The Undertaker vs. Kane

The Winner: The Undertaker

Background Noise

This match took place on March 29^th 1998. Wrestlemania 14

This match stemmed from the fact that when they were children, The Undertaker killed his brother Kane in a fire at the family funeral home. But Kane wasn’t dead, he was locked up in Paul Bearer’s basement. And he was only Undertaker’s half brother. That is as simple as I can make this back story.

A phenomenal entrance. One of Undertaker’s best and the best up to this point no doubt. Druids, torches. The crowd loved it. Paul Bearer accompanied Kane to the ring for this match. I do remember this match, as I watched it on VHS the next day.
The Bell

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The Verdict

The problem with this match is that both of these men, at times leading up to this feud, set each other ON FIRE. Yet not often in the match did it match the intensity of something I would do to someone who set me on fire. Kane did very well telling a story in this match of showing years of aggression. Undertaker did well fighting back. Kane broke up one of his own pinfalls to continue the beating. He followed it up with a headlock/chinlock but it was moving in the right direction. He used the steel steps early in the match to work over The Undertaker’s back. The occasional bouts of aggression worked but there wasn’t enough. After the match Kane left Undertaker laid out with a tombstone on a chair.

Kane’s closest moment of victory was hitting The Undertaker with his own move, a tombstone piledriver for a two count. Kane kicked out of two tombstones later in the match and that showed that he was something different than The Undertaker had faced. It was convincing that Kane was tough to beat but I believe Diesel had The Undertaker beaten better than Kane did.