He chokeslammed Undertaker into the casket, giving Michaels the win. After the match, Kane and Paul Bearer locked Undertaker in the casket and set it ablaze. The Undertaker returned on the March 2 episode of "Raw is War", revealing that he had spoken to the spirits of his dead parents, and declared his intention to fight Kane. This led to a match at WrestleMania XIV, which Undertaker won after hitting Kane with three tombstone piledrivers. They met once again in the first-ever Inferno match at , which again Undertaker won by burning his brother. On June 1, 1998 episode of "Raw is War", they wrestled in a number one contender's match for the WWF Championship, which Kane won with help from Mankind. On the June 8 episode of "Raw Is War", Kane and Mankind attacked WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin. On the following episode of "Raw is War", Austin blamed Mr. McMahon for setting up the attack; McMahon denied it and blamed the attack on The Undertaker, who denied setting up the attack and teamed up with Steve Austin to face Kane and Mankind in the first ever tag team Hell in a Cell match, which ended in no contest as the referee failed to restore order in the match (actually, Underaker and Austin won the match but it wasn't shown on TV). At King of the Ring 1998, Kane and Austin faced each other in a First Blood match for Austin's WWF Championship. The stipulation was that if Kane lost, he would set himself on fire. The referee was knocked out and Undertaker interfered in the match with a steel chair and came to hit Kane with the chair, but accidentally nailed Austin with the chair, which helped Kane to win the championship. Undertaker formed a partnership with Kane after he later revealed that he intentionally attacked Austin because he didn't want his brother to be burned. Undertaker started a rivalry with Steve Austin, who later regained the WWF title from Kane while Kane and Mankind won the WWF Tag Team Championship. At , the duo were forced to team up together and defeat Kane and Mankind to win the titles. They dropped the titles back to Kane and Mankind in a fatal-four way tag team elimination match, also involving The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) and Nation of Domination (The Rock and D'Lo Brown) on an episode of "Raw is War" on August 10, 1998. During the Undertaker and Austin's WWF Championship match at SummerSlam, Undertaker and Kane were revealed to be working together, after Kane abandoned Mankind during their tag team title defense against New Age Outlaws and instead interfered in the Undertaker's title match.