One Iconic Moment For Every Year Of The Undertaker's WWE Career
16. 2005 - The Burning Casket
It's 2005 and WWE's November pay-per-view. Team Raw are taking on Team SmackDown in a 5-on-5 Elimination match and Randy Orton stands tall as the sole survivor.
However, Orton's celebrations were short-lived.
Once again, druids took to the stage, only this time they were carrying a coffin which they stood upright. Down from the heavens came an almighty lightning bolt, which struck the coffin and set it ablaze.
Orton wasn't a massive fan of this, not just because it was really weird, but also because it heralded the return of one of his greatest foes.
You see, at the previous month's No Mercy, Randy and his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, defeated 'Taker in a Casket Match. After the bout, The Ortons looked to end this feud once and for all by dousing the coffin in gasoline and setting it on fire.
Unfortunately, Undertaker is Fire Type and this wasn't very effective.
In one of the coolest wrestling moments ever, The Phenom kicked open the lid of the burning casket, bursting out of the flames and staring down a terrified Randy.
'Taker is no stranger to amazing returns, but that burning coffin lid exploding outwards to reveal The Deadman is his all-time best.