KANE

Glenn Thomas Jacobs^[2][4] (born April 26, 1967) is a professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name, Kane. He is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), signed to its SmackDownbrand, where he is the reigning World Heavyweight Champion.^[2]
Jacobs began his wrestling career in 1992 working on independent circuits. He wrestled in Smoky Mountain Wrestling as Unabomb where he won the SMW Tag Team Championship as a member of The Dynamic Duo, and in the United States Wrestling Association where he won the USWA Heavyweight Championship as Doomsday. He later joined his current promotion, the World Wrestling Federation (which later became World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002) in 1995 where he currently wrestles as Kane, the storyline half-brother of The Undertaker. Together, he and The Undertaker have teamed up as the Brothers of Destruction. His specialty match is the Inferno match.

Jacobs has accumulated sixteen championship accolades during his WWE career. He is a three-time world champion; having won the WWF Championship once, the ECW Championship once, and the World Heavyweight Championship once; making him the first person ever to hold all three WWE world titles. He is also a two-time WWF/E Intercontinental Champion, a one-time WWF Hardcore Champion, and a ten-time Tag Team Champion; winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship once (with The Undertaker), the World Tag Team Champion nine times (twice with Mankind, X-Pac, and The Undertaker; and once with The Hurricane, Rob Van Dam, and The Big Show). Jacobs is the third Grand Slam Champion in WWE history. In addition to championships, he is a one-time Money in the Bank winner and currently holds the record for most eliminations of participants in a single Royal Rumble with 11 eliminations.

Championships and unmasking (2002–2003)

In 2002, Kane began feuding with Kurt Angle, to whom he lost at WrestleMania X8.^[33] On March 25, the WWF was divided into two brands, Raw and SmackDown!, with Kane being drafted to Raw. Kane went on to feud with the New World Order until tearing his biceps. Kane returned to the renamed WWE as part of the Raw roster in the summer of 2002.
Kane formed a tag team with Rob Van Dam, with the duo eventually winning the World Tag Team Championship.^[17] After they lost their World Tag Team Championship to La Résistance at Bad Blood, Triple H offered Kane a spot in his stable Evolution. Raw Co-General Manager Stone Cold Steve Austin offered Kane the opportunity to face Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship if he rejected Triple H's offer; however, Co-General Manager Eric Bischoff insisted that Kane unmask should he lose the match. Kane accepted Austin's offer and went to challenge Triple H the following week in Madison Square Garden. Triple H won the match following interference from his stablemates, and on the June 23, 2003 Raw, Kane removed his mask. He then chokeslamed Rob Van Dam (thus turning heel), who he went on to defeat at SummerSlam.^[36] In an interview with Jim Ross at Conseco Fieldhouse, it became apparent that Kane's facial scars were actually mental scars. At the end of this interview, Kane, believing that he was being mocked, attacked Ross and set him on fire. The unmasking rendered Kane emotionally unstable, on one occasion driving him to Tombstone Linda McMahon on the Raw stage. This action sparked a feud between Kane and Linda's son, Shane, with Kane defeating Shane in a Last Man Standing match at Unforgiven^[37] and an ambulance match at Survivor Series.^[38] During the latter event, Kane interfered in a Buried Alive matchVince McMahon and The Undertaker, helping McMahon bury The Undertaker and win the match.^[38] The following month at Armageddon, Kane competed in a triple threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship against Triple H and defending champion Bill Goldberg which Triple H won. between
In January 2004, Kane took part in the Royal Rumble match. He was eliminated after hearing the bell toll from the Undertaker's entrance music, distracting and distressing Kane and enabling Booker T to eliminate him from the ring. Over the following weeks, Kane repeatedly insisted that The Undertaker was "dead", only to be met with various paranormal incidents such as a rainstorm localized over the ring in which he stood. The Undertaker finally returned at WrestleMania XX with Paul Bearer at his side, defeating Kane.^[39]

SmackDown, World Heavyweight Champion and heel turn (2009–Present)

At the 2009 WWE Draft, Kane defeated SmackDown's The Brian Kendrick to earn a draft pick for Raw, and later in the night, Kane himself would be drafted back to SmackDown. After this Kane feuded with CM Punk, who was also drafted to SmackDown, and defeated Punk at Backlash thus ending the feud. After a period of absence to tour India and also heal injuries, he returned at The Bash to aid Dolph Ziggler in his match with The Great Khali by hitting Khali with a steel chair allowing Ziggler to win, starting a feud with Khali, whom he defeated at SummerSlam and in a Singapore Cane match at WWE Breaking Point, thus ending the feud as well as Khali needed knee surgery.
In the next two weeks, Kane defeated R-Truth and John Morrison. Then he started a brief feud with Matt Hardy defeating him at two separate occasions at SmackDown and at Superstars. Kane then confronted Chris Jericho, claiming to be the co-captain for Team SmackDown at Bragging Rights which Team SmackDown won. Kane faced Chris Jericho in a #1 Contenders match for an opportunity to face (World Heayweight Champion) the Undertaker and Big Show in a triple threat match at Survivor Series, but lost. On the November 13th edition of SmackDown, Kane turned face after he rescued The Undertaker from "Jeri-Show".

Over the next few months, Kane was involved in sporadic singles matches on episodes of SmackDown. Ultimately, on the May 28th episode of SmackDown, he lost to CM Punk in a qualifying match for the World Heavyweight Championship for the WWE Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view event. The following week on SmackDown, Kane claimed that he found his half-brother The Undertaker in a "vegetative state" over Memorial Day weekend and vowed revenge on whoever was responsible. Because of the Undertakers' injury, it was announced that there will be a Battle Royal between the whole SmackDown roster to replace him for the WWE Fatal 4 Way, for which he qualified pre-injury defeating Rey Mysterio. The Battle Royal was the main-event of the night, which was successfully won by Rey Mysterio by last eliminating Kane. In his quest, he participated in his fourth Money in the Bank ladder match at WWE's Money in the Bank event on July 18, in which he won the right to face SmackDown's World Heavyweight Champion at his choosing. Less than an hour after winning the contract, Kane cashed in his opportunity against Rey Mysterio, whom he pinned to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, and at the same time becoming the only person to win the ECW, WWE, and World Heavyweight Championships. This started a feud between these two, which also included Kane accusing Rey Mysterio of putting The Undertaker in a vegetative state. On the August 6, 2010 episode of SmackDown, Rey Mysterio declared himself innocent before claiming that Kane himself was the perpetrator behind the assault on the Undertaker. Following this accusation, Kane became visibly upset, falling to his knees and repeatedly saying to himself, "I love my brother."^[71][72] At SummerSlam, Kane retained the World Heavyweight Championship against Mysterio. After the match, he attempted to put Mysterio in a casket, however The Undertaker emerged from the casket. The Undertaker attempted to chokeslam Kane, but Kane retaliated with a Tombstone Piledriver and was also revealed to be The Undertaker's attacker, thus turning Kane heel once again.