Reason why WWE kept The Undertaker vs. John Cena short at WrestleMania 34

We now know why the WWE booked this match the way it was.

As seen at WrestleMania 34 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on the WWE Network, The Undertaker did, in fact, accept John Cena’s challenge to a match and quickly defeated the former WWE champion.

The sports entertainment company built this match up for several weeks although never officially announced it until the biggest show of the year for the WWE hit the air on their streaming service, WWE Network.

For years now, The Undertaker has been a top guy for the sports entertainment company. He has feuded with the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling including Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and the list goes on and on.

He has held nearly every title that the company has to offer. Taker has had a great career with the sports entertainment company.

He won the World Heavyweight Championship three times, WWE Championship four times, Hardcore Title once, Tag Team Championship six times, and won the Royal Rumble match in 2007.

Over the past few years, he has gone from being a full-time talent to a part-timer. After years of speculation of when Taker would retire from pro wrestling, it appears that he had his farewell at WrestleMania 33 in the main event against Roman Reigns last year in Orlando, Florida.

After the match, Taker put his gloves and hat in the middle of the ring before leaving.

Keep in mind that Taker nor WWE has come out publicly and stated that “The Deadman” is retired, but that is the belief.

As seen in the history of the business, retirements often don’t last forever which is why the “one more match” question gets asked to so many wrestling legends after they retire. Obviously, the fans would like to see Taker go one more time before he gets inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

It turns out that Taker has decided to wrestle again as he took on Cena and will wrestle Chris Jericho in a Casket Match at the Greatest Royal Rumble event.

Dave Meltzer reported in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the decision to go with Cena vs. Undertaker at WrestleMania was made months ago and that at some point during the build to WrestleMania, WWE officials realized that Undertaker couldn’t do a match of any real length.

And there you haven’t. That’s the reason why the build was done the way it was, and never guaranteed a match between the two.