10 Wrestlers Who Do The Same Spot EVERY TIME They Wrestle Each Other
2. The Undertaker & Kane - The Staredown
When The Undertaker fought Ted Dibiase's evil version of himself at SummerSlam 1994, it was vital WWE got the shot of the two of them going face-to-face as if one was looking in a mirror.
A similar visual with two Doinks at WrestleMania IX the year prior had gotten that entire story over the line, and the assumption was presumably that doing the same there would make the movie magic Vince McMahon adored.
It backfired badly.
All the minor similarities were exposed under the cold spotlight of comparison, which mattered little considering the outcome but somewhat undermined the very idea that there was any confusion in the first place. In Kane, WWE had a monster even bigger than the company cornerstone.
Their original standoff in October 1997 reduced Undertaker to confusion and bewilderment. As the years passed, they became about telling the stories of the battles they'd fought together and apart, always with the subtle reminder that in Vince McMahon's land of the giants, the little brother had an inch or two on the organisation's most valuable big man.