Kane? More like Lame, as he hasnt been an entertaining TV character since the first few months of Team Hell No! Part of what makes Kane so boring to watch is that hes competed in more Raw matches than any wrestler in the shows history (over 400!), the third most SmackDown matches (add in another 293) and the most pay-per-view matches ever too (another 161). Thats insane. Sure, some of those were as Fake Diesel and Isaac Yankem, but that's a lot of Glen Jacobs regardless. What also hurts Kane is that hes turned face and heel so many times throughout his career, that its hard to get invested in him. He's usually an afterthought. If management is short on heels, they turn Kane heel. If they need more babyfaces, he'll turn face. He isnt even pushed as a fearsome badass anymore. Pretty much half the roster can beat him these days. While his storyline brother has been treated as a legend who rarely shows up the past few years, Kane is on our screens every week, often being emasculated and overshadowed by Stephanie McMahon and HHH. Kane has had one of the craziest careers in WWE history. While many of his storylines have been awful, you probably wouldnt call them boring. These days Kanes character is pretty flat. Im not saying I want a Katie Vick sequel, but theres got to be something more for him to do than third-rate crony work.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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