10 times Kane won when he should have lost

#8 vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin (King of the Ring 1998)

Kane holding the WWF Championship shortly before losing it on RAW

This might just be the sick side of me talking, but when I was 12 years old watching the main event of King of the Ring in 1998, I wanted two things. One, for my hero Stone Cold Steve Austin to retain his WWF Championship, and two, for Kane to light himself on fire, as he promised he would do if he lost the First Blood match and did not win the title from Austin.

Sadly I was rewarded with neither of these events, as both Mankind and The Undertaker, on the same night as their infamous Hell in a Cell match, interfered. The Undertaker took a swing at Kane with a steel chair and hit Stone Cold instead, causing Austin to bleed and the referee to award the match and the WWF Title to Kane. Stone Cold would win the title back the very next night on RAW less than 24 hours later, so the entire stipulation was for nothing.

Obviously, the intended purpose of the match at King of the Ring was to get people to buy the show on PPV, because we were guaranteed to see someone bleed and because Steve Austin was untouchable and had only won the title 3 months earlier, we expected that Kane would set himself on fire. He was already set on fire two months prior to the first ever Inferno match, and we wanted more!