The streak was Taker's choice

Get-The-E-Out said:

Just reiterating. Seems like every person is blaming the WWE/Vince for this.


I don't like that it happened against a part timer, but overall - I'm glad it happened. Taker probably has nothing left to give, and this really elevates Brock/Heyman and gave us the biggest shock in Mania history.

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It really doesn't at all. Brock Lesnar felt like absolutely no bigger of a star for ending the Streak than he did before the match, and that's the problem with ending it on this guy. There was no rub received because there was no rub that could be given, he's already a legendary main event wrestler, Why wouldn't you give it to a young guy and try to make them with it? And I know the argument is "well, what if the young guy flopped?" WELL THEN AT LEAST THEY TRIED. At least they would have made an attempt to create a new star, it's better than just tossing it in the dumpster and having Taker lose just to lose. The idea of breaking the Streak should be that whoever does it is a main event guy now, not doing it just because it's his last match and he has to lose. Losing to Lesnar is equally as wasteful as retiring with the Streak in tact.

Mazodus said:

Half of this was done to build Lesnar's stock because we all know that Brock can't talk for shit and Heyman would have eventually ran out of things to build Brock up with. Now he has something that can be used for the next decade as the benchmark for 'The All Conquering Wrestler'.

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THAT'S your argument? Brock should've ended the Streak just so Heyman can have different promo material? fpalm And then you say he would've ran out of things to talk about, won't he run out of this too? This isn't gonna fresh for a decade, and frankly I highly doubt Brock is even gonna keep doing this a decade from now.

This win doesn't build Lesnar up at all, he's MADE. He was made 5 months into his career on the main roster, he doesn't need Undertaker.

If you put that title on someone like Bray Wyatt, you have to be confident that he can remain a top heel for the next 10 years because the fans will never put him over as a face. He doesn't have the build or the flexibility to change his gimmick to allow that, and I don't blame WWE for choosing Brock because he is everything the Streak Breaker should be. A Lean, Mean Conquering Machine.

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Well they should be that confident in him because he's that good, but regardless, even if they put the Streak on a young guy and it absolutely failed, at LEAST they TRIED. That's all you can ask for. Sometimes you try to push someone and it just doesn't work, see Del Rio. Bray Wyatt has already conclusively proved that he does work, though. Putting the Streak on Brock Lesnar is not even trying, it's taking 2 decades worth of build up and throwing it away. This should've been the single biggest put over in wrestling history and instead, it helped the guy who won about as much as a win over Bo Dallas on Raw would.