10 times Kane won when he should have lost

#1 vs. Finn Balor (RAW, 10/23/17)

Kane chokeslams Finn Balor en route to victory

This is a debatable choice for the number one worst victory of Kane’s career, but this is what I’m going with. It was indeed very recent, less than two months before the time of this writing, but it was a glaring mistake. WWE needed a new monster to feed to Braun Strowman, and they chose pretty much the only monster left, Kane.

That’s all well and good. They also had to reintroduce Kane and give him some devastating victories to show how strong he is, which is also well and good. No issue there, since there are tons of guys on the roster that can be fed to the Big Red Machine and make him look impressive.

Instead, they decided to use Finn Balor. The popular leader of Balor Club Worldwide had defeated The Phenomenal AJ Styles, former WWE Champion, one of the most popular and protected wrestlers in the company right now, the guy who would become WWE Champion for a second time a short few weeks later -- just ONE NIGHT before taking a match with Kane and being summarily pounded into the mat like a nobody.

Sure, Balor put up a decent fight before falling to three chokeslams, but why did they make this choice? It’s worth noting that it didn’t take three chokeslams to defeat Balor. He didn’t kick out of two of them, only to fall to a devastating third one after a valiant fight. Kane simply chokeslammed him, picked him up, chokeslammed him, picked him up again, and then chokeslammed him one more time for good measure. Talk about overkill.

Finn would go on to receive a Tombstone piledriver on the entrance stage the following week and has yet to get any retribution. He won’t be getting any retribution, either, because Kane has to be kept strong so he can be killed by Braun Strowman. Sure, maybe Finn will challenge and defeat Kane once he’s been taken down by The Monster Among Men, but it won’t have the same effect.

Finn has been relegated to doing nothing important in the weeks since his destruction at the hands of Kane, and it doesn’t look like things will be changing anytime soon. It’s absolutely baffling that WWE would sacrifice a guy like Balor when the only thing it accomplishes is making Finn look bad. Kane could have beaten anybody and it would have had the same positive effect on him. This was just poor.