10 Wrestlers Who Stopped Trying (But WWE Pushed Anyway)
4. Kane - 2014-2015
Kane occupied a boring and very depressing role on WWE TV as Corporate Kane in the death throes of the Authority era. Well, two boring and very depressing roles. He was also Demon Kane.
Kane was simply there to ruin things under the flimsy pretence of developing the narrative. When Daniel Bryan needed one last refuel on the Road to WrestleMania XXX, Kane was there. When Roman Reigns needed a monster to overcome at the 2015 Royal Rumble, to make him appear less tedious, Kane was there. When Seth Rollins needed a young, up and coming stud to feud with later that year, Kane was there. He’d already been there for a decade and a half. He didn’t really have to do anything, and thus, his work was as unimaginative as the booking. Shapeless and tired, Kane hardly projected himself like the monster of old.
The only person vaguely interested in an in-ring Kane performance was CM Punk, who was so physically destroyed that he considered it a night off.
That was Kane’s latter day role: a safe pair of hands. To perform it, all he had to, and all he did do, was wrestle a by-the-numbers version of his already hopelessly dated match.