10 Absurd Wrestling Gimmicks That Should Have BOMBED (But Didn't)

10. Kane (Big Red Machine)

In the time before he was p*ssing off much of the wrestling landscape with his political views, the now Mayor of Knox County was more commonly known as the figure behind the mask of The Big Red Machine.

After trying and failing to really make much of a private dentist gimmick or the part of Diesel 2.0, Glenn Jacobs was reintroduced to the WWF audience as the personification of fire and brother of The Undertaker, Kane.

That's right. This mountain of a human opted to lean into the fact that his own flesh and blood attempted to murder him in a house fire by donning a black and red body suit and summoning flames from the ring posts.

Despite this scanning as a little silly at a glance, though, the intimidating brother of The Deadman genuinely struck fear into the hearts of many youngsters watching on at the time of his 1997 debut at Badd Blood: In Your House. And it genuinely felt as though The Phenom had finally met his physical match.

Overexposure ultimately resulted in that once menacing aura being diluted with each passing year, mind. But for a while there, this burned up sibling legitimately captivated the masses with his fiery shenanigans.