Fire up the pyros, because today is Glen Jacobs/Kane's birthday!
Debuting in the WWF in 1995, Jacobs wrestled under the lesser cool names Unabomb, then Isaac Yankem, and then Diesel, all of which served him little to no recognition. Finally, after months of hype building, Jacobs debuted as Kane, the long lost brother of The Undertaker, on October 5th 1997. From here, Kane and The Undertaker had a longstanding feud, which featured fire, electricity, burning caskets, Paul Bearer, and everything between.
The feud lasted until April 1998, and by August that year they decided to team up as The Brothers of Destruction, beating up fools left and right, including WWF's then golden child Steve Austin.
One of the biggest selling points for Kane was his masked face, said to be horribly burnt by a fire caused by The Undertaker years ago. This led to his unmasking in 2003, revealing his face was, actually, not too badly burnt at all, and from then on Kane wrestled as a big bald dude rather than the long-haired masked psycho we'd come to know. By 2011 though, the mask was back, then gone again, then back again.
Jacobs has done a lot of impressive feats outside of the ring also - like most big name wrestling stars he's broken out into acting, leading to his roles as the hulking maniac Jacob Goodnight in the See No Evil films, and as Titan in Smallville. What separates Jacobs from other wrestlers though, is that he then went even further than the rest and became the fucking Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee in 2018. He also runs his own political podcast, The Tiny Political Show, works as an insurer and real estate agent with his wife, and briefly owned a gym.
He also won a WWE special of The Weakest Link in 2002, when he beat Bubba Ray Dudley.
You go, Kane.
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