The Undertaker kicks of this weeks SmackDown with a promo talking about how he doesn’t mention his streak, he chose WrestleMania to be his night where he shows his peers was he represents. The Undertaker isn’t speaking in his dark voice, he’s speaking normally. He mention that people who want to end his streak, he takes that as a personal insult. A Shawn Michaels promo is shown, the camera comes back to Taker glancing at the screen, he says Shawn is clever but he chose the wrong person to play mind games with. He says Shawn is a icon but he says for 16 ‘Mania they have come and fallen. The Undertaker continues to talk about Shawns success, and warns Shawn of WrestleMania
Local advertisements here in Cincinnati are promoting the main event match for the Smackdown/ECW show on May 19th as a tag team match featuring Jeff Hardy and the Undertaker vs. Edge and Matt Hardy, with appearances by Triple H, Christian, and others.
I personally enjoyed the old school HBK-Koslov bout. Koslov focusing on HBK’s back worked for me. Loved the closing moments that included a surprise appearance by the Undertaker. The Michaels vs. Undertaker WM25 bout will be special knowing these 2 men as I do. Both have contributed mightily at past ‘Manias and to be able to wrestle each other in Texas will be special for each of them.
The Undertaker vs. Vladimir Kozlov is announced for later.
The Undertaker b. Vladimir Kozlov Good back and forth action. The crowd is behind Undertaker. He gets the win clean after hitting a tombstone. After the match Undertaker looks up at the WrestleMania sign and the lights dim. This concludes next week’s SmackDown.
After defeating the ‘undefeated’ Vladimir Kozlov for the right to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania, HBK made history by been the first person to pin Kozlov in a singles match in the WWE. HBK celebrates in the ring but is interupted by ‘Dong..’ The Undertaker evters the arena with a thunderous pop. HBK stares up the ramp at ‘The Deadman’ and ‘Taker does the ‘cut-throat’ signal, and HBK just carries on to stare at ‘Taker. Both men continue to stare at each other to end the segment.
Jason Powell of Prowrestling.net is reporting that The Undertaker is currently backstage at the site of Monday Night Raw tonight in Boston. At this time it has not been confirmed whether or not ‘Taker will appear on the show. As noted in our Raw coverage page, Shawn Michaels will be wrestling Vladimir Kozlov on tonight’s broadcast with the winner of the bout earning the right to challenge The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 25. If ‘Taker is used on the show, it will most likely be to further this developing storyline.
JBL and his former employee, Shawn Michaels, went into their match on Monday night believing that the winner would have an opportunity to end Undertaker’s historic 16-0 WrestleMania winning streak. Accordingly, the two ring warriors took part in a hard-fought match that Michaels eventually won by way of some Sweet Chin Music. However, during the match, it was announced that the winner of the bout would have to next face SmackDown’s undefeated Vladimir Kozlov for the right to face The Phenom on The Grandest Stage of Them All. As HBK celebrated following the match, the Moscow Mauler himself made his way down to the ring, where he dropped his future opponent, giving Michaels a taste of what could be in store for him when he faces Kozlov on the next Raw.
Both Shawn Michaels and JBL want to be the one to put an end to Undertaker’s historic 16-0 winning streak, but only one of them can face The Phenom at the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania. HBK and the Longhorn Loudmouth have agreed to face off on the next Raw for the opportunity.
Umaga’s new song really sucks, it doesn’t have the punch his other theme had. Another good match, Umaga is a really good wrestler. Taker was hugely over. The end saw some nice back and forth action with some near falls until Umaga went for the Samoan Spike but Taker caught him with the Triangle Choke, Umaga passed out and it was over. After the match Taker posed for the crowd and the show was over without Lilian thanking the fans.
Biggest Pop:
1) The Undertaker 2) Triple H 3) Jeff Hardy 4) MVP 5) The Great Khali
Jeff Hardy & The Undertaker defeated Umaga & Edge, with a Twist of Fate from Jeff over Edge, in 13:20 minutes. Matt Hardy ran-in to attack Jeff in the match.
After of the match, Matt tried to provoke Jeff, but Jeff refused to attack his brother and The Undertaker made the honors with Chokeslam on Matt.
JR on The Undertaker: We’ve never had such a conversation. Everyone seems to continue to predict Taker’s retirement but he’s never mentioned such to me. I think he has several good years left especially if his schedule is well managed.
Common, for the past 3 years this has been all the talk about ‘Taker, until he says it himself then he isn’t going to retire anytime soon.
Name: The Undertaker Real Name: Mark Calaway Finishing Move: Tombstone D.O.B: 24th March 1965 Weight: 299 lbs - Heavyweight Height: 6'8" Hometown: Huston, Texas USA
The Undertaker has made the most longest streak in wrestling history for wins at a certain event, and that event would be 'The grandest Stage of them all!' WrestleMania. MORE INFO.
