35 Facts About Paul Bearer

Paul Bearer is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation where he performed under the ring name and gimmick of Paul Bearer, manager and guiding light of The Undertaker.

Paul Bearer was given the name by booker Frankie Cain.

Paul Bearer served as manager for numerous wrestlers; he notably managed Rick Rude, "Stunning" Steve Austin, and Mark Calaway in their early careers.

Moody made his first appearance in February 1991, as a heel, when Brother Love, who originally managed The Undertaker, delegated Paul Bearer to take on the role of The Undertaker's manager.

Paul Bearer hosted his own WWF talk show segment entitled The Funeral Parlor, which included memorable moments such as the Ultimate Warrior being locked inside a casket, among others.

Also on The Funeral Parlor in early 1992, The Undertaker and Paul Bearer turned face when Undertaker stopped former ally Jake "The Snake" Roberts from ambushing Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth with a chair backstage; the Undertaker and Roberts had a match at WrestleMania VIII, which saw Undertaker win.

Once healed from the burns, Paul Bearer changed his looks, shedding the makeup of ghostly pallor and jet-black color to his natural strawberry blond hair and less make-up.

Around mid-1997, Paul Bearer coerced Undertaker into being his protege again with the ultimatum of revealing a deep, dark secret from their past.

The dark secret suggested that Paul Bearer had a disturbingly traumatic past with The Undertaker which long preceded Brother Love's joining the two in January 1991.

The dark secret dates back to The Undertaker's youth and involves domestic matters: Paul Bearer, while working for The Undertaker's parents in their family funeral home business, witnessed a felony act during The Undertaker's teens.

Paul Bearer, who was not in the fire, hid Kane in a mental asylum during the rest of Kane's youth into adulthood.

Paul Bearer unintentionally revealed to a Raw audience that he was actually Kane's father.

However, Paul Bearer introduced the vengeful, fire-personified Kane in October 1997 at Badd Blood: In Your House.

Once becoming a heel with Paul Bearer, The Undertaker shamelessly admitted to setting the funeral home ablaze for which he initially claimed was an accident or blamed Kane.

In February 2000, Paul Bearer, who turned face once more briefly, returned to WWF television as Kane's manager, aiding and assisting his son in his war against D-Generation X, but retired from on-screen performing shortly after WrestleMania 2000.

In spring of 2004, Paul Bearer was kidnapped by The Dudley Boyz under the direction of Paul Heyman; this was set up in order to temporarily write Bearer out of WWE story lines because he had to undergo emergency gallbladder surgery after suddenly developing gallstones, a common side effect of gastric bypass surgery.

Paul Bearer was encased in a glass "crypt" at ringside, covered up to his chest in cement.

Heyman demanded The Undertaker throw the match or Paul Bearer would be suffocated in cement.

On June 10,2005, Paul Bearer announced that he had signed a new deal with WWE, allowing it to market his personality and requiring he attend autograph sessions, make promotional appearances and occasionally work television and house shows.

On October 12,2012, Paul Bearer managed Vader against Rikishi at Pro Wrestling Syndicate in Rahway, New Jersey.

Paul Bearer helped The Undertaker, who was feuding with Kane over the World Heavyweight Championship, by restoring Undertaker's powers with the urn.

Paul Bearer officially became Undertaker's manager again by accompanying him to the ring for his match against Kane for the title at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view.

Paul Bearer then let Kane hit Undertaker with the urn to help him win.

At Bragging Rights, Kane defeated Undertaker after interference by Paul Bearer, who was almost thrown in the grave by Undertaker, and The Nexus, who helped Paul Bearer and Kane bury Undertaker.

Kane attempted to track down Paul Bearer, but was unable to find him.

Paul Bearer was kidnapped by Orton and then stuck in a storage freezer while strapped to a wheelchair.

Paul Bearer was planned to reunite with The Undertaker and Kane on WWE Raw 1000 in July 2012 but could not make the event due to scheduling and travel conflicts.

Paul Bearer was featured as a manager in the THQ video game WWE Legends of WrestleMania in 2009.

Paul Bearer was in WWE All Stars, WWE '13, and WWE 2K14 as a selectable manager and part of the Attitude Era single-player mode, and 30 Years of WrestleMania mode respectively representing The Brothers of Destruction.

Paul Bearer further appeared as a manager in WWE 2K15 and WWE 2K16.

Paul Bearer returned full-time to his funeral business in 2006.

Paul Bearer dissolved the company in May of 2007 after learning that his partners wanted to force him out of the promotion and operate it without him.

Paul Bearer was coughing, and told friends he was going to seek treatment for respiratory problems as he had trouble standing at the time.

Paul Bearer is interred beside his wife at Serenity Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Theodore, Alabama.

On November 22,2020, a hologram of Paul Bearer appeared for The Undertaker's final farewell at Survivor Series while The Undertaker performed his trademark kneeling pose.