Kane is synonymous as the Big Red Machine. But he wasn’t always like that. When he debuted in 1993, he just lacked what was needed to become a superstar. It wasn’t until 1997 where he would make his first appearance as Kane, Undertaker’s brother. The rest is history.
On Something To Wrestle With, Bruce Prichard would explain how WWE was immediately impressed with Kane. But due to his lack of experience, he was first trained under Jerry Jarrett in Memphis. This is what he said:
“Glenn was greener than grass, Glenn was greener than the Christmas tree outfit that he wore as the Christmas menace or whatever the hell he was — Christmas Creature in Memphis Tenessee which was hilarious! Every time that picture would surface we’d kinda put it up around the dressing room for the Christmas Creature which was a green unitard basically head to toe with tinsel and balls hanging from it. So it was kinda funny.
“[Kane] was just very, very green and Jerry Jarett had promoted him as the second coming of Sid Vicious.”
“So we brought him in and took a look at him and he did have a great look. The big bastard, but he was not ready for prime time and we needed to get him a little more experience and kinda get him down on the farm before we were ready to bring him in. But we liked the size, the potential, plus he was a super nice guy on top of that.”
“There was something there, we didn’t have developmental, we didn’t have a Performance Center. We just had places like Memphis or someplace that had a school or someplace that they could work every day. That’s what needed to happen with Glenn at the time.”
All’s well that ends well. Kane would go on to have a great career and will definitely be inducted into the Hall of Fame eventually.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
