https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojDyTARusc After Mark Canterbury suffered a career-threatening injury, his longtime partner Dennis Knight was left alone, his own career in jeopardy. Therefore, when The Undertaker invited him to meet him on Raw, Knight wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity despite the fact that in the fall of 1998, 'Taker had started acting very, very strangely. As it turned out, Knight should have been more cautious. He was attacked and kidnapped by The Acolytes, then restrained in a dungeon. Still, that was only the beginning of it. On the January 11, 1999 edition of Monday Night Raw, Paul Bearer, and the Acolytes brought Knight unconscious and laid out on a table out into the arena. A large throne bearing The Undertaker moved out onto the stage, and a weird, long speech in 'Taker's voice was played over the P.A. He got out of his throne, began speaking in tongues, took a knife from Bearer, and sliced his own hand open. He made Knight drink the blood, declared him "Mideon," then carved his symbol into his servant's chest. The fans chanted "bullshit," but the deed was done there was no Dennis, only Mideon.
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