9 Things WWE Experimented With On House Shows But Never Went With

Kane’s WWE debut at Bad Blood ’97 is rightly viewed as one of the most iconic and impactful first appearances in wrestling history.

What some people may not know, is that Kane worked several house shows in the build to causing chaos in that 1997 PPV’s Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels Hell in a Cell bout. And not only did The Big Red Machine work some non-televised live events, but said appearances saw Kane donning a swanky red and black cape.

For the most part, capes make everything cooler. Luckily for Kane, leaving the cape behind did him no harm once he finally landed on main WWE television and was instantly positioned as the most dominant, unstoppable force in the company.

Two decades later, with multiple championships to his name, a Hall of Fame induction simply waiting to happen, and even being the Mayor of Knox County, things worked out pretty well for Kane despite WWE brass deciding that his house show cape wasn’t going to cut it once he made his explosive Bad Blood bow.