10 Wrestlers Who Were Unmasked In The Ring

Glenn Jacobs managed to survive the gimmicks of Isaac Yankem and Fake Diesel to portray the most famous character that ended up defining his career - Kane.

The Big Red Machine debuted in 1997 as the brother of the Undertaker, sporting pyro in the ring, a choke-slam and an unnerving desire to see the Dead Man destroyed.

The story was that Undertaker had started the fire that destroyed their childhood home, killed their parents and left Kane with severe burns which he hid under his iconic red and black mask.

The brothers initially battled each other but even teamed up for a time, creating the formidable "Brothers of Destruction" tag team. Eventually, Kane took his mask off in front of the audience for the first time in 2003 after losing a match stipulation.

Underneath the mask, his face was not the mass of burns and scar tissue that we had been led to believe but relatively normal. It was played off that the scars were emotional or that Kane believed himself to have been burned, but the truth is that the character didn't really suffer at all from this unmasking.

Wrestling with and without the mask after this, Kane remained a constant force in WWE.