Author: Lucia Z Liner

After being ousted from Evolution by a jealous and gold-hungry Triple H in the fall of 2004, Randy Orton needed to catch fire. He was already a made man, following his critically-acclaimed hardcore match with Cactus Jack at Backlash and winning the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam. Similarly, The Undertaker was coming off his return to the Deadman persona at WrestleMania XX, his 2004 culminating in a program with then-WWE Champion JBL. Being the locker room veteran, and with his WrestleMania undefeated streak only becoming a spoken-of feature in the last couple of years, Undertaker would need a credible challenger…