10 Incredible Transformations From Jobbers To WWE Champions
5. Kane
'The Big Red Machine's staying power shouldn't have surprised anybody really - it was Kane that finally broke the trend of Undertaker feuds that typically ended when 'The Deadman' rolled a sorry monstrous soul into a casket ready for somebody else to steal his urn, or beat up a gravestone, or whatever else went into the Daft Undertaker Ideas machine that booked most of his mid-1990s feuds.
Clicking as the burned brother of the company cornerstone, Glenn Jacobs unlocked remarkable charisma from behind a mask that obscured his entire face, having struggled to do the same wearing another wrestler's visage a year prior.
Fake Diesel could have been a career killer (Fake Razor Ramon pretty much was), but the man that had also been a dentist and a human Christmas tree in previous years had the patience and perseverance to cling on for something more. His King Of The Ring 1998 win over Steve Austin was a surprise, but not a shock - few others in the company looked as dominant at that level, and it was years before the gimmick descended into the parody of itself it ultimately became.