10 Times Long-Term WWE Booking Paid Off

Wrestlers are often accused of being one-dimensional, but trying telling that to Kane, whose arrival on WWE television was preceded by months of meticulous character development.

We first learnt about 'Taker's estranged brother when Paul Bearer revealed that the 'Deadman', in his younger days, had accidentally started a fire which killed most of his family, save for a younger sibling who survived, severely burnt.

It was a given that the Big Red Machine's debut was imminent, but we couldn't exactly be sure of when and how he would make his entrance, and when he did rock up - ripping off the Hell in a Cell door before hitting his brother with a Tombstone - it was all the more hair-raising because of the patient build-up that preceded it.