tournament could then move on to face Kane, who sort of serves as "gate-keeper" to The Undertaker. Let's say we've got Daniel Bryan taking this tournament, defeating Antonio Cesaro, Randy Orton and CM Punk along the way to earn the shot. Bryan's motivations are that he wants to prove that he is The Greatest Of All-Time, even better than his mentor, Shawn Michaels, who failed to end the streak twice. When it comes time to face Kane, there is so much history there between the two. Bryan could make Kane submit, which would be the ultimate seal of approval from The Undertaker's own kayfabe brother. There wouldn't need to be much promo work done for the match. "The teacher couldn't beat me so he sends his best student? Well, at WrestleMania, Daniel Bryan, I take you back to school and teach you about fear." "Yeah, well, at WrestleMania, I'm going to make you tap-out." Bryan can embrace the "YES!" chants if he hasn't by this point, and when asked about his strategy for WrestleMania, Bryan can answer "I'm going to use the power of positivity to overwhelm The Undertaker's negative shadow abilities." Analysts can claim that Daniel Bryan is taking this match at WrestleMania too lightly, and Bryan can remind them of what he went through to earn this match -- there's no way he's taking it lightly -- but he's the greatest wrestler in the world, and he truly believes that, so at WrestleMania it's not Daniel Bryan who needs to prove anything -- it's The Undertaker.
Bryan proceeds to make The Undertaker tap-out in the most shocking WrestleMania moment of all-time. If the fans turn on Bryan for it (I don't think they would), then Bryan can just become a heel. If they embrace Bryan as the man who did the impossible, then he can be pushed as "The Bruce Lee of the WWE."
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