The moment at UFC 121 that led Brock Lesnar to ending The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak

The best angles in pro wrestling are the ones that tend to blur the lines and you can't quite tell if it is real or not.

In 2010, at UFC 121, former WWE superstar Brock Lesnar was the UFC heavyweight champion of the world, but he was about to be dethroned by future WWE superstar - for a brief moment, anyway - Cain Velasquez.

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If that wasn't major news in its own right at the time, an altercation with The Undertaker after his loss made headlines.

As Lesnar made his way out of the octagon, Undertaker was being interviewed by Ariel Helwani cage side.

As The Beast Incarnate walked by, Undertaker's glare turned nasty and he said: "You wanna do it?"

Everyone seemed to think Undertaker, 44 at the time, was trying to fight Lesnar in real life and there was real, lasting beef.

So when Helwani was joined by The Undertaker for the first time since that night following his retirement in 2020, he asked a question that had been 10 years in the making.

What was Undertaker trying to do?

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"I was there to pick a fight," Undertaker started. "I was sent there personally to pick a fight. And I was unaware that Dana [White] had no clue what was going to happen, which I felt terrible about after.

"I thought there had been some discussion between him and Vince [McMahon]," he explained, adding that he was trying to capitalise on Lesnar's rising star in mixed martial arts and stressed there was no animosity between the two.

Asked what kind of fight Undertaker - a once formidable force at 6ft 9in - had enough awareness to know he could only meet Lesnar in a wrestling ring.

"I was there to pick a wrestling fight, bring him back to our world. I'm pretty gutsy, but my days of getting in an octagon had well passed me! I am smart enough to realise that."

But did Lesnar know why he was there beforehand?
"He knew I was going to be there, I don't know how much he knew about what I was going to do," 'Taker admitted.

"It worked out, we got really lucky that he walked by us because he could have gone another way. If you watch it back, my wife, Michelle [McCool] she kind of nudged me like 'here he comes' and I don't know if I would have even done the interview had I been in the right spot.

"And it worked out perfectly for you, perfectly for me. He came right by me, I said 'you wanna do this' and it blew up. You were in the right place at the right time!"

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The two finally did share a ring together four years later at WrestleMania 30 after Lesnar returned to WWE.

The Deadman was 21-0 at WrestleMania events heading into his showdown with The Beast Incarnate, but Lesnar would pull off the unthinkable and snap the streak.

Since breaking ‘The Streak’, Lesnar has been one of the most dominant performers the industry has ever seen.

There’s no doubt the company used his victory as a platform to greater things, but many fans – and Randy Orton for that matter – feel like it was the wrong decision.