10 Times WWE Rewrote Their Own History

9. Kane's Burns

From the get-go, it was stressed by WWE that Kane wore a mask to hide burns he sustained to his face in a fire that The Undertaker had set in an attempt to burn down the family funeral home and murder his younger sibling. 

This really added to the Big Red Machine’s aura and also really made fans want to see just how disfigured the ugly freak was under the hood. 

We got occasional, inconclusive glimpses, before Kane lost a World Heavyweight Title vs. Mask match against Triple H on the June 23, 2003 episode of Raw. And then we got a load of smudged mascara and a skullet. 

So, what happened here then? It’s entirely possible that WWE didn’t think ahead and plan for the possibility of Kane taking his mask off when they penned his elaborate backstory. 

Scrambling for an explanation for the absence of scarred flesh, it was instead claimed that the burns the Devil’s Favourite Demon had suffered were merely ‘psychological’.