Hollywood History. The big red monster left wrestling and became mayor of the USA.

Hollywood History. The big red monster left wrestling and became mayor of the USA.

Ainur Shaimardanov November 29, 2023, 11:45 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.

Kane is even better in politics than in the ring.

Kane. The big red monster is the brother and main enemy of the Undertaker. For 20 years straight, Glen Jacobs appeared before the public as Kane, whose face (in story terms) he suffered as a child at the hands of his story brother, The Undertaker. Kane made his first appearance by interfering in Undertaker’s match, after which both wrestlers, who personified the underworld and death, showed their best stories by competing against each other or together as a team called The Brothers of Destruction. — Note from the “Championship” ).

The Undertaker and Kane enter the ring

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Kane’s image was first shown in October 1997. He appeared in the story wearing a black and red suit that covered most of his body and a mask with artificial hair that covered his disfigured face. Kane destroyed everything in his path and was the personification of the word “fear.” At 213 cm tall and weighing 147 kg in top shape, he could not be called anything other than the Big Red Monster.

In March 2003, Kane lost his mask in a match with Triple H and then competed without it for over seven years, continuing to be a powerful force on the WWE roster. This is how Jacobs himself recalled the moment of separating himself from the mask in an interview with PWMania.

Glen Jacobs (Kane)

former wrestler, mayor of Knox County

“I am delighted with this decision. Kane’s image is outdated. Yes, the mask was a big plus, it gave an air of mystery and mystery that others didn’t have. However, our face is how we show emotions to people, and that’s what WWE is all about. I couldn’t do that with a mask, so I felt quite limited. Without him, you were faced with a huge guy who felt chaos on the inside, but looked normal on the outside. There were scars on his psyche.”

Unmasked Kane remained just as powerful and a terrifying monster to other WWE wrestlers. In 2011 he returned to the ring with an updated mask, alternating performances with and without it, but his image lacked the old charm.

Kane after removing his mask

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In the early 2000s and 2010s, Kane perhaps spent his last major fights in wrestling as a singles wrestler. I remember another confrontation with Undertaker and a battle with Edge. Jacobs then had a good team story with Daniel Bryan, but the old Kane was irrevocably gone.

In 2016, Jacobs said he intended to run for mayor of Knox County as a Republican. A year later he announced his candidacy and won the primaries. Jacobs soon won the election and became mayor of a district with a population of about 500 thousand people. During this time, Kane continued to make occasional in-ring appearances, participating in WWE activities. He was inducted into the company’s Hall of Fame in 2021, and that same year he announced that he would seek re-election as mayor. He successfully won the 2022 election and continues to hold office.

Kane actively fought with The Rock and can now become President of the United States:

The Rock Johnson is running for president of the United States. Half of Americans will vote for him now

Residents of the district love their mayor very much and almost half (213 thousand) of his potential voters subscribe to his page on social networks. Jacobs managed to successfully reinvent himself in life in exactly the same way he did 20 years ago when he lost his mask. It rarely happens that a person manifests equally well in two radically different forms; Most of the time we see stories like this only in movies. But Kane-Jacobs seems to have achieved it.