May 19: The True Story Behind Kane’s Most Out There WWE Storyline

To reiterate: Vince McMahon dreamt up a scenario in which the film’s antagonist would pack, for reasons that are not entirely clear, a three-foot c*ck. Screenwriter Dan Madigan was less than enthused with this development—he repeated the phrase “Oh, this is not good” on a later John Pollock podcast as often as WWE repeated the f*cking date—but, Vince being Vince, he either lost interest in the idea, or forgot about it entirely.

There is a scene in See No Evil in which Kane’s character, Jacob Goodnight, drags a delinquent youth into an elevator using a hook. Were Vince to have remembered his idea, Kane would have used his three-foot c*ck as a lasso.

In reality, and yes this did happen in real life, May 19 was revealed as the date on which his mother and adopted family were killed in a fire. Now, in 1998, the Undertaker’s new Lord of Darkness character took credit for this, but Kane alluded to it being the work of a previously unseen horror he could barely being himself to mention.

This horror was Luke Gallows in a Kane mask.

Oddly, Kane suffered no such trauma in the days leading up to May 19, 2005. In that month, the Big Red Monster was preoccupied by the Gold Rush Tournament, which marked the second successive year in which he remained firmly in the World Heavyweight Title picture. In 2003, Kane reigned with doubles gold alongside partner Rob Van Dam, during which time he endured no psychotic episodes.

In fact, if you trace Kane’s history, he rather enjoyed the springtime, enchanted, perhaps, by the brightened palette of the skyline and the bloom that surrounded him. It was almost as of none of this made any sense.

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