The Undertaker will be forgotten in 10-20 years?

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I've been thinking, and excluding the oldschool fans (so only the new fans since 07)

Will the Undertaker be somewhat forgotten in 20 years/other amount of time?
I was thinking and it occured to me this is possible.
Say he retires in 3 years, and 20 years after that, only we, the awesome people, will remember and reminisce about the great things he did and how he was the main part of WWE for alot of us. (Like, if he retired i'd stop watching WWE and just contribute to forums/YA).
Think of alot of the good things that have come, and in today, aren't so popular (here's a few that were the best of the best in the day, aparently):
M*A*S*H
Cheers
Seinfeld
Frasier

Those are like old school shows, and in today's generation, are somewhat forgotten due to new shows taking the spotlight.
In WWE terms, Undertaker will be somewhat forgotten due to all the new and good talent coming up.
I for one DO NOT want The Undertaker to be forgotten, but sadly with Kids, they won't know how things go about. All they know of is this current Taker.
Kids don't know about his feuds in 94, original HBK feuds, casket matches, kane story, his styles of Taker (Old Western, Hybrid, LoD, MoD,ABA) and alot of kids don't know Taker is like the only WWE current star that could fight well in real life.
They just know he's a big tall guy with scary powers and they don't know what he's contributed to this business.
Think about this:
Kids scarcely know about taker.
10 Years, he'll be retired, kids think "man another old guy from wrestling gone"
20 years, some may've done research, others just don't care. "oh yeah i remember Undertaker.. he was champ and i only saw 2 of his (??) wrestlemania matches cos i watched the AWESOME pg era, he was just a guy from wwe who just stayed there for money and contributed nothing in return"

Despite all the great things he's done, some of that isn't remembered much.
We still get old school questions about classic WWE, but if you were to say to somebody in the 80's wrestling era (when it was an unbelievable thing and could never die) saying "in 20 years, this will be a dead subject and people will rarely talk about it" you'd be called retarded.
It still sometimes mentioned, but do you think that the 80s fans thought it would be like 1 80s question per 5 pages of YA wrestling section?

What if in 20 years, the same becomes of The Undertaker.
I may have gotten some of you thinking.
Undertaker has done the greatest things in WWE. He owns the Casket, Buried Alive, HIAC. He has had the greatest feuds, and most interesting/confusing with some of the most unlikely (Yokozuna/Vince). But as of now, he isn't used to the best of his potential (due to injury and other reasons). If he can't do something memorable in his last run then my question will be true.
Hogan slammed Andre.
What will The Undertaker's equivalent to this be? Will it be something as bad (to the fans) as losing his streak, or going 20-0, or something where we'd feign how great it was like Taker hogging spotlight in the last run, Rumble Win, Mania win, and just plain dominance, or something that just leaves you in amazment, possibly a match or single moment.

Taker kicking out of 3-4+ Attitude Adjustments from CENA and still winning the match after 2 tombstone failures, a last ride, chokeslam(x2) old school and a Tombstone to win? Maybe he'll throw Cena off a cell (the kids won't forget cena possibly "dying").

But after ALL i've said there, I think i've backed up a sad and unfortunate point.
I'll get alot of people saying "no he won't be forgotten" and I agree. But to the Kids, who vince is targetting currently, he'll be forgotten, they have no idea how good it was.
Kids have no clue really what Lord of Darkness, Ministry, It Doesn't Matter, Bottom Line, Have a nice Day, If ya Smell, Hell Yeah, What, Gold Medalist, Viva La Raza or any of that legendary stuff means. If you go to a huge child cena fan, talking wrestling and they say:
"I wonder why people boo cena" and you cut him off saying "It doesn't matter WHY! Because he is, and always will be, a wannabee, 5 moved, square headed, lame gimmicked, superman steroid taking piece of CRAP!" he will have no idea what the "it doesn't matter" means. He thinks you're just being an a'sshole.
Since kids think that, and the undertaker is just another wrestler, then could he very well be forgotten?
So many people won't be forgotten because of what they've done.
Hogan-Slammed andre, wrestling at the age of 127, returned 22 times
Andre-slammed by hogan, eigth wonder of the world *ft chyna*, immovable object
Cena-Hated by many, loved by many, Pioneer of the PG Era
Undertaker *to true fans*-Everything he has done, is doing and will be doing.

This is my opinion:
Only the real fans who truly respect WWE and actually care whether WWE goes PG, MA, Hires/Fires main eventers, cause of death of (???), and can still respect people if they hate them in wwe OR.. cares (alot) about WHO is

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

What we do in life, echoes in eternity. Taker will be forever remembered mainly because of his Streak.

Just for starters the streak lives!!!! No if, ands, or butt's. The streak lives forever!!! There is no good argument that you can make, no angle you can create, no greater good you can mention to justify the ending of the streak. It's the greatest record you could ever have. Records like Ric Flair's 16 title reigns wither away into dust, and float off into the wind taking on less and less importance standing next to the Wrestlemania streak of the Undertaker.

One of the main reasons, is because it will probably never be duplicated. The odds are astronomical. You would have to have a guy you knew was going to be with the company almost or at least 20 years, plan it from the start, and find a way to keep that one guy as relevant as the Undertaker has been for this amount of time, all the while keeping him undefeated at Wrestlemania for that entire time, credibly. Not to mention you'd have to keep him healthy that long which brings it's own challenges. The problem is, that you're never going to get another Undertaker, just like you'll never get another Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Rock, Kane, Foley, Triple H, Hogan and so on. They are characters you can not recreate, and they all come from a time that will never be duplicated or reincarnated.

What good really comes from ending The Streak ??? The win wouldn't really do anything in the long run for the guy who got it, and I think we can all be assured of that when we really ask ourselves. No up and comer, no show stopper, no game, no legend killer, or anything else will be any more what they were for beating the Undertaker and ending the single greatest streak, breaking the greatest record, in wrestling history. Sure, we could say the novelty would give someone some real hype for an undisclosed amount of time, but what really would be accomplished? Nothing. Instead the legacy that has been built, and the prestige that has been earned over the course of a career spanning across 3 decades would all be for nothing in a matter of seconds. How could you cheer that? How could you accept it? It wouldn't seem right.

I don't think that there is any other alternative, besides allowing the streak to stay intact. It means too much, and the Undertaker deserves to keep it unless he decides otherwise and wants to use it to do something special for someone else. As I mentioned earlier, no one else will ever come close to doing what this one man has done in his long career, storyline or not. There is something about that to be honored, and to be cherished. It's not like someone winning their umpteenth title, or being the youngest or oldest to this or that, or the only one to win this many titles in this many companies, it's much greater than all that. I think it is easy to forget how much has went into it over time, and how special that really is, which means it's also very easy to take for granted.

When the dust settles, and all the wrestlers now have come and gone from the business. When people look back at the all time greats they are going to look back at the Undertaker, and his Wrestlemania streak. How many wins will it be? I'd like to see 20 if he can stay healthy enough to keep giving us quality matches like the last one with Shawn Michaels. If not, 18 or 19 is fine. If that's as far as he wants to go, so be it, that man has earned it, and I mean you have to look at him as a man for that one.
You want The Undertaker to be remembered forever? Let him keep his Streak. Twenty years from now, the fans will look at the records and say, "Hey, do you know there is one man who has never been defeated at The Grandest Stage of Them All?"

And you know who that man is.

Carol · Answer

Undertaker wants to give the younger talents a push. But when he retires he should get at least 12-15 title reigns. Also they should reform the brothers of destruction and let them win the unified tag tities. The Undertaker is only going after the world title because of the bling bling in the WWE Championship. He should be a WWE Champ too.

Anonymous · Answer

Who cares what the kids think. Going by the stuff you see online, most of them can't even spell. They can't figure out the difference among the words; there, their, and they're, and they think that numbers belong in words. Ok, back on topic. The Undertaker has been around for a long time, and I remember some awesome matches. He's one of the titans of the ring, I doubt he will be forgotten so easily. I'm only 27, and I don't watch all that much wrestling, but even I know that. I just hope he doesn't start his own reality television show.

Sizzle Chest · Answer

Sure he will as will most if not all the WWE Superstars.Look at Goergeous George,Lou Thesz,Crusher and Bruiser and Bruno Sammartino.All these guys were considered legends during their time.They are barely a blip now.People have to Google them to get info on them.They will do the same for HBK and Undertaker 20 years from now

Matt G · Answer

I like how Edge says people will forget himself.  Undertaker was a great rassler, it's true, and he is one of very few left from the Golden Age who is not an elderly joke at this point.  Those were some nice quotes but I wouldn't trade all of them for my autographed photo of the Junkyard Dog from Eau Claire Wisconsin in 1982, or my 24x36 glossy of Koko B. Ware with Frankie flying on his shoulder.  That's some entertainment.

deadman™ · Answer

You are all naive. Every wrestler will one day be forgotten. It's life. Everyone will be forgotten at some point. Also the kids are the one's that will remember that undertaker, they will be the future fans so his legacy will be remembered by the kids,

Simply Edgehead · Answer

Undertaker is a legend and a future hall of famer, he will not be forgotten for at least 50 years....!!!!

Anonymous · Answer

You can know the answer if you watch Wrestlemania 25th , HBK VS THE UNDERTAKER .

www.webwwe.com

and see the wwe universe and his effect on them .

Anonymous · Answer

don't worry because if people remember hogan they will remember taker

Anonymous · Answer

Taker will never be forgotten

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