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That's gotta be Kane!
That's gotta be Kane!
What a beautiful family portrait this is!
The Kane -Undertaker rivalry, it's the best story that WWE's ever told. The
layers of the story out of the gate were so, so rich.
The Undertaker and Kane have just beat the hell out of each other.
That made you have the Joker.
With Undertaker, you have Kane.
The characters are inextricably linked. Without Undertaker, there never would
have been a Kane.
Wanting to see the whole two go at it is like wanting to see your favorite
horror movie.
They didn't even have to say anything to get you so invested into their
characters.
You don't get much bigger than Undertaker and Kane in WWE history.
They have done...
Incredible things with stories, with their character evolving each other.
Crazy, crazy storytelling. And the matches kind of went right along with
Time to walk straight through the fires of hell to face you, Kane.
That rivalry has just escalated into a war.
When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned in our minds forever.
This is where we break down the legendary stories behind the greatest
of all time.
I'm Freddie Prinze Jr., and this is WWE Rivals.
Undertaker, Kane, two of the very best. They both terrified me. And
for me, wrestling has always been the...
purest definition of art. It's the literal blood, sweat, and tears of the
on an actual canvas, which is the inside of the ring. And these two may have
done it better than anyone.
In some cases, they did more than blood, sweat, and tears. There was even
burning flesh in one of their matches.
When I say these names, what's the first thing that pops in your head?
Taker alone, I mean, I think probably the most iconic character.
I remember, you know, Working with him early in his career, every time you
knocked him down, he sat right up.
And the first time he worked with him, it was just like being on the top of
Everest without oxygen.
You look at a guy like Kane, you look at a guy like Taker, and you look at how
many boxes they check off, and it's like, okay, I can't be satisfied with
able just to wear one hat.
I've got to be able to do it all if I want to get to that level.
I was very excited just by the name Undertaker. I had no clue what it meant,
what it was. It wasn't until I got up to Stanford and saw the storyboards
of Vincent's vision of this character. And then I kind of realized, I just fell
in love with it.
From Death Valley, I give you The Undertaker.
A man named Pete.
This is when the story starts, because they introduced me as Kane the
Undertaker. We ended up dropping the Kane.
Little did we know in 1990 that that was going to come back into play.
Those slow,
methodical movements, the way he carried himself, the composure.
But let's just talk about athletic prowess here. This guy standing, walking
the top floor. Look at the power. The Undertaker ruling the ring here.
Everything was by design and with so much self -restraint. Truly a work of
And I can say for sure there's nobody that could have pulled off that
like Mark Calloway at all.
And it began and stopped with Mark and just the way his personality is as
a man, as a person, was totally perfect for that character.
The time has come.
As my Undertaker puts the final touches on your coffin.
You've got a mortician that could manage the Undertaker. And that character of
the Undertaker was so special.
You needed a complete package. You needed someone to speak for him. You
someone to present him and to be with him all the time.
And it was a match made in heaven.
The Undertaker and Paul Bearer.
Paul Bearer enhanced Undertaker by being able to verbalize what the Undertaker
would think and or say and or feel.
People wouldn't even come up to me. They would come up to Paul Bearer and they
would actually say the word.
He really did.
As crazy as that sounds, I didn't switch off from Mark Calloway to Undertaker.
Even when I was in public, although I didn't wear the full Undertaker garb, my
clothes were all black. Always had, you know, black hats and black shades.
I lived it.
Speaking of morbid, look at Paul Bearer. Look at the pressing around here. I
felt naked without having anything in my hands.
So I had to have something in my hand.
I thought about it, thought about it.
All of a sudden, an urn popped in my head.
What about an urn?
He draws power from that urn. There's something in there that motivates this
man. Those little things just made that character so strong, throwing lightning
bolts.
The fire and all that just added to this guy. He is the spawn of the devil.
And it's amazing the input that I would get from people.
And of all people, like the baby face of all baby faces, Ricky Steamboat. He
goes, you know what would be really cool?
Like after you beat somebody, stuff them in a body bag and carry them out.
I'm like, yeah.
On the one hand, it should have been cartoonish because you have this idea
he's a dead man who's out there wrestling.
But he did it so well and it was so convincing that I was like, oh my gosh,
is cool creepy.
He's actually my favorite WWE superstar before I got into WWE as a fan.
I'm in the live Raw with The Undertaker. The lights go down, the purple haze
comes up.
Dong, dong, and lighters go everywhere.
And I just remember thinking, oh, my God, this is the coolest thing I've ever
seen. And I'm sitting there just like a fan watching it. And I'm in the ring
waiting on him. And, you know, nobody's looking at me. The whole arena's looking
at him. The Undertaker, ladies and gentlemen.
People bought it.
Everybody loved that guy. One of the superstars right behind Paul Bearer, the
giant Undertaker.
You have to adapt with the times. You have to change.
After five or six years, there was a feeling that maybe Paul Bearer was
Undertaker back a little bit.
How could The Undertaker possibly understand what has happened here?
And for Taker to take the next step in the evolution of that character, we
needed to hear from The Undertaker.
We needed to hear from him more.
And if you're going to hear from The Undertaker more...
Do you really need a manager with him?
We needed an opponent
for The Undertaker.
And looking at the roster, there was nobody that was a threat.
There wasn't a monster that you could match up with The Undertaker.
First man to ever commit murder was Kane.
Killed his brother Abel.
Simple story, everyone knows it.
What if...
The undertaker had a brother.
No one knew this.
His brother's name was Cain.
We're going to have to go back a few years.
We're talking about a little funeral home sitting up on a hill, beautiful
old trees all around, and a wonderful, wonderful family -owned funeral home.
There was this horrible fire that Cain was in inside the house.
Maybe Undertaker set the dam.
And his baby brother perished in the fire. So he thought.
And the one person that knew that his brother was alive and had been taking
of his brother this entire time was Paul Bearer.
So we told the story over six months.
Well, I kept insisting that Cain was alive.
Paul tells his side of the story. I took care of him.
He was burned. He was maimed. He was left for dead, but I brought him to
life. I showed him the love and the care that you as his blood never did.
And now Paul had in his mind a reason to bring Cain back.
And now he wants one thing.
Revenge. He's coming!
It's coming!
Get him!
Who else is Undertaker going to wrestle? Who else can give him a legitimate
fight at this point? He's literally fought everyone.
When I found out that I was going to be The Undertaker's brother, I realized
that that was my big break.
I was extremely excited for Glenn.
I knew this was going to be the one for him.
The story was just so good.
I saw a rendering, and initially I was like, man, this is not what I had in
mind. I talked to Mark, and neither of us thought that this was what Kane would
look like because we thought that Kane would be kind of like a Jason Voorhees
he's escaped from an institution and would have that kind of look. And I
to Vince about it.
He was like, okay, Kane takes a lot of pride in his appearance because he's
jealous of The Undertaker.
He wants to look like a superhero because he wants to be better than The
Undertaker. And I was like, man, okay, you're really, really smart about this
stuff.
WWE had a ring set up in the warehouse in Sanford, Connecticut.
So I went up there.
Vince wanted Kane to be the anti -Undertaker. So it was a lot of his same
I was able to incorporate some of my own as well.
I even had to practice doing the sit -up because I couldn't do the sit -up quite
like Undertaker.
Bad Blood was going to be the blow -off match between Shawn and I. Two men
enter, one man leaves.
The cell itself just came as an idea of wanting to have something bigger than
just a regular cage match.
We're just talking about trying to get some kind of cage that's different than
the regular ones. Maybe it has a top.
And then what the WWE always does is they just take... something so small,
then make it so much more grandiose.
This is not a good time to be Shawn Michaels.
No, indeed not, as the official padlocking the chain.
We were in the midst of a great, great match, kind of finalizing our story.
Michaels is getting beat to a pulp by The Undertaker.
All eyes shifted to that and forgot about the Kane thing.
There was just a number of things that fell into place that when you look back
on it, it made it all perfect for that situation.
I have never seen anything like this in my life.
At one point, my thought was, man, I just hope I don't mess this match up
because it was so good.
If you're not nervous, something's wrong.
You should be nervous. You should have that butterfly feeling in your stomach.
And this was Kane's big chance.
Just when you think, you know, we've done everything we could.
Beat the living crap out of Sean, and all I got to do is covering.
Oh, my God.
It's all over.
Boom.
The lights went out, and bam, and the music hit, and the crowd had no idea
was going on. You could hear a pin drop. There's like 15 ,000 people in the
arena there in St. Louis, and they weren't making any noise. They're like,
is this a mess up? Did they lose power?
What happened?
Oh, my God. Wait a minute. It's Paul Bearer.
It's Paul Bearer.
And there's this giant roar, and I'm actually getting goosebumps talking
it. And the audience realized, oh, that's the guy that everybody's been
about.
That's got to be Kane.
That's got to be Kane.
They're the size of this human being. Or is that a human being?
The Undertaker's in a cage, and Kane comes out, and he physically rips the
door off of the cage.
And it looked so legit, and they constantly built these two monsters.
And you can't say monsters that much in WWE, because there's been so few of them
that have been able to accomplish what both of these guys accomplished.
That's got to be Kane, the Undertaker, looking at him, looking to the eye.
Of that giant who stands in front of him.
That's the thing about them, though, is that they don't have to do very much.
And you can do just a little bit that you do in that ring, and they capture it
just by staring.
There's Kane, and he stands there. And then I think it's probably one of my
reactions ever.
Because you can see in the guy that doesn't sell anything, that doesn't.
You know, you can cut his arm off and he's not going to win.
But you can see it in my eyes, which you would never see that kind of a
confused, almost fear -like look in my eyes. It was, holy crap,
this is my brother that I thought was dead.
And it was just so powerful of a moment.
It was the first time you ever saw, and I don't want to say fear, and for the
first time you see some type of humanity in The Undertaker, and you're not sure
what it is, but it's something you had never seen before. And it meant
something, because I was about to say that, because you'd never, because you
saved it for the perfect foil.
It was just magic, and you could feel it from the very start.
And of course, Undertaker, he would come out and raise the lights by throwing
his hands up, so Kane threw his hands down.
Hold on!
And then we blew all four pyros off of the post, and then it's hellfire and
brimstone that he's bringing. So you have the good and the evil, and it was
all of it just worked so well.
It was the first time I had that feeling of, man, that was it.
It was almost like, well, you just hit a home run in the World Series, right?
And you're going, so that's what that feels like.
I never felt that way in my wrestling career up until that point.
The Undertaker driven down to the canvas and listen to this response.
To pay it off with Kane and how huge he was and how ominous he looked, it was
just magic.
John Michaels has defeated The Undertaker. No, no, no, no, no, wait a
Kane has defeated The Undertaker.
The emotions of that night was just...
For the first time, I actually felt like I was a WWE superstar.
It was just so written.
There were so many levels to this story.
I will never fight my own flesh and blood.
I will never fight Kane.
Now you've got somebody that I would undertake, even bigger than The
And everything initially just was perfect.
We are going to take each wrestler one by one and destroy them
until we reach you.
You go out there and you're destroying everybody in the roster.
I don't know. And you're going to have Undertaker there at the end of the
journey. You realize it's going to be a big deal.
One more chance to be a man for all.
leeches of the night you must face your brother oh
man how much more of this will the undertaker take
maybe not much more came with
almost to a tee just like him and he wore a mask so he's even more mysterious
and he's Like a super jacked human being. Like it's scary.
But to see those two face off, just looking at each other, same height, same
everything. It was a match that I couldn't wait to see.
You have these two just supernatural type characters, Kane and
Undertaker.
And I think it felt so real because they were brothers.
The two brothers looking eye to eye.
What must the Undertaker be thinking right now?
Sibling rivalries. I mean, my daughters have it, and so does Undertaker and
Kane. It was real life being displayed in an exaggerated way.
It all started from day one, and then just the levels of story that we put on
it. The Undertaker's walking away in the thought that he will never, ever fight
his brother Kane.
Before Kane, of course there's other big guys that Undertaker faced, but he
pretty much demolished all of his opponents.
Now here you have his brother Kane, who not only is a monster himself, but it's
his brother. He knows The Undertaker. He knows what he's thinking. He thinks a
lot alike like The Undertaker does. You just didn't know which way it was going
to go.
There's an element of like, okay, I understand this. So as silly as the
storyline might be,
That happens on a lower level, like on a daily basis. At the crux of this
storyline is the brother who did something terrible and blamed his little
brother for it. So there's an element of relatability here, right? Who can't
relate to that, right?
Who can't relate to blaming your brother for a murder?
That's where the entertainment factor comes in.
You can't relate to the fact that The Undertaker's a dead man and he's out
specifically dominant.
You can't relate to the fact that Kane is basically insane from years of being
locked away and somehow controls fire.
But what you can relate to is they're brothers that have a sibling rivalry
that's gone on and is festering for many, many years. That's the stuff of
stories. And I think it helped people relate to these characters that
would have been Unbelievable and just completely over the top and out of the
realm of any sort of human possibility.
Shawn Michaels and Undertaker casket match at Royal Rumble.
The entire world thought that Kane was in Undertaker's corner, and then it just
completely pulled the rug out from under him.
The Undertaker and the casket! Michael shut the lid!
I thought that the Undertaker and Kane had reconciled their differences!
And my God!
The casket's on fire!
The casket's on fire!
Well, this is hideous.
I already knew that we were going to go to WrestleMania.
But for the most part, the storyline had been that Undertaker, was avoiding Kane
because he didn't want to hurt him. He was his little brother, right? And Kane
had finally provoked him to the point the Undertaker's hot.
WrestleMania 14, I will strike down upon thee with
anger and furious vengeance.
To me, he's one of the greatest characters, if not the greatest
has ever invented.
And now Kane has to come out and match that and be equal to Undertaker. There's
no one that could have done that except Glenn Jacobs.
From Boston, it's WrestleMania 14!
I went with a bunch of my high school buddies, and, you know, we were huge
then. And we didn't have good seats at all. Our backs were literally up against
the wall, like way, way in the back.
I remember, like, Kane would come out in the fire.
You could feel the heat all the way up in the back. You know, you literally
the heat almost like you were going to get burned. It was so incredibly hot.
know, watching the culmination of that, that few of them finally getting to
touch.
WrestleMania is where Undertaker is going to set his little brother
It's about time because Kane put it to me pretty good.
Two seven -foot monsters.
What a hellacious matchup this is going to be.
This is the first time that Undertaker and Kane had really fought.
I mean, there had been some skirmishes along the way, but for the most part,
this is not written in stone. The Undertakers are going to this match and
The Undertaker!
Kane added so much to Undertaker's career.
And I understand also these are the two most liked guys in the history of the
business. You know, we're sitting back there at WrestleMania 14. I tagged with
Glenn Jacobs in Europe before we both made it to WWE.
I'm sitting there just wanting him to do well. You know, everybody is. We're
rooting for these guys. You know, they knock it out of the park. We're ecstatic
about it. We've got something that's going to draw for a long time.
His brother has waited a lifetime for revenge.
Look at this. The Undertaker fighting back.
There I am at WrestleMania, and it was the climax of the original storyline
between Undertaker and Kane.
And I'd never been in that situation before.
He's hitting his brother with everything he's got.
My tombstone, no one had ever kicked out of.
The Undertaker with a tombstone planted him.
What? Nobody's ever done that.
Not only did he kick out of it once.
He kicked out.
Undertaker is trying to kill his own brother.
He kicked out of it twice.
People were astonished.
This would be the third tombstone.
And will this be enough?
My God, what will it take if it's not?
Yeah. The Undertaker has won this match.
Mark Calloway is one of those people that understands in.
do wrestling business and WWE, the importance of your opponent.
And if you go out there and you have a match with someone that doesn't look
they should be in the ring with you, you haven't beaten anyone.
And I was impressed because he treated me like an equal.
They've heated rivalry between two brothers with a fiery past.
Well, I've seen The Undertaker versus his most capable rival.
I've seen The Deadman against his own brother.
Don't we need to ramp it up?
I mean, isn't the sequel to every movie, this time it's personal?
What's more personal than trying to set your own brother on fire?
And isn't that what the story was about?
Let's do an infernal match.
First person to set his opponent on fire will win this match.
You take these two guys that are 6 '10 and 300 pounds, they've got these great
characters, they're larger than life, and you add fire?
It doesn't get any better than that.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Oh, my gosh.
This is amazing.
Initially, you're like, okay, somebody's lost their freaking mind.
This is hell on earth.
For the first time ever, you had someone who was equal to Undertaker as far as
physical abilities and also added that kind of supernatural element that
Undertaker brings.
Undertaker has never been challenged as he is with his brother Kane. Yes, Kane
just leveled his brother.
It was pretty hairy in there, man.
What most people didn't realize was that all those flames going up is just
sucking all the oxygen out.
of the ring why play with fire and we all eventually get burned
the
attitude era i think
it was not only the most unique time in wwe but really in entertainment i mean
we were not only top of the wrestling world i mean we were on top of the
entertainment world When you look at characters and individuals who have very
successful long careers in WWE, they've been able to reinvent themselves.
Undertaker is a great example of that.
As great as the Undertaker character is, there were a lot of parameters, a lot
of things that I couldn't do because of the character.
I think the character would have survived, but I don't think it would
continued to grow if I hadn't moved away from the traditional Undertaker.
The American Badass kind of, it freed me up. I was able to keep a few of the
nuances of the old character, but I was able to move it into the mainstream.
Here comes the real American Badass!
The Undertaker!
It was good for me because it allowed me to work differently for a while, to
think creatively in a different sense.
Instead of remaining enemies, we get the most powerful tag team that's ever
existed. I mean, their name is literally the Brothers of Destruction.
When they decided to start tag teaming together as the Brothers of Destruction,
when you see two guys that cool coming down to the ring and nobody can
really affect them as the Brothers of Destruction, Yeah, you fear the hell out
of them, but it's so cool. You respect the hell out of them.
The Brothers of Destruction was really the logical conclusion, our logical
destination of the journey that we've been on. The brothers, side by side. Oh,
my gosh.
Double toe slam.
Undertaker and Kane, the Brothers of Destruction.
The WWE audience had always wanted this to get together, and you could tell it.
They were dominant individual characters, so they'd be even more
tag team.
These brothers united, and by God, when they're together, hell has no fury like
these two.
Oh, my gosh. When the Brothers of Destruction came about, it was like,
going to beat these guys? Nobody.
Take it up they go.
Don't stand by the Brothers of Destruction.
No one can touch Kane and Undertaker. Are you kidding me?
Are we going to set up the Hardy Boys or Edge and Christian or Dudley's? No.
The Brothers of Destruction. They're going to take out every single tag team
there is to take out. And they did.
Is there anyone that can stand up to the Brothers of Destruction?
Not in this galaxy.
You're in the locker room and enjoying the camaraderie of other people that do
what you do. We're a very unique group.
I don't know if I necessarily ever had time to stop and think, wow, you know,
this is really special. I wish I could have. I wish I would have had time to
savor it more.
But that's just the nature of the beast.
I mean, it was so cool because I know that I got to really help Glenn come
to his own and help make him what he would turn into, which is on him because
worked his tail off.
It was fun to add evolution to Kane, because you realize at some point that
silent guy in the mask can only go so far.
While the mask, of course, is an amazing tool in that it provides this mystique
and makes the character very unique, there's also some shortcomings.
People can't see your face, and they don't know quite what the emotions are,
there's only so much you can do before it gets old. So I thought the character
had gotten stale.
He's going to do it, JR! He's going to do it! What is it going to look like?
I remember him taking off his mask for the first time.
It was like, oh, my gosh, like everyone wanted to see that. I don't care if you
are a wrestling fan or not. You knew who Kane was and you wanted to be watching
Monday Night Raw because you wanted to see what was going to happen.
We've always speculated. Here it comes.
I don't know if we want to see that. Yeah, I do want to see it.
Oh, my God.
What the hell is that?
Is that a human?
We've always speculated. Here it comes.
I don't know if we want to see that. Yeah, I do want to see it.
Oh, my God.
What the hell is that?
Is that a human?
This cane was actually the scariest of them all because he is a psychological
monster. You find out that the scars that he's covering up, they're actually
the inside. They're not on the outside.
That made the character much more alluring to me because as much as the
Kane was about psychology, this one even more so.
Tonight, I will once again feast on fear and suffering.
Kane is no doubt a living, breathing monster.
Sadistic and twisted and mean.
I'm not going to do what they want.
Now what?
I do.
What I want.
There is nothing that can stop me.
He was smart enough to reinvent his character when he needed to.
And it didn't matter in which direction I went, which direction Kane went.
We could not touch each other for a year. And still, boom, just like that,
put those two back together. And people were just like, oh, yeah.
I'm going back to the more traditional, but now I'm bringing a lot of the
American badass wrestling style with it and trying to make it all work within
the capsule of the traditional Undertaker. It
was what's old is now new again, but
there's more substance now to what you get in the ring.
That just breathed new life in for both of us, because even though they had the
same history, the characters were different than the first time they met.
And that made it really alluring and different. It wasn't just a rehash. It
literally something brand new.
It was exciting.
Lord knows Kane deserves what he got at WrestleMania 20.
He kind of went too far, and Big Brother had to put Little Brother back in his
place.
It's the story that's important.
You know, we're sitting here talking about the rivalry of Taker and Kane and
they were able to do that for so long.
We don't talk about the win -loss percentage.
Taker won, I think, 75 % of the matches.
Kane won 25.
Like, by the numbers, you would think that you would lose interest.
But you were still interested and you wanted to see it every single time
of their ability to be able to tell that story.
With Undertaker and Kane, it hit close to home with a lot of fans because
brothers aren't always going to get along.
And they're going to have fights and quarrels.
And they're going to have mountains and valleys.
And I think people relate to that.
When you're with anybody, you know, 300 plus days a year, you become family
whether you like it or not.
And they legitimately are like brothers. You know, they're that close.
And it's actually funny. So many people in our extended family thought they were
brothers. Like at our wedding, they're like, you know.
Your other four brothers are here, but where's Cain? We're like, um, he's not
really, you know, a real brother. But they're super close. They're great
friends. Glenn is such a good person, intelligent person, well -studied,
you know. You don't get all that. All you get is Cain off of TV, right? But
have no idea. You have to be able to trust the character of the human being.
And when you do, that frees you up to...
do business in a grand way.
He's always been there for me, and he's always wanted Kane to be the equal of
The Undertaker.
Kane has defeated his brother!
Here are two guys. They have a legendary feud.
You don't know how in God's name we can possibly up the ante. It's like, I know.
Buried alive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the following contest is the Buried Alive match.
Now the only way to win this match is to put your opponent inside the grave,
covering his body completely with dirt, burying him alive.
He's an undertaker. He buries the opposition.
It's not just a period at the end of the sentence, it's an exclamation point.
And for Kane, an opportunity to bury the years of frustration of living in his
brother's shadow. And Undertaker, wasting little time starting this
You can just sense it, that these two literally want to destroy each other. I
think both Undertaker and Kane knew they had the opportunity to do something
special. That is thick as Undertaker!
Kane going for a chokeslam here to The Undertaker. And he delivers.
Yes, Kane almost carrying The Undertaker with ease.
Kane has completely dominated his brother, The Undertaker.
He had never really beaten me in any big pay -per -view.
If he was going to be a legitimate champion, he had to beat his brother.
The saga is over.
My brother.
is never coming back.
Mark and I did often talk in our later years about retirement.
And it is difficult because you're used to a certain lifestyle where you're in
the spotlight all the time.
People after a while are like, man, I want the old Undertaker back.
I want the old Kane back.
And so that nostalgia kicked in.
Through the course of 20 years, it's just like you go right back to it.
And that's special because there's so much content.
And there's so many different characters and there's so many different people
that come and they go. But those are two constants.
And that story of those two guys together, I would say that that, as far
storytelling, I don't think it'll ever be matched.
You know, when you look at rivalries, like the earliest in my childhood was
Ali Frazier.
And, you know, like nobody ever saw Ali get beat.
And you watch that and, you know, you almost take it the same way as you
knew on any given night it could be Kane's night. They say no one's bigger
the business.
But every once in a while, there's someone that's so special. A Tiger Woods
bigger than golf. There have been football players bigger than the game.
have been boxers, Muhammad Ali, bigger than boxing. And then there's Undertaker
and Kane.
Being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame is the greatest honor of my career.
Of course, I would be remiss if on behalf of Kane, I didn't thank his WWE
family.
Kane's daddy, Paul Bearer, and his brother, The Undertaker.
Mark Calloway was always a huge advocate of mine.
He saw value in me as a performer.
He was the person that really motivated me to believe in myself and get myself
where I needed to be.
And that's really just a testament to him in that your real legacy, maybe in
some cases, is the opponents that you help create.
Hey, Glenn.
Is that the one? That's the one right there, man.
You think about it. We're a Batman D without Joker.
But where would Joker be without Batman, too?
Thank goodness it worked at Mania. That was a hell of a match I had.
The thing I wore when we wrestled in Boston the first time. Yeah. Which one?
one on the left, far left.
Man, some things just never change. Never.
Never, ever.
Those opposites actually come together and make the whole thing. Thank you.
Thank you, buddy.
All those years ago, when I decided that wrestling was what I wanted to do, did
I ever imagine that there would be a Hall of Fame and that I would be
into it? I wouldn't be where I am today without all the people,
not only that helped me in the ring, but outside of it.
It came.
Our story stretches over two decades as the Brothers of Destruction.
The greatest wrestling story ever told.
It's so much more than just two guys in a wrestling ring. It was these themes
that all of us could relate to.
I think it's one of those things, like, every once in a while, a high school
drama teacher 50 years from now is going to show their kids a compilation of
Kane vs. The Undertaker, and they're going to talk about the elements that
that storyline so successful.
I think those stories will have to be passed down to where kids 20 years from
now will say, my dad used to tell me about, you know, Kane and The Undertaker
and what they used to do to be so...
enthralled and so interested in that rivalry, that'll be truly an honor.
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