1 00:00:09,330 --> 00:00:15,550 Undertaker and Kane were the most sinister, really evil 2 00:00:15,550 --> 00:00:18,630 menacing characters in WWE. 3 00:00:21,050 --> 00:00:25,830 There was no way to put a title on what it was that we did in the ring. It was 4 00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:27,290 total destruction. 5 00:00:33,490 --> 00:00:35,410 In the history of sports entertainment, 6 00:00:36,110 --> 00:00:40,770 There has never been a more menacing bond in evil than the Brothers of 7 00:00:40,770 --> 00:00:41,770 Destruction. 8 00:00:42,030 --> 00:00:43,870 It's storytelling. It's mythology. 9 00:00:44,290 --> 00:00:45,610 It's Shakespearean. 10 00:00:46,070 --> 00:00:47,570 Brother against brother. 11 00:00:48,150 --> 00:00:49,510 The Undertaker. 12 00:00:50,210 --> 00:00:56,850 Kane. Together, they forged a bond. Mayhem and carnage. I was terrified 13 00:00:56,850 --> 00:00:59,190 belief. It was such a work of genius. 14 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:29,680 By 1990, the WWE Universe bore witness to all types of fearsome villains. 15 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,200 Raging beef. 16 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,820 Cowardly cheaters. 17 00:01:36,180 --> 00:01:39,000 Even enemies of the state. 18 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:47,680 But no one had ever faced the ultimate fear in the ring. 19 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:49,720 Death itself. 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,580 We were looking for a surprise. 21 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:57,260 four Survivor Series in 1990, and I knew that the best evil character is someone 22 00:01:57,260 --> 00:01:59,920 that the audience genuinely fears. 23 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,900 And I said, okay, if this guy was just pure evil, I thought, what's the last 24 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:10,539 thing you're going to see before you're put into the ground? 25 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:16,220 So I pitched The Undertaker. 26 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,180 Pure, unadulterated evil. 27 00:02:22,410 --> 00:02:26,690 But who could possibly take on the challenge to bring Death Incarnate to 28 00:02:28,370 --> 00:02:33,310 From Houston, Texas, weighing 321 pounds, 29 00:02:34,050 --> 00:02:35,870 Meem Mark! 30 00:02:38,350 --> 00:02:43,130 I was working for WCW, and I'd been there a year. 31 00:02:43,330 --> 00:02:44,970 Meem Mark walks the top rope. 32 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:50,750 I had a contract coming due, and they looked at me, and they went, 33 00:02:52,220 --> 00:02:56,460 Honest with you, we don't feel like anyone's ever going to pay money to see 34 00:02:56,460 --> 00:02:57,460 wrestle. 35 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,240 Hmm. 36 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:05,280 It let me know where my ceiling was there. 37 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:12,060 He was a character that I'd seen from the days that we first broke into the 38 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:13,060 wrestling business. 39 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:18,060 I thought he was really good, especially good for a big man. 40 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:20,080 I knew that he could play this character. 41 00:03:22,350 --> 00:03:23,690 I got a phone call one day. 42 00:03:24,970 --> 00:03:25,970 Hello? 43 00:03:27,410 --> 00:03:28,410 It was Vince. 44 00:03:29,090 --> 00:03:31,210 Uh, is this the Undertaker? 45 00:03:34,010 --> 00:03:35,010 What? 46 00:03:35,470 --> 00:03:36,710 Undertaker? What the? 47 00:03:37,590 --> 00:03:38,590 Undertaker? 48 00:03:39,330 --> 00:03:43,310 Yes, sir, this is the Undertaker. No clue what that meant, what it was. 49 00:03:44,170 --> 00:03:48,890 The Undertaker was a descriptor that told you what he did. 50 00:03:50,190 --> 00:03:52,230 The Undertaker buried souls. 51 00:03:54,190 --> 00:03:57,690 I meet with Vince, and he shows me the storyboards. 52 00:03:59,690 --> 00:04:06,050 The original character is based on the old Western -style Undertaker. The long 53 00:04:06,050 --> 00:04:08,570 coat, the hat, two guys have a gunfight. 54 00:04:09,270 --> 00:04:13,310 Whoever loses, the Undertaker comes out, measures them, and makes the pine box. 55 00:04:14,470 --> 00:04:16,570 This guy's the reaper of wayward souls. 56 00:04:18,730 --> 00:04:19,790 An evil being. 57 00:04:21,250 --> 00:04:23,170 I was on board. 58 00:04:23,450 --> 00:04:25,630 And Vince goes, ah, great. 59 00:04:26,270 --> 00:04:27,750 Can you be up here tomorrow? 60 00:04:30,510 --> 00:04:34,970 1980s slasher films helped provide the inspiration to the man who would embody 61 00:04:34,970 --> 00:04:40,210 The Undertaker. I'm drawing on Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees. 62 00:04:44,630 --> 00:04:46,350 Halloween, Michael Myers. 63 00:04:48,750 --> 00:04:49,770 Freddy Krueger. 64 00:04:51,450 --> 00:04:55,970 I'm not so much trying to emulate what they did, but trying to take concepts 65 00:04:55,970 --> 00:04:58,590 from what they did and make them my own. 66 00:04:58,890 --> 00:05:03,270 From Death Valley, I give you The Undertaker. 67 00:05:03,810 --> 00:05:06,130 The Undertaker has now revealed! 68 00:05:06,550 --> 00:05:11,870 The Undertaker made his debut at the 1990 Survivor Series before a stunned 69 00:05:11,870 --> 00:05:12,870 Universe. 70 00:05:18,410 --> 00:05:23,010 Every step that I take, every time I turn my head, it's all planned. 71 00:05:26,190 --> 00:05:31,710 All of those things were calculated to make this character as ominous as I 72 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:32,710 possibly could. 73 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:07,810 We knew it was going to take time for people to go, oh, my God. 74 00:06:11,070 --> 00:06:18,050 It didn't take nearly as long as we thought 75 00:06:18,050 --> 00:06:19,050 it would. 76 00:06:19,190 --> 00:06:21,250 They feared the undertaker. 77 00:06:23,020 --> 00:06:26,040 How many times have you been in an arena where a man has walked to the ring and 78 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,900 seen an audience just frozen and fixed on one person? 79 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:30,520 Not very often. 80 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,260 The Undertaker's ominous presence mesmerized the WWE universe. 81 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:44,280 People were just freaked out about the eye roll. It looks 82 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:49,700 demonic. The eye roll just happened. It just happened in the course of a match. 83 00:06:50,380 --> 00:06:54,900 I was on my way to the back after the match was over and people were coming up 84 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:58,200 to me like, what was that? That was the freakiest thing that I've seen. 85 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:01,560 And 86 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:08,360 then 87 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:09,360 the choke slam. 88 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,760 That would get a huge reaction just because people understood that this is 89 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,760 beginning of the end. 90 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,900 My son Huey, he loved WWE, but he wouldn't go to the shows. And I said, 91 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:34,580 won't you go to the shows? He said, I'm scared of The Undertaker. 92 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,960 Lock your doors, he's loose in the World Wrestling Federation. 93 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,940 He was one of the great characters of the past 30 years. 94 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:48,260 That's The Undertaker. 95 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,600 He was such a stark contrast to everybody else. 96 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,800 I remember thinking he was some kind of evil cowboy. I was immediately drawn to 97 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,720 this character and this person. 98 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,200 The Undertaker is one of the best villains because of what he didn't have 99 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,220 say. He didn't have to talk much. It was like watching a foreign flick where you 100 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:11,320 had to read the subtitles, but you were so interested in the movie, there's no 101 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:12,320 way you were going to turn away. 102 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:20,200 I remember trying to leave arenas. The rest of the wrestlers, people would just 103 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,440 completely surround. 104 00:08:23,210 --> 00:08:24,550 And then I would come out. 105 00:08:25,210 --> 00:08:28,670 It would almost be like the sea parting. 106 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:33,409 I mean, people were scared. 107 00:08:34,669 --> 00:08:39,530 They were still not sure where that character started and stopped. 108 00:08:40,490 --> 00:08:44,210 I'm thinking, this is pretty cool that I have this effect on people. 109 00:08:45,090 --> 00:08:48,990 Mark Calloway made the demon that is the dead man feel authentic. 110 00:08:49,730 --> 00:08:51,710 Now it was time to give him a voice. 111 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,480 Bill Moody, he came in to talk about coming to work here. And the question 112 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,260 asked, what are you doing now? 113 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,540 I said, well, I'm a licensed mortician. 114 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:12,400 Please. To be led towards the ring by Paul Bearer, 115 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,840 the Undertaker. 116 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Paul Bearer. 117 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:27,700 He had all of this insight into embalming the 118 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:29,720 funeral process. 119 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,920 It gives us a whole other layer of legitimacy. 120 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:44,120 Paul Bearer was the one that had to at least be the one that could control 121 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,580 the undertaker. 122 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,000 Paul Bearer would have that urn. 123 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,480 And it almost felt like The Undertaker got his power from that urn. 124 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,920 He dropped some power from that urn. 125 00:10:00,340 --> 00:10:01,680 Keep going backwards. 126 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,720 I'm trying to say, Brain, that he's something other than human. You got it. 127 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:07,559 is a monster. 128 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:14,060 There was just something about Undertaker being that primal fear of 129 00:10:14,060 --> 00:10:16,100 and the unknown that's scary. 130 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:26,820 When The Undertaker faced Hulk Hogan, it was a big moment because Hulk Hogan at 131 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:28,760 the time, he was completely unstoppable. 132 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,560 Hulk Hogan always said, he's never in that ring alone. 133 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:37,940 The Hulkamaniacs all over the world are in there with him. 134 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,380 Well, he's going to need all of them to beat The Undertaker. 135 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:47,300 And Hulk Hogan, he was all that is good in the world. These two are really 136 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:48,480 fuller opposites. 137 00:10:50,570 --> 00:10:54,430 The Undertaker made me cry because he was beating up Hulk Hogan at that time. 138 00:10:54,590 --> 00:10:57,510 When The Undertaker came in, that was spooky, though. 139 00:10:58,250 --> 00:11:05,110 It was just a nail -biting experience watching this ultimate hero go against 140 00:11:05,110 --> 00:11:07,370 this creature of darkness. 141 00:11:08,690 --> 00:11:13,270 Now our savior, Hulk Hogan, has been defeated by The Undertaker. 142 00:11:13,630 --> 00:11:15,350 Where do we go from here? 143 00:11:15,730 --> 00:11:19,390 The dark days of the WWF have begun. 144 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,760 The Undertaker's reign of terror went on for years. 145 00:11:24,820 --> 00:11:30,820 Void of emotion, impervious to pain, the phenom was seemingly invincible. 146 00:11:32,740 --> 00:11:38,700 Everyone hits their signature move on the Undertaker, and it doesn't affect 147 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,760 I don't think you can hurt the Undertaker! He's not human! 148 00:11:44,260 --> 00:11:48,020 Of course it doesn't affect this guy. He's the Undertaker. 149 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:50,260 He's something else altogether. 150 00:11:50,820 --> 00:11:55,960 The Undertaker was almost invulnerable. 151 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,040 Invulnerable in a line of work where everything ends up in a fight. 152 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:06,200 No one could put Undertaker in jeopardy, so now what do we do? 153 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:09,420 First man that gets to the ring is the winner. 154 00:12:10,140 --> 00:12:11,380 SummerSlam 1996. 155 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,380 A shocking turn of events. 156 00:12:16,730 --> 00:12:18,390 foreshadowed a stunning revelation. 157 00:12:18,970 --> 00:12:21,070 Nothing will stop The Undertaker! 158 00:12:26,670 --> 00:12:28,390 I can't believe what I'm seeing. 159 00:12:28,650 --> 00:12:32,790 How can The Undertaker possibly understand what has happened here? 160 00:12:33,070 --> 00:12:36,050 Paul Bearer cracks me over the head when the iron turns on me. 161 00:12:36,990 --> 00:12:41,010 I mean, people were, they were livid. 162 00:12:41,890 --> 00:12:44,230 And time with Paul Bearer. 163 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:46,420 possession of the urn. 164 00:12:47,060 --> 00:12:52,360 Paul Bearer's despicable act of treachery set off a cataclysmic course 165 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:53,360 events. 166 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,980 Paul Bearer and his henchmen! Paul Bearer and the Undertaker alive! 167 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:01,900 What? 168 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:03,640 He's alive! 169 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:08,620 Even Paul Bearer's betrayal could not stop Akuma. 170 00:13:09,340 --> 00:13:13,560 It seemed that the Undertaker was impervious to all physical and emotional 171 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:14,560 threat. 172 00:13:15,150 --> 00:13:18,530 It was time to write a new chapter in The Undertaker's story. 173 00:13:18,950 --> 00:13:23,350 We needed something new. We needed something different. And we needed a 174 00:13:25,270 --> 00:13:27,230 What if The Undertaker had a brother? 175 00:13:28,270 --> 00:13:31,970 What if Undertaker thought that his brother was dead? 176 00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:37,800 Oh, my God. What if there was like a horrible fire and Undertaker's mom, dad, 177 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,300 everybody perished in the fire? Oh, my God. What if it was Paul Bearer that 178 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,480 actually ran the funeral home? Everyone died. But Paul saved Undertaker's little 179 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,480 brother. 180 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,900 Burned beyond recognition. And it was this horrible thing. 181 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,540 We actually do that. 182 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,120 a very worthy nemesis for the undertaker would arise from the ashes of his past, 183 00:14:04,420 --> 00:14:06,320 his very own brother. 184 00:14:07,940 --> 00:14:10,480 It was a backstory of biblical proportions. 185 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,220 Cain and Abel, they were brothers. 186 00:14:14,660 --> 00:14:21,140 In a biblical sense, you can't find anything more evil than Cain. 187 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:23,940 Cain was the first man that ever committed murder. 188 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Cain murdered his brother Abel. That's evil. 189 00:14:28,810 --> 00:14:30,290 So I picked the name Kane. 190 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:38,870 You have to wonder what Paul Bearer is about to say. 191 00:14:40,110 --> 00:14:46,610 It starts off with Paul Bearer talking about how he has a secret from the 192 00:14:46,610 --> 00:14:47,750 Undertaker's past. 193 00:14:48,350 --> 00:14:53,330 The Undertaker's father was a mortician of excellence. 194 00:14:54,270 --> 00:14:57,430 Now, I was the apprentice at the funeral home. 195 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:01,000 And there were two little kids there. 196 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:09,020 One kid was a little red -handed punk, whom you probably know as The 197 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,880 And then there was this sweet little kid named Kane. 198 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,960 The Undertaker was little Kane's hero. 199 00:15:21,780 --> 00:15:27,480 One particular afternoon, I was leaving to go to school. 200 00:15:29,870 --> 00:15:31,230 And what do I see? 201 00:15:32,650 --> 00:15:34,990 I see fire trucks. 202 00:15:37,050 --> 00:15:39,830 Someone burned down the funeral home. 203 00:15:41,190 --> 00:15:43,050 I looked over to the bushes. 204 00:15:43,590 --> 00:15:47,970 Who did I see in the bushes but the undertaker? 205 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:51,150 You can't defend the undertaker. 206 00:15:52,030 --> 00:15:55,850 It was this horrible thing. Everyone died, but Paul saved. 207 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,600 Undertaker's little brother, and he was burned beyond recognition. 208 00:16:03,780 --> 00:16:09,760 So the story was for Paul Bearer to bring back the brother of the Undertaker 209 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,600 that he didn't even know was still alive, Kane. 210 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:19,340 Kane is alive, Undertaker! 211 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,940 And Taker's like, who's alive? 212 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:24,600 Kane. 213 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:26,900 And he's coming for you. 214 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:37,120 Kane gave so many more layers to Undertaker. The darker I could go, the 215 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,260 that I could push that envelope, the better it was for my character. 216 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:49,560 The revelation that The Undertaker had a brother was intriguing 217 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,600 and actually magnified the mystique of the dead man. 218 00:16:53,290 --> 00:16:55,730 Was Paul Bearer simply playing mind games? 219 00:16:56,310 --> 00:16:59,550 If Kane was coming, then what was he waiting for? 220 00:17:03,910 --> 00:17:08,390 It turns out he was simply waiting for the perfect moment to strike. 221 00:17:09,430 --> 00:17:12,190 The first ever hell in a cell match. 222 00:17:12,829 --> 00:17:17,010 Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker would be locked inside this diabolical 223 00:17:17,010 --> 00:17:18,010 structure. 224 00:17:18,250 --> 00:17:20,890 It was constructed to guarantee carnage. 225 00:17:21,450 --> 00:17:24,730 and ensure that no one could escape or enter. 226 00:17:24,950 --> 00:17:31,070 Michaels and Michaels alone must deal with the Undertaker. This is truly hell 227 00:17:31,070 --> 00:17:32,210 a cell for Shawn Michaels. 228 00:17:33,030 --> 00:17:35,530 Michaels. Underneath. Michaels now. 229 00:17:36,230 --> 00:17:42,830 Shawn Michaels and I, we have this 230 00:17:42,830 --> 00:17:45,250 extremely physical match. 231 00:17:55,210 --> 00:17:56,830 I've got Shawn Michaels bleeding. 232 00:18:00,730 --> 00:18:01,890 All I have to do is pin him. 233 00:18:25,070 --> 00:18:30,270 Paul Bearer, and then here comes this mountain of a man behind Paul Bearer, 234 00:18:30,270 --> 00:18:32,570 he's in this black and red suit with a mask. 235 00:18:33,270 --> 00:18:36,970 And everyone knows instantly that's got to be Kane. 236 00:18:54,830 --> 00:18:58,630 I just couldn't believe it that I'm staring face to face with my little 237 00:18:58,710 --> 00:19:01,690 who I thought was dead for all these years. 238 00:19:07,110 --> 00:19:12,830 He picks me up and uses my own move on me. 239 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:26,660 It was a huge deal when Kane debuted. 240 00:19:27,540 --> 00:19:33,540 Could this entity be the one to defeat The Undertaker? Has Undertaker finally 241 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:34,540 met his match? 242 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,960 Kane's debut made shockwaves throughout the WWE Universe. 243 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:46,100 The Undertaker, the unstoppable reaper of souls, was now The Hunted. 244 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,740 At Hell in a Cell, the Undertaker was manhandled for the first time. The next 245 00:20:00,740 --> 00:20:05,680 night, Paul Bearer gleefully introduced us to his new instrument of evil. 246 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:12,260 Let me present to you the Undertaker's little brother, Kane! 247 00:20:15,140 --> 00:20:19,220 The entire world was watching that. That was actually the most important night 248 00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:22,020 in the history of Kane. 249 00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:24,680 Because that was... 250 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,920 The story of why Kane was there. 251 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:34,280 We are going to walk through the World Wrestling Federation. Take each wrestler 252 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,900 one by one and destroy them. 253 00:20:39,420 --> 00:20:43,020 Until we meet you, Undertaker. 254 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,300 Welcome to your worst nightmare. 255 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:53,420 It just really captured people's imaginations that there could be someone 256 00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:58,530 there. Just as strong, just as powerful, just as deranged as the Undertaker. 257 00:21:01,790 --> 00:21:08,270 For Kane, the fire was representative of his genesis, of his beginning, when the 258 00:21:08,270 --> 00:21:10,890 family funeral parlor caught on fire. 259 00:21:11,650 --> 00:21:18,550 That's what drove the character, is that pent -up rage and 260 00:21:18,550 --> 00:21:21,170 the anger and the explosiveness. 261 00:21:28,330 --> 00:21:35,270 The key in taking ownership of a wild character is to in some crazy way 262 00:21:35,270 --> 00:21:37,610 believe you are that character. 263 00:21:40,110 --> 00:21:46,690 Glenn Jacobs really inhabited that character. 264 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:51,450 Brought subtleties and nuances to it. 265 00:21:55,370 --> 00:21:57,690 I was just watching my dog one day. 266 00:21:58,220 --> 00:22:01,440 This was her curious look, and then this was her hungry look. 267 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,980 Ended up being, like, the most creepy thing ever. 268 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:13,820 Putting the mask on definitely allows you to tap into something extremely 269 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,780 It's not playing a role. 270 00:22:15,980 --> 00:22:20,060 It's playing a person that I already am, but I keep in check because of... 271 00:22:20,060 --> 00:22:21,960 ...fability. 272 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,930 Mad. They're scary for two reasons. They're scary for what's actually on the 273 00:22:27,930 --> 00:22:31,670 mask. But I think they're more scary because they hide the person's identity. 274 00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:36,010 When someone is doing something terrible to you and they're in a mask, you're 275 00:22:36,010 --> 00:22:39,130 somewhat scared by the mask. You're much more scared by the fact that you don't 276 00:22:39,130 --> 00:22:40,130 know who that person is. 277 00:22:41,010 --> 00:22:47,430 You don't know what you're getting with the unpredictable psychological 278 00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:48,430 monster. 279 00:22:49,740 --> 00:22:54,760 I have a fascination with psychological thrillers like Hannibal Lecter, The 280 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,340 Silence of the Lambs. Let me help you now and I will trust you when it is all 281 00:22:58,340 --> 00:23:00,940 over. Kane was a psychological monster. 282 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,640 The scariest character ever created is Michael Myers. 283 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:11,080 Michael Myers is very simple and might have a little supernatural power, we 284 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:11,899 don't know. 285 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:14,440 But he's very, very ordinary. 286 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,820 And he's very deliberate. 287 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:25,680 Kane and Undertaker more than anybody else at that time. It wasn't about one 288 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,260 -liners. It wasn't about championship titles. 289 00:23:28,740 --> 00:23:31,920 It was about the art of storytelling. 290 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:39,060 As I looked into his eyes, I didn't see the love of a long -lost brother, 291 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:44,980 but the hatred of a man whose mind has been poisoned. 292 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,840 You'd see The Undertaker come somewhat out of character. 293 00:23:49,290 --> 00:23:53,990 The Undertaker can't show the normal emotions that any other person would be 294 00:23:53,990 --> 00:23:54,990 able to show. 295 00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:56,710 Until it became family. 296 00:23:57,170 --> 00:24:00,870 I will never fight Kane. 297 00:24:02,850 --> 00:24:04,490 Normally, Undertaker would fight anybody. 298 00:24:04,950 --> 00:24:06,870 And now he doesn't want to fight his brother. 299 00:24:08,590 --> 00:24:15,370 Undertaker, you will live in hell until you step up and face 300 00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:16,370 your brother. 301 00:24:19,370 --> 00:24:23,850 For months after Kane's debut, he destroyed everyone on the roster. 302 00:24:24,770 --> 00:24:30,750 One man, two men, it doesn't make any difference. Kane cannot be stopped. 303 00:24:33,350 --> 00:24:40,170 Undertaker, all this carnage at the hands of your brother 304 00:24:40,170 --> 00:24:42,310 Kane is your fault. 305 00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:48,530 Kane unleashed a lifetime of repressed anger on anyone and everyone. 306 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,260 Kane keeps goading Undertaker into fighting him, and Undertaker won't do 307 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:04,140 Again, The Undertaker is steadfast in the thought that he will never, ever 308 00:25:04,140 --> 00:25:05,340 his brother Kane. 309 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:10,180 What a hellacious situation. 310 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:18,360 Six men have pounded The Undertaker into oblivion. Kane coming to his brother 311 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,040 Kane. He is clear in the ring. 312 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,560 It appeared Kane saved his brother. 313 00:25:24,170 --> 00:25:26,630 But Cain was enraged with vicious intent. 314 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:29,890 Cain has saved the Undertaker! 315 00:25:32,510 --> 00:25:39,230 The Undertaker is in that casket! What is he 316 00:25:39,230 --> 00:25:40,390 doing? 317 00:25:42,590 --> 00:25:47,950 The devil's favorite demon attempted to send his brother straight into the fires 318 00:25:47,950 --> 00:25:48,950 of hell. 319 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,440 I think that's it. 320 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,400 Kane's beaten the Undertaker. 321 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,000 How could he ever come back from this? 322 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:08,960 What? 323 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:15,340 Kane, I shall never rest in peace. 324 00:26:17,460 --> 00:26:18,460 Father, father. 325 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:23,700 The devil himself stands before me in the form of my own flesh and blood. 326 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:26,140 He's giving me no other choice. 327 00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:29,020 I had to fight. 328 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,260 After trying to set his brother on fire in some sort of evil poetic judgment, 329 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,720 Kane left the Undertaker with only one choice. 330 00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:50,940 I will deliver you to the 331 00:26:50,940 --> 00:26:55,400 fiery pit of eternal damnation, little brother. 332 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,380 It's crazy because you have the two biggest guys in the company, and 333 00:27:00,420 --> 00:27:04,820 I'm in the fighting. People are just out of their minds crazy. 334 00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:06,900 I've felt your wrath. 335 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,200 Now you're going to feel mine. 336 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,300 These brothers in destruction were on a collision course. 337 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:36,160 The anticipation of two titans finally battling one another had reached a fever 338 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,160 pitch. 339 00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:42,680 Now I'm behind the Undertaker. So here's a guy that I feared all this time. And 340 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,860 now I'm completely emotionally invested in the Undertaker. And can the 341 00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:48,340 Undertaker beat Kane? 342 00:28:14,670 --> 00:28:19,310 For me personally, that excitement kind of turned to dread when I actually saw 343 00:28:19,310 --> 00:28:20,530 The Undertaker come out. 344 00:28:24,830 --> 00:28:30,150 This is all a mind game. This is all psychology in the sense that the 345 00:28:30,150 --> 00:28:36,150 peril is on its way to the ring. Everything was geared to make Kane feel 346 00:28:36,250 --> 00:28:40,110 okay, this is the end of the line. I've now come face -to -face with The 347 00:28:40,110 --> 00:28:41,110 Undertaker. 348 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,860 I mean, this was the Undertaker. He was mad. 349 00:28:49,140 --> 00:28:50,160 He's mad at me. 350 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:57,480 All the talk was over. All the vignettes were over. The story 351 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,500 building didn't matter. All of that is put aside because you have them face to 352 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:03,500 face in the ring. 353 00:29:13,870 --> 00:29:18,350 Everything that's on his mind, with everything he's had to face, facing his 354 00:29:18,350 --> 00:29:22,370 fears. At WrestleMania 14, could he overcome Kane? 355 00:29:25,710 --> 00:29:32,450 Some of the things that they did 356 00:29:32,450 --> 00:29:37,490 physically in the ring was unbelievably impressive for two men of that size to 357 00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:38,790 take those kinds of risks. 358 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,460 He kicked out of the tombstone. This is crazy. So Undertaker picks him up, hits 359 00:30:03,460 --> 00:30:04,460 him with a nether wall. 360 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,680 And you think, oh, well, that's it. 361 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,960 Nope. Kicks out again. 362 00:30:17,140 --> 00:30:22,060 It's everything Undertaker has to beat Kane. He has to tombstone him three 363 00:30:22,060 --> 00:30:23,060 times. 364 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,220 Seeing Undertaker beat Kane, it was the ultimate triumph. 365 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:45,500 But the exclamation point had to come 366 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:47,220 from Kane because this story couldn't end. 367 00:31:04,810 --> 00:31:09,650 So even though Undertaker won the match, he was the one that got left lying. 368 00:31:11,170 --> 00:31:14,290 And ultimately, Kane lived to fight another day. 369 00:31:14,710 --> 00:31:20,470 We have witnessed a war, ladies and gentlemen, that is far, far from over. 370 00:31:21,570 --> 00:31:25,250 The war between the two brothers continued to escalate. 371 00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:30,090 I think everything had to get... 372 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,720 more and more extreme just to the story itself. 373 00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:36,960 I mean, you have to keep raising the bar to keep upping the level of the 374 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,040 intensity of the feud. 375 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:47,860 Our whole storyline revolves around fire and our ability with 376 00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:49,180 using the supernatural. 377 00:31:51,180 --> 00:31:55,060 It was actually challenging figuring out how... 378 00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:59,780 To have a match that would live up to the level of violence that people had 379 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:00,780 thought of. 380 00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:07,820 Which ends up leading to one of the craziest matches ever designed, which 381 00:32:07,820 --> 00:32:08,820 the Inferno match. 382 00:32:09,380 --> 00:32:10,380 Oh my gosh! 383 00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:12,000 This is amazing! 384 00:32:13,220 --> 00:32:15,920 The only way to win is to light your brother on fire. 385 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,940 I remember hearing the initial pitch and looking at him like, you've got to be 386 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:22,940 kidding me. 387 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:52,740 Wait a minute. 388 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:58,160 We're legitimately going to light the ring ropes on fire and are going to have 389 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,740 match inside it. 390 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,620 Yeah, it'd be great. 391 00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:03,180 Okay. 392 00:33:08,650 --> 00:33:09,770 This is really awesome. 393 00:33:10,290 --> 00:33:12,070 It's also dangerous. 394 00:33:15,270 --> 00:33:19,410 So I kind of had to gather myself for the match. 395 00:33:19,810 --> 00:33:20,810 Here we go. 396 00:33:24,490 --> 00:33:27,190 Every time they're hitting the ring, fire's coming up. 397 00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:31,490 As a fan watching this, every time you feel like they've done everything they 398 00:33:31,490 --> 00:33:33,670 could do, they up the ante. 399 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,360 Diving over the top and knocking Kane into the ring post that set his arm on 400 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,000 fire. And then he ran out of the arena. 401 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,760 Chalk went up for the good guys that night. 402 00:33:55,220 --> 00:34:00,040 They always seem to go to another level of evil each and every time they face. 403 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,380 As their rivalry continued to unfold, so too did a new revelation in the family 404 00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:11,370 saga. The beauty of the Kane Undertaker story was that there were so many 405 00:34:11,370 --> 00:34:12,389 chapters in it. 406 00:34:15,010 --> 00:34:19,690 You would tell one chapter for a while, and then there would be the next one. 407 00:34:21,530 --> 00:34:28,469 And after a while, it became really clear, is there anyone that could 408 00:34:28,469 --> 00:34:30,310 stop them if they were together? 409 00:34:46,830 --> 00:34:51,750 The anger born out of that fire so many years ago had the brothers on a path of 410 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:56,510 destruction. Instead of directing their hatred toward each other, the brothers 411 00:34:56,510 --> 00:34:58,150 became bonded by their past. 412 00:34:58,510 --> 00:34:59,650 Listen to me! 413 00:35:39,530 --> 00:35:42,410 Undertaker and Kane fight, but what they really wanted to see was what 414 00:35:42,410 --> 00:35:44,130 Undertaker and Kane could do together. 415 00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:51,450 Having two big badasses like Kane and Undertaker together, the imagination 416 00:35:51,450 --> 00:35:55,810 runs wild as to who and or what can stop them. 417 00:35:56,230 --> 00:36:00,650 There was always the underlying element. 418 00:36:00,910 --> 00:36:02,470 I still love him. He's my brother. 419 00:36:02,790 --> 00:36:06,770 I think everyone who has siblings can identify. 420 00:36:07,790 --> 00:36:11,650 There are certain times within the course of your life that you have a 421 00:36:11,650 --> 00:36:13,830 out with a sibling and you make up. 422 00:36:14,850 --> 00:36:21,150 No one makes better partners than better rivals. They eventually have to get 423 00:36:21,150 --> 00:36:22,150 together. 424 00:36:24,910 --> 00:36:28,010 We come together as the brothers of destruction. 425 00:36:31,370 --> 00:36:36,110 They harness their anger to form an indestructible partnership of evil. 426 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,940 The brothers of destruction. 427 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:45,540 These guys have busted each other's heads for years, and now they're 428 00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:48,040 What's the rest of this company going to do? 429 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,020 Family's family, and family always comes back together. 430 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,160 This was a time that the brothers could come back together in team and be 431 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,160 indestructible. 432 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:24,600 There were 433 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:31,240 people that were legitimately intimidated to be in the ring with us, 434 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,820 regardless of what the outcome was supposed to be. 435 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,040 We were just ultra. 436 00:37:40,150 --> 00:37:45,510 The crazy thing was, the more evil that we got, the more it just made people 437 00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:46,510 love us. 438 00:37:48,210 --> 00:37:54,110 This made for a prototypical killer tag team. 439 00:38:07,850 --> 00:38:11,530 The Brothers of Destruction were a mythological duo that dominated WWE. 440 00:38:12,130 --> 00:38:15,870 But in the late 90s, mythology was giving way to reality. 441 00:38:16,290 --> 00:38:19,330 Through some 50 years, the World Wrestling Federation has been an 442 00:38:19,330 --> 00:38:24,350 mainstay. One of the reasons for that longevity is that the times have 443 00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:30,750 So have we. So as the 90s came to an end, there was a shift in pro wrestling. 444 00:38:31,790 --> 00:38:33,370 The Attitude Era came. 445 00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:38,630 Attitude Era was based in reality, and people wanted to see things that were 446 00:38:38,630 --> 00:38:40,850 more reality -based and real. 447 00:38:42,190 --> 00:38:45,530 And we saw that happen with Undertaker and The King. 448 00:38:46,430 --> 00:38:53,190 At times of awe, so too did the brothers, each in their own way, but 449 00:38:53,190 --> 00:38:54,510 staying true to their origins. 450 00:38:56,270 --> 00:39:00,910 During the Attitude Era with Stone Cold and The Rock and Kurt Angle and all 451 00:39:00,910 --> 00:39:02,790 these guys that could put great promos. 452 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,780 For me to be successful, I need to be this, or these guys are going to chew me 453 00:39:14,780 --> 00:39:18,900 up and spit me out. I remember him talking to me, saying he wanted to have 454 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:20,360 more realistic edge. 455 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,640 I became more of a striker. 456 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,380 Quick, fast, repetitive strikes. 457 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:37,960 As great as Kane and The Undertaker are, you're also confined to a certain 458 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,680 degree of what you can and cannot do. 459 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,260 The Undertaker character became iconic within a couple of years. 460 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,680 But in the long run, it was his ability to know when something needed adjusting 461 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:54,400 before the WWE Universe knew it needed adjusting. 462 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,360 That's why I kind of changed to make the character fresh again, but also give me 463 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,220 a chance to compete with those guys on the mic. 464 00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:06,880 Let's let the pain and suffering begin. 465 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,460 But changing the one thing most closely associated with your persona is the 466 00:40:19,460 --> 00:40:20,460 ultimate risk. 467 00:40:20,620 --> 00:40:23,420 I felt that I had gone as far as I could with the mask. 468 00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:28,540 So I talked to Vince about it, and Vince was very much on board. 469 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,240 He and I were the only people on board. Everybody else thought it was a terrible 470 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:36,620 idea. I didn't like the fact that Glenn was going to take the mask off, because 471 00:40:36,620 --> 00:40:38,340 it's the theater of the mind. 472 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,240 When you talk about movies like Psycho, 473 00:40:42,670 --> 00:40:48,710 And the birds from Alfred Hitchcock is usually more scary than the actual slash 474 00:40:48,710 --> 00:40:50,010 and gash gory stuff. 475 00:40:54,090 --> 00:41:00,090 You see a couple of pantomime slashes, but you don't really see it. So you have 476 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:01,670 to you have to imagine it. 477 00:41:02,610 --> 00:41:04,570 Always speculated. Here it comes. 478 00:41:05,090 --> 00:41:09,350 Come on, do it. Can't do it. The reveal of the mask was incredible. 479 00:41:10,380 --> 00:41:15,060 He pulls it off and he's got that scraggle of hair. Turns out the hair was 480 00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:16,060 of the mask. 481 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:17,320 The hell is this? 482 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,380 What the hell is this? 483 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,660 Is that a human? 484 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,980 He was even more evil without the mask. 485 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,220 Kane had never been burnt in the fire. 486 00:41:28,420 --> 00:41:33,560 He thought he was. He thought he was deformed. And he internalized all that. 487 00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:36,800 That was what was really scary. 488 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:47,020 The mask was a symptom of what was going on in Kane's mind. Tonight, I will once 489 00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:53,860 again feast on fear and suffering. You can't play the same character from 490 00:41:53,860 --> 00:41:57,680 under a mask that you do when the mask is gone. Think about it. Shaved his 491 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,800 changed his eyes. It became more of a human tortured character. 492 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,660 By God, our father. 493 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,560 And the Lord Jesus Christ! 494 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,720 Jesus Christ is alive! 495 00:42:14,020 --> 00:42:15,020 It's King! 496 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:21,360 Once he got rid of the mask, it almost made him worse. You need to feel my 497 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,560 pain! 498 00:42:24,620 --> 00:42:31,480 In hindsight, being 2020, I think it was probably great for Glenn because 499 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:36,320 it opened up so many more opportunities for him to do different things. 500 00:42:44,550 --> 00:42:49,510 Now that evil is reality, and nothing is more evil than reality. 501 00:42:49,910 --> 00:42:53,050 Now I do what I want. 502 00:42:53,450 --> 00:42:57,130 Kane is no doubt a living, breathing monster. 503 00:42:58,410 --> 00:43:03,570 Biggest reason Kane and Undertaker have endured as long as they have is... 504 00:43:04,230 --> 00:43:09,450 The characters continued to change with the times. You saw the evolution before 505 00:43:09,450 --> 00:43:16,310 your eyes. You didn't see the exact same character for the length of their time. 506 00:43:19,510 --> 00:43:26,190 Pain and Undertaker 507 00:43:26,190 --> 00:43:31,590 have got to be the greatest tag team in the history of wrestling. 508 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,840 At the end of the day, what The Undertaker and Kane both have in common, 509 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,100 both gave so much to the business. 510 00:43:40,780 --> 00:43:47,780 They were both parts of such important moments in our wrestling 511 00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:48,780 memory. 512 00:43:50,060 --> 00:43:55,180 When they're standing in the ring as partners, it's sort of a happy ending to 513 00:43:55,180 --> 00:43:57,640 their story, but you also feel like you just want to stand up and applaud. 514 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:00,860 You just appreciate it. 515 00:44:02,220 --> 00:44:07,220 Everything just seemed like it was magic. I mean, it was just really gnarly 516 00:44:07,220 --> 00:44:11,440 storytelling. Y 'all understand a sibling rivalry. 517 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,720 It's a work of art. The phenom, the Undertaker. The Undertaker and Kane were 518 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:21,500 able to raise the bar. 519 00:44:21,740 --> 00:44:22,860 The demon Kane. 520 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,580 Of what was possible. 521 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,880 The brother of destruction. 522 00:44:29,550 --> 00:44:32,270 People understood that, they accepted it, and they loved it. 523 00:44:33,990 --> 00:44:37,030 I'm very proud of the story that we were able to tell through the years. 524 00:44:38,490 --> 00:44:42,390 Our body of work will stand against any tag team. 525 00:44:43,410 --> 00:44:48,110 There was really no other way to put a title on what it was that we did in the 526 00:44:48,110 --> 00:44:49,110 ring. 527 00:44:49,370 --> 00:44:51,730 Just utter destruction. 528 00:44:53,470 --> 00:44:54,470 It's mythology. 529 00:44:55,470 --> 00:44:56,830 It's Shakespearean. 530 00:44:57,230 --> 00:44:58,950 You can't kill what won't die. 531 00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:03,830 Rest in peace.