Kane recently spoke with Michael Potts of The Radio Times about The Undertaker and where he fits in the history of the WWE. Here is what he had to say:
“That is a hard question because at different times, WWE has changed, and I hate that question, no offense! It’s hard because you have different generations,” Kane said. “I think The Undertaker character is the greatest character in WWE history. When you talk about the biggest superstars he’s in the top five, but as far as the actual character goes, by far, it’s him. He was influential on my career from the very start. He was my role model in the ring.
“I was a huge fan of the character, and also Mark Calaway as a performer and an athlete, he can do stuff a person that size had never done before. We often forget that because the character is so cool, we forget that part of the Undertaker, this guy who is 6ft 8, 6ft 9, 300lbs and could move like a cat and do all this amazingly athletic stuff. People that big just shouldn’t be able to do that. That to me is really what made the Undertaker special. A lot of people could have done the character maybe, not as well as he did, but no-one except him could have brought the athleticism to the character that he did.”
