9 Most Anticlimactic Unmaskings In Wrestling History

Much to do was made of the fact that Kane was about to unmask himself and show his face to the world, and rightfully so. As with the Luchadors, Kane's mask had a lot of meaning and an even more enduring legacy behind it.

Kane's mask was the only thing stopping his big brother from seeing the physical ramifications of his sadistic plan to burn his family alive. Kane's mask hid the surely horrifying scars of a ruined childhood, leaving us to imagine just how messed up the face behind that mask might be.

But, as is often the case when you watch a movie after reading the book that movie is based on, the exciting images you had in your head simply couldn't be bested by the actual visuals presented. 

Kane's face wasn't really disfigured at all, it turns out, unless you count the smudging of his eye makeup as a deformity. Where were the gruesome scars and half-melted skin? Why did he have a wig attached to the mask, revealing the fact he suddenly had the same haircut as Larry from the Three Stooges, despite the fact we'd already seen Kane briefly unmasked by the Undertaker a couple of years earlier with no such ill effects to his hairdo?

So many things about this seemed thrown together at the last second without any real thought put into the logistics. And considering Eric Bischoff was involved in the planning, this is almost a guarantee.