10 times Kane won when he should have lost

#6 vs. Rey Mysterio (Money in the Bank 2010)

Kane cashed in his MITB contract to defeat Rey Mysterio

This ended Rey Mysterio’s short-lived second World Championship reign, and while it was no big deal because the reign ended the ill-fated run of Jack Swagger, the implications for the future were extremely grim.

The storyline goes as such. The Undertaker got injured in a match against Mysterio (legitimately) so WWE came up with a storyline reason for him to be out of action for a while. He was “found” laid out by Kane, and Undertaker was declared to have been in a vegetative state.

Yes, he was not only in a coma, but there was apparently no brain activity going on. This was a story that WWE did in 2010. In any event, Mysterio would retain his title against Jack Swagger in their rematch at the MITB event, but Kane, who won the match of the same name earlier that night, cashed in his contract to be the first man to cash in on the same night.

Although Kane claimed that he attacked Mysterio in order to gain revenge for his brother because he blamed the luchador, it turned out that Kane, in fact, was the person responsible for taking out the Undertaker.

‘Taker, of course, ended up being just fine and returned with Paul Bearer before Paul Bearer turned on him and realigned himself with his son (remember that Kane is Bearer’s son?), and they used the magic of a light beam that emitted from Undertaker’s historic urn.

I’m done talking about it. The point is that Kane should not have defeated Rey Mysterio to win the World Title, because it led to a World Title feud, in 2010, between Kane and The Undertaker that featured storylines that would be expected in 1998. But they would have even been considered bad then. And the matches were even worse.