10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE Raw From 2006

There are so many moments from the 21st century alone that make people stop and ask: 'What were WWE thinking?!'. Rehashing an old döppelganger gimmick that worked so well for The Undertaker in 1994 ranks as one of the worst. This time, it was his kayfabe brother Kane who suffered the indignity of selling a Halloween costume version of himself.

Luke Gallows debuted as the ‘Retro’ masked Kane on the 29 May 2006 Raw. He attacked the unmasked real deal version, then even scored a win on pay-per-view beat Kane at Vengeance. Apparently unhappy with how things were going, WWE ditched the character 24 hours later on the episode of Raw directly after that PPV.

The whole ordeal was just so ill-advised. Obviously, people got what they were going for (a spectre of his nightmarish past returns to haunt him), but it didn’t work. To think, Vince and his creative boffins thought that Gallows could get a longer run out of being fake Kane and maybe even turn it into a full time gig.

Then they'd have 2 Kanes. It was never going to fly. The wig big LG had to wear was unconvincing, he didn't fill out the old Kane outfit nearly as well as Glenn Jacobs had between 1997-2000, and fans in arenas sat on their hands watching some cosplay artist chokeslam his way through the genuine article.

It's pretty funny now that anyone thought this would work. It'd be like someone going under the mask as Uncle Howdy for a feud with The Wyatt Sicks today. Nobody wants to see it.