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#5. Isaac Yankem to Fake Diesel - The precursor to Kane's actual WWE run
When Kevin Nash (Diesel) and Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) left WWE in 1996, the company was visibly furious and decided to make a mockery out of them. Dr. Isaac Yankem, who was a weird but memorable character in itself would be retired and Glenn Jacobs would end up taking up the role of Fake Diesel - an absolute disaster of a gimmick in hindsight.
Glenn Jacobs is quite lucky that he got to have a career revitalization after that. Between September 1996 and the Royal Rumble 1997, his WWE career had completely derailed into unmemorable feuds and matches.
It was only after that in 1997 when WWE decided that they could do something special with Glenn Jacobs. It took them the good part of 1997, but the build involving Paul Bearer and The Undertaker in revealing Kane was nothing short of perfection. It was a slow-burning build that WWE did well and at Badd Blood 1997 in the first Hell in a Cell match ever, Kane would make what many still consider to be the most iconic debut in WWE history.
The rest, as they say, is history.
