#5 WWE Needs A New “Sheriff”
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There’s a good belief that The Undertaker’s greatest worth to WWE is as the “sheriff” of the territory; the gatekeeper to stardom who destroys all in his path using a mix of size, power, guile and technique.
This is a perfectly fine notion if it’s being done by a 30 or 40-year-old man who lacks significant injuries and hasn’t been demonstrably defeated in a way that many people thought his character “dead.” A “double-dead Deadman” is a thing that is need not exist on the roster because it further exposes an already-exposed product.
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There’s an idea that needs to be considered of maybe having someone “bury” The Undertaker forever in a TV segment heading into Wrestlemania, and in some way “gaining his power” and thus elevating themselves “further” up the card.
Someone like a Kevin Owens doing this and then being able to breathe a second round of life into an extended title run could be something worthy of consideration.
In final, Mark Calaway has wrestled in four separate decades. Unlike the smaller, more compactly built and grappling-driven Lou Thesz who wrestled in seven separate decades, The Undertaker is seven feet tall and wrestles a high impact style.
Therefore, the wear and tear on his body is markedly different than any other man who’s wrestled for this length of time. While wanting the Undertaker to wrestle is understandable, holding him to a Thesz-like standard is likely to do him infinitely more harm than good.
