Michael Cole: When Brock Lesnar Hit Undertaker With The F5, I Believed That He Was Going To Kick Out
Michael Cole discusses Brock Lesnar’s WrestleMania match with The Undertaker.
One of the most shocking moments in wrestling history came on April 6, 2014, when Brock Lesnar defeated The Undertaker at WrestleMania. It was the first time The Deadman had lost a match at WrestleMania after going 21-0.
On The Sal Licata Show, Michael Cole was asked if he had something in mind to say after Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak ended.
“I know about 80% of what’s going to happen. I have to know a lot of things in order to help the audience with the story. At WrestleMania, I don’t like to know anything if I don’t have to. … The Undertaker thing, there wasn’t one person in that Superdome that thought Undertaker was going to lose. Every single person believed that he was either going to retire undefeated or if he was going to lose, he was going to lose to an up-and-coming person that he could help give the ‘rub to.’ None of us knew Brock was going to win. In fact, I think the legend goes that the actual ending of the match was changed mid-match.
Anyhow, when Brock hit Taker with the F5, I believed that Taker was going to kick out. It was almost a nonchalant one, two, and I was about to say kick out when I froze. The first thing that came to mind was, ‘The Streak is over.’ In retrospect, I don’t think I could have done that any better. I don’t think there was a call that could have been done better than that. If I was screaming over the top or whatnot, it just does not have the effect because you could tell in the moment. I don’t watch back much of my stuff, but I do go back every once in a while, and it’s hard to ignore this because it’s in every single WrestleMania package we ever built. When I do listen back to that, I get chills sometimes because it was the perfect call because of the shock value. You had a guy in myself who was legitimately shocked that this happened. It was a historical moment in our business.”
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