6 April 2014 – PPV digitals: WWE Hall of Fame 2014 Kane and Undertaker

6 April 2014 – Paul Bearer is inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame: Photos

“Kane takes the stage to speak a few words about Paul Bearer.”

“The Devil’s Favorite Demon introduces Michael and Daniel Mooney, Bearer’s sons, to accept the induction on behalf of their father.”

Those boys are the image of their dad …

“The two men accept with a hearty “Oooohh, yes!!!” and exit stage left.”

“The Undertaker arrives to pay a final tribute to The Father of Destruction.”

No words.

WWE.com has video of The Undertaker’s tribute here … I haven’t seen the Hall of Fame ceremony, and won’t until the DVD is released. But if this one minute of video is anything to go by, I’ll be in tears for sure.

Just going to round this out with this picture, courtesy #TeamBestie, of Trish Stratus and Kane. Because yeah, it’s kind of adorable!

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3 March 2014: RAW news – Undertaker

No Undertaker this week, but there was this:

From WWE.com:

Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar addressed The Undertaker’s return

CHICAGO – IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME … almost.

Faced with a Chicago crowd foaming at the mouth for the return of CM Punk, Paul Heyman addressed his former protégé’s absence the only way he knew how: By sitting cross-legged in the ring and denouncing the WWE Universe who “took [Punk] away” from Heyman and The Undertaker, who instigated Punk’s fateful break from Heyman’s tutelage.

However, with The Phenom back in Heyman’s sights after the events of last week, a revenge-hungry Heyman brought out Brock Lesnar to respond to last week’s confrontation with The Undertaker, but The Anomaly soon found himself besieged – yet again – by Mark Henry, who’s still got a score to settle with the former UFC Heavyweight Champion after being injured at his hands. Despite scoring a strike to The Anomaly’s face, The World’s Strongest Man found himself F-5’ed through a table in a demonic demonstration to The Deadman, wherever he may be.

Brilliant work by Paul Heyman (who once, in the long distant past on WCW, managed ‘Taker as Paul E. Dangerously) – both in defusing the Chicago crowd, who were, predictably, baying for Punk, and in giving a clever rationale for the match between Bork and ‘Taker at ‘Mania.

If there’s a better guy on the mic than Paul Heyman, dunno where they’re hiding him!

The other piece of Undertaker-related news, although it’s also Kane-related, is that the WWE announced that Paul Bearer, who sadly passed away last year, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.

While WWE.com has this up on the Raw homepage, there’s an article from Matt Fowler here that’s easier to navigate to, and includes not just the video package for Paul the WWE put together, but a great bonus one of Paul singing “Happy birthday” – enjoy the memories!

This one came from the WWE Facebook page.

For those thinking that the Undertaker will induct Paul – probably not. Had this induction taken place after ‘Taker retired, perhaps. But while he’s still performing, and the night before WrestleMania? Highly unlikely, I think.

Ultimately, it will be up to Paul Bearer’s family to decide – and the gentleman has so many friends in wrestling, the list will be long and illustrious.

While it’s a well deserved honour, I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to get through it without crying.

Rest in peace, Paul.

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