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Brothers of Destruction
Tag team
Members	The Undertaker Kane[1] Paul Bearer (manager)
Name(s)	Kane and The Undertaker[1] The Brothers of Destruction[1]
Heights	Undertaker: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)[2] Kane: 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)[3]
Combined weight	628 lb (285 kg)[4]
Debut	1998
Promotions	WWF/E

The Brothers of Destruction are a professional wrestling tag team in WWE consisting of The Undertaker and Kane.^[4]

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Tag team division dominance (2001) 1.2 Unofficial encounters (2002–2005) 1.3 On-and-off reunions (2006–present) 2 In wrestling 3 Championships and accomplishments 4 References 5 External links

[edit]History

After The Undertaker won the WWF Championship at WrestleMania 13, Paul Bearer attempted to reunite with him the following night on Monday night RAW, the two having been engaged in a long period of mutual hostility ever since Bearer'sSummer Slam 96' betrayal of The Undertaker. When the Undertaker rejected the offer, Bearer along with his then-protege and arch-enemy of the Undertaker, Mankind, launched a fireball into the face of The Undertaker. This culminated at April's In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker event when The Undertaker returned the favor, launching a fireball of his own into the face of his former manager, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist Mankind to victory in their WWF Championship match. On the May 12 episode of Raw, Foley reintroduced Bearer, whose face was heavily bandaged due to the burns The Undertaker had inflicted upon him. Bearer again made efforts to get Undertaker to be his protege, this time around, however, threatening the exposure of a fire-related secret, The Undertaker's "biggest secret". During the cryptic interview, Bearer likened the fire that had burned his face at "Revenge of the Taker" to a fire that had occurred during The Undertaker's childhood (the secret).

The secret in question suggested that Bearer had a traumatic past with The Undertaker, long preceding Brother Love's joining the two as manager and protege in January 1991. The secret was that: The Undertaker's mother had an affair with Bearer and as a result, gave birth to a younger half-brother of The Undertaker, named Kane. (It's important to note that while growing up, Undertaker and presumably his deceased father lived the vast majority of their lives under the belief that Kane was fully related to them, that is, until Bearer unintentionally (kayfabe) revealed to a RAW audience that he was actually Kane's father. This was as a result of an affair Bearer had with their mother, making Kane and Undertaker half-brothers. This came to light when Bearer informed Jerry Lawler on Monday night Raw, at a point in which he thought cameras had stopped rolling for a commercial but were still on). Growing up, Undertaker lived in a funeral home with his family. According to the secret, The Undertaker committed arson/murder, burning down the family funeral home, in the process, killing his parents and scarring his half-brother's face. Bearer, who survived the fire, hid Kane in a mental asylum during the rest of Kane's youth into adulthood. In the meantime, Bearer went on to form an alliance with The Undertaker while in the World Wrestling Federation, standing by his side for six years before eventually betraying him atSummerSlam 96'.

After suffering mistreatment at the hands of Undertaker, who had long been vindictive and embittered over the SummerSlam 96' betrayal, Bearer opted to exact his own vengeance upon the Undertaker with the ultimatum of revealing his biggest secret. Feeling he had no choice, The Undertaker eventually obliged Bearer. While managing The Undertaker this time around, Bearer engaged in constant bullying behaviors, tyrannizing over The Undertaker and nagging at him constantly. At numerous points in which Undertaker attempted to defend himself or disobey, Bearer would subjugate him by threatening exposure of the secret.

Eventually however, Undertaker lost his patience and refused to allow Bearer to manage him any longer, leading to Bearer's exposure of the secret. At the time, Undertaker denied charges of committing the arson/murder, claiming his younger half-brother, a pyromaniac, was the culprit and due to the incident couldn't possibly even be alive (it's important to note that approximately a year and a half later from this point, during the latter part of 1998, Undertaker exposes himself as dishonest by shamelessly confessing to committing the arson/murder, shortly prior to his 1999Ministry of Darkness director heel shtick). Bearer accused The Undertaker of not only being a "murderer", but a "liar" whil