Undertaker is set to face Michaels’ best friend and former D-Generation X ally Triple H at WWE Super Show-Down on October 6 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia and the wrestling giants are currently promoting it.
According to Ringside News, however, Meltzer said that WWE ended up teasing another big match with Taker and The Heartbreak Kid instead after the legends’ stunning return on RAW.
The publisher and editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter didn’t dismiss a possible WrestleMania angle between the two rivals as “it’s not impossibly early” to promote that bout.
Meltzer said: “Here’s the thing, at the end the idea in theory would be pushing the Undertaker Triple H match but when it was over that wasn’t the match that you were pushing.
“Nobody was coming out of this segment going: ‘I can’t wait to see Undertaker and Triple H.’ They were saying: ‘I can’t wait to see Undertaker and Shawn Michaels.’ Which means if anything they weakened Australia.
“Shawn’s there anyway and it doesn’t matter but they still made it so the big match isn’t Undertaker vs Triple H.
“Undertaker vs Triple H is a step to the big match which is Undertaker and Shawn. Perhaps that could be at Mania?
“It’s awfully early to do an angle for next year’s Mania but it’s not impossibly early, it’s been done before.”
Michaels retired after losing his second consecutive WrestleMania match against Undertaker in 2010.
The Heartbreak Kid told The Deadman on RAW that he remains in the sidelines because he is a man of his word and is showing respect to The Deadman.
The Phenom, however, wasn’t convinced and claimed The Showstopper has stayed retired because he is afraid to get back in the ring with him.
The ex-WWE Champion seemed to be goading HBK on as he threatened to destroy him if he ever comes out of retirement.
Undertaker stated: “Respect? Is that what you’re saying? Is it respect or is it fear?
“Because if you had ever chosen to come out of retirement there would’ve been only one person that you’d come for. Me.
“And make no mistake about it, I would put you down all over again.
“You know it, I know it, they know it, and there’s one other thing you know. In Melbourne, Australia I’m gonna put your buddy Triple H down again.”