As a veteran and as a loyal employee of WWE for so many years, he would pretty much do whatever Vince asked of him I would imagine. Creating a comedy act with Daniel Bryan further devalued what his character is supposed to be, as he devolved into a huggable red monster that attends anger management classes.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed these segments and quite frankly, I looked forward to them like I looked forward to JeriKO segments. But I knew deep down that all I wanted was a destruction obsessed machine that was masked because of a horrific childhood incident.
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The final piece to the Kane puzzle is the Director of Operations gimmick he was given. Kane was shown to have a split personality as he gave his mask to Stephanie McMahon to control. He would flit back and forth between ‘Demon Kane’ and the Director of Operations, however, with either persona oblivious to the other.
He did not really work as an authority figure but to be honest, there were a few other people that could have filled this role satisfactorily. The split personality was a good idea but it didn’t really come across as a legitimate storyline as much as a filler, even as we moved into a more reality driven era.
Nevertheless, Kane was still able to play the part of a big man on the ring extremely effectively. Though he has slowed down in recent years and shows signs of fatigue a lot more rapidly, this is to be expected of a man who is almost 50.
His last match on WWE television was in November of last year and I believe we can expect a return later on in the year. However I think the next run should be Kane’s last. He is already making waves in the political arena and it doesn’t make sense for him to be travelling with the company for 300+ days a year.
As the body gets older too, we know that it can take less punishment and can’t do the things that maybe it used to do. Kane is no spring chicken at the ripe old age of 49 and has done extremely well to be going at such a high level for so long.
