Their subsequent feud and later tag team partnership was a huge hit with fans and turned Jacobs into a top draw.
Both men drifted into other feuds and various storylines over the years, but every so often, they would circle back and either partner together for some matches or take on each other, always to the delight of fans.
After a series of terrible and quickly cancelled gimmicks including an ill-tempered dentist named Isaac Yankem DDS and a brief, universally hated run as Fake Diesel (not to be confused with Magic Mike star Kevin Nash’s Real Diesel), Jacobs was repackaged as Kane, the masked half-brother of The Undertaker and introduced in late 1997.