The Undertaker Highlights a Huge Problem in WWE Champions Today

Over the years, we have seen a lot of great men hold the WWE Championship. The highest honor any Superstar can achieve in the world of professional wrestling is this belt. A man who is no stranger to this is none other than The Undertaker.

There has been a lot of concern over the belt that seems to be in the hands of only the biggest men over the past few years. In a recent interview with Yahoo!, The Undertaker shed light on what a Champion must encompass when he steps into the ring.

“My whole goal when I went to the ring, I don’t care if you’re smart, not smart, whatever, when I’m in the ring I want people thinking, ‘This dude’s legit.’ If I hit somebody, I want people in the front row going, ‘No, dude, he hit him. I don’t care what happened in the match before, he just lit him up. This is on,’” said Taker. 

‘The Deadman‘ is against the notion of having only the big men hold the WWE Championship. Vince McMahon is known to favor the bigger, more muscular athletes over the rest.

“So it’s hard because we’re kind of starting to get a little bit of an influx of big guys, but it’s just kind of where– because there’s so much new talent, you can’t put the title on a guy just because he’s big,” explained Taker, “and back in the day, man, we had tons of big guys that could go and could carry it and do that.”

The Undertaker has faced his fair share of giants

The Undertaker faced giants like The Great Khali, Vader, Yokozuna, Mark Henry, Kane, and even Giant Gonzalez who was an entire foot taller than Taker.

“So it’s more of a guy that kind of fits in the middle of the road. A guy that you’ll believe working with a big guy but can also work with a little guy. But there are certain guys that have had — I won’t bring in names — but it’s just like, yeah, I just don’t buy it,” admits Taker. 

“I don’t buy this as my champion. It’s not any fault of their own, other than they’re physically not able to match up against certain people.”

A perfect example of the “middle of the road” kind of man is Randy Orton. He can compete against a bigger man and a smaller man and the fight would still be believable. 

On the downside, put a man like Brock Lesnar up and you can’t fathom someone other than another big man beating him. Gone are the days where men of a smaller physique had an equal chance of winning the title.

Perhaps “The Phenom” has a point here, and this parting wisdom could be the answer WWE needs to its sole problem. The fans want change, and it can’t always be the big guys taking it all.