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

This bizarre business was very loosely paid off on WWE television via a dire, quickly abandoned feud with said doppelgänger. The doppelgänger defeated Kane at Vengeance, before Kane sought his, yes, vengeance 24 hours after the show entitled Vengeance. WWE 50/50 booked one of the best worst storylines of all time.

The May 19 storyline mystified and bored the audience—the only audience even halfway receptive to a WWE Studios production. See No Evil performed very modestly at the worldwide box office, grossing $18.6 million dollars against an $8 million budget.

The film fared less well with critics, scoring an 8% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Ty Burr of the Boston Globe described it as “proficient junk,” clearly having paid little attention to Goodnight’s bulge. Variety’s Joe Leydon wrote that “precious little suspense is generated during See No Evil”. “The madman is played by the single-name professional wrestler Kane, who has all the acting skills of a fire hydrant,” wrote the New York Post’s V.A. Musetto. That’s ironic; if Kane were a fire hydrant, we’d have avoided all of this b*llocks.

In retrospect, this was all Top Banter. Much of Kane’s career is…in retrospect. It will make for an absolutely sublime Hall of Fame video package, an institution to which he would belong even if it actually meant jack sh*t.

But, at the time, this was so searingly sh*tty that most watching wished Goodnight would rip our eyeballs out of our skull.