5 things that could happen on RAW next week

john cena — John Cena does Undertaker's vintage sit-up

#1 The Undertaker’s career flashes before Cena’s eyes

In a perfect world (for me, at least), The Undertaker accepts Cena’s request as himself, essentially. As the BikerTaker, I guess. I think last year, and I’ve said this on numerous occasions, The Deadman version of The Undertaker was put to rest. This year (hopefully) will be Undertaker’s very last match.

What I expect (sort of) and hope (definitely) to see next week is as follows: Cena comes out with about 10 or 15 minutes left until RAW goes off the air. He makes one final plea for The Undertaker to give him an answer, and Undertaker finally “does something”. The lights go dark and the ominous gong plays.

The video screen lights up with a video package essentially giving a brief summary of Undertaker’s career, probably chronologically. It will only be his WWE career, sadly, even though WWE owns the footage of his entire career dating back to World Class. I would LOVE to see them show clips of his career from the very start in 1984, but I’ll take what I can get.

In any event, the video plays and concludes with a shot of Undertaker’s hat and coat sitting in the ring at the end of last year’s WrestleMania.

The arena goes fully dark again, and the “he’s here!” clip from 2000 plays, and Kid Rock’s American Badass blares over the arena’s speaker system. At that point, it’s tough to say if ‘Taker will actually appear in the arena or just on the video screen, but he will appear in some form and verbally accept Cena’s challenge.

My gut says it will end up being pretty run-of-the-mill Undertaker magical silliness, but a man can dream. We’ll find out in less than a week.

Edited by Nishant Jayaram