Thanks to a concussion suffered during the match, Calaway doesn't have a single memory of his loss to Brock Lesnar, which snapped his legendary WrestleMania winning streak at 21 and led to him being rushed to the hospital. The last memory he has is arriving to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and beginning his warm-up.
At that point, according to Calaway, the most recent discussion he had with WWE chairman Vince McMahon about the finish ended with The Undertaker beating Lesnar.
"We had gone back and forth depending on the day," Calaway said. "It changed very often, but it had been that way [with Lesnar losing] for about a week, and I showed up thinking I was going over. I found out about 1 p.m. that I wasn't. It is what it is."
Asked if he regrets how the streak ended now reflecting on it six years later, Calaway shook off such a concept.
"No, not really. I did my job," he said.
However, he does admit that -- ahead of the 2014 match -- he wondered whether Lesnar was the right choice to deliver such a shocking upset.
"Obviously, in Vince's mindset, if it's not Brock, then who?" Calaway said. "My biggest concern was I just wanted to make sure that [McMahon] was sure and that's what he wanted to do. I didn't feel like Brock needed it. Brock was already a huge star, and it wasn't going to help him one way or another. My only concern was there might have been someone down the line that could have benefitted from it more and that probably would've been Roman later on."
at this company always making big decisions at the last minute
