Good Ol' JR and Jerry “The King” Lawler are on commentary for this match. The quarterfinals have a 15-minute time limit. Undertaker enters first with Paul Bearer. Jim Ross reminds us that Kane debuted in this building the previous year's October at In Your House: Badd Blood as the man himself makes his entrance.
KANE VS. UNDERTAKER (Deadly Games Quarterfinal)
WWF Survivor Series 1998 (15th November 1998)
Undertaker starts us off right away with lefts and rights in the corner. He politely tells the referee to leave them to their family business and sends Kane across the ring. Kane cuts him off with a back elbow. He throws Undertaker into the corner and hits him with rights. Undertaker is sent off the ropes into a big boot. Kane clotheslines Undertaker over the top rope, but he lands on his feet, taking a walk around ringside. Kane follows him to the floor and hits him from behind, then sends Undertaker's head into the apron, then into the barricade. Kane charges but is dropped onto the barricade, Undertaker sends his brother into the ring steps. Undertaker headbutts Kane, kicks him in the gut, and brings it back into the ring. He hits Kane with right hands, but can't knock him off his feet, Kane reverses an irish whip and hits a powerslam on Undertaker, he gets some height for an elbow drop but Undertaker sits up. He takes Kane back to the corner, Kane reverses an irish whip but runs into a big boot. Undertaker chop blocks Kane, taking him off his feet.
Undertaker drops his elbow into Kane's knee, twisting at it on the mat. He gets some right hands in, but Kane kicks away from a spinning toehold. Kane is sent into the corner, Undertaker carries on kicking at his knee and sends his head into the top turnbuckle. Undertaker chokes Kane in the corner and intimidates the referee before he's disqualified. He sends Kane's head into the turnbuckle, tries the third time but Kane blocks it, sending Taker into it. Kane walks through a series of right hands from Undertaker, but a kick to the midsection and throat strike slow him down. Kane blocks an irish whip so Undertaker knees him in the midsection. The irish whip is reversed, Kane follows with a clothesline in the corner. He vaults over the ropes and climbs to the top rope, he hits the flying clothesline and I have no idea how that wasn't the Clothesline from Hell. It would have fit.
He covers Undertaker but only gets a nearfall. They exchange right hands on their feet, Kane gets the best of it backing Undertaker into the ropes and he sends Taker across the ring. Undertaker ducks a clothesline and grabs Kane's throat, Kane grabs Undertaker's throat, he breaks Undertaker's grasp and chokeslams Undertaker. Paul Bearer gets on the apron, Kane takes a wild swing but doesn't connect then turns into a Tombstone piledriver! Paul Bearer holds Kane's foot down for the pinfall 1, 2, 3.
WINNER: UNDERTAKER
This was more about the story evolving between these two, it was just two big guys hitting each other and they were comparable equal until Paul Bearer threw himself into the finish. An OK match, but no one expected it to be a 5-star classic and we got what we needed from the match..– As a match it's ** but personally I'd rate it 3/10
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