Kane Real Name Glen Jacobs   Other Names Doomsday, Unibomb, Isaac Yankem DDS, Fake Diesel   Date of Birth 26th April 1968   Weight: 315lbs   Height: 6ft 10   Signature Move Tombstone, Choke-Slam, Diving Top-Rope Clothesline, Choke, Big Boot, Side-Slam, Power-Bomb Federations Indies, NWA, WWF/E, SMW (Smoky Mountain Wrestling), USWA, ECW (WWE Version) Titles Held SMW Tag-Team Championship (1), USWA Heavyweight (1), WWF World (1), WWF Hardcore (1), WWF/WWE Intercontinental (2), WWF/WWE World Tag-Team (9), WCW World Tag-Team (1), ECW Championship (1) Short Bio Kane's early life and career is as strange as the character he plays. Born the son of a career soldier, he was a standout on the athletics and basketball teams. After a trial for the Chicago Bears in the NFL failed due to a college knee injury, he enrolled in the Malenko Wrestling School, where both Boris and his son Dean prepared him for the pro ranks. After spells in Puerto Rico, and the indy circuit, the WWF came a beckoning when Jim Cornette remembered him from the Smoky Mountain promotion. Jacobs landed a gimmick as Jerry Lawler's wrestling Dentist, Dr Isaac Yankem, DDS. Short-lived, perhaps for the best, he only had 2 PPV appearances, against Bret Hart and in the Royal Rumble, and disappeared. With Vince McMahon's fondness for big men, it's not surprising he got another chance. When Kevin Nash and Scott Hall left for WCW, a Fake Diesel and Ramon were touted for a while. Jacobs got the plum fake Diesel Gig, the Fake Ramon being Rick Bogner from FMW in Japan. The gimmick was as bad as it sounds, and bombed. Jacobs disappeared again. During the first Hell In The Cell match between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels, Undertaker's long lost brother Kane appeared and cost Taker the win, and started a huge feud between the two. A one day reign as WWF champ and a Stone Cold Stunner later, and Kane plunged back down to the Mid Card. A brief fling with DX and X-Pac brought him Tag Team Gold, to go with the reign he had with Mankind and The Undertaker, who he feuded with and made up with almost as often as Al Gore filed lawsuits. Had a time out injured in early 2000, and returned with the ability to talk. "When the WCW/ECW Invasion officially started in July, Kane was pushed as a key player for "Team WWF". This meant a WCW Tag-Team Title reign for Kane and Undertaker (when they crushed Chuck Palumbo and Sean O’Haire on SD! on August 9), and then a shamelessly one-sided pasting of DDP and Kanyon in a Unification Cage Match at Summerslam (which now made Kane and "Taker" WWF tag champs as well). Soon after, Kane took about a month off to recover from an elbow infection. He was back by Raw on September 17, but on his first night back, he and The Undertaker dropped the WWF Titles to The Dudley Boyz. However, they still had their WCW tag straps, and defended them against Kronik at Unforgiven in a poor match (which upset the WWF so much, that Bryan Adams and Bryan Clark were fired the following day). Kane and Undertaker held onto their titles until the September 27 edition of Smackdown!, where they were toppled by Booker T and Test, thanks to lots of Alliance interference. On the April 8, 2002 edition of Raw, Kane lost a Falls-Count-Anywhere Match to X-Pac. By this point, seeing Kane and the former DX member feud was tiresome. After the loss, Kane was unmasked by The NWO, but Kane’s long hair and a dodgy camera ensured that "The Big Red Machine’s" face did not come into view. X-Pac gloated about the deed by wearing the mask on TV, but the feud was soon brought to a rather abrupt end when Kane went down with a biceps injury and was forced to go under the knife on April 13. Kane returned on the August 26 edition of Raw, at Madison Square Garden. It was an odd return, to say the least. While The Un-Americans (Lance Storm, Christian and Test) were about to set the American flag on fire, Kane made an appearance and saved the day. (Kane’s new look was not a change for the better, IMO. His new ring attire looked cheap and non-threatening, and his more revealing mask did not look good, as it revealed his mouth and chin, which were also supposed to be badly burnt. To make things even worse, Kane celebrated his comeback by performing a "Kaneroonie" in the middle of the ring, confirming that the WWE had really lost the plot this time). Kane talked freely (as he had done before), but now goofed around like a comedy act. He continued to feud with The Un-Americans, and on Raw on September 23, he and The Hurricane became the WWF Tag-Team Champions when they defeated Chris Jericho and Christian. Prior to his "official" unmasking in the summer of 2003, Kane was accused of murder and rape in the atrocious and highly offensive "Katie Vick" saga of October 2002, and then formed a rather pointless tag-team partnership with Rob Van Dam (although they did enjoy a reign as WWE World Tag-Team Champions). Amazingly, Kane’s face showed no signs of any burns, and his hair came off WITH his mask, suggesting that Kane had been bald for all these years! Why didn’t the WWE use the "burns" mask that they purchased back in 1997? Over the years, the Kane character has gone through many changes. There was a silent, evil, powerful Kane, a friendlier Kane who spoke the odd word, a Kane who was in love, a more talkative, expressive Kane, a TOO talkative, TOO expressive Kane, and an angry, insecure, bald, normal looking Kane. Many people believe that the Kane character was at its strongest when it required him to wear the mask and act like a real "monster". Unmasking Kane has certainly taken away a lot of the mystique about the character that originally made its debut in WWE in October 1997. Since unmasking, Kane has gone on to have a controversial relationship with Lita (in the story line, he got her pregnant but she then "lost the baby" when she got caught in the middle of an attack by Gene Snitsky), fended off an "impostor Kane", starred in his own WWE-funded horror flick ("See No Evil", in 2006), become ECW World Champion and generally leave "hellfire and brimstone" in his wake across all three brands of WWE. Bio by Tony@smashwrestling.com & Matthew Evans  Wrestler Homepage (if any)