Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967 in Madrid, Spain, but raised near Nashville, Tennessee, currently residing in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand, best known for wrestling as Kane.

Wrestling Career

Jacobs has portrayed several characters throughout his career since his pro-wrestling debut in 1992. This includes Unibomb in the United States Wrestling Association and Smoky Mountain Wrestling, where he was co-holder of the Tag Team Championship with Al Snow, and a few runs in the WWE as Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS (1995-96) and the "Fake Diesel" (1996-97). In late 1997, he was repackaged as Kane, a masked character he is now best known for.

The Kane character is the on-screen half-brother of The Undertaker, with whom he feuded off and on for several years. The characters' histories are that as children, Undertaker accidentally burned down the funeral home where they lived, killing their parents and hideously scarring Kane. Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer, hid Kane as he grew up, and Kane was thought to be dead until he returned as a 7-foot, 326-pounds, one-eyed monster at Bad Blood in October 1997 and attacked Undertaker during his "Hell in a Cell" match with Shawn Michaels.

He won the WWF Championship in June 1998 from Stone Cold Steve Austin which is the highlight of his career so far. In 2003, he unmasked. Many fans are annoyed at how the current Kane has no scars and much of the psychological depth and established history of the character has been ignored. However, it has since been learned that Kane never was burned in the fire and that it was something that Paul Bearer had told Kane for all those years to help keep him afraid and hidden away as a recluse.

In December 2003 at the Armageddon pay-per-view, Kane was in a Triple Threat World Title match against Triple H and World Champion Goldberg. Triple H, after the aid of his team mates from Evolution, ended up winning the match and title.

On March 14, 2004 at WrestleMania XX, Kane fought his brother the Undertaker, whom he had "buried alive" just months earlier at the 2003 Survivor Series. Kane ended up losing the match.

At present, they are on separate shows with Kane being on RAW and Undertaker being on SmackDown!, however their feud is likely to continue intermittently for some time.

Kane was also involved in a long time storyline with Gene Snitsky that grew out of a previous storyline with Lita.

The first storyline involved Kane falling in love with Lita, but Lita being disturbed by Kane, and not reciprocating. At the beginning of May, Kane kidnapped Lita, and supposedly asked her a question before Kane let her go. On May 17, 2004's broadcast of RAW, Lita gave an answer of yes to Kane's question. The question was not immediately revealed. On that same night, Kane won a 20-man Battle Royal to earn Number One Contendership to Chris Benoit's World Heavyweight Championship at Bad Blood.

On the June 14, 2004 RAW, Kane mercilessly beat Shawn Michaels after an in-ring promo featuring Michaels and Triple H. He capped off his assault by placing Michaels' neck in a folding steel chair and jumping on the chair. Michaels was carried off-stage in a stretcher, portrayed as having suffered a crushed larynx as a result of Kane's attack. The larynx injury was worked. The "attack" was used by WWE to write Michaels out of storylines; the promotion excused him for several weeks to allow him to spend time with his pregnant wife, who gave birth to the couple's second child that August.

Later, Lita announced she was pregnant (also worked); Matt Hardy (her boyfriend, both in the storyline and, at that time, in reality) assumed that he was the child's father. On the June 21, 2004 broadcast of RAW, Lita and Hardy appeared together in the ring, and he asked Lita to marry him. Before she could respond, Kane appeared on a video monitor, and claimed to be the father of Lita's child. On the next week's RAW, Kane again made the claim. Kane and Hardy were then booked to face one another at the upcoming SummerSlam pay-per-view event in a "Till Death Do Us Part" match, where Lita would have to marry the winner.

Kane was victorious in the match, and eventually married Lita on the August 23, 2004 RAW. There was a small amount of annoyance among both wrestling fans and the press that Hardy revealed that he would be missing 6 to 8 months after the match; this gave away the fact that he would obviously lose to Kane.

On the September 13, 2004 RAW, Gene Snitsky made his debut, matched against Kane. During the match, Snitsky hit Kane in the back with a steel chair, causing Kane to fall into Lita. The injuries Lita suffered in the match led to a miscarriage. Kane and Snitsky were then booked to meet at Taboo Tuesday; Snitsky won a match in which a steel chain was a legal weapon. Snitsky then continued to injure Kane's neck with a steel chair by crushing his larynx, in exactly the same manner Kane had "injured" Shawn Michaels several months earlier. This injury was also worked, as Jacobs was scheduled to film a WWE-produced movie, Goodnight.

After he completed filming on the movie, he was announced as Snitsky's opponent in a match at the January 2005 New Year's Revolution pay-per-view, resuming the storyline. At this event, Kane defeated Snitsky. Later, on the January 17, 2005 RAW, he and Snitsky were booked to compete in a No Holds Barred match.

During this show, Trish Stratus cut an in-ring promo on Lita, making a reference to a real knee injury Lita suffered in a recent match between the two, and then said that there were many men in the locker room that would love to get her "pregnant" again. The insulted Kane ran in, and proceeded to chokeslam Stratus in the middle of the ring. Then, Kane and Snitsky battled inside and outside the ring in their scheduled match. The Kane-Snitsky match, and the show, ended with Kane chokeslamming Snitsky off the stage, with both wrestlers falling through tables and other paraphernalia set up below the entrance ramp.

Recent events

Kane has continued his pursuit of Trish Stratus, who has continued to torment his wife Lita. It has been revealed that Kane and Lita are apparently happily married and have been conspiring to frighten Lita's rival Trish. On the April 18, 2005 RAW, a feud between Kane and Viscera began with Viscera running in and physically manhandling Kane.

Finisher/Signature Moves

• Chokeslam
• Tombstone Piledriver
• Flying clothesline

Championships/Accomplishments

• 1-time WWE Champion
• 2-time WWE Intercontinental Champion
• 8-time WWE World Tag Team Champion (with Mankind, The Undertaker, X-Pac, The Hurricane, and Rob Van Dam)
• 1-time WWE Hardcore Champion
• 1-time WCW Tag Team Champion (with The Undertaker)
• 1-time SMW Tag Team Champion
• 1-time USWA Heavyweight Champion

External links

Kane's WWE profile