5 WWE backstage stories we learned this week: Roman Reigns, Sasha Banks, Triple H, more!

#3 Kane feared he could lose his job

One of the biggest surprises of the week in WWE came on the September 16 episode of Raw when Kane appeared as the real-life person behind his character (Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee) in various 24/7 Championship segments with R-Truth and Carmella.

Later in the show, Kane returned to a WWE arena for the first time in 10 months when he helped Seth Rollins fight off a 5-on-1 assault from AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode before being on the receiving end of an attack from “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt.

Speaking on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, “The Big Red Machine” praised the development of Wyatt’s character in 2019 and also told an interesting story about how he feared for his job in WWE during their battle with WCW in the late 1990s.

“We all look back on the Monday Night Wars and romanticise – gosh, what a good time for wrestling and all that – but if you were in either company, but especially WWE, it was the most stressful time of my life because it really was a war and if we lost, we were probably going to lose our jobs.

“So, we weren’t sitting there romanticising about how great everything was. We were going, ‘How can we put on the best show that we possibly can? Because if we don’t, we could wake up out of a job any day now.’”