10 Thrown Together WWE Tag Teams That Totally Saved Careers
4. Team Hell No
How do you give the audience a reason to care about Kane?
This is a question WWE creative faced in 2012. Their initial plan was simply 'put the mask back on and have him kill Zack Ryder', but this didn't prove too successful. If the Big Red Machine had packed his bags and headed back down into retirement hell, it would have made perfect sense.
Kane and the WWE Universe didn't reckon on the once in a lifetime popularity of one Daniel Bryan, however. Both Bryan and Kane challenged CM Punk unsuccessfully for the WWE Championship over the summer, which eventually led to a match between the two at SummerSlam. Bryan won this, but then-RAW General Manager AJ Lee decided that ex-flame D-Bry needed anger management.
A number of entertaining skits later, a team was born. Kane and Daniel Bryan became Team Hell No, and all of a sudden Kane was interesting again. Not only that, but Kane was popular. You would have been given long odds on a segment involving Kane hugging a fellow wrestler being one of 2012's most entertaining moments.
Without Team Hell No, Kane would more than likely be retired already.