Former three times WWE world champion Kane who is also a WWE Hall of Of Famer who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame earlier this year recently revealed that his ring name was scheduled to be something else. First, it was planned to be Inferno.
Kane made his iconic debut in WWE in 1997. It was the Badd Blood: In Your House pay per view event of the mentioned year. The Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels and the Dead Man The Undertaker battled inside Hell in a Cell to determine the number one contender for “The Hitman” Bret Hart’s WWE Championship.
Kane Says His Ring Name Was Scheduled To Be Something Else
The match was mostly controlled by the Undertaker when finally arrived is onscreen brother Kane whose debut had been teased by WWE for months. He came out along with Paul Bearer, broke the cell door and attacked Undertaker to knock him out with a Tombstone Piledriver.
The debut of the Big Red Machine is considered as one of the best debuts in the history of professional wrestling. Many critics even consider this debut as the best debut in the history of the world of professional wrestling. But what if his name was something different? What if we got to know him by some other name?
Recently the Big Red Machine spoke to Stories With Brisco and Bradshaw where he revealed that his name was scheduled to be something else. He said that he was scheduled to be named as Inferno. Here is what he had to say;
“So after the fake Diesel deal, I was actually back working, — I was always under contract with WWE from 1995 when I signed that developmental deal throughout Issac Yankem and then the fake Diesel and finally Kane. So I was back working with Lawler, and I was under a mask because they didn’t want anyone to know that this was Isaac Yankem and the fake Diesel guy.
“The Kane thing came about when Vader got arrested in Kuwait. You know they had the deal were Leon had roughed up the talk show host and then literally got arrested in a Kuwaiti jail. They needed someone to work with Mark. So the thought was okay, you know, we’ll just hotshot this deal.
“We need an angle, you know, we need someone — well, Glenn can do it. He’s a big guy, he matches up physically with Taker. What’s the storyline? I don’t know if it was Bruce or Vince that initially came up with the thought of, ‘he comes back under a mask, and, you know, the whole thing with the brother that has been burned in the fire.
“Well, Vince liked it so much. He’s like, ‘why are we gonna waste this on just one match when we can turn this into an actual, you know, long-term angle,’ thank goodness. So I’m just down in Memphis and all this kind of stuff is happening and then I get a call, I think it was Cornette, might have been Bruce, I don’t remember exactly who, and they run this thing by me, you know, ‘hey, you’re gonna be working with Mark.
“Initially, the character was called Inferno. That was kind of my contribution to it, along with Bruce. You know, Bruce had always liked the name Kane. I thought that Inferno just sounded very comic book character-ish for where we’re going with this. So, we suggested the name Kane, which not only, you know, Undertaker when he initially came in was Kane The Undertaker, and then they dropped the Kane part as he became The Undertaker. But also with the biblical story of Cain and Abel. We thought that that fit.”
Transcription – Fightful