Bruce Prichard Recalls Scrapped Original WWE Name For The Undertaker

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WWE executive Bruce Prichard has recalled the scrapped original WWE name for The Undertaker, which was used before his pay-per-view debut at Survivor Series 1990.

Before embarking on a 30-year in-ring WWE career and becoming one of the company’s most decorated stars in its history, The Undertaker made his WWE debut in November 1990, under the name Kane “The Undertaker”.

The “Kane” part of his name was quickly scrapped however, and would remain on the cutting room floor of WWE until Glenn Jacobs took on the name for his 1997 repackaging into The Undertaker’s storyline brother.

Appearing on Six Feet Under, The Undertaker’s initial on-screen manager Bruce Prichard (fka Brother Love) explained why he pushed for the Kane “The Undertaker” name, and recalled it eventually being dropped.

Prichard said:

“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.

“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 its 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.’”

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