Returning in his 2011 mask and destroying Seth Rollins at Night of Champions 2015.
Later, on the 9/28/2015 episode of Raw, Seth attempted to make him pay for that by re-breaking his recently healed leg with a chair and sending him out of the arena in an ambulance. "Attempted" being the key word here... because Kane soon emerged from the ambulance surrounded by ominous red smoke, forcibly snapped his leg back into place, and returned for some revenge of his own. Even better? Seth gave that same leg yet another chair shot... and Kane shrugged off the pain with nothing but sheer Unstoppable Rage.
His run in the 2001 Royal Rumble match. Granted, he lost, but he held the record for most eliminations in the match by eliminating 11 men, and it took 13 years for his record to be broken. By the time it was broken, Kane had tied Shawn Michaels' record of 39 eliminations from the Royal Rumble over his career.note Whilst Kane not being a legal participant in the match at the time of his 39th elimination has led to debate amongst fans over if he has tied the record or not, WWE recognised that he has tied the record in their recap of the event.
Speaking of the Royal Rumble, there's his elimination of The Big Show at the 2002 show, where after the two had traded some punches, both went for the chokeslam at the same time, with Kane finally gaining the upperhand thanks to a low blow, then picking up The Big Show and body slamming him over the top rope. Big Show was almost 500 lbs at the time.
Winning the World title after a full decade of being a mid-carder and holding it longer than 24 hours.
It says a lot about the fans' respect for Kane that he won by cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on the very popular Rey Mysterio Jr.....and still got a strong positive reaction for his title victory.
Also take note that this happened in 2010; meaning that this is an inversion of 13 Is Unlucky. Kane truly deserved that championship after going through all those storylines.
Retaining the Tag titles, by himself, in a four team TLC match. Also, winning the ECW title in less than thirty seconds.
The fact that he might be the only wrestler to have defeated The Undertaker in three consecutive Pay-Per-Views is one as well.
The return of his mask at the 2011 Slammy Awards.
Kane's Big Entrance, virtually every time it happens, is pretty awesome. Kane has one of WWE's most iconic entrances, second only to his brother. In the early years, which was the most Undertaker-inspired, we'd get a darkened arena accompanied by an ominous organ, followed by the explosion of fire as Kane lurches out for his next victim (and for his first few matches in 1997, he'd actually wrestle his matches in a creepy red light). It only got more intense in the 2000s as Kane went more for the Jump Scare, as we'd skip the first part and signal his arrival with a huge explosion (having Finger Eleven do a new version of your theme certainly helps).
Maybe the best Kane entrance ever was WrestleMania 21, for the Money In The Bank ladder match. The stage was adorned with ladders, and when Kane made his entrance, the pyro lit all the ladders on fire, making Kane look like he was walking directly out of Hell. Even Kane was visibly enthralled.
Kane's debut on RAW. Instead of an explosion sound accompanying his entrance, the flames on the ramp ignite in silence, giving an almost ethereal feel to his entrance.
But perhaps nothing can top his return entrance on the February 7th, 2000 edition of RAW is War. During a tag team match involving D-Generation X, The Radicalz, The Rock, Rikishi, Too Cool, and Cactus Jack, the lights in the arena suddenly go out, to an expectant pop. After a few moments, amid confusion, out walks Paul Bearer, and the crowd loses their mind (as do Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler on commentary)! Then, Kane's pyro goes off and The Big Red Machine, who had been betrayed by both his friend X-Pac and his girlfriend Tori and ostracized from DX, stalks toward the ring, guided by the smug-looking Bearer, and proceeds to destroy everyone in his path, to a HUGE reaction!
When he starts doing promos, they turn into awesomeness. There's the one where he vows vengeance on whomever put his brother into a coma (Even though it was later revealed that he did it). Then there's the one in January 2012 where he's trying to get John Cena to embrace hatred.
This feud is one of the best that Kane has offered. What with the promos, Cena's reactions and the audience coming into add fuel to the fire, if Kane can turn Cena and give him the Attitude Adjustment that everyone's been waiting for, it would be nothing short of amazing.
On Raw 1000, Kane is being surrounded by lower mid-carders, angry that they've never been given a chance. They all look to be about to attack Kane. Thing don't look too— *DONG...* Commence asskicking.
On the 9/21/12 edition of SmackDown, Kane and Daniel Bryan, new Tag Team Champions, have to fight Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow, after D-Bry and Kane cost each other their matches. The rest of the division is watching the match. By the end, Kane and Bryan are taking on the rest of the tag team division and winning, namely by beating them down with steel chairs. And they were actually getting along!
The Monday Night RAW after Paul Bearer's (legit) untimely death, Kane goes toe-to-toe with CM Punk and wins clean. Undertaker comes out onto the entrance stage and both Brothers of Destruction mirror the "Urn worship" pose as a picture of the late Paul Bearer looms on the Titantron... an awesome moment quickly killed by CM Punk bashing Kane's head in with the urn several seconds later.
A possibly accidental Visual Effects of Awesome happened in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment after this match. Kane's eye makeup started to run right after he was announced as the winner, giving the impression that he was actually crying tears of blood.
The 4/29/13 RAW, where he took on The Shield's Dean Ambrose and nearly beat the entire stable back single-handedly by sheer force of willpower. The kicker was he knew it was going to end badly, but he went out and did it anyway.
Jaunary 13th, 2014: A very minor one, but remember that he was the one who announced that the main event was the tag team steel cage match. In other words he helped his good friend Daniel Bryanget revenge on the Wyatts. It also goes twofold if you remember that Kane was the Wyatt Family's first target in WWE!
Extreme Rules 2014. The fire bump. THE FREAKING FIRE BUMP. As well as this, the match featured all sorts of non-PG violence, including chair and Singapore Cane shots to the head, Kane bodyslamming Daniel Bryan on a car hood, and use of a forklift. The whole match seemed like it would be more in place in the Attitude Era than 2014.
His actual debut must be mentioned here. After weeks of buildup and hype, Kane finally comes out led by Paul Bearer to interrupt the Hell in the Cell match between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. While opinions about the "supernatural" aspect of the feud are strictly YMMV, there is no denying that seeing Kane and 'Taker finally look each other in the eyes was a harbinger of the match potential the feud had.
Kicking out of the tombstone Piledriver, not once, but twice at Wrestlemania 14.
Not only did he kick out twice, he came close to doing it a third time. As soon as the ref's hand hit three, Kane's shoulder went up.
And then, at the end of the match…he still had the strength to hit Undertaker with a tombstone!
Goldberg has only ever once been pinned due to a finishing move; Kane's chokeslam. Of course, it was Triple H who got the pin, soiling this moment a bit, but still, an impressive feat.
Jacobs might very well be the living embodiment of "If at first you don't succeed..."; in an industry where one crappy gimmick can destroy any career you might have, he's had to slog through not one, not two, but THREE of them - the Christmas Creature, Isaac Yankem, and Fake Diesel - before hitting paydirt as Kane.
02-10-2000 Smackdown. Kane is hit by chair by Triple H, which draws the DQ, but doesn't faze Kane in the slightest. Tori (Kane's ex and currently aligned with X-Pac) tries to save the day and escape but is stopped by Paul Bearer. Paul Bearer throws Tori to Kane for the chokeslam but refuses drawing huge Boos from the crowd. She foolishly thinks she can still control Kane after being voluntarily released by him; she touches Kane and starts speaking kindly to him. Kane flips his hair back and lifts her for the Tombstone Piledriver which drives the crowd wild. One Tombstone later and Kane finally has vengeance against the woman who left him for his former friend.
Kane makes his return on the October 16th, 2017, edition of Raw by bursting through the ring to help Braun Strowman defeat Roman Reigns in a cage match. After the match, The Miz announces Kane as part of his team against the recently reunited The Shield at TLC.
