This WWE executive initially thought The Undertaker would never connect with the fans.
Speaking on a recent episode of Six Feet Under, Bruce Prichard recalled pitching “Kane” as Mark Calaway’s ring name due to its biblical roots.
“They sent over the drawings of different looks for you to be this dark character, and the coolest one was what we ended up with. He [Pat Patterson] goes, ‘He looks like an old-fashioned Undertaker.’ And I was like, yeah, that’s great, but I wanted to call you Kane, because Kane (Cain) was the first man to commit murder. Kane killed his brother Abel.
“In many ways, Kane was the most evil person in biblical lore, kills his own brother, first man to ever commit murder. And I just loved that name, cool, strong name Kane.
‘Kane’ The Undertaker lasted three weeks in WWE
“And so it was going to be Kane The Undertaker, that was the deal, you couldn’t get more evil than Kane.
“We were gonna go with that, we went three weeks with Kane, until we dropped it. We did three weeks, and then we did TV, that’s why I remember it’s three weeks because we did that whole TV’s as Kane, The Undertaker.
“The next TV, which was three weeks later, we dropped the Kane, and you were just The Undertaker. And I was like, ‘That’ll never get over.’” [H/T: WrestleTalk]
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