Ranking EVERY Undertaker Vs Kane Match From Worst To Best
5. WrestleMania XIV (March 29th, 1998)
Still hard to determine if this was supremely well-worked or a touch on the cocky side, but The Undertaker and Kane's first bout against one another felt every bit as big as the near-one year story that fed into it.
1997's summer introduction of the character to canon before his formal arrival in October was twisted yet elegant stuff from a company starting to find a new creative voice thanks to the brash New Yorker lending his to the top table. Elaborate and potentially very silly, the tales told by Paul Bearer of Kane's tortured past and The Undertaker's grim future were only going to be as good as the eventual reveal.
Kane's role was destroy, but when setting fire to The Undertaker at the Royal Rumble (!) didn't put him away for good, 'The Big Red Machine' had to rely on his own supernatural strength in a decent hoss battle enhanced by Undertaker taking an announce table to the face from his big match dive.
It's remembered more for Pete Rose than the 17 minutes that followed, but don't hold that against it.