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Mankind and The Undertaker, they're
battling for control of the dark side.

The only way mankind could take on The
Undertaker was to have a really dark

soul. There was only one way to go with
it, and that was violence.

They were put on this earth to fight
each other.

It's different, it's gritty, I love it.

You're going to get buried alive, you're
like, with dirt?

Nick and I took years off each other's
careers.

You have to admire my spunk.

The Mankind Undertaker story, I think
that was there.

This 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.

This is one of my favorite rivalries,
Undertaker and Mankind. The types of

matches they had were so different.

So unique and so crazy. This rivalry, as
far as the extremity of

it, can never be topped.

You got Taker, who's dead.

You know, you have... Literally, they
call him the dead man.

You have Mick Foley, who's crazier than
crazy. I mean, you can't get any crazier

than Mick Foley.

Let's talk about Undertaker in 1995,
just before Mankind comes over in 96.

I've never seen anybody that had more
respect in any business, anywhere.

There was one constant that was
Undertaker, always.

He was the barometer.

I want to switch over to Mankind and
paint a picture of what kind of wrestler

Mankind was.

Legitimate. He brought a pain tolerance.

No other man that I've been around.

That's why coming into the WWE and
facing The Undertaker, it was as real as

possibly could be.

Look at the car. It's bad for my image.

Mick was a different kind of cat.

Hi, nice to meet you.

The man has got a really gentle nature
about him. You like the Backstreet Boys?

Yeah.

It just kind of brings an energy to a
room that you enjoy being around.

And then you go out to the arena and he
turns into a complete lunatic.

It's a story based on brutality.

I rode with Mark Calloway

before he was The Undertaker. When we
were together in WCW, I split rooms.

with Mark Calloway. I stayed at Mark
Calloway's parents' house.

But this guy who showed up at Survivor
Series, this was The Undertaker.

Awesome is the only word I can take to
describe this Undertaker.

He hits like a ton of brick, this guy.

I'm watching the pay -per -view, and I
very much realize that this is, on a

certain level, the same guy that I drove
with and split rooms with. But on

another level, he's a completely
different guy.

Oh, inverted pall driver.

Then he calls the tombstone.

Look at this. Look at the arms.

Please. R .I .P., pal.

The almost white face as a child. I've
watched that. And there was a genuine

fear to that character.

He's got six foot ten. He's over 300
pounds.

Ashes to ashes.

Dust to dust.

Coming down the aisle with his
miniature.

It really became apparent to me early on
that Undertaker and Mark Calloway, they

were going to somehow have to become the
same person. Mark Calloway got put way,

way back on the back shelf. And the
Undertaker is what most people most of

time saw.

You know, the spirit of Undertaker has
been handed down throughout the

centuries.

For five or six years running,
Undertaker had beaten guys who were

than him or bigger than him.

People just expected me to just mow
through everybody.

Somehow he became this iconic good guy.

The Undertaker had been a character that
conquered monsters.

What if we had somebody that, while
maybe they weren't quite as big as The

Undertaker, was nuts and didn't care?

Part of what I brought to the game was
this reputation for

wildness.

Kept pitching and pitching Mick to
Vince.

So I told Vince, I said, hey, look, if
nothing else, we bring Foley in.

We give him a shot.

I talk to the Undertaker.

He knows him. He likes him. Once Vince
saw Mick and the Undertaker do their

thing, he would like it.

Secondly, once Vince got to know Mick on
an individual basis, he would love the

guy.

I didn't know at the time that Mr.
McMahon had not been a big fan of mine.

Jim Ross was pushing for me. Mr. McMahon
slammed his hand down on the table,

said, all right, I'll bring him in.

But I'm covering up his face.

So when Jim Ross tells me, this is how
you're starting, I realize you only have

one chance to make a first impression.

And on the eighth day, God created
mankind.

Why was he having such a bad day?

When I debuted in 1996 as Mankind, that
character was kind of a tortured soul.

You understand me, don't you, George?

You understand that mankind is in pain.

I wanted to be a darker character
because I felt like the only way this

creation could feasibly take on The
Undertaker was to have a really dark

soul. You think you're normal?

Think inside!

You are merely a mirror image of all my
atrocities! From a storytelling

perspective.

Mick Foley is borderline genius.

April 1st, 1996, the day after
WrestleMania.

From Death Valley, weighing 328 pounds,
The

Undertaker!

You have one character in The Undertaker
who dishes out a lot of pain to people.

And, you know, that's his calling card.

And then now you have this character who
just thrives on it.

Mankind's debut. We have one person at
the table here who had a very unique

perspective on this because you happen
to be in the ring with the man he was

about to have this rivalry with. Yeah, I
just remember when he came out, I just

remember rolling the floor and thought,
okay, there's a bunch of carnage about

to happen. I'm just going to get out of
the way.

I'm coming hot out of the gate with The
Undertaker. Like, I'm not waiting in

line. I attack the biggest dog in the
yard.

Now you have this crazy character going
against this monster babyface.

I want to say a match made in heaven. I
think it was more of a match made in

hell.

Getting there and debuting in WWE

with The Undertaker, that is the
ultimate pressure.

Someone like Mankind coming in being
just as diabolical, maybe even more so

The Undertaker.

Now we have two characters that have no
parameters.

There was only one way to go with it,
and that was violence.

But The Undertaker got a chance.

He was going to go for it and Foley gave
him that chance.

And after their first match, They had a
lot of trust for each other.

How do you tell a story between two
supernatural -type characters? You can't

just have a regular match. So we have
the boiler room brawl.

Mankind basically lived in a boiler room
with his pet rat, George.

That was his home. That's where mankind
felt at home.

So the idea to have a match in mankind's
environment was unique.

The way this match works is that both
superstars start the match in the boiler

room. They have to fight all the way
through the arena, get to ringside, and

obtain the Undertaker's powerful urn
from Paul Bearer's hands.

We actually had to record the boiler
room brawl the night before SummerSlam.

Yeah, Undertaker just needs a couple of
minutes to get into it.

Being able to record it in advance took
away a lot of that risk where if

something didn't go exactly as we wanted
it to go, we could stop it down and

shoot it a different way.

Here we go.

You rolling?

Board of the Room Brawl, I was there
when we recorded it. That was brutal,

And that was just all -out war.

Let's do it. Good luck.

Open it.

Say you're sorry before we ring the
bell, because I'm going to tell you

now. I ain't holding nothing back. I
suggest you don't either.

Mankind is in that boiler room
someplace.

Oh.

Gundarina in Cleveland.

Filthy. Dirt everywhere. Dust
everywhere.

Anything that wasn't tied down, you were
probably going to get hit with.

The boiler room ball allows me to
utilize everything around me.

So I thought, here's something that can
highlight the things that I can do.

Everything that happened in that match,
you know, it was real.

I climb up that ladder. I know there's
some cardboard boxes that I'm hoping are

going to break my fall.

They do to some extent, but half my body
doesn't land on those boxes, right? I

undershoot it just a little bit.

I think Mick and I took years off each
other's careers.

A potato in wrestling speak is

a really stiff blow above and beyond
what we usually deliver. And sometimes

our urgency to have a great match, we
might serve up a couple of potatoes.

We get to the point where we'll pick up
from here tomorrow at the pay -per

-view. I remember getting a cut on my
elbow.

They have a doctor there and they said,
hey, you want me to sew that up? And I

was like, no, I can't sew it up. It's
got to be open tomorrow or it's not

to, you know, it's not going to match
up. You know, how in the world did I get

stitches in between this and this?

The Boiler Room Brawl.

Coming up next here at SummerSlam.

I remember walking backstage on the
actual day of the event.

Terry Runnels was walking behind me, and
she goes, do you know that every time

that your arm bends, there's blood
shooting out of your elbow?

So I'm walking down the hall, and every
time my arm would come down, it's just

shooting out of my arm.

He actually had to re -bust open his
elbow to create some continuity.

I mean, it was a big deal.

Wow. Pretty remarkable thing that he
did.

We were able to have the performers make
their way out to the arena and finish

the match in front of the live audience.

I had to come up with something because
we were both so beaten up and worn out

from the boiler room brawl the night
before. And now we have to like

appear backstage and brawl in a
meaningful way.

You use your surroundings.

I see a coffee machine.

Sorry. You know, you apologize ahead of
time.

What's hot coffee?

There just happened to be a big pot of
coffee.

He saw it. He grabbed it.

Scalding hot coffee. No one had scalding
coffee on their bingo card, but a guy's

got to do what a guy's got to do when
he's up against a female.

Mankind's going to come into the arena.

But you didn't just have to get out of
the boiler room into the ring. You had

claim ownership of the urn.

It's amazing either of these men can
even stand.

Oh, my God, did you hear that?

And the undertaker, the victor here
tonight at SummerSlam.

Give him the urn.

Nobody thought Paul Bearer would ever
turn on The Undertaker.

People were pissed.

People were upset.

Paul Bearer was like Undertaker's dad.

I mean, he represented a father figure.

The audience. And when you think about
father figure, you think about trust,

think about respect, you think about
loyalty. So when the audience feels

betrayed, it really ignites an emotional
reaction.

And now what? Yeah. What else can
happen?

There's a legitimate chance that, you
know, you're going to see the end of The

Undertaker.

They told a very cinematic story with
this mesh. Had you ever seen anything

this before?

Well, the company was doing things that
had never been done before.

And it definitely worked because we're
talking about it 20 years later.

Mankind, you will never rest.

You get to a spot with character where
they're so rich, you almost need to

invent new ways for them to battle.
That's what happened with The Undertaker

Mankind. A new match was created just
for them called the Buried Alive match.

And they explained, well, there's going
to be a grave plot with a six -foot

hole. And in order to win the match, you
have to put your opponent in the grave

and bury them alive.

Well, you know, when you say you're
going to get buried alive, you're like,

with dirt?

All that's left to do is to fill this
grave with your rotting maggot

-infested carcass.

Are you ready to see someone get buried
alive?

This is... The first time a match like
this has happened, and it's a constant

flirtation with death.

Somebody's literally going to be buried
alive.

If you die, you lose.

It's basically the stipulation. And I
remember even Vince going, this is an

unsanctioned match. This is the first
ever unsanctioned match. I don't believe

you. And whoever was on the other mic
goes, well, yeah, obviously, because

there's no way this could happen.

Oh, my goodness.

This war continues.

It's this match that presents all these
opportunities because whatever we're

doing in and around the ring is just a
pretense to get us up here to the grave.

These two evil entities are battling for
control of the dark side and to tell

the story that needs to be told with
these two guys, you're going to have to

something that is desperate and, you
know, it's just like Hail Mary.

It kind of reminded me of watching a
Friday the 13th with Jason. I was going

say that. And Michael Myers, because
whenever they would get hit, you know,

was always that moment you thought they
were down and dead, and all of a sudden

they were alive.

You're like, oh, run, you know, get out
the way, don't stand there. He's not

dead.

These guys are trying to kill each
other.

I end up getting chokeslammed into a
grave, and then the earth starts coming

down on top of me.

I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I've been
through a lot, and now a human being is

throwing earth on me.

Mankind is not moving.

And you have people thinking to
themselves, surely nobody's getting

front of our eyes.

Terry Gordy comes out as the
executioner. He waylays The Undertaker.

Mankind is coming back under threat!

Now begins this.

mammoth attempt to completely fill that
grave in a few minutes without any

machinery. Everybody wants to bury the
Undertaker!

The real story is there was a myth
calculation of how long it would

take to fill up the hole once Undertaker
was in there. So we had to send out

half the roster.

We rush out there with shovels to fill
up a full grave.

Try filling in a grave with a shovel in
10 minutes on live television. That was

the dumbest thing.

We didn't get a quarter of the grave
filled.

Mick Foley's scraping dirt in. He's
blown up from the match.

But if you'd have seen the crowd that
night, it was horror and shock thinking

that Undertaker had actually been
killed. People were buying it.

And I'm thinking, somebody's coming over
this rail.

There are people to this day that were
kids then

that are adults now.

Like, you don't know what that did to
me. I mean, I was freaked out. Like, I

to sleep with the lights on for a while.

This one's over. The Undertaker did not
survive.

I remember looking at the face of a
father and he says,

I can't believe I'm watching this
because we're watching a human being get

buried.

When that purple glove come out of the
bird, man, it was another one of those

moments that people did not expect, but
gave them such hope.

It's those kind of stories that let you
know that what you do means something.

We've had these incredible wars, Mankind
and Undertaker.

And

I

haven't fared that great.

And we get this lightning strike, and
the whole crowd gasps.

His hand busts through, still gloved,
and we're left with that lasting image.

It actually worked because you had the
right ingredients to make it work. All

that's important is the setup for what's
coming next. To get to the match that

you remember. That's right.

That's right, because you're setting up
something great. Yes.

It's a Mankind preppy look, just in time
for summer.

What we had to wait for was the second
Hell in a Cell match ever.

A Hell in a Cell match is a match in
which you compete inside of a ring that

completely covered by a solid steel
cage.

The structure itself is intimidating.

The first Hell in a Cell match, they
were looking to do something

And mankind was looking to, I've got to
do something bigger.

And if that's not enough, I can
guarantee that mankind will have a

everyone that you will not soon forget.

I had a lot of concerns going into that
Hell in a Cell match with The

Undertaker. Have a nice day!

The challenge for me...

was not trying to reach the bar that
Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker had

in October of 1997.

It was to just do some kind of justice
to it.

Terry Funk and I visit the WWE offices.

We watch the first cell match in its
entirety.

After about a minute of odd silence, I
said to Terry, I said, what am I going

do? And then he starts to laugh. And he
starts riffing about being thrown off

the top of the cell.

And he keeps laughing.

And I look at him and I said, I think I
can do that.

And every day I would approach The
Undertaker with the idea of starting the

match on top of the cell.

And every single day he shot it down.

And he persisted. You know, he really
wanted to take that bump because he felt

like he needed it. And I ended up asking
him.

Like, Mick, why do you want to kill
yourself?

And it was a serious moment.

And it got to the point, I think it was
the day of, I'm a firm no.

And somehow he got to Vince and
convinced Vince that it was okay.

And then they double teamed me.

And it's like, Mark, he's pretty sure
that he can take that bump.

And I'm like.

No, I don't think we need it.

And they kept on. I'm like, look, fine.

If that's what you want to do, then
we'll do it.

We have only seen one Hell in a Cell
matchup in WWF history, and it was the

unbelievable match that I think I've
ever witnessed, JR.

It is a perverse, vile, diabolical
structure.

Satanic.

Hellish.

It will absolutely be unforgiving as
this night progresses.

We know we got some fireworks.

We know we're going to do something no
one's ever thought to do before.

The Undertaker has a broken foot.

We think the worst part of his night
physically is going to be that journey

to the top of the cell.

Undertaker in a very precarious
position.

between the Undertaker and the concrete
floor, but imagination.

He's there!

He's there!

And apparently the Hell in a Cell match
is officially underway in the most god

-awful...

Well, if a lot of white people are...

I can see myself standing there watching
him fall.

He ain't getting up from this.

And I'm thinking in my head, just move,
man, move.

You know, when he grabs me by the collar
and the waistband, bam, off I go. Like

that flight didn't seem like it was ever
going to end.

Mankind went off the cage.

Everybody in the arena, I no doubt would
think they would have thought that this

thing is over.

When we really put that in perspective,
mankind could have died that day. Right,

yeah. Oh, yeah.

This was a guy that was willing to die
in the middle of that ring to go out

there and get his point across.

It was so surreal that I thought that
maybe I was having like an aneurysm or

something.

I wasn't really seeing what I was
seeing.

I generally felt that he was dead.

He

was

falling through a wood table that was
sitting on a concrete floor.

And there was no padding under the
table.

It was Foley's body hitting wood,
hitting concrete.

So in my mind's eye, I'm thinking, an
average human being cannot live through

that ordeal.

And obviously, Mick Foley was far from
being an average human being.

He landed through the table right at my
feet, and I'm looking down at him, and

he opened his eyes, and he smiled.

And he started moving around, and I'm
like, that's the toughest son of a bitch

right there.

I have ever seen in my life.

The Undertaker is a legend,

right? The biggest, probably the biggest
one in our business.

But I'll admit that when I was lying
underneath the wreckage of that table

half my body was sticking out into the
crowd and they were chanting The

Undertaker's name, there was part of me
thinking, maybe you guys are cheering

for the wrong guy.

Wait, now the cage is coming back down.
I guess they've got to get the

Undertaker off of the top of this cage.
The Undertaker is coming down. He's

climbing down before the cage is even on
the ground.

So now I'm thinking, boy, we're really
screwed because this is early in the

match. I mean, really early.

How in the hell are we going to finish?

Again, if this match has ended, we
apologize.

I have never... Why do you apologize for
that?

And lo and behold, somehow...

Mick, knowing that he's got to deliver
for this audience and for The

he wills himself back into this match.

And that's what it was.

That sucker, man.

He got off of that gurney. He started
back up the cell. I'm like, good night.

When I start climbing up and the fans in
the Civic Arena realize this thing's

not over, they respond with a type of
energy that could have lit that city up

for a week.

I just get the goosebumps thinking of
it.

This is absolutely amazing.

I've suffered a lot from that fall. So
when I get up to the top, I don't have

much left in the tank. And I'm thinking
in my head.

At least the worst part of my night is
over. I was tank corrected because

are about to get a lot worse.

When Mick hit that panel, and the panel
just broke away, and it was such a

violent, I mean, just a whole

other level of violent bump that he
took.

He rotates another few inches.

He don't get up.

And that one night, for whatever reason,
my feet never left the mesh.

And it's a godsend they did not, because
when I hit that mesh, and it just, like

a hot knife through butter.

There's a chair up on top of that cell
structure that I've had the wisdom and

foresight to bring up there with me.

And when the Undertaker chokeslamming
and I go through, that chair follows me

down.

Every foot of the way, it smashes into
my face, you know, to this day.

Still missing those teeth. And one of
them ends up lodged in my nostril.

I just knew he was through.

And I looked at him and looked down at
him. I said, turn around the referee and

said, he's out. He's gone.

It's over.

He's not going to get up.

I was scared to death for him.

The ring fills up with people to check
on me. It looks like Terry haphazardly

touching my face.

It wasn't just touching my face. He was
taking my pulse.

Stands up, says to the undertaker, he's
still breathing.

over to my stomach and my head goes like
this the reason my head bobbed is

because my first conscious thought was
where'd their shoes come from how is he

still standing up i don't have a damn
flu oh my oh and he's smiling he's got a

tooth in his nose he's kind of got a
perverse smile on his face like i'm not

dead yet you may think i'm done but i'm
not done

I'm punching him and trying to create
time so that he can get his thoughts

together again.

And every time I hit him, I'm just
saying, Mick, stay down.

Just stay down.

I went into the match with a broken
ankle.

You know, I'm questioning my manhood,
like, right? Like, I ain't saying about

my ankle.

After this.

To watch mankind

and The Undertaker create that magic in
such a dangerous situation, to

have that on your mind and still be able
to perform at the highest level, that's

what true pros do. That's what
professionals do.

Just the spectacle of trying to watch
two human beings limp over the finish

line. By God, we didn't cut the match
short.

Steele just ramming and jamming into the
flesh of the Undertaker.

And there's a cover. That's it. Tell me
it's over. Got him.

The Undertaker, he had the long mane of
dark red hair, and he leaned over and he

said the words, go home.

What's he got now? Uh -oh.

He went under the ring to get something.

What is it?

A sack. Put it in a bag or something.

Got it in that.

I got it. What is that?

Stump pack.

Uh -oh.

Stump pack.

My God.

He has to finish.

He has to get to the tacks.

He's going to try to throw the
Undertaker right on those tacks.

Some of the things that seemed like good
ideas at the time have not aged well.

But

I

think you have to admire my spunk.

I'm trying to reason with a man who's
just cheated death twice.

Nick, we're good.

Just stay down.

I gotta get to the tax, brother.

I'm... We don't need the tax, man.

We don't need the tax.

We got to the tax.

He didn't like the way the tax worked
the first time. We did it twice.

The referee, Mike Chioda, he wasn't the
match referee, but he came out and he

said, we're bringing a stretcher out for
you.

And I asked him this question. I say,
have I already been on a stretcher

tonight?

And he informed me that I had. And I
just said, I can't be on two stretchers

one night.

Look at mankind. It's almost as if he
doesn't want, you are kidding, to leave

a stretcher.

I mean, that tells you everything you
need to know about Mick Foley, the

entertainer.

He was willing to put it all on the line
so that he could have that match that

he wanted.

He wanted it for me, and he wanted it
for the fans.

And he's always been like that.

That match.

That's the next level stuff that most
people don't have inside them.

It really is incredible.

It's a beautiful art of violence.

That level of sacrifice, commitment, is
something that I think will forever be

remembered by the fans and why those two
men will forever be respected.

We didn't watch it. We believed it.

You know, I had a hard time dealing with
the aftermath of the South.

I'm talking about for years to follow.

Nothing I would ever do from that moment
on would make fans forget how we had

made them feel.

in that moment of time. I could get
pretty cantankerous about it. It was a

night, but I've gotten a lot of
publicity off of it over the last two

Every day, I'm asked about the same
match, the same question, did it hurt?

And I was tired of it.

And it wasn't until The Undertaker came
to see me doing one of my storytelling

shows, and he said these words to me. He
said, you know, Jack, what you and I

did that night...

will outlive us both people will be
talking about that match when we're both

dead and gone and when i drove home that
night i felt like a giant weight had

been lifted off my shoulders because i
felt free to embrace it and free to

celebrate it and free to talk about it

And now the last person I'd like to
mention without whom none of this would

happened. I might be here on this very
night, but I'd be out there watching it

instead of up here being inducted. And
the person in question is The

Over the years, I have often wondered
where my life would have gone had The

Undertaker and I not crossed paths when
we did in April of 1996.

I'm not in the WWE Hall of Fame without
The Undertaker.

I'm not in a position where I can
continue to wear sweatpants and a fanny

in public.

I'm not in a position where I can be a
guy with one ear who doesn't care what

other people think about him.

I look back at that moment in time and
I'm just so grateful

that our lives were entwined.

Very rarely do we talk business.

It's more of a, how are you? How's the
family?

How are you feeling?

We have our history.

No one's going to take that away.

And we have a very prominent piece of
history in the WWE legacy.

The story of Undertaker and Mankind, I
mean...

it'll last the annals of time.

My life would not be the same without
you, and that's the truth.

Thank you, man. And I don't say that to
boast. I mean, it is what it is. I mean,

it's a great story that was told by two
guys that are still here to tell

it.