The (WWE) Fake News Awards
10. 'Youthful Exuberance' - Kane
Vince McMahon is a smart man, and it's perhaps why he once piped up during a conversation about an ongoing 2012 storyline between Daniel Bryan, CM Punk and AJ Lee with the frankly brilliant suggestion of including Kane.
The plot only featured two of the best wrestlers in the world tied together but dragged apart by the unhinged affections of one of the most organically popular females on the roster in years. It was clearly lacking something big. Something red. Something machine-like.
The Chairman had his finger on the pulse yet again in 2017, with Braun Strowman in desperate need of a rival that matched his stature and youthful intensity. Enter the better-than-ever demon, lumbering through matches with the grace of a man twice his age! Or half, whichever one's better.
Never one to misread the beating heart of his audience, McMahon knew a Braun/Brock rematch needed extra heat, and had a 300lbs sack of fire content ready and willing to go once he'd burned Finn Bálor's aspirations to a crisp.
The great masked wrestlers maintain the veneer of agelessness thanks to their disguise - Kane mastered the art after he ripped his off.