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Tech Blog. Throughout The Undertaker's childhood and teen years, he lived in a funeral home with his parents and half-brother. According to Paul Bearer, The Undertaker killed his parents and caused his half-brother's face to be bruised and scarred by setting the funeral home ablaze.
At the time throughout mid to late , The Undertaker denied all this, claiming it was his younger half-brother's fault. Bearer accused The Undertaker of being a "murderer" and "liar". This led to an intense, bitter rivalry between The Undertaker and Kane with Bearer very much involved.
Bearer and The Undertaker became a team once again as heels toward the end of when Bearer betrayed his own son, Kane, in favor of managing The Undertaker once again. Once becoming a heel with Bearer, The Undertaker shamelessly admitted to setting the funeral home ablaze for which he had initially claimed was an accident or blamed Kane.
Bearer had somewhat reverted back to his original appearance once in the Ministry of Darkness, having jet-black hair and mustache. In early , Bearer, who turned face once more briefly, returned to WWF TV as Kane's manager, but he retired from on-screen performing shortly after WrestleMania Later that year, he went backstage to serve as a WWF road agent, stage manager, and talent scout.
His contract with WWE ended in October This was set up in order to temporarily write Bearer out of WWE story lines because he had to undergo emergency gallbladder surgery after suddenly developing gallstones, a common side effect of gastric bypass surgery.
Paul Bearer would be encased in a glass crypt backstage, covered up to his chest in cement. In the storyline, Heyman demanded that Undertaker throw the match or else see Bearer suffocated in cement.
By the time of the pay-per-view, Bearer had recovered from his latest operation and would appear on-screen. Undertaker won the match but proceeded afterwards to pull the lever that sent cement into the crypt, completely burying Paul Bearer, suffocating him.
Bearer was not really at the event. During the event, there was a stunt double in the crypt the whole time. That's why the TV audience could only see Paul Bearer and the crypt he was in — since he wasn't there, they couldn't actually show anyone on screen with Bearer. The live audience, however, saw an extended ending in which Bearer surfaced for air and was carried from the arena on a stretcher. On the following week's SmackDown!
The rehearsal taping earlier in the day of the Bash — with Undertaker ad-libbing and only half of the stunt complete, in an empty arena — was leaked onto the internet dirt sheets and actually broadcast live by accident in many of the TV markets.
As he had two years remaining on his contract, however, Bearer was used as a booker for the company up until WWE decided to terminate his contract on April 11, On the September 24 episode of SmackDown , Bearer returned after being brought out in a casket.
Bearer would help The Undertaker , who was feuding with Kane over the World Heavyweight Championship , by restoring Undertaker's powers with the urn.
Bearer would officially become Undertaker's manager again by accompanying him to the ring for his match against Kane for the title at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. During the match however, Bearer once again turned on Undertaker, after shining a light in his eyes when he was about to tombstone Kane.
Paul Bearer wasn't his real name, but Moody was a real life mortician. Pre-Paul Bearer days, Moody had been involved in the wrestling scene as a manager, but after the birth of his daughter, went back to university to study for a degree in mortuary science.
WWE has been unkindly compared to a soap opera, and one storyline that was incredibly OTT was the discovery that Paul Bearer had a secret illegitimate son, monstrous adult baby Kane. Kane and his dad's pet The Undertaker absolutely loathed one another, but then there was another twist Kane and The Undertaker were half-brothers, sharing a mum!
Like any normal siblings, Kane and The Undertaker would regularly fall out - but they would try and bury each other alive or kill one another. Eventually they found a common ground and became a successful tag team, the Brothers of Destruction. Paul Bearer carried a mysterious urn that contained an unknown enchanted substance that was able to energise the Undertaker when he was in trouble in the ring.
He appeared to be able to control the 6"10 monster fighter by using it to raise him up when he was floundering on the mat, or grab his attention and guide him around. The urn was opened on a couple of occasions, and green smoke came out. Some wrestling fans argue that The Undertaker's soul is in the urn, and the man fighting in the ring is some sort of zombie caught in limbo.
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