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Real Name: Glenn Jacobs
Date of Birth: April 26, 1967
Height: 7 Feet
Weight: 326 LBS.
Wrestling Boots: Size 16
From: "Parts Unknown"
Finnisher: Chokeslam / Tombstone Piledriver
Nicknames: The Big Red Machine, The Big Red Monster, The Big Freak'N Machine
Career Highlights:
-WWE Championship
-Intercontinental Championship (x2)
-WWE Tag Team Championship (x6)
-WCW Tag Team Championship
-Wolrd Tag Team Championship (RAW)
-Hardcore Championship
-Record Holder for most eliminations durring a Royal Rumble
-Kane and The Undertaker are the Only team to ever hold both the WCW and WWE Tag Team championships simultaneously
-Kane was the last man to hold the WWE Intercontinental Championship (before it was re-established at Judgment Day 2003)
-Kane was the first masked WWE Champion
Through Hellfire and Brimstone - The Story of Kane
Written By Matt Burkett
Part I – Kane’s Alive: The Debut
To be continued…
The Story of Kane really starts with a secret buried deep in the tortured past of the WWE’s resident Phenom, The Undertaker. For months, The Undertaker followed the abusive leadership of Paul Bearer against his will. Taker desperately wanted to sever his ties with his bulbous counterpart, but he was bound to Bearer by a mysterious secret that was held over his head. This secret loomed over the Undertaker like an executioner’s freshly sharpened axe, ready to come crashing down at the will of his sinister tormentor.
When finally the day came that The Undertaker could not bear to be abused by Paul Bearer any longer, he unleashed the fury of the Dark Side on him. The following week on Monday Night Raw, Paul Bearer dropped the bomb. He informed the entire world that the Undertaker had brutally murdered his family by burning them to death in their funeral home when he was a child. Killing his mother, his father, and his brother… Kane. His words pierced our ears and quivered our spines.
“Undertaker,” He Said “You Are a murderer! You are a goddamned murderer!”
His words were met with harsh boos and jeers. But that did not stop him as he continued to bury The Undertaker with his chilling revelation.
Weeks and weeks passed. Had the Undertaker really done what Paul Bearer had said he did? The Undertaker was silent. Until finally, weeks later, he addressed the accusations of Paul Bearer. He admitted that his family was burned to death in a fire, but it was not he who had started that fatal blaze. He recalls that he had caught little Kane playing with matches one day, but he did nothing to stop it. And that day he returned home to find that his home had been destroyed, and his family and his very own life along with it.
In the coming weeks, The Undertaker viscously attacked Paul Bearer at every chance he got. As he hammered his massive soup bones down on Bearer’s face, he demanded that Paul take back what he had said. Demanding that he tell the truth. Even threading to kill him if he did not tell the truth. But, Paul Bearer refused to back down form his position, even as Taker pummeled him damn near to death.
“It’s the truth! I swear it’s the truth, Undertaker!” He cried as The Undertaker repeatedly applied his fists to Paul’s fatty jowl.
Then Paul uttered a statement that froze The Undertaker’s soul. “Kane! Kane told me! Kane told me!”
The Undertaker stared at Paul with empty eyes. Confused. Kane had been killed more than twenty years ago. When he was just about to lay into Paul once again, Paul shouted: “Kane’s alive! Kane is alive, Undertaker! I swear to God, Kane is alive!”
And with that, The Undertaker retreated into the darkness to collect his thoughts. The next week on Raw, The Undertaker demanded that Paul Bearer stop his games. Demanded that he leave the past in the past, and that he not twist the knife that was buried deep in his heart. For the first time we saw a different side of The Undertaker. A sad tormented heap of a man riddled with the guilt of the death of his family, and tormented by the ghost of his lost brother, Kane. But Bearer would not digress. Every week, Paul would prophesize of the return of Kane to Taker's life. He told him that Kane had been severely burned, but he was indeed not dead, and that he would seek revenge on the man that had taken his family from him and given him a life of exile. He would have his revenge on his brother, The Undertaker.
Professionally, it was raining diamonds for Taker during this time of personal agony. He was to compete against Shawn Michaels at the upcoming Pay-Per-View event, Badd Blood for the number-one contendership for the World Wrestling Federation Championship. He would face HBK in a new form of specialty match entitled “Hell in a Cell”. This brutal contest would set the stage for many other Hell in a Cell matches to come.
The day of the big event came. The date was October 5, 1997, and it was time for the Undertaker to lay down the law on The Heart Break Kid, so that he could go on to the Survivor Series to Face Bret “Hitman” Hart for the biggest prize in the business; the WWF Championship. Throughout the entire match, The Undertaker dominated Shawn Michaels. Even, at one point sending him off the side of the cage into the announcer’s table. It had looked like it would be indeed The Undertaker who would go on to Survivor Series. When suddenly the lights in the arena went out. What was going on? Then the arena was bathed in a red glow, as a mysterious music played followed by flames shooting straight up from the walkway. Taker stared at the two figures who emerged from the entranceway. One was the portly Paul Bearer, and the other, a huge seven foot tall beast dressed in red and black and a menacing red and black mask.
“That’s… Oh my God! That’s… That’s gotta be Kane! That’s gotta be Kane!” Shouted Vince McMahon from his commentator’s position at ring side.
This big red monster strolled right up to the cage that incased the two combatants. One, The Undertaker, standing, and the other, HBK, lying a bloody heap on the mat. Kane ripped the door to the cage off of its hinges like it was a piece of paper from a spiral bound notebook. This huge mammoth of a man entered the ring, and for the first time in twenty years, stared his older brother in the face. Face-to-face, Kane was actually bigger than The Undertaker, who chimed in at an impressive 6’10 ˝”, and 328 pounds. Then suddenly with the fury of twenty years of built-up hatred, he attacked The Undertaker. Scooping him up and delivering Taker’s very own Tombstone Pile Driver to the Dead Man. Lifting his arms in pride of his accomplishment, the ring post exploded with a fantastic display of hellfire. The Undertaker’s beleaguered soul was now personified in this Big Red Machine. Kane was alive, and he had arrived.
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