Total Devastation
Credit and ©WWE RAW Magazine December 1998 issue
By Dennis A. Brent

TOTAL DEVASTATION AND MASS DESTRUCTION - THAT'S WHAT VINCE MCMAHON HAS UNLEASHED UPON HIS OWN COMPANY, THE WORD WRESTLING FEDERATION. 


HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE SAME THINGS AS when an air squadron carpet-bombs an enemy - total annihilation with nothing remaining but flames and ashes. That's what Vince McMahon bought and paid for. He manipulated two brothers who had a problem with each other and channeled that hatred for his own personal use. Is this abuse of power? No really, because Vince McMahon owns the company - he is not an elected official or a corporate president who has to answer to shareholders. He's the owner and therefore delights in whatever makes HIM happy.

We are all aware that Vince McMahon was never happy with Stone Cold Steve Austin being the World Wrestling Federation Champion. That was made VERY clear. Vince McMahon has done everything in his power to ensure that Austin had roadblocks in his path at every turn. He enticed Mankind and others to go after Austin and beat him. Mr. McMahon wanted that belt off Austin any way he could get it!

When Mankind failed to get the job done, Mr. McMahon recruited the Undertaker and his evil brother Kane as a team to do it. This was kept a secret for some time to throw Austin off his game and keep him guessing who was with him and who was against him. When it became somewhat clear what was going on, Austin had no choice but to go into the In Your House: "Breakdown" pay-per-view with a definite disadvantage. Austin was to defend his title in a Triple Threat Match against BOTH undertaker AND Kane. Mr. McMahon had instructed the brothers not to fight each other, but rather to concentrate on getting the belt away from Austin.

Just a few months earlier, Undertaker and Kane had been battling each other. Mr. McMahon managed to unite the sibling rivals, despite their years estranged, in the common purpose of taking out Steve Austin.

Kane hated his brother Undertaker. Although no one knows what actually occurred all those years ago when something terrible happened to the Undertaker's parents, it doesn't seem to matter right now. These two have bonded as no other tag team ever have. The funny thing is, they are not really a tag team. They're a HIT SQUAD!

They were hired by Vince McMahon to perform a hit on Steve Austin and separate him from the title.

I can't think of another tag team with as much destructive force as Undertaker and Kane, but who keep coming up short. Undertaker and Kane are each almost seven feet tall with arms as long as the average man's entire torso! No other tag team has this much pure evil ingrained in them. There's no sportsmanship here. It's purely a business deal with Mr. McMahon pulling the puppet strings and the deadly duo doing his bidding.

Vince McMahon has played a mind game with these two. He insulted their manhood and incited them to go after every other Federation Superstar. One night on Raw Is War, they came out and destroyed everybody in every match! This was to show Mr. McMahon that they were not "p#$%ies", as he had called them. Can you imagine the nerve of Vince calling them both out and referring to them that way? Obviously, it infuriated them and that was just what Mr. McMahon wanted.

Where will these two go from here? Can they continue to work together in spite of their personal problems? Kane is such a mysterious individual that we don't have any idea what he's really thinking. The Undertaker is cold and calculating. He always seems to know exactly what he's doing and why. Kane seems to be the follower type and his big brother has now taken him under his wing to show him all the delights and pleasures of destruction. Where will all this lead? It can't be good.

You are probably familiar with the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for." Vince McMahon wished that Steve Austin was no longer the Federation Champion. He unleashed two evil monsters with nothing but total devastation and pure hatred in their hearts. If he should now choose to stop them, CAN HE?

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