PWI's Marks for the Monster:
ProWrestling Illustrated magazine's October 2006 issue
graded professional wrestlers for their year's work. Here
are the marks they gave KANE along with the reasons
behind them. Keep in mind these marks are given by the
personnel of ProWrestling Illustrated, and are not
necessarily representative of Kanenite-Central views.
KANE
- Goal Achievement - To fairly analyze Kane's goal achievement, we'd have to make a relatively risky
assumption that he actually has concrete goals in the first place. And we're not really sure he does.
Certainly, Kane has accomplished quite a bit over the past year. He and The Big Show held the RAW
World tag team title for more than five month, and his feature film debut, See No Evil, proved to be a
modest success at the box office. Kane has done well, but it seems like he floats along without any
direction or initiative. He's not pursuing goals - he's simply taking advantage of opportunities when they
present themselves. He's capable of much more.
GRADE: B-
- Marketability - See No Evil didn't exactly become a summer blockbuster (of course, opening the
same day as the heavily hyped The Davinci Code didn't help), but it did turn a nice profit, and Kane got
some favorable reviews for playing a murderous lunatic (admittedly, not much of a stretch). He'll never
be confused with a typical Hollywood leading man, but he could certainly land more roles as a character
actor along the lines of Ving Rhames, Ron Perlman, or Michael Clark Duncan. Considering how
notoriously quiet he is, an autobiography could also become a big seller for WWE. His star is on the rise.
GRADE: B+
- Repertoire - Kane isn't the kind of guy who worries about the nuances of technical wrestling. If he
wants to work a body part, he simply yanks it out of the socket and continues beating on his opponent.
It may be one-dimensional, but there's no questioning his effectiveness. However, as he prepared to face
his mysterious doppelganger - who seems to have an identical moveset to his own - he had to dig a little
deeper into his arsenal to find a way to survive. That's where depth of moveset can make a major
difference in a match.
GRADE: B
- Career Growth - Kane was a major part of the RAW roster for much of the spring and summer of 2006,
especially around May 19, the release date of <i>See No Evil</i> and the date that drove Kane batty
whenever anyone mentioned it. For perhaps the first time in his career, Kane looked more dominant than
his perennial adversary The Undertaker, who struggled against The Great Khali. However, despite his
demolition of SmackDown! World Champion Rey Misterio Jr. in a non-title match in May, Kane failed to
get closer to the RAW World Title. It would be a shame if all that publicity and renewed killer instinct went
to waste and didn't at least get him a title shot.
GRADE: B-
- Overall Value - When he's at his most bloodthirsty - like when he tried to gouge out The Big Show's
eyeball - KANE is one of the WWE's top rulebreakers. He can also be a crowd favorite, simply because
he is so big and so dominant, When motivated, KANE is a top star. Otherwise, he's a floater.
GRADE: B
Credit: ProWrestling Illustrated magazine, October 2006 issue.
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