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When it comes to the most inhuman horrors

to ever enter the squared circle, well--

That's got to be Kane.

Through hellfire and brimstone, it's Kane.

Consumed by an infernal desire to set ablaze

the lives of his fellow superstars, Kane left a scorched

path of destruction behind his fiery footsteps.

A lightning bolt has just struck-- My God, he's on fire.

Today, we're celebrating the haunting career

of The Devil's Favorite Demon.

Welcome to your worst nightmare.

This is WWE's Greatest Moments.

If you smell--

Oh, my God.

What the hell are you doing?

Absolutely unbelievable.

Hulkamania is here.

Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.

I'm Michael Cole.

And on this edition, we're looking back

at the best of Kane.

Before The Big Red Machine arrived,

his story began with one of the darkest

and most twisted origins in WWE history.

In 1997, The Undertaker's former manager,

Paul Bearer, revealed that The Deadman may have an equal.

Bearer claimed that The Undertaker's half-brother Kane,

thought to have been lost in their family house fire years

ago, is still alive.

He's waited 20 years to face his brother.

He's coming, Deadman.

Kane's coming.

He's coming.

At Badd Blood 1997, as The Undertaker faced Shawn

Michaels inside Hell in a Cell, the WWE Universe was introduced

to the embodiment of Hellfire and Brimstone as The Demon

finally revealed himself to the world.

Now, will come the Tombstone.

No.

Wait a minute.

What the hell's that?

Oh, my God.

Wait a minute.

It's Paul Bearer.

That's got to be-- That's got to be Kane.

When you first see Kane for the first time,

you get this monster coming out in this awesome-looking mask,

the gear is incredible.

He's ripping the door off the cell.

My God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

He just ripped the door off its hinges.

The live audience had no idea what was going on.

Oh, my God.

Look at the size of this human being.

You get this look in The Undertaker's face that

you've never seen before.

There's this look of bewilderment in my eyes.

Kane is the anti-Undertaker.

He would come out and raise the lights back on, his hands up.

So, Kane threw his hands down.

That was just all perfectly executed.

Undertaker set up for the Tombstone,

driven down to the canvas.

For the first time, I actually felt

like I was a WWE superstar.

That's the greatest debut in WWE history.

Kane has defeated The Undertaker.

This is shocking.

Kane tore his way through competitors.

He's the baddest son of bitch you'll ever see.

Officials-

Oh, my God.

Ooh.

and even Pete Rose.

Pete.

That's baseball's all-time hit leader.

The Hit King himself would be a guest ring announcer

at WrestleMania XIV where he would come face-to-face

with a different "Big Red Machine."

The city of losers.

You can't win a World Series.

Something you got to understand about Boston

fans, we are passionate about our sports.

We're serious about it.

Pete Rose comes out talking trash.

How about it?

Hellfire and Brimstone personified.

Straight out of the-the mouth of hell

comes The Undertaker's brother, Kane.

Watching Pete Rose do his thing and realizing,

"My gosh, this guy is a great performer.

He would've been a great wrestling heel."

What is he doing?

No, no, that's Pete Rose.

To see Kane muscle Pete Rose up and then spike him,

it's awesome.

Pete Rose.

I cannot believe it.

Kane Tombstoned me.

It's not like that in baseball.

It became a WrestleMania moment

for a few years.

It was like a running gag.

If Pete Rose shows up, Kane's going to Tombstone him.

That's Pete Rose.

Pete, not again.

Another Tombstone to Pete Rose.

It turned out to be kind of the folklore of WWE.

Uh-oh.

Oh, no.

Pete Rose just got Chokeslammed.

And I always had just a tremendous time

doing anything to him.

Once again, Pete makes an ass out of himself.

For the third year in a row.

I never envisioned that that would become

part of Kane's legacy.

After Kane sent Pete Rose back to the dugout,

he would go on to face his older brother,

The Undertaker, in their first epic encounter.

The Undertaker has won this match.

It was clear there was unfinished business

for the paranormal pair.

It was just one month later, they would clash

in a battle like no other.

It was the first-ever Inferno Match,

where the only way to win is to set your opponent on fire.

Do you feel the heat out here?

Oh, hell yeah, I feel the heat.

What do you think it feels like in that ring?

The Inferno Match,

one of the craziest matches ever designed.

Those flames exploded, JR.

One of my favorite matches

because it was very unique,

and I also think that that was our best match ever.

The heat is unbearable, folks.

I'm telling you.

We were as close as anybody.

All of a sudden, I could smell, you know, you--

There's that di-distinct smell when something--

air's getting singed.

Man, you talk about right in your face, folks.

I think my eyebrows are singed.

The fire was just sucking up all the oxygen.

So, there's no air to breathe, and we're going at it.

Oh.

Oh, Undertaker threw Kane over the top rope.

How's he going to get back in?

And then we have to figure out

how to get out of the ring.

I ended up diving over the top.

There's The Undertaker.

Oh, my God.

Knocking Kane into the ring post,

that set his arm on fire.

Kane's on fire.

Kane is on fire.

Ooh.

Kane is on fire.

Look out.

He's burning.

And the surreal moment where I'm looking at myself

and I'm on fire in front of about 20,000 people,

and, of course, millions of people watching at home-

Put him out.

Put him out.

we made a faux sleeve.

I was okay with what was happening.

It was really an amazing moment.

A lot of unique matches in my time,

but nothing ever like this one.

The legend of Kane had told us that his face

was badly burned as a child.

So, his iconic mask was a necessity.

More than just concealing his injuries,

his mask meant everything.

It guarded his secrets.

That fire disfigured Kane.

Oh, wait a minute.

He's protected that identity his entire life.

In 2003, Kane was given a World Heavyweight

Championship opportunity, but if he lost, he would lose his mask.

A risk worth taking.

Most of the time, the challenger

has everything to win and nothing to lose,

but that's not the case with Kane tonight.

Kane must become the World Heavyweight Champion

or he must unmask.

Oh.

Unmasking Kane was probably one of

the top debates over the years that-that we've had.

Here it comes.

Here it comes.

The Tombstone.

Oh.

Oh.

The referee didn't see Orton's interference.

And no.

Oh, my God.

Are we going to see it now, JR?

When I lost the-the match,

I was pretty nervous because I'd been very successful

up until that point, um, as a masked character.

I realized that this was an opportunity to take Kane

into another direction completely.

Here it comes.

Oh, my God.

God.

I remember it being terrifying.

Everything was hideous.

You know, everything was, like, shaved.

I think his eyebrows were gone and stuff.

He looked horrifying.

What the hell?

What the hell is that?

Crowd reaction was exactly what we wanted it to be.

I think they were surprised and shocked.

What in the world did we- did we- did we just see and--

Look at that grotesque face.

My God.

And it would go from being a physical monster

to much more of a psychological monster.

The mask was Kane's identity.

It was all he knew.

When he was forced to remove it,

Kane struggled to face the world again.

You will go out and appear in front of those

people tonight, because if you don't, you're fired.

And when his hand was forced-

The Big Red Monster would strike again.

Well, we are back live here on Raw,

and we're just as anxious as you are to see what's going

to happen here with Kane.

That was one of those fun points in my career

because it was a blank canvas

and we were just starting to paint it.

Anyone that tried to get in Kane's way got destroyed.

Good Lord.

Oh, my gosh, on the steel.

Good Lord, that's it.

What is going to happen?

This guy is on the loose.

And now he's like a, like, a true movie monster.

What the hell?

Oh, my God.

This guy was Hannibal Lecter,

but he was 7-foot-tall and 320 pounds.

Oh, my God.

Oh, he's going after Van Dam.

It was constant escalation.

Kane was a real-life horror movie.

He said he hated Rob Van-- Ooh.

Oh, my God.

Kane, Bischoff.

Oh, my God.

Look out.

For the love of God, Bischoff's Chokeslammed

to hell by Kane.

We just wanted to literally shock the audience and

do something so over the top that that would create the buzz.

My God.

It didn't matter who it was.

At that point, you did not get in Kane's way,

or something really bad was going to happen to you.

Oh, my God.

Kane has destroyed Bischoff.

When Kane first appeared on the scene,

he was a mysterious figure championed by his father,

Paul Bearer, who did all his talking.

Welcome to your worst nightmare.

But slowly over time,

Kane grew the confidence to open up.

Kane has got two words for you.

Suck it.

He even garnered a fan following

that he dubbed the Kanenites.

17,000 screaming Kanenites

rose to their feet in unison.

Audience gravitated toward Kane as he became

emboldened by his power to talk.

But in 2002, as Kane was about to team up with The Rock and

Hulk Hogan, the WWE Universe

saw a side of The Demon that no one expected.

Are you ready to go out there

and whoop candy ass?

Oh, I'm ready.

Are you ready?

You bet your ass I'm ready.

It doesn't matter if you're ready.

That whole segment was amazing because

it went from being just the guy that didn't talk to now being

very entertaining with obviously two of the most entertaining

superstars of all time.

And you know something, brothers?

Whether it's the millions-

and millions of The Rock's fans, or 20,000

Hulkamaniacs, or 20,000 screaming Kanenites-

Kanenites?

It was a great play on Rock with his millions of fans

and the 20,000 screaming Hulkamaniacs.

whatcha gonna do-

The star was Kane, and the reason

he was the star is because of the reactions as well.

whatcha gonna do when Hulk Hogan and The Rock

and the Big Red Machine run wild on you?

Whatcha gonna do?

That was an incredible moment.

The Rock and Hogan enjoyed it as well.

For Hogan, it was an homage to him, and then, of course,

you can see Rock's reactions.

I'll see you guys out there.

No sibling rivalry in WWE history has been more

volatile, more heinous, more destructive than that of Kane

and his older brother, The Undertaker.

In their many battles over the years, the Deadman would come

out on top over his younger brother.

Rest in peace, Kane.

But in 2010, Kane was the World Heavyweight Champion.

He hoped to shift the tide

as The Undertaker sought his brother's gold.

You are not worthy to carry that championship.

You're living in a fantasy, big brother.

The reality is I am now the dominant brother.

At Night of Champions, the satanic siblings would once

again come to blows in a No Holds Barred match.

No Holds Barred, ladies and gentlemen.

Anything goes in this matchup for the World Title.

Undertaker wasting little time

going after his brother, Kane.

Many props as Kane gets, he's underrated.

And now in 2010, during that run, he was a menace.

A diseased soul has ravaged Kane

and turned him into a bitter and jealous man.

He's more of a monster.

Undertaker was always here,

but Kane definitely rose to that same level.

When I think of these two guys,

there was nothing more interesting.

Big Boot.

Can he pull this off?

Can Undertaker pull this off?

Going for the Chokeslam.

Going for the Chokeslam.

He does it.

Are we going to have a new World Heavyweight Champion?

Oh, he got it.

Going for the Tombstone.

Kane, reversal.

Ooh.

Reversal by Kane.

Counter by Kane.

Ooh.

Tombstone Piledriver.

Kane has defeated his brother.

To beat the Undertaker in, like, a huge match,

now, all of a sudden, it's like,

"Wow, this dude's for real."

Like, for real, for real.

That was the most impressive match that

I've ever seen Kane ever have.

In 2003, when Kane was forced to unmask and show his

face to the world, it altered his psyche even further.

Look at that grotesque face.

I think I just saw somebody throw up.

The tortured soul that was Kane

became emotionally unstable.

Look out.

WWE Announcer Jim Ross sat down

with the Big Red Monster to discuss his feelings.

This is gasoline, JR.

You make fun of me and I will set you on fire.

Leading to a destructive rampage.

JR, I was a normal, happy child

until a fire turned me into a hideous monster.

You don't appear to be scarred or deformed in any way.

What are you saying, JR?

Kane basically thinks he has this horrible physical

deformity, even though he doesn't.

Look at me, JR. I'm a monster.

Don't you see that?

What he does have, though, is he has scars on the inside.

Kane, I see a man that needs help.

Kane was unhinged.

You-

Please.

need to feel my pain.

No.

And he was diabolical.

Kane was on the loose, and he was going to do whatever he

wanted, whenever he wanted, to whoever he wanted.

Don't do it. Don't do it.

Oh, no. Good God.

Fry, you son of a bitch.

Fry.

This is one of those moments

where you're like, this seems a little too real.

Kane set Jim Ross on fire.

Somebody help him.

It was a very volatile burn.

It got hot quick.

Somebody get somebody in there.

It was one of those wrestling things that,

as a kid, you had to sit back and go,

"Did that- did that really happen?

Did he really set him on fire?"

Are you okay, JR?

JR. JR. Guys, we need help.

Get some help.

The Devil's Favorite Demon was always

competing at a high level and mastered many match types.

Kane wins the Ambulance Match.

The Inferno Match.

Look at him.

The rules are simple, folks.

You lose when you can set your opponent on fire.

Oh.

The Hell in a Cell Match.

Oh.

He just got dropped on his head.

But how would Kane fare in a Money in the Bank

Ladder Match?

In 2010, we'd all find out.

That briefcase guarantees the victor a championship

opportunity anytime up to one year.

Oh no, no, no.

Oh.

I was always the one that could use the ladder as a tool.

I was the one that could cause a lot of havoc

when I was in there.

Kane sends McIntyre to the mat below.

Kane has earned the contract for a championship

match anytime up to one year.

Usually, there's this big, long build-up,

someone's going to cash it in, and, of course, being Kane,

I had to do things a little differently.

Oh, my Lord.

Kane just won the Money in the Bank about an hour ago.

Rey Mysterio just finishing the match

of his career.

Kane going to cash it in on a weak Rey Mysterio.

This was the moment that everyone realized

you don't have to wait a year to cash in.

Chokeslam.

You can cash in 49 minutes later.

Kane.

Tombstone Piledriver.

Kane with the cover.

One of the highlights of my career.

Anytime that you win a World Championship,

you're one of the faces of the company.

That's really something special.

Kane is the new world champion.

We have now reached our number one moment,

and it's one that set more than just the WWE Universe ablaze.

The sibling rivalry between half-brothers,

Undertaker and Kane, was explosive.

How much more of this will The Undertaker take?

Literally and figuratively.

Maybe not much more.

At the 1998 Royal Rumble, The Deadman faced

"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels in a Casket Match.

What is this?

Wait a minute.

They're ganging up on The Undertaker.

Kane decided it was time to let his older brother

feel the burn.

Oh, my God.

It may be Kane.

There he is.

There he is.

Oh.

Kane manhandling anything that's moving.

Everyone thought that I was there

to save The Undertaker.

In fact, I was there to bury The Undertaker and end his career.

Oh, no.

Kane is assaulting his brother.

No one did stuff like that to The Undertaker.

He was the irresistible force.

The Undertaker in the casket.

Michaels shut the lid.

Now you've got somebody

that's eye-to-eye with The Undertaker.

Even bigger than The Undertaker.

They're locking the casket.

Where are Paul Bearer and Kane taking The Undertaker?

He's this crazy big red monster,

and you just didn't know which way it was going to go.

What is he doing?

He's destroying the casket,

but The Undertaker is in that casket.

This is nothing but carnage.

I don't think the audience ever believed that,

"Wow, The Undertaker is actually in trouble."

But with Kane, they did believe that.

And my God, the casket's on fire.

The casket's on fire.

It just took me to a completely different level.

And now it's like,

"Oh, man, wow, Kane is like a bad dude."

The Undertaker is in the casket.

People were astonished.

"You've set your opponent on fire."

It's the best story that WWE's ever told.

I still can't believe it.

Michael] A creature so terrifying,

Kane was extracted directly from your childhood nightmares.

There is no question that The Big Red Machine

was one of the best to ever do it.

Well, that's all for this edition

of WWE's Greatest Moments.

I hope you've enjoyed this look back at the best of Kane.