Kane At 20: The Big Red Machine's 20 Lamest WWE Moments

It's almost exactly 20 years to the day that Glenn Jacobs, having traded in his dental scrubs for a full-body suit and mask, re-debuted as Kane, helping Shawn Michaels to an unlikely WWE Championship defence over his estranged brother at Badd Blood.

His career has seen its share of peaks and troughs in the time since, but few wrestling fans (or, for that matter, any of his colleagues) have a bad word to say about the 'Big Red Machine', who - after years of service and the ability to inject a modicum of plausibility into even the most ridiculous storylines - is surely deserving of legend status.

Having said that, those ridiculous storylines? There were lots of them. In fact, Kane has perhaps been the victim of wacky angles and poor booking more than anyone else - a consequence of being, A) a committed workhorse who never complains, and B) a character with such a tortured, constantly-evolving past.

Some moments in his career have been downright lame, actually, and although many of them may have brought us to laughter at the time, they probably didn't do his chances of becoming an established main event star much good.

For all his critics, Umaga definitely wasn't the generic foreign monster heel everyone initially thought he was.

In fact, despite an inauspicious start, the 'Samoan Bulldozer' eventually grew into one of WWE's most reliable performers, earning the respect of the fans after a quite brilliant Last Man Standing match next to John Cena at the 2007 Royal Rumble.

But was he good enough to warrant sacrificing Kane? Probably not - and that was exactly what went down when Umaga beat the 'Big Red Machine' in a Loser Leaves Raw match in 2006.

It capped off probably the worst period of Kane's 20 years, and things didn't get much better when he moved over to Friday nights, where he reunited with Undertaker for the umpteenth time.