Ranking The Undertaker’s 27 WWE WrestleMania Matches From Worst To Best

The Undertaker and Kane saga has gone down in history as one of WWE's best pieces of epic storytelling, and rightly so because the way in which the company introduced the 'Big Red Machine' as the long lost brother of 'The Deadman' was fantastic.

Six months of beatings from Kane - and some well-devised internal conflict from 'Taker - all led to the pair's first match, at WrestleMania XIV, in what was undeniably a titanic collision. From that iconic image of the two staring at each other to the fact that it took three Tombstones to topple the 'Devil's Favourite Demon, the match went a long way in presenting Kane as a dominant opponent even in defeat - something that was reinforced by the fact that he spent most of the 17-minute run-time bloody slaughtering 'Taker.

In the years that followed, opinions on this one have changed (and changed back again), but what critics needs to understand is that this was never supposed to be technical masterpiece. What it was supposed to be was an absolute war between two monsters who simply wanted to beat the living daylights out of each other, while putting Kane over as an unstoppable monster in the process.

Undoubtedly the hardest-fought match of The Undertaker's career, the fatigue on his face afterwards was evidence that both he and Kane had given us everything they had to satisfy audiences. And they bloody-well accomplished that.