At April 1997s In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker event, The Undertaker launched a fireball into the face of former manager, Paul Bearer, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist his protege, 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. The injury prompted Bearer to attempt to reunite with The Undertaker after a long period of mutual hostility, using the ultimatum of revealing The Undertakers biggest secret; during the cryptic interview, Bearer likened the fire that had burned his face to a fire that had occurred during The Undertakers childhood. When The Undertaker continually refused to once again align with Bearer, Bearer began tormenting him by telling him that his long-lost brother, Kane (later revealed as Bearers son and the Undertakers half-brother), was coming to the WWF to challenge him.[14] In the ensuing months, Bearer implied that The Undertaker had killed his family by starting a fire at their funeral home, with the exception of Kane, who was left physically and mentally scarred by the event; The Undertaker claimed that Kane, a pyromaniac, was the one who started the fire and could not possibly have survived (however, during October 1998, this is exposed as a falsehood when the Undertaker confessed to burning down the funeral home, shortly prior to his 1999 heel gimmick as the dark priest of the Ministry of Darkness).
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