 Soames had two skirmishes with the hero Daredevil, and after humiliating Cord by symbolically erasing his existence as well by destroying his driver's license, credit cards and other means of personal identification (he did not intend to do him any actual harm), he was killed with advanced weaponry by Cord's men.Daredevil was one of the few mourners at Soames' funeral.The Mauler armor reappears when small-time criminal Turk Barrett steals the armor and attempts to kill Daredevil.