After losing the titles and turning on Mankind, Kane formed a short lived tag team with his brother. During the match, the Undertaker betrayed Kane for Paul Bearer, thus making Kane a tweener and turning Undertaker heel. As a result of this, The Corporation had Kane committed to an insane asylum. However, in , Kane joined The Corporation to stay out of the insane asylum. He eventually turned face after he was betrayed by The Corporation and thrown out of the alliance. Shortly afterward, Kane formed a tag team with X-Pac and acquired a girlfriend, Tori.
While teaming with X-Pac, Kane evolved from being mute to aided speech through an electrolarynx to speaking unaided. His first unaided words were the DX slogan "suck it". Kane and X-Pac then were engaged in a lengthy feud against each other. Kane and Rikishi came out victorious after Kane pinned X-Pac following a tombstone piledriver. Shortly after WrestleMania, Kane suffered a hand injury that kept him out of action for a month.
The Undertaker and Kane's rivalry resurfaced during the match, but they patched their relationship up soon after. Kane turned heel once again by assaulting The Undertaker, leading to a match between the two at SummerSlam. The match ended when The Undertaker removed Kane's mask, causing him to flee the ring, covering his face. Kane stayed in contention for the WWF Championship for the remainder of the year and ended in a feud with Chris Jericho ; he ultimately lost a Last Man Standing match to him at Armageddon.
He later lost the title to Albert on an episode of SmackDown! Kane went on to feud with the New World Order until tearing his biceps. Kane returned to the renamed WWE as part of the Raw roster in the summer of They would hold on to the titles until the October 14 edition of Raw, where they lost them to Christian and Chris Jericho.
Triple H went on to defeat Kane at No Mercy, unifying the two titles. Triple H won the match following interference from his stablemates, and on the June 23, Raw , Kane removed his mask. In an interview with Jim Ross at Conseco Fieldhouse it became apparent that Kane's facial scars were actually mental scars. At the end of this interview, Kane, believing that he was being mocked, attacked Ross and set him on fire.
The unmasking rendered Kane emotionally unstable, on one occasion driving him to Tombstone Linda McMahon on the Raw stage. In January , Kane took part in the Royal Rumble match. He was eliminated after hearing the bell toll from the Undertaker's entrance music, distracting and distressing Kane and enabling Booker T to eliminate him from the ring. Over the following weeks, Kane repeatedly insisted that The Undertaker was "dead", only to be met with various paranormal incidents such as a rainstorm localized over the ring in which he stood.
This led to him kidnapping Lita in May and asking her an unknown question, which she replied to in the affirmative later that month. Lita later announced that she was pregnant, with Matt Hardy her then-boyfriend both on-screen and off assuming that he was the child's father.
On the June 21 episode of Raw , Kane claimed that he was the father. The following week, Kane explained that he had impregnated Lita in order to continue his legacy and justified a vicious attack on Shawn Michaels several weeks earlier by claiming that Michaels had stood in the way of him winning the World Heavyweight Championship.
In order to appease Kane, General Manager Eric Bischoff gave Kane a rematch with Benoit, instructing Benoit that he could only win by submission, whereas Kane could win the title by any means. Despite dominating much of the match, Kane again lost to Benoit.
Following the match, Lita came to the ring and low-blowed Kane, who initially went to chokeslam her in revenge but stopped when he realized that she was trying to force him to cause her to miscarry their child. Kane defeated Hardy, and "married" Lita on the August 23 episode of Raw. Although he was attacked by Hardy during the ceremony, he gained the upper hand and ultimately chokeslammed Hardy off the stage in reality, Hardy needed time off because of a knee injury and later a staph infection.
On the September 13 episode of Raw , Kane accidentally fell on Lita during a match with the debuting Gene Snitsky , who hit him on the back with a steel chair, ostensibly causing Lita to miscarry. Kane turned into a face as a result, and began seeking revenge against Snitsky for causing the death of his child.
He lost to Snitsky in a steel chain match at Taboo Tuesday, and he was sidelined for several months after Snitsky crushed his larynx with a chair following the match.
This attack was a repeat performance of the storyline where Kane "injured" Michaels in the same exact manner. The "injury" gave Kane time to complete his starring role in the film, See No Evil. This led to a match between Kane and Stratus' hired bodyguard Viscera at Backlash that was won by Kane. Lita later turned on Kane, and sided with Edge, leading to a feud between the two.
Kane was able to defeat Edge at Vengeance, despite interference from Snitsky. Lita's heel turn resulted from her real life affair with Edge and her dumping Matt Hardy, and Matt Hardy's subsequent release for making the affair public.
Hardy was later rehired and Kane was dropped from the angle, with Matt and Edge having a feud over Lita. Kane returned to WWE television on October 17 , , winning an eighteen-man battle royal. The duo successfully retained their titles throughout the remainder of , during which time they engaged in an inter-promotional feud with members of the SmackDown!
One week later, Kane and Big Show faced Spirit Squad members Johnny and Nicky in a title rematch, but were disqualified after Kane "snapped", ostensibly due to "voices in his head". In subsequent weeks, Kane began attacking anyone who mentioned the date May During the match between Kane and Big Show at Backlash , Kane's voice began echoing throughout the arena saying May 19, "They're all going to know", and "You can't hide from it", leaving Kane visibly shaken.
Big Show then struck Kane with a chair, resulting in a no contest. On May 19, Kane appeared on SmackDown! After both the aforementioned voices and mask video began playing, Kane chokeslammed both Layfield and Mysterio before leaving the ring. On the following episode of Raw , he claimed that May 19 was the date on which his mother and adopted family were killed in a fire.
The voices continued on to the May 29 episode of Raw , when Kane was confronted by the source of the voice Drew Hankinson , an impostor Kane; wearing Kane's old mask and ring attire, he chokeslammed Kane during his match against Shelton Benjamin for the Intercontinental Championship.
After first debuting as a mute giant, Kane would eventually begin to talk, before eventually unmasking in After wrestling for a few years without a mask, Kane would eventually don a mask again in where he soon started a Tag Team with fan favourite Daniel Bryan. Either way, we still love him. The Big Red Machine along with his brother Undertaker have been behind some of the finest and most memorable storylines in WWE history. WWE fan? Let us know your favourite matches at [email protected] , or drop us a message on Facebook.
Championship Match on Raw, the tortured soul was forced to unmask and reveal his face to the world. He has shown near-unprecedented versatility in the tag team ranks as well, finding championship success with a litany of partners such as X-Pac, Big Show and even twice with The Deadman.
Still, whether in a suit or a mask, as a member of a group or fighting alone, one thing is clear: The fire still burns in Kane. Superstar Stats Kane. I don't believe that either of them have even come close to matching Kane in that regard, though.
Kane's original gimmick was one that could have easily pigeonholed him for the remainder of his career, but he somehow managed to evolve and become whatever the creative team needed him to be at certain points in time. Kane's current work in particular may be the most impressive of his career. He was brought back under his mask last year with the intention of him going back to his roots as a monster heel, but he ultimately fell flat because of a muddled, unsuccessful feud with John Cena.
Kane could have easily packed it in after that, but like the chameleon that he is, Kane underwent yet another career transformation.
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