The Undertaker vs. Kane

 

The Winner: The Undertaker

Background Noise

This match came to be in November 2003 when Kane buried The Undertaker alive. This apparently was enough for The Undertaker to say “To hell with this biker shit, I’mma be a magic zombie again”. He proceeded to do a bunch of magical zombie shit to set this match up. The Undertaker had not appeared on TV since his burial, so this whole match was promoted with Kane’s reactions to magical zombie shit.

The Undertaker was accompanied to the ring by a returning Paul Bearer and druids with torches. Paul Bearer is very fat here. I own this match on DVD.

The Bell

As the bell rang, Kane proclaimed “You aren’t real”. The look on Kane’s face made this better. He reached out and touched The Undertaker as if he were a mannequin, as soon as he did this, Taker pounced with repeated punches. He then turned and looked at the referee, the referee bolted. Kane escaped the ring too, when Undertaker followed, Kane took the advantage with strikes but Undertaker gained the advantage again and hit the running guillotine legdrop. Undertaker used high impact clotheslines and tried to hit a Last Ride powerbomb but Kane backdropped out of it and began hammering with punches and chokes. Kane hits an enormous sidewalk slam and a flying clothesline from the top rope. After a few minutes of Kane punches, Undertaker was able to drop Kane with a boot and a big leg drop. He tried Old School but Kane caught him in chokeslam position, Undertaker retaliated and grabbed his own chokehold. Kane was able to get the better of the battle and hit one of his own. As Kane taunted Paul Bearer, Undertaker sat up. Undertaker followed up with classic offense. Running clothesline, chokeslam. Tombstone. End.

The Verdict

Even going in, there was little doubt as to who was going to win this. Usually people who return from time away, like The Undertaker did here, win. Although, this was subverted in 2010 when The Undertaker returned from an injury caused by another Kane “attack”, he lost to Kane 3 straight times. Kane didn’t get a lot of offense and nor should he have I believe. This match at the time was more about the return of the old school deadman Undertaker than anything else