Kane vs. Rey Mysterio

[Jacy Derangement Syndrome]

Remember when Kane started carrying around a bag but got rly mad when people would ask what was in it? And it drove a wedge between him and his normal guy friend CM Punk? Until eventually things came to a head and Kane was forced to open his magic bag by RAW GM Mike Adamle? And inside the bag was the mask of Rey Mysterio who had recently gone missing? And then Kane went around for weeks talking about how he sucked Rey's soul out of his body in the Parking Lot cause he hates ppl who wear masks? Until Rey Mysterio came back with his soul fully intact? And then had a bunch of matches where Rey won nearly all of them?

Also one week RAW closed out with Kane staring at his OG mask like it was time to renounce his luchaphobia but it didn't lead to anything except another loss to Mysterio with his face fully out and oh my god that pissed me off when I was young because I just wanted Kane to be cool again.

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One of the worst storylines ever.

Everyone was begging for masked Kane at this point. WWE should've just gave in and let him wear the mask again. He did it 4 years later anyway.

[chazraps]

And it went on for WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS!

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

I didn't realise until rewatching 2008 WWE recently just how badly they jobbed Kane out to Rey in this feud.

[rnrk supports BLM]

Feb 2, 2022 13:20:35 GMT -5 Jacy Derangement Syndrome said:

Until Rey Mysterio came back with his soul fully intact?

The best part was that Cena got injured so they rushed Rey back and announced him returning literally the week after Kane revealed he'd supposedly kidnapped and tortured him. In a world title match that had nothing to with Kane. And Mysterio came back looking like his normal self smiling and high-fiving fans during his entrance like no one bothered telling him the kayfabe explanation for why he was supposed to have been gone.

[Rican]

The whole thing was bad but the reveal that it was Rey’s mask and then Kane doing an evil laugh and leaving was cool.

[Mozenrath]

I don't get why they'd tease the full mask so often considering they had no intention of having him wear it again. I know it was likely really uncomfortable, but stop bringing it out, then.

And then when he did go back to wearing a mask, he had that shitty one that looked like a fruit leather. Having no black on the mask just made it look kinda lame.

[Starshine]

In terms of it being a Kane feud that didn't make much sense. This was certainly one of the many. Typically Kane feuds suck about as much as he does anyway, so I wasn't exactly surprised.

But I definitely remember how one sided this feud was. I don't get how WWE just doesn't understand that in order for someone to be an underdog, they have to regularly fight from underneath. If someone wins more often than they lose, they're not an underdog.

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Feb 2, 2022 20:38:34 GMT -5 Gravedigger's Biscuits said:

I didn't realise until rewatching 2008 WWE recently just how badly they jobbed Kane out to Rey in this feud.

I had no recollection of anything in this thread till you said 2008. The never ending Cena/HHH/Orton and crap like this. I stopped watching around this time and got really into Detroit Tigers and Red Wings. The wings won the cup that year so it was worth it!

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Feb 2, 2022 22:22:42 GMT -5 Starshine said:

In terms of it being a Kane feud that didn't make much sense. This was certainly one of the many. Typically Kane feuds suck about as much as he does anyway, so I wasn't exactly surprised.

But I definitely remember how one sided this feud was. I don't get how WWE just doesn't understand that in order for someone to be an underdog, they have to regularly fight from underneath. If someone wins more often than they lose, they're not an underdog.

Fast forward to 2022, where fans are seemingly begging for the babyfaces to stomp out the heels for a few months straight for a change.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

IS HE ALIVE OR IS HE DEAD??!

[Chiral]

I remember them hyping up how Kane had literally eviscerated Mysterio and then Rey just like came back (did he escape? Did Kane let him go? Did he make the whole thing up for attention?)

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

I remember Adamle explaining to Kane that kids watch this show and how they couldn’t be responsible for kids all carrying around mysterious bags and scaring the daylights out of people.

[Injustice45]

Feb 3, 2022 10:32:30 GMT -5 Jake, The Jake, Jake said:

IS HE ALIVE OR IS HE DEAD??!