5 Great Wrestlers Who Had A Bad Year

#1 The Undertaker - 2001

Just didn't care?

The Undertaker is arguably the greatest superstar in history of WWE. However, he hasn't always been one of the best performers every year, and one very noticeable big exception was in 2001.

I don't know what happened with him in 2001, he wasn't injured, in fact to be honest, he just seemed lazy. The year didn't start off too bad for the American Badass, as he was having entertaining tag team matches with 'brother' Kane, and had a great match at WrestleMania X-7 with Triple H. He also had a good feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin over the WWE Championship with some decent pay-per-view matches.

The lazy part of the year for The Undertaker, seems to have mostly been during the Invasion angle. Taker spent several months of it in the years worst feud, with Diamond Dallas Page. Other than the stalker angle being creepy and ruining DDP's career, the worst part of the feud was the matches. Taker just wouldn't give DDP anything, it seemed like every match they had, Take squashed the former WCW Champion. Taker senselessly injured DDP in a squash tag team Cage match at SummerSlam, and then had the worst match of 2001 with Kronik at Unforgiven.

Throughout RAW and Smackdown, Taker annihilated the like of Raven, Kanyon, Steven Richards and others, and didn't give Booker T much to work with during their short feud, which Taker selfishly dominated. Taker also showed some greed in his year ending feud with Rob Van Dam, although at least RVD managed to scrape a good match out of him.

The Undertaker turned things around for the better in 2002, becoming the complete opposite. In 2002, he wrestled some of the years best matches and put newer stars over.