Kane — also occasionally known by his non-demon name, Glenn Jacobs — is in a pretty unique situation at the moment. He’s currently in the running to be mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, and while most fans expected him to be gone from WWE television until that election ran its course, that turned out to be super not the case.
At the age of 50, in the midst of a mayoral campaign, Kane returned to WWE to feud with Braun Strowman. Oh yeah, and somehow he screwed around and wound up in the Universal Championship main event at the 2018 Royal Rumble. So things are going extremely well, in other words.
For his part, Kane is looking forward to that main event, because he recognizes that it might be his last time at the top of the card, after a 20-year run as the Big Red Monster.
In a new interview and profile from the New York Post, Kane had spectacular compliments to pay Braun Strowman, a man who definitely deserves compliments, and talked about how time is fleeting for main event player Kane. I know; I know: we’re all extremely shocked by this assessment.
“I have to take advantage of everyone that comes along,” he said of the chance to be in the main-event picture. “This might be the last one. I don’t know. I certainly think the match at Royal Rumble is going to be special for me.
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“I’ve been in WWE for 22 years and that’s a long time and I still think I perform at a high level,” he said. “But nevertheless, it’s a long time and I know I don’t have many opportunities like this left”
It’s completely insane to realize that Kane has been Kane longer than a huge portion of WWE’s audience has been alive. Maybe many of us thought he’d be a main event player until well into his 70s. Keep THAT boyhood dream alive, dang it.
Oh, and for his part, he also believes that his being a pro wrestler will help him in the eyes of voters, because it’s cool to be a wrestler.
“It’s sort of cool because your sort of entrenched political class is going to think that, oh he’s a wrestler and that’s going against him.’ It doesn’t. It actually works for me because you know people think that’s cool, but people know who I am too and the things that I have been doing in the community for years.”
Yeah! It IS cool to be a wrestler! It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens with the election — and what happens to Kane’s WWE career, regardless of the outcome.
