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Potentially hot take but Undertaker turning up was a way, way, better call than Austin for exactly this reason. The glass shattering and Austin storming down to the ring to take ass and whoop names would have got a nostalgia pop for sure. But that gong, and that music, hits wrestling fans on a deeper level.

It's as close to a musical shorthand for The End as there has ever been in wrestling. For nearly every wrestler active in the last 40 years, facing the Undertaker represented the pinnacle of their career, and it almost always ended in defeat. He, not The Rock, is the only man alive who can truly call himself wrestling's Final Boss.

But more than that, Undertaker is the last link to the era of High Kayfabe; a time when the gimmick was everything and performer and audience alike bought into it fully, no matter how ludicrous it was, and it's a character so strong and believable that it survived the death of kayfabe. It is not a stretch to claim that Undertaker *is* professional wrestling - its spirit, at least.

Undertaker turning up was more than just the ultimate pop, more than the ultimate swerve, more even than the ultimate reminder that he's still the true final boss of wrestling - it was the soul of professional wrestling itself bringing balance back to its world.

Taker shows up like "bitch, you think YOU'RE the final boss?"