5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (April 14)

4. A Demon From Hell Is Running For Office...

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...and he's considerably less evil than Donald Trump.

Glenn "Kane" Jacobs is running for mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Kane is a noted libertarian which, to the uninitiated, is a broad political philosophy which values personal responsibility - and funnily enough is espoused almost exclusively by comfortably well off white men.

Kane, hilariously, has tapped into his wrestling persona having adapted the campaign slogan "Lighting The Way To Our Future," and has recorded a fabulously naff video over which saccharine music plays. Kane has vowed to eviscerate tax hikes and electrocute the testicles of big business in what is more or less framed as a purposefully insincere WWE vignette.

There is a suggestion that Kane's WWE exploits might harm his political ambitions. He did sort of force himself on Lita, who surrendered to his advances under extreme duress - but the President Of The United States himself bragged about grabbing women "by the p*ssy," so that might do his chances more good than harm.

Kane is running as part of the Republican heel stable, which will delight fans dismayed by WWE's broad strokes comedic treatment of the character in recent years.

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