Kane

Real Name: Glenn Jacobs
Also Known as: Fake Diesel; Issac Yankem; Doomsday
Height: 6'10"
Weight: 325 pounds
Favorite Quote: He doesn't talk much
Finishing move: Tombstone; Chokeslam
Titles Held: World Heavyweight Champion(1); Tag Team Champion(3)
Major Injuries: None

Kane made his WWF debut at IYH: Badd Blood late 1997 when after much discussion and speculation he caused the Undertaker to lose his championship Hell In A Cell match with Shawn Michaels. Quite frankly, I've never seen a better marketed character. Basically the WWF created a clone of the immensely popular Undertaker, plain and simple. A few years back the WWF had an angle involving a "Fake" Undertaker and the real deal. I think that the success of this angle made the WWF decide upon the whole Kane character. Kane is, as we all know, the Undertaker's "brother" who supposedly died in a fire along with the Undertaker and Kane's parents many years ago. Paul Bearer, the Undertaker's manager for 6 years, taunted 'Taker with a "secret" from his past for a while and finally revealed it to be Kane. Bearer then hooked up with Kane and was his manager for a while. When Kane appeared in the WWF, supposedly seeking revenge on the Undertaker for leaving him to burn horribly in the fire, the Undertaker swore he would never wrestle his brother. After a big build up Kane and the Undertaker wrestled in the first ever "Inferno Match" with 'Taker getting the victory. It was a good match-up and the WWF worked the angle so that the fans were really into the whole thing. It was great. What happened next was not so great. After not fighting each other for so long Kane and the Undertaker seemed to do nothing BUT fight each other. It got boring. Even the mark magazines like Pro Wrestling Illustrated and Inside Wrestling were telling the fans that the Undertaker vs Kane thing had been done to death. For a while the two "brothers" reunited, then fell out until quite basically, no one really cared anymore. Then the WWF booked some great matches for Kane and he sort of struck out on his own. The kind of wrestler who is more about big power moves than technical wrestling, Kane does a reasonable job for a big man. His character is really over with fans, which is surprising because we've never seen his face (which is supposed to be horribly burned, but in actual fact Glen Jacobs is as regular looking as you or me) and never heard him talk. After the revelation that Paul Bearer was supposed to be Kane's father, something happened and Paul Bearer and the Undertaker reunited and Kane was ousted. This resulted in yet more feuding between the three. Kane and the Undertaker work well together and that whole "brother vs brother" angle just keeps on keeping on. Kane went on to win the World Title from Steve Austin at the 1998 King of the Ring in a VERY surprising move. He held it for a day, then lost it back to Austin on the next night's Raw. This was a very odd move by the WWF, who let Kane - an average mid carder at best - own the title. Even if it was only for a day, that was a major push and a very mysterious one at that. I don't suppose we'll ever know why that happened, and since that occasion Kane hasn't gotten a sniff of the World title. Every now and then the bookers pull Kane out to use in a main event match, but he's not really a main event wrestler. Kane teamed up with Mankind for a while and won the tag belts twice largely due to Kane's brute strength and the tenacity and sheer craziness of Mick Foley. After Kane went Corporate, he was pushed heavily in an angle involving Vince McMahon supposedly having the power to commit Kane to a mental institution if he didn't do exactly what Team Corporate wanted. At the 1999 Royal Rumble Kane eliminated himself and ran off into the crowd after seeing the men in the white coats coming for him in the ring. This was a heavy push for Kane and an interesting one at that. The storyline played out and Kane - "The Big Red Machine" - was McMahon's brute force in Team Corporate. He wasn't a major player though until Chyna came along and took him under her wing. This resulted in a good feud with Triple H. Kane even seemed to develop some "feelings" for Chyna, which were most evident after Chyna took the "firework" or whatever the hell it was, which was meant for Triple H in the eye. Kane became upset and wouldn't let anyone touch Chyna. This was one of those sub-angles which was never really played out because of the refusal of the fans to accept Chyna being paired with anyone other than Triple H. In any case, no doubt the WWF was just using the Kane/Chyna thing until Wrestlemania when they could reunite Chyna and Triple H. Kane was in the background after Wrestlemania 15 where Chyna betrayed him with a steel chair in the face. Then came the pairing with X-Pac which resulted in a tag team which is amusingly called by some "The Big Red Machine and the Little Green Degenerate". This was an odd combination, but one that worked out very well. At the 1999 King of the Ring tournament there were a lot of reports suggesting that Kane was unhappy with the turn out of his match with "The Big Show" Paul Wight. This match was supposed to realign Kane with the Undertaker and turn Kane heel. I must be dumb, because since when was Kane really a face? I guess he was a face by association with X-Pac. Anyway, the Undertaker was supposed to come out and interrupt the match by hitting Paul Wight with something, but 'Taker and Paul Wight got their cues mixed up and the whole match sort of stuffed up. Later, Kane became tag team partners with X-Pac but that didn't work out and so Kane is solo now With the recent arrival of "The American Badass", Kane and Undertaker are now in hostility and Kane even began to talk!!