Part-time WWE Superstar and current Mayor of Knox County Kane recently appeared on WWE's The Bump, and was there to talk about the Undertaker: The Last Ride documentary currently airing on the WWE Network.
At one point, the feud between the Brothers of Destruction came up, and the Big Red Machine specifically looked back at his 1997 debut and the rivalry which followed. "Well the six month stretch is awesome because I got to beat literally everybody!," Kane said, looking back on that initial run in WWE.
"I think that was the best piece of epic storytelling WWE has ever done. Just the whole thing as far as from the introduction of Kane; from Paul Bearer talking about Kane before you ever saw him, to the storyline itself, the matches and everything. I just thought that it was just a great piece of storytelling."
Kane went on to say that, "everything seemed to work, we had all these different pieces. One reason I called it epic storytelling was because the feud was like mythology right? You had these two large and alive characters with this huge backstory and all these different things. So, it was just awesome and what was really cool? Every night was something different. Every Monday night on RAW was ‘what can we do this week?’ And of course at that time RAW was a very edgy show, so we were pushing the boundaries of television and really of storytelling."
It's a valid argument, and definitely superior storytelling to what we currently see in WWE.
Kane's debut is considered one of the best of all-time, and his relationship with The Undertaker in the company - whether it was as tag team partners of rivals - remains truly iconic. What do you guys think?