Kane (wrestler)
Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967 in Madrid, Spain, but raised near Nashville, Tennessee) is a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment, best known for wrestling as Kane.
Jacobs portrayed several characters throughout his career since his debut in 1992. This included a few runs in the then-WWF as Dr. Issac Yankem, D.D.S. and the "Fake Diesel". In 1997, he was repackaged as Kane, a masked character he is now best known for.
The Kane character is the on-screen half-brother of The Undertaker, with whom he feuded off and on for several years. The characters' backstories are that as children, Undertaker accidentally burnt down the orphanage where they lived, hideously scarring Kane. Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer, hid Kane as he grew up, and Kane was thought dead until he returned as a 7-foot, one-eyed monster at Bad Blood in 1997 and attacked Undertaker during his match.
He won the WWF World Heavyweight Title in 1998 which was the highlight of his career so far. In 2003, he unmasked. 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.
In December 2003 at the Armageddon pay-per-view, Kane was in a triple threat 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.
On March 14, 2004 at WrestleMania XX, Kane fought his brother Undertaker, whom he "buried alive" just months earlier at the Survivor Series. 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.
Recent Events
Kane is currently in a storyline with Lita. The storyline involves Kane falling in love with Lita, but Lita being creeped out by Kane, therefore not reciprocating. At the beginning of May, Kane kidnapped Lita, and supposedly asked her a question before Kane let her go. On May 17, 2004's broadcast 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 as a result 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 was due to deliver the couple's second child in August.
Later, Lita announced she was pregnant (also worked); Matt Hardy (her boyfriend, both in the storyline and in real life) 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 Summer Slam pay-per-view 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 amongst both wrestling fans and 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.
| Preceded by: Stone Cold Steve Austin |
WWE Champions | Succeeded by: Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| Preceded by: Triple H |
WWE Intercontinental Champions | Succeeded by: Albert |