The Undertaker is at peace with his decision to hang up his boots, coat and hat. But that doesn’t mean he can’t look around the current WWE and see performers with whom he thinks he could have had fantastic matches if he was still in his prime.
In a recent interview with The Independent, the WWE Hall of Famer said that the business was “still in my heart,” to the point where he sometimes wishes he was still healthy enough to perform at the level he made famous over the years against today’s main eventers.
Who’s caught his eye among the current top superstars? The Tribal Chief, for one.
“I would love to be healthy enough to have a match now with Roman Reigns,” he said.
The Undertaker faced Reigns in a singles match just once, losing to him in a No Holds Barred contest at WrestleMania 33. Still, ‘Taker wasn’t in his prime then and Reigns had yet to evolve into the kind of talent who WWE trusts to hold a world championship for more than 1,000 days.
“When we worked at [WrestleMania 33], I was on my last legs. And he wasn’t he wasn’t nearly the performer that he is now.”
The other wrestler on the Phenom’s wish list also just won a world title.
“And then another guy that I would love to have worked with would be Seth Rollins. He’s just an incredible in-ring talent. And now he’s got this really flamboyant character, which would have been a really interesting contrast between the doom and gloom of The Undertaker and his over-the-top character.”
Undertaker and Rollins never had a one-on-one match together, and shared the ring just once: for a six-man tag match that teamed ‘Taker with Daniel Bryan and Kane to face The Shield on a 2013 episode of Raw taped in the U.K.
It’s hard to argue with either of Undertaker’s selections, and the feeling of “what could have been” definitely resonates. Will it be strong enough to have him come out of retirement for “one more match” with either Reigns or Rollins? We’ll see.