Ranking Every Undertaker Match Type From Worst To Best

6. Inferno Match

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The same criteria which we applied to the Boiler Room Brawl can once again be used here. No, the Inferno Match is not an exclusive Undertaker match. That honour goes to his little kayfabe brother Kane. But by default, that gives The Undertaker (and Paul Bearer who came up with the idea on-screen) a creative credit.

The pair's 1998 war in the ring at Unforgiven: In Your House may not have been a five-star classic between two high-flyers, but it was an all-out vicious war between two brothers hellbent on destroying each other - and if they had to set each on fire to do so, then so be it.

The Inferno Match instantly enhanced Kane's character - being to him what the Casket/Buried Alive/insert-supernatural-stipulation-here matches were for 'The Phenom' - and it also provided 'Taker with another unearthly classic that was every bit as larger-than-life as the two monsters in the ring.

Their rematch in 1999 was pretty nondescript by comparison, but it's hard not to get a rush of awe every time you revisit that classic bout.

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