KANE's Offerings

#46 Monkey Shines 
March 17, 1998 Phoenix, Arizona

In between bodyslams and hurricanranas, the fans were entertained by the presence of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns cuddly mascot arriving via the ceiling of the arena. The fluffy gorilla then amused the audience further by putting on an “Austin 3:16” T-shirt. But in the dark recesses of the dressing room Kane wasn’t laughing. Interrupting the show, the masked man put a damper on the fun by chokeslamming the gorilla, then laying him out with a Tombstone Piledriver.

#54 Austin regains the title
June 29, 1998 Cleveland, Ohio

One day after Kane shocked the sports entertainment world by dethroning Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWE Championship, the two met in a rematch. With his manager Paul Bearer at his side, Kane enjoyed a decisive psychological advantage. But this was the height of the Stone Cold Era, and Austin could not be derailed. Twenty-four hours after his defeat, Austin won back the title with a Stone Cold Stunner, then hit the move on Kane’s half-brother Undertaker after the bell.

#58 Hell in the Cell
August 14, 1998 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

No one expected anything less than a savage mêlée when Kane and Mankind met in a Hell in the Cell match. But this clash-with it’s unanticipated twists-exceeded expectations. During the match, Stone Cold Steve Austin popped up from under the ring and crushed Kane with a chair, prompting Undertaker to scale the enclosure. As he clung to the top of the pen, it was suddenly raised and propelled to the roof of the arena.

#83 Hot Night in D-Town
February 7, 2000 Dallas, Texas

Hot on the heels of the shocking debut of WCW defectors Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, and Eddie Guerrero, the soon-to-be-christened Radicalz stole the show again by turning on and attacking their benefactor Cactus Jack, and joining forces with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley.

With No Way Out, and what would be a classic “Hell in a Cell” match between “The Game” and cactus less than three weeks away, the feud between the two was at its height.

On this night, Triple H and X-pac had teamed up with Benoit, Saturn, and Malenko (Guerrero had injured his elbow the week before on SmackDown!) to take on Cactus and any four partners of his choosing. The match began with only one other Superstar-The Rock-taking Cactus’ side, but they were joined by Rikishi and Too Cool.

The ensuing match was one of the most fast-paced and exciting RAW main events in recent memory, ending when Triple H hit a pedigree on Grandmaster Sexay, and Benoit followed with a diving headbutt. The fracas grew wilder when the New Age Outlaws hit the ring with a crowbar, allowing Triple H to attack Cactus Jack.

With 12 men already pounding away on each other in the ring, what else could possibly happen? The return of Paul Bearer and Kane-who had been sent out of action weeks earlier by the Outlaws. A hellfire-and-brimstone ending to one of the wildest main events in Raw history!

#90 “E-C-DUB! E-C-DUB!”
July 9, 2001 Atlanta, Georgia

On the night featuring the first interpromotional matches between WWE and WCW, the invasion was taken to the Extreme. It all started innocently enough during a tag team match between WWE’s Kane & Chris Jericho and WCW’s Mike Awesome & Lance Storm. In the middle of the match, ECW legends Tommy Dreamer and Rob Van Dam stormed the ring, attacking Kane and Jericho. Running in to make the save came Tazz, the Dudley Boyz, Justin Credible, Raven and Rhyno…wait a minute. Before the shocked eyes of the entire viewership, the “Tribe of Extreme” was reborn. The ECW members dismantled Kane and Jericho, and Paul Heyman left the Raw broadcast desk to deliver a scorching promo on Jim Ross and WWE. Before the night was over, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley was revealed as the new owner of ECW, and ECW and Shane McMahon’s WCW had merged into the Alliance.

#100 "THERE ARE BODIES EVERYWHERE!"
October 7, 2002 Las Vegas, NV

Spin the wheel, make the deal!

Eric Bischoff's Raw roulette wheel of stipulations made fans everywhere winners when it booked an eight-man Tables, Ladders & Chairs WWE Tag Team Championship main event at Las Vegas' Thomas & Mack Center. Well actually a seven-man match, as tag team co-champion The Hurricane was disabled by Triple H and Ric Flair prior to the bout, leaving Kane to face the teams of Christian & Chris Jericho, Bubba Ray and Spike Dudley, and Jeff Hardy & Rob Van Dam. Seven of RAW's elite athletes put everything on the line and committed acts of self destructiveness for nearly 20 minutes.

Tables were destroyed, ladders cracked heads, and chairs were bent out of shape as the crowd went absolutely berserk. As Jim Ross put it at one point, "There are bodies everywhere!" In the end the one man without a partner-Kane-scaled the ladder and came down with the championship belts that were suspended over the ring. But not before every man involved took part in at least several awe-inspiring moves.

The toll was great, but the results were unmistakable-one of the most memorable matches in the history of Raw.

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