Paul Heyman Reflects On CM Punk vs. The Undertaker At WrestleMania 29

In a recent appearance on the “Tetragrammaton” podcast, Paul Heyman reflected on CM Punk vs. The Undertaker at WrestleMania 29, noting that a case could have been made for Punk ending The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak.

However, it was Brock Lesnar who had the privilege of ending The Phenom’s undefeated streak a year later at WrestleMania 30. According to Paul E., Vince McMahon originally did not agree with the idea of Lesnar putting an end to The Streak. Heyman said,

“It had to be the right guy. When we were going with Punk vs. Undertaker, Paul Bearer had just passed away and we had done the way out of the box and way over the line story on television that we had laid out The Undertaker and then we poured out the ashes of Paul Bearer out of Undertaker’s urn onto Undertaker, which was just the heaviest thing we could think of doing. I was like, ‘Okay, if there’s a guy that could be anointed as a top-tier star. If there’s someone that could become equal to Cena at this point in time… a clear 1 to 1A, that if we give Punk this victory, we’ve established someone for the next 20 years as a star.’ And I thought the case could be made for that.”

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