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Kane hasn't been seen on WWE TV since he became the 24/7 Champion when WWE visited Tennessee in the fall of last year. As he's now the Mayor of Knox County, Kane spends much of his time working in the office.
Kane is one of the best-known stars in the history of WWE and a sure-fire Hall of Famer one day, which is why Stone Cold Steve Austin asked The Big Red Machine to join him on the latest episode of his Broken Skull Sessions.
Kane has had a lengthy WWE career following his debut back in 1995 under the guise of Isaac Yankem DDS. This meant that Stone Cold and Kane had a lot of things to talk about and interestingly the former WWE Champion revealed some facts that the WWE Universe may not have been aware of before this appearance.
#6. Kane almost didn't make it to the arena the night of his debut
Kane had already worked for WWE for around two years before the company decided that Isaac Yankem had run his course and it was time to repackage the star as The Undertaker's long lost brother Kane.
Paul Bearer had dropped a number of hints about Kane and it was thought that he would make an appearance the night that Undertaker and Shawn Michaels collided inside the first-ever Hell in a Cell match. Whilst this is now seen as one of the best debuts in WWE history, Kane revealed that he almost didn't make it to the arena in time.
"My buddy Mark said yeah i'll take you down to the show, so he pulls up in the worst beater of a car I have ever seen you know I don't even know what it was so we're driving down the road and I look down and smoke is coming out of the cassette player. I'm like,'Dude your car is on fire,' he's like 'what' and then there's a big pop and then smoke starts coming out of everywhere and we pull over."
This was in a time before mobile phones so Kane was stuck for a while when it came to getting to the arena, but luckily he was still able to make it and start a new career under the mask of Kane.
#5. The Undertaker had a quiet word with Kane at the start of his WWF career
The Undertaker and Kane's careers have been intertwined for almost two decades, but what many fans don't know is that the two stars knew each other before they started working together and it's actually thanks to The Undertaker that Kane was so successful in his early years.
Kane told the story of the time when he faced The Undertaker early in his career as Isaac Yankem and he recalled that The Deadman then took him aside and talked to him about his aggression.
"I had a match with Taker when I was Isaac Yankem and he basically said 'Dude look, if you wanna stay here you're gonna have to start being a lot more aggressive.' He was like, it was an awful match and I remember that and that was kind of like when I was at my lowest and that really helped me out a lot because I was just like, 'Gosh this guy's invested enough to talk to me about this," thing I also realized I think that we could do business together if I was to get my act together."
#4. Kane actually burned himself in the inferno match with The Undertaker
The Undertaker and Kane feuded for a number of years and it led to some of the best matches that the company has ever seen, whilst many fans have also argued that this is one of the best storylines that the company has ever created, to the point where many fans believed that they were actually brothers.
The duo feuded all the way through 1997 following Kane's debut and into 1998 where Kane took on 'Taker in an Inferno match. The Big Red Machine lost the match after Undertaker set his arm on fire, but Kane revealed that as part of that match he legitimately burnt his other arm.
It was the arm that wasn't covered by his gear and it was because he put his arm on the apparatus that was holding the fire.
"The only time that I ever really did anything to myself was the very first one and it was completely my fault, I was selling the one hand and the other hand it touched the apparatus which was like a hot stove. Never the less you got about three feet away from those flames dude and that was the closest you wanted to get."
#3. The Undertaker came up with Kane's famous fire trigger
Kane's debut at In Your House 1997 was a huge turning point for his career and it showed that Kane had some kind of link to fire. There wasn't a lot of backstory to the character at the time, but interestingly Kane was able to come up with a way that he could trigger the fire on the ring posts after he Tombstoned The Undertaker.
As part of this interview with Steve Austin, Kane recalled that it was actually The Undertaker who came up with that movement for him ahead of his debut.
"Everything Kane does is the opposite of The Undertaker so you know and you notice there I didn't do it like later in my career I get into it you know, right there I just come down."
At the time, Undertaker would lift up his arms after he came out in a blackout and the lights would come up, so it was interesting to see that Kane's signature pose came from The Undertaker's original entrance since he was considered to be his brother's opposite when he first debuted.
#2. King of the Ring 1998
King of the Ring 1998 is one of the best-known pay-per-views of all time because of the Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Mankind. What many fans don't know is what an impact this match had on the one between Steve Austin and Kane that took place later in the night.
Kane revealed that Mankind's injuries meant that Vince McMahon believed that he wouldn't be able to interfere in the main event, so Kane was told that he had to fix it.
"Mick can't come out you're gonna have to figure out what to do in your match and I'm like 'me why are you looking at me man.'"
"I was the most relieved person on the planet when we saw him coming back down the aisle because we didn't know if he was going to do it or not."
It turns out, Mankind wasn't the only person injured that night either since Kane also revealed that The Undertaker hurt his ankle because he was chasing Paul Bearer backstage and kicked a TV where he broke his ankle and was then forced to limp down the ramp to interfere in the match.
#1. The real reason why Kane wore a mask
Kane became best known for his mask throughout his career, but many fans have pointed out that considering Kane was in a fire and he then wore a mask to cover his scars, why didn't Kane have any scars when he took his mask off. This was something that The Big Red Machine addressed when he spoke to Stone Cold.
"My motivation, my thought behind that character was, there was a book by Thomas Harris who wrote the Hannibal Lecter stuff and one of his villains was the Red Dragon and the Red Dragon was this dude that had a cleft pallet when he was younger and had it surgically repaired but also had an abusive childhood.
"So looked like a normal dude, had a mustache, couldn't even tell he had ever had a cleft pallet all his scars were on the inside and that's what I felt when people were like, well Kane doesn't have any scars from the fire."
"That was the thing, he never had any scars but he wore a mask the whole time because he was convinced he did."
