The Austin/Kane title situation was extremely ******ed. In the First Blood Match at KOTR, Kane even went as far as to cover the only exposed part of his flesh which was his left arm. So before then Austin would have had to slice him across the arm to get "more than a trickle of blood" which McMahon kept emphasising as a stipulation.
The match comes about, and Kane's covered head to toe in red clothing, so even if you stabbed him, you'd have to check it was blood and not a great big sweat mark under his costume. So there was no way Austin was likely to win anyway, against a guy who fights like the Undertaker, but is even more powerful and can take even more abuse. As if fighting Taker wasn't difficult enough!!!
Then they have the stupid Foley/Taker run in that cost Austin the match. Ok they didn't want Austin to actually be outclassed by another wrestler, so couldn't lose clean. Fair enough.
The next night, Austin beat Kane in like 5 minutes for the belt. Usual routine of punching, stomping, flipping the bird, lou thesz press, more punches, running elbow, stunner, new champion, and Kane might have got an uppercut in there somewhere as well.
Why did it take The Undertaker all his might and 3 tombstones just to survive against Kane one on one and yet Austin shit all over him, despite Austin struggling to beat Taker several times beforehand?
I don't really think it was necessary for Taker to win the Inferno match either to be honest, but i guess it was safer for Kane to do the stunt than him.
I'm not bothered so much that Kane lost the title after one night, Foley did the same to HHH and no one questioned his ME status ever, but it was the fact that Austin totally squashed Kane, after Glen had spent so many years with ******ed gimmicks, and he finally gets one that's easily marketable (and easily his most succesful gimmick and arguably one of the most succesful gimmicks to be born out of a spin off of another one, ever!), and he spends 6-8 months establishing himself as an impact player, only for Austin to kill every ounce of momentum he'd garnered in that time frame.
You can't blame Austin for that, or Kane, but unfortunately Glen Jacobs became a casualty of shock booking to gain a ratings boost one week.
Just think. He could of had the kind of title run that JBL had. Ok he'd get nowhere near as much heel heat through promos, but Paul Bearer could have helped out in that area well enough.
It got worse some 5 years later when it looked like he was going to hold 3 titles at once, but instead they had him job to HHH yet again, and his momentum died all over again, and after that the mask came off and the rest is history.
And sorry Ankhor_Man3 but i totally disagree, Glen Jacobs will be in the HOF. He's been with WWE just as long as the other guys who've been listed as 'future HOF'ers' and bust his ass as much as all of them, without half the bullshit that some of them gave McMahon during their runs, so he definitely deserves to be inducted. If guys like Rocky Johnson get in just for winning 1 title, no matter how historic, then Kane'll get in. They may not induct him as Kane, but in one form or another, Glen Jacobs will get in.
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