What if Finn Balor retires The Undertaker for good at WrestleMania 35?
The rumour mill has suggested of late that Finn Balor may be in line for one of the very biggest opportunities of his WWE career—facing The Undertaker at WrestleMania. Sure, he was the centrepiece of NXT for a year and he won the Universal Championship promptly upon his call up, not to mention that he’s challenging Brock Lesnar for the Universal title at the Royal Rumble. But facing The Undertaker at WrestleMania?
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There’s a sense in which The Phenom has lost some of his WrestleMania mystique on account of age catching up to him and his match quality trailing off accordingly. All the more so, there’s the matter of the streak, once one of wrestling’s most vaunted records, but now that he’s lost at ‘Mania twice, the accomplishment of beating him at WrestleMania and the intrigue attached no longer feel quite so special.
On the other hand, now that The Deadman has lost twice at the biggest show of the year, it does feel more feasible that any time he wrestles at the show, it is possible he’ll lose again.
This article considers what would happen if Balor not only faced The Undertaker, and not only beat him, but actually retired him once and for all at WrestleMania 35.
#5. The Demon in full force
If Finn Balor gets a WrestleMania match with The Undertaker at all, we have to believe that we’ll see the WrestleMania debut of the Demon King—Balor’s alter-ego that approaches the ring at a crawl, adorned in body paint.
It has been established that this is his big match look and that he’s a greater threat in that persona. While that does raise some questions as to why he didn’t bust out the Demon for his WrestleMania debut last year, nonetheless, a match with The Undertaker certainly demands it, if only to counter The Phenom’s supernatural edge.
The Demon King would also be necessary to justify Balor beating The Undertaker. While there’s little question that Balor is in much better ring shape nowadays than The Dead Man (in his mid-fifties), in the WWE Universe, it’s still a stretch to buy Balor beating him, and he’ll need every advantage at his disposal.