Although fans of professional sports-entertaining had hoped to see John Cena and The Undertaker square off at WrestleMania next month, that match is now an impossibility after Cena vanquished the Deadman in a “retirement match” at a non-televised live event in Kitchener, Ontario.

Without any television cameras to document the historic occasion, The Undertaker’s final match will now exist only in the memories of the nearly 6,500 fans who went to the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium for the so-called “house show.”

The audience was pleasantly surprised to see such a pay-per-view-calibre match on an otherwise relatively unwhelming event, which also featured R-Truth vs. Primo, Kalisto vs. Gran Metalik, a seven-woman battle royal, and JoJo firing a t-shirt cannon during intermission.

It is believed that The Undertaker wanted to have “warm-up match” prior to WrestleMania, but failed to read the contractual fine print stipulating that the loser would be forced to retire.

Cena handily defeated The Undertaker with a sunset flip shortly after the match’s four-minute mark, leading some pundits to speculate that it might be for the best that the match did not happen at WrestleMania after all.

Realizing that his multi-decade career was now officially over, the Phenom symbolically left his hat and trenchcoat in the middle of the ring — but then dashed back to retrieve them a few minutes later after realizing it was an unseasonably chilly night in Kitchener.