One Iconic Moment For Every Year Of The Undertaker's WWE Career
19. 2002 - A Bloody Battle With The Beast
Brock Lesnar will come up again in this list (bet you can't guess where), but he and 'Taker's paths actually crossed long before you might think.
WWE strapped the rocket to The Beast when he debuted in 2002. By SummerSlam that year, he was already world champion, and was later drafted over to SmackDown to lead the brand.
Also on the blue show at the time was The Undertaker, so it was only a matter of time before the two titans clashed.
Their first pay-per-view match at Unforgiven ended in a double-DQ. To ensure this wouldn't happen again, a rematch was made for the No Mercy inside Hell in a Cell.
What followed was a brutal affair; a bloody battle that even saw Paul Heyman get busted open and he wasn't even inside the cell!
The war finally ended when 'Taker fell to an F5. Not only had Brock retained his championship, but he'd done so in a savage match inside one of the company's toughest stipulations.
'Taker really helped elevate The Next Big Thing with this win and, when you find out he wrestled the entire match with a broken freakin' hand, your respect for The Deadman only goes up.