I get that, but I remember 'Taker saying this, I think it was on the My Yard DVD, that the Deadman is always a part of his character (kayfabely he was speaking I concluded), and he will go back to it one day.
'Taker could've biblicized the first encounter as that
*Deep 'Taker voice*
"Even when I walked among you as a mortal, you could never put out the fire of the dragon, what chance do you have Hunter, to make my most powerful form ...Rest....Innnn......Peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace."
*/Deep 'Taker Voice*
Or to that effect.