Kane Discusses Staying in Wrestling, Working Live Events, Favorite Wrestling Moment

WWE on-screen Director of Operations Kane has been promoting his film See No Evil 2 over the past several weeks, as the film is now available for digital streaming. In the process, he spoke with LocalBozo not just about the film, but about his wrestling career as well. Below are some of the highlights.

On putting up with the daily wrestling grind after 17 years in the business as Kane:

“Yeah I still enjoy it.  The hardest part about our job is the travel.  People see what we do in the ring and of course, that is physical and it is challenging.  But I always find that it’s the travel which gets to me more than anything.  But I’ve been fortunate that I don’t have any really terrible injuries so in that respect I’m doing very well.  And I also try to keep myself in as good of shape as I can.  I work out pretty much every day and I’m still feeling good after all these years.”

Whether at age 47 he gets burnt out by having to work live events:

“Sure, it is different, of course.  But sometimes it’s even more fun to be in front of the smaller audiences because you really do get that personal interaction.  It becomes much more intimate.  You can have more fun- you can do more stuff that you can’t do in a bigger venue.  It’s different, but I wouldn’t say that it’s a challenge to get up for the smaller towns or anything like that.”

He also touched on some of his favorite moments from his career:

“I’m not really sure.  My favorite moment was beating ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin for the WWE Championship and the thing about that is- yeah, I only held it for a day but nevertheless, the next night on [USA’s “Monday Night] Raw,’ the match between Austin and I did the highest rating that “Raw” had drawn to that point.  That felt like one of the launching points for the ‘Attitude Era.’  That was one of the points to where things shot up from there.  And the fact that, you know, there I am in the ring with arguably the guy that would go on to become the most popular wrestler in WWE history and I’m part of all that- so that was a really big moment for me.  There’s been a lot of other stuff of course, but that’s my favorite moment.  It would be that one.”

More from the interview can be found here.

Editor’s Note

He’s a student of the game, so it’s great to see him still enjoy doing what he is doing. Long live the “demon.” Well…you know…

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