So, John Cena and I just celebrated our birthdays – we could be twins, except I’m just a wee bit older and not built like a superhero! In different ways – I enjoyed a Brothers of Destruction reunion and am getting my next tattoo later, and he shoved a birthday cake in Damien Sandow’s face, but it’s all good.
However, that only means one thing around here, and that’s our second red letter day – it’s Glenn’s birthday!
In keeping with proud tradition (and to keep me busy while I’m waiting for my tattoo appointment!), allow me to present the birthday picspam!
Happy birthday Glenn!
Now, as with Mark’s birthday spam, most, if not all of these pictures, were “gleaned”, shall we say, from various Facebook communities. Because as I’ve stated before, since they are blatantly nicking the pictures they share from various image searches on the ‘net, it’s not like I need to credit them. Although, I do usually like to give credit where it’s due. So I’ll do that where I can.
Kicking things off with a very old pic that may just have come from a newspaper – you know, those funny things they used to have before iPads were invented? 😉
Now, the blonde hair, I’m not sure about. But that boy could go back to spankies and I’d be a very happy fangirl! 😉
Oh baby, is this fine or what? Glenn did a brief run with WWF as the “fake” Diesel, when Kevvie Nash went to WCW. Not sure about the black hair, but oh yeah, that goatee is hot! Make sure you click through to see this one at full size!
Things really took off after Bad Blood in 1997, when as JR excitedly exclaimed over this red-clad monster, “That’s gotta be Kane!”
One day title reigns notwithstanding, a pretty good start!
Teaming with Mankind, in a weird meeting of the monsters motif.
Okay, busted – this is actually the point in the spam where we pay homage to the red tights. Loving the red tights! The reason for this must be obvious! 😉
From the red tights, we went to these black tights with the see-through flames. Lord have mercy, that was hot! And as time went on, there was way more see-through than actual tights!
Plus, shoulderporn on an epic scale!
This one’s just an epic #HummerAngle shot . . . oh yeah!
This one’s from the 2001 Royal Rumble – about 10 seconds before Dew Carey eliminated himself rather than face Kane!
Glenn tells a great story about this on a Wrestlecast podcast – how he and Drew were rehearsing before the PPV, and he was just lucky he looked up before he lifted Drew up because the ceiling height wasn’t that great, and he’d have put Drew through the ceiling and that would have “messed things up for the Rumble”. -snickering-
This one’s a screenshot – oh, and feel free to ignore the FB Kane-A-Nites watermark there, because it’s not necessarily indicative that anyone on that page actually took the screenshot. I know this for a fact because they had the audacity to post one of MY screenshots there this week, with their watermark all over the damn thing! I called ’em on it, and they were nice enough to remove part of their illegal watermarking, and to give me credit above the photo but as I said earlier, Facebook pages are becoming as big a den of thievery as Tumblr. (Plus I shall be watermarking the hell out of any future screencapping!)
But boy howdy, this is from my favourite part of Kane’s masked run! The half mask was all kinds of sexy, and the beard! And Kane was funny! Man insists he doesn’t have a sense of humour but he was brilliantly good in this more light-hearted incarnation!
Plus, he was teaming with RVD! Who, when you think about it, apart from the weed thing, is just an earlier, cooler version of DBryan! 😉
-giggling- And then there was this brief but bizarre period with Booker T and Goldust . . . which led to the unfortunate “Kane-a-roonie” incident.
If you haven’t seen this, be prepared for . . . well, you’ll see!
Then Kane was unmasked and went a leetle psycho. That bit where Kane tells Dr Shelby and the anger management class that he “once electrocuted a man’s testicles”?
Yeah. Man I miss the Attitude Era!!
Wouldn’t be a picspam without something from See No Evil, right? So this time, apart from the picture, here’s a snippet from an interview with Glenn about being in Australia to make the movie. Apart from everyone calling him “mate”, which he didn’t really get, apparently, the awful prosthetic nails he wore as Jacob were kind of a pain to put on, so they didn’t take them off every night.
One night, he stops at a convenience store on the way home to pick something up, and can’t work out why the clerk is looking at him with growing horror. I mean, he’s showered off the makeup, he’s in civvies, what’s so awful about that? Until he realises she’s looking at his hands. The nails were a bit much for her to handle – the way he tells it, she can’t even hand him his change, she just kinda dropped it from a height!
-snickering-
But anyway, Kane unmasks, he starts going around half-naked – all is extremely good! I mean, look at that body!
Man, just look at that body! And what’s almost better is – look at that smirk! That cocky pose against the ropes. And that oh so very intriguing scratch across his abs – man, I would love to know where he picked that little souvenir up! Pretty sure it wasn’t in a match, and I do recall Joey Styles and his crew on the website airbrushing that puppy out for ages!
Then, after a period off our screens, where I had precious little interest in watching wrestling at all, Kane made his big return!
In a mask again! With a better weave than ‘Taker got for his emo hair-cutting phase! -snickering madly-
And looking just as fine and sexy as fuck too! In the new singlet which highlighted for us those massive shoulders and actually coined the term “shoulderporn”!
Oh look, we’re back in the corner with that pose! With the mask. And the hint of scruff. Did I mention the shoulderporn? 😉
Sweet merciful Jesus, the scruff. I tell you, that shit is HOT!
Including this one for my gal Pats – she knows why! 😉
After a flurry of pointless feuds and a brief but disturbing affair with AJ Lee, Kane ended up as part of Team Hell No with DBryan. Which has turned out to be the most entertaining thing in years! (Excepting that awesome feud with ‘Taker in 2010.)
Of all the pictures of Team Hell No I could have shown, I picked this one for the appearance of Edge. Because that night, with Edge drinking the Koolaid and hugging it out with Barney the Dinosaur . . . errr, sorry, the Big Red Monster – well that was gold!
Plus, knowing that Glenn and Adam are close in real life, it’s just that much more special.
Oh hey, look, I needn’t have given you the last 18 or so pictures, I could have just used this one to show you the many faces of Kane over the years!
Nah, don’t think so! 😉
Oh now this one’s a keeper! Dark and brooding and yeah, sexy as fuck!
Okay, so now we go beyond the character and take a peek at the man.
Here’s a blast from the past! He’s cute in his glasses!
-gigglefits- The look on his face!
Glenn, referee Charles Robinson and Michael Manna, better known as Stevie Richards to most people! Apparently Glenn and Michael were gamer geeks together!
This one’s from a visit Glenn did to station WDRB a few years back. And I chose it because well hell! The comparison between the size of Glenn’s huge hand and the hand of one of news team? Who isn’t a small man by any stretch of the imagination – wow!
Plus Glenn’s got that look that says, yeah, he’s been through this before, the comparison so people can get an idea just how big he really is!
He’s cute too!
Back in the mask for appearances more recently. But damn, those forearms! And those hands really are gorgeous!
I also think it’s kinda hot when he wears the weave back in a ponytail . . .
I’m sure I’ve mentioned in the past that I have a total thing for Glenn in blue jeans.
Because goddamn, no one rocks a pair of blue jeans like that!
Double whammy on this one, taken with a fan – blue jeans and no mask! Love that he’s growing his hair back – must save him a fortune on razor blades! 😉
Good looking guy. Seriously.
And this wouldn’t be a birthday spam this year without some shots of Paul Bearer now, would it?
This one’s from the early days.
I love this casual one with Michael Hayes and Kane and Mankind as tag team champs.
From 2010’s marvellous run with Kane as World Heavyweight Champion.
I am so glad both Glenn and Mark got the chance to work with Bill Moody again in 2010. Even so, this picture does break my heart, just a little bit.
Happy birthday Glenn – congratulations on Team Hell No, the long run as Tag Team Champions, and the chance to bring back the Brothers of Destruction twice this year!
Here’s to a wonderful year, from all of us!!
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