Kane Reveals How Much The Undertaker Had Meant To His Pro Wrestling Career

 Kane was recently a guest on The Steve Austin Show and he discussed his working relationship with The Deadman.

"Again, going back to what Dutch Mantell told me. At the time I was working for Jerry Lawler in the USWA. I was still under contract with the WWF, but they weren't doing anything with me so they farmed me out with Jerry Lawler. I am talking with Dutch Mantell and he is telling me that the Kane character is going to be successful because Mark [Undertaker] Calloway is going to make it successful," Jacobs said. "That is exactly what happened. He was always a huge advocate of mine. In fact, the first match against The Undertaker was actually in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. He and Shawn Michaels came down and did a show I think was called 'Super Brawl' with Jim Cornette."

When Kane made his debut, big men were at the top of the list within the company. Kane just had a feeling he should work a program with The Undertaker.

"As you say, he is a big guy that I think he felt that he could draw money with me. The thing about being a big guy in our business is again, you don't have to take as many bumps but anything you do has to look extremely believable because everything is exaggerated when it you are bigger. People expect that. So that is sort of the drawback of it. Yes, you have to know how to be vulnerable and sell the right way and all of those things but I was very fortunate because Mark was behind the whole thing.

He was tremendously helpful. In fact, it is one of those things where you would have egos once in a while where someone wouldn't want to do something where they need to do and basically I would tell them, look, you can either do this or we can talk to Undertaker about it and eventually they did. Mark also understood that success in this business when you are in this business it is like a dance and it takes two people to succeed."