Kane is excellent choice pick favorite.mine too!also,Mick Foley,Sabu,Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman!all these superstars i listed off never disappoint.they will always bring something to the table to entertain us!not your average mainstream,Hulk Hogan,Stone Cold,or Rock!it's more than just publicity!!to keep the wrestling universe alive and interested!
its being at the age where you can appreciate certain things better because the fantasy element of belief and naivety and first experience of something like getting into comic books as a kid you really get involved of fantasize about those things and the memories become real moments to us and seeing these wrestling guys looking like superhero's or supervillains they bring to life the theatrics of a gladiatorial comic book an you totally believe it at least for a while but thats the charm of live story telling , its wrestling on Broadway
Its like the opposite of most people who wear a mask. The mask usually lets someone be the real them, for Kane it seemed the mask held back who he was. Kinda mirrors Undertakers Urn in a way.
I disagree. I find the fully masked Kane to be more menacing. His story was that his face was burnt/deformed so he had to wear the mask. But when they removed the mouth guard and eventually the whole mask, the whole monster persona went out the door. It humanized him. He wasn’t a emotionless, faceless monster anymore. He was just a man, and therefore less terrifying. Early Kane was the best.
@@alexshank1414 i guess its cause unmasked Kane reminded me of Majin Buu from DBZ so i just thought he looked a lot more menacing without the mask. i was a kid i didn't know any better i just thought ooo scary looking guy cool but yes you have valid points
@@alexshank1414 yes, I agree. The mask version created a mystery around the character and a certain fear-factor around his personality (like those masked horror movie villains that walk around killing people with a saw). When Kane had the mask on you can really believe that there is some "burnt, deformed creature" behind the mask whose vocal cords were damaged (early Kane used to speak in a scary way). Once the mask was removed he looked like any other tall wrestler with a normal face. He was no longer "the charred disfigured" brother of Undertaker that somehow survived the fire. He was just another face in the industry. The masked kane was much scarier for me. I think the decision to remove his mask was perhaps not the best one (or maybe they could've waited it out).
I remember his first appearance in 97, when I was a child and was afraid of him, but I loved him later. He was and still is the best character in the history of freestyle wrestling...👍🏽🔥
@@RandyNachoManSandwich Kane was amazing all the time, his character is hard to replicate, but it's kinda unfair, it was possible to present better scenarios than he was, yet he had one of the best characters in WWE👍🏽
@@general_a7 of course, they wasted his character for 19 yrs out of his 20 in the company lol, but he made squash matches with jobbers and his few main events when he'd finally "get his chance" AMAZING. Kanes 2000s chokeslams are some of the most devastating looking moves in all of wrestling history. Not only that but like.the undertaker that character can never be done again. You can take moves, costume ideas, a fire gimmick. But the kane/undertaker feud elevated both to God status almost immediately. Then they did brothers of destruction, then after that, kane made a clear name for himself even without the mask and dominated smackdown for years, I know he's considered a great, but I think he was greatly underestimated by casuals in his time. Only time kane wasn't top tier talent was the "best for business" era.
Completely agree, but he did hold more or less every single title but the US title. Having said that, did he really need one? His character was based off of first time ever in extreme matches. Ambulance match, Inferno match, being a part of the first-ever Hell in a Cell and Casket match, et cetera.
@richardbrown2334 well that's a good point. I guess a tittle is used to build u certain people and he is the only wrestler that got such a huge pop on his debut. I mean AJ styles and sting got crazy pops too but people already knew who they were from other companies. No one had any idea who kane was and the crowd was going completely nuts
He should have at least won a royal rumble - the guy was built for it. They should have included him in a few big paperview events - they undersold his scare factor (he should have been the main title challenger for a lot longer).
I remember watching the championship vs mask match as a kid. I was so invested in the match I later waited for WWE BottomLine to catch a glimpse of that match again.
One of the WWE's biggest mistakes was unmasking Kane. Original Kane on his debut was absolutely terrifying, I remember being petrified of him as a kid! Feel grateful to have been a witness to such an amazing character, 100% in my top 5 of all time.
Glad to have witnessed the great debuts & matches of legends like Kane, Taker, Rock & the whole attitude, ruthless aggression, Ecw & WcW ❤❤❤❤ the best of them all Thats gotta be Kane from hellfire & brimstone ❤
There will never be a character like Kane ever again. Dude was literally a monster back then. But WWE ruined it all by making him a jobber and putting him in stupid storylines.
i am from india on TEN SPORTS AND TNT i used to watch wwe and my fav was kane his walking style his mast and his hair falling on mask his red and black colour muscular suits
That moment when Kane and Undertaker meet in the cage face to face for the first time was a defining moment in WWE history that will never be matched! Some of the best stories came from this giant.
Glenn Thomas Jacobs, aka 'The Big Red Machine", aka 'the Demon, Kane". One of thé greatest Wrestlers of all time perhaps, closely behind the Legendairy Mark William Callaway, aka, the Undertaker. Portraying one of the strongest, meanest and most féared opponents in the ring, his brutality, violence, and sadism as Kane,alongside his fearsome moniker of being 'Hell's favorite Demon', and bróther to the Deadman himself, its almost impossible to realize that the man, Glenn Jacobs, himself, isnt only one of the friendliest people in the WWE, and one of the móst experienced, but also one of the most intelligent ones, and one of thé most succesful! He's come a long way, and has had a most-impressive carreer, not just as a Wrestler. Glenn Jacobs has mént something for this business, wás someone, made his mark, and will always be remembered as one of thé greatest of all time! Thank you, mister Jacobs!
