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Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967 in Madrid,
Spain, but raised near Nashville, Tennessee, currently residing in Knoxville,
Tennessee) is a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment on the
RAW brand, best known for wrestling as Kane.
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Wrestling Career
Jacobs has portrayed several characters throughout
his career since his professional wrestling debut in 1992. He was originally
known as Unabomb while wrestling in the United States Wrestling Association,
Smoky Mountain Wrestling, where he was co-holder of the SMW Tag Team
Championships with Al Snow, and a few early appearances with the WWF. Jacobs is
believed to have debuted in the WWF as the masked Black Knight at the 1993
Survivor Series, though some fans believe that the Black Knight was actually
Jeff Gaylord. He later appeared as the evil dentist of Jerry Lawler, Dr. Isaac
Yankem, DDS, in 1995 and 1996 after Bret Hart damaged Lawler's teeth by forcing
his foot into his mouth, and as Diesel in 1996 and 1997, replacing the original
wrestler to have played the Diesel character, Kevin Nash. In late 1997 Jacobs
was repackaged as Kane, the ominous, once-masked character he is now best known
for.
Kane is the on-screen half-brother of The
Undertaker, with whom he feuded off and on for several years. The characters'
histories are that as children, Undertaker accidentally burned down the funeral
home in Death Valley where they lived, killing their parents, and hideously
scarring Kane. Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer (who was billed as Kane's
father), hid Kane as he grew up, and Kane was thought to be dead until he
returned as a 7-foot, 326-pounds, one-eyed monster heel at Bad Blood in October
1997 and attacked Undertaker during his Hell in a Cell match with Shawn
Michaels. His first actual match as Kane was against Ahmed Johnson on the
November 3, 1997 episode of Monday Night RAW.
The Undertaker initially refused to fight Kane,
saying he would not fight his own flesh and blood for show. However, after Kane
interfered in Undertaker's WWF World Heavyweight Championship match at the 1998
Royal Rumble which climaxed in Kane locking Undertaker in a casket and setting
it ablaze, Undertaker returned to defeat Kane at WrestleMania XIV in March 1998.
He won the WWF Championship at the June 1998 King
of the Ring pay-per-view from Stone Cold Steve Austin in a First Blood Match,
which is the highlight of his career so far. The title reign was short lived,
however, as Austin recaptured the title the very next night on RAW. He went on
to win the WWF Tag Team Championship with Mick Foley in July 1998, and with
X-Pac in 1999. Kane has feuded with several of the top superstars including
Triple H, The Big Show, Kurt Angle, and even WWF owner Vince McMahon. In the
process, Kane became one of the premier stars in the WWF. His costume had
changed over the course of his career, gradually uncovering his body, and even
his face.
During 2002, Kane entered (what is condiered by
many fans to be the worst storyline ever) a feud with HHH, which had a match at
No Mercy 2002 in which the Intercontinental Championship and the World
Heavyweight Championship were at stake. The story involved Triple H claiming
that several years earlier, Kane had an unrequited relationship with someone
named Katie Vick. After Vick was killed in a car crash, Kane – who was the
driver – allegedly raped her corpse. Triple H later made good on a threat to
show video footage of Kane completing his "crimes"; however, the footage clearly
showed Triple H (dressed as Kane) simulating necrophilia with a mannequin. Fans
were not shy about expressing their disgust with the storyline, forcing WWE
writers to bring the story to a quick end. Moreover, as far as Kane fans are
concerned, this back-story never happened.Kane's second time as face, at The
capped a feud with Triple H, and also the "Katie Vick" storyline (generally
considered by fans to be one of the worst storylines in WWE history) With the
aid of Evolution, HH won the match- unifying both titles into one. At Survivor
Series 2002 (the PPV after No Mercy) Kane entered the first Elimination Chamber
match in history, although he did not win, he was very impressive throughout the
bout, including throwing Chris Jericho through one of the Glass Barriers. This
match also included: Chris Jericho, Triple H, Booker T., RVD, and Shawn
Michaels.
In 2003, he unmasked and turned heel once more by
turning on his long time friend, Rob Van Dam with a choke slam from hell. Many
fans are annoyed at how the current Kane has no scars and much of the
psychological depth and established history of the character has been ignored.
However, it has since been learned that Kane was burned in the fire, but was not
scarred. Paul Bearer had told Kane for all those years he was scarred to help
keep him afraid and hidden away as a recluse. This is not an entirely
satisfactory explanation, as on June 12, 2000, the McMahon-Helmsley Faction
unmasked Kane (his face was not shown on camera) and photographed him,
exclaiming in disgust at how horribly disfigured he was (Triple H's plan to
blackmail Kane by threatening to expose his "scarred face" to the public by
showing the photographs on TV ended in failure when the film did not develop
properly).
In December 2003 at the Armageddon PPV, Kane was in
a Triple Threat World Title match against Triple H and World Champion Goldberg.
Triple H, after the aid of his teammates from Evolution, ended up winning the
match and title.
After unmasking nearly a year ago, Kane was still
emotionally unstable and started attacking people, which included setting, RAW
broadcaster, J.R., on fire as well as Tombstoning WWE CEO Linda McMahon onto the
steel entrance way. Due to this action Shane McMahon entered the picture seeking
vengeance for his mother. At a "Last Man Standing Match" at Unforgivern in 2003,
Kane won after Shane McMahon climbed the arena set up and tried to deliver an
Elbow Drop on Kane nearly 40 feet below, but missed as Kane sat up, and with
Shane left incapacitated, Kane was victorious. Throughout the build up for the
match at Survivor Series, which wa to be the first ever "Ambulance Match"(in
which you had to place your opponent into the ambulance and close both doors)
Kane had a one on one encounter with Y2J, Chris Jericho, which was interrupted
by Shane McMahon, which led to a backstage dumpster sceen in which saw Kane
pouring gasoline into a dummpster only to light it seconds later. As Kane looked
to put Shane into the dumpster, Shane kicked the Big Red Machine into the
dumpster, leaving questions askew. Many thought that Kane was to leave WWE,
while other thought that this was a good time to have kane don the mask again.
All were wrong when Kane returned with severe burns on his face, yet determined
as ever to destroy Shane McMahon. The match at Survivor Series took place
throughout the building including Shane jumping off top of the ambulance to a
helpless Kane below. As much as Shane could muster though, the big Red Machine
had that much more, as Kane won the match. This was the end of the rivalry
between the two, and was thought that we would not see Kane for the rest of the
night due to his last match.
Kane did show up though, during the "Buried Alive"
match between Mr. McMahon and Undertaker(Kane's Half-Brother). Just when
Undertaker had placed Mr. McMahon into the grave and was going to dump the cran
full of dirt, an explosion through Undertaker out of the crane, it was Kane.
Helping Mr. MNcMahon out of the grave, Kane then threw Undertaker into the grave
and buried him alive. There were speculations to his return. At Royal Rumble,
Kane entered at #11 and was chokeslamming everything in sight until Entrant #12,
where the lights dimmed and as the clock rang :00 for the next enrant to arrive,
the gong hit, Kane flew around and started screaming, swearing that he had
buried him alive- as the lights cameup, no sign of the Undertaker was there, but
the distraction cost Kane the match. Throughout the time between the Royal
Rumble and two weeks before WrestleMania, ominous signs of the Undertaker's
return began to happen to Kane. The ring would fill with mist, only to find an
urn, it would start to RAIN in mid match, leaving both contestants scared, the
ring levitated with Kane inside. Having enough- Kane begged Mr.McMahon for the
match at WrestleMania XX, wanting to finish his brother off once and for all.
On March 14, 2004 at WrestleMania XX, Kane fought
his brother the Undertaker, whom he had "buried alive" just months earlier at
the 2003 Survivor Series, in a Raw Vs. Smackdown! match. Kane ended up losing
the match.
At present, they are on separate shows with Kane
being on RAW and Undertaker being on SmackDown!, however their feud is likely to
continue intermittently for some time.
Kane was also involved in a long term storyline
with Gene Snitsky that grew out of a previous storyline with Lita.
The first storyline involved Kane falling in love
with Lita, but Lita being disturbed by Kane, and not reciprocating. At the
beginning of May, Kane kidnapped Lita, and supposedly asked her a question
before Kane let her go. On the May 17, 2004 episode of RAW, Lita gave an answer
of yes to Kane's question. The question was not immediately revealed. On that
same night, Kane won a 20-man Battle Royal to earn Number One Contendership to
Chris Benoit's World Heavyweight Championship at Bad Blood.
On the June 14, 2004 RAW, Kane mercilessly beat
Shawn Michaels after an in-ring promo featuring Michaels and Triple H. He capped
off his assault by placing Michaels' neck in a folding steel chair and jumping
on the chair. Michaels was carried off-stage in a stretcher, portrayed as having
suffered a crushed larynx because of Kane's attack. The larynx injury was
worked. The "attack" was used by WWE to write Michaels out of storylines; the
promotion excused him for several weeks to allow him to spend time with his
pregnant wife, who gave birth to the couple's second child that August.
Later, Lita announced she was pregnant (also a
work); Matt Hardy (her boyfriend, both in the storyline and, at that time, in
reality) assumed that he was the child's father. On the June 21, 2004 broadcast
of RAW, Lita and Hardy appeared together in the ring, and he asked Lita to marry
him. Before she could respond, Kane appeared on a video monitor, and claimed to
be the father of Lita's child. On the next week's RAW, Kane again made the
claim. Kane and Hardy were then booked to face one another at the upcoming
SummerSlam pay-per-view event in a "Till Death Do Us Part" match, where Lita
would have to marry the winner.
Kane was victorious in the match, and eventually
married Lita on the August 23, 2004 RAW. There was a small amount of annoyance
among both wrestling fans and the press that Hardy revealed that he would be
missing 6 to 8 months after the match; this gave away the fact that he would
obviously lose to Kane.
On the September 13, 2004 episode of RAW, a new
heel wrestler named Gene Snitsky made his debut, matched against Kane. During
the match, Snitsky hit Kane in the back with a steel chair, causing Kane to fall
into Lita. The injuries Lita suffered in the match led to a miscarriage. Kane
and Snitsky were then booked to meet at Taboo Tuesday; Snitsky won a match in
which a steel chain was a legal weapon. Snitsky then continued to injure Kane's
neck with a steel chair by crushing his larynx, in exactly the same manner Kane
had "injured" Shawn Michaels several months earlier. This injury was also
worked, as Jacobs was scheduled to film a WWE-produced movie, See No Evil. Since
Kane had a feud with Snitsky, Kane has once more turned face.
After he completed filming on the movie, he was
announced as Snitsky's opponent in a match at New Year's Revolution, resuming
the storyline. At this event, Kane defeated Snitsky. Later, on the January 17,
2005 RAW, he and Snitsky were booked to compete in a No Holds Barred match.
During this show, Trish Stratus cut an in-ring
promo on Lita, referring to a real knee injury Lita suffered in a recent match
between the two, and then said that there were many men in the locker room that
would love to get her "pregnant" again. The insulted Kane ran in, and proceeded
to chokeslam Stratus in the middle of the ring. Then, Kane and Snitsky battled
inside and outside the ring in their scheduled match. The Kane-Snitsky match,
and the show, ended with Kane chokeslamming Snitsky off the stage, with both
wrestlers falling through tables and other paraphernalia set up below the
entrance ramp.
Recent events
At WrestleMania 21 Kane participated in the "Money
in the Bank" ladder match along with Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Shelton
Benjamin, Christian, and Edge. Kane then continued his pursuit of Trish Stratus,
who in turn continued to torment his storyline wife Lita. It was revealed that
Kane and Lita were apparently happily married and had been conspiring in order
to frighten Lita's rival Trish. On the April 18, 2005 RAW, a feud between Kane
and Viscera began with Viscera running in and physically manhandling Kane. Kane
went on to defeat Viscera at Backlash.
On the May 16, 2005 episode of RAW, Kane and Edge
met in the finals of the WWE RAW Gold Rush Tournament to determine the Number 1
contender to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship held by Batista. The finish
of the match saw Lita interject herself into the match, first distracting her
storyline husband to allow Edge to grab his suitcase and "knock him out" with
it, and then reviving an "unconscious" referee so that he could count a pinfall
for Edge. The referee counted Kane out, giving Edge the distinction of Number 1
contender. Lita then left the ring with Edge, and the show closed with the two
passionately kissing at the entrance ramp to the stage while a dumbfounded Kane
looked on. Two weeks later (May 30), Lita and Edge cut a promo on Kane in which
she announced that she had filed for divorce, ending with the new couple
flushing Lita's "wedding ring" down a toilet. On June 6, it was announced that
Edge and Kane would face one another at Vengeance.
Lita and Edge were scheduled to marry in the
storyline on June 20. The ring was converted into a wedding chapel, complete
with a priest. While all parties were assembled, a Matt Hardy appearance was
teased, but did not come about. Just as the priest was set to marry them, Kane,
who was hiding beneath the ring, broke through a false floor and started beating
on Edge, who quickly departed with Lita. Kane then completely trashed the
chapel, and ended by giving the priest a tombstone piledriver in the ring. Kane
would go on to defeat Edge at Vengeance, and on the next night's RAW (June 27),
he surprised Lita in her dressing room, briefly "choked" her, and promised to
"make her life a living hell."
This storyline is generally considered in the smark
community to be an attempt to cash in on the real-life affair between Lita and
Edge, which indirectly led to the release of Lita's former long-time boyfriend
Matt Hardy from WWE (although Hardy would return a few months later).
On the July 25 episode of RAW, Kane faced Edge once
again, this time in a stretcher match. After losing following interference from
Lita, Kane knocked Edge unconscious and Tombstoned Lita. Lita was then placed on
a stretcher and in an ambulance by paramedics, who were in turn attacked and
incapacitated by Kane. Kane then asked Lita whether she had ever ridden "the
highway to hell" before knocking out a police officer and driving away in the
ambulance with Lita still in the back. WWE later reported that Kane had been
arrested by the Cleveland police force. Kane has since been reported confined in
a mental institution.
Personal life
Jacobs is married (to Marissa) with two
stepdaughters. He also has a teaching degree and he used to own his own gym.
Trivia
Jacobs has twice helped to bury The Undertaker in
Buried Alive matches, interfering in his "brother's" matches at both Rock Bottom
1998 and Survivor Series 2003.
On three occasions, Jacobs has formed tag teams
with lightweight wrestlers (X-Pac, The Hurricane and Rob Van Dam). On each
occasion he and his partner won the World Tag Team Championships.
Jacobs WWF World Heavyweight Championship title
reign was the second shortest in history, only trailing Yokozuna, at twenty four
hours.
Jacobs holds the record for the most eliminations
in the Royal Rumble match, having eliminated eleven opponents at the 2001 Royal
Rumble.
In 2005 a book called Journey Into Darkness : The
Unauthorized History of Kane was published.
Finishing and signature moves
Chokeslam from Hell
Tombstone Piledriver
Flying clothesline
Sidewalk Slam
Big Boot
Tilt-a-Whirl Slam
Powerbomb
Championships and accomplishments
World Wrestling Entertainment
1-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion
2-time WWE Intercontinental Champion
8-time WWE World Tag Team Champion (2-time with
Mankind, 2-time with The Undertaker, 2-time with X-Pac, 1-time with The
Hurricane, 1-time with Rob Van Dam)
1-time WWE Hardcore Champion
World Championship Wrestling
1-time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with The
Undertaker)
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
1-time SMW Tag Team Champion (with Al Snow)
United States Wrestling Association
1-time USWA Heavyweight Champion
1-time USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship
Pro
Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him # 186 of the 500 best singles
wrestlers of the "PWI Years" (2003)
PWI Tag Team of the Year Award with X-Pac (1999)
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