Kane was recently a guest on the Talk is Jericho podcast hosted by Chris Jericho. Kane and Jericho spoke on a wide variety of topics about their careers.
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One of the highlights was Kane sharing his reaction when Vince McMahon pitched the Isaac Yankem gimmick. For those who don’t remember the character, Kane portrayed a wrestling dentist for a short period of time.
Here is what Kane said on the podcast (h/t to Wrestling INC):
“Jim Ross, who is another guy I need to give a shout out too. He was doing Smokey Mountain Wrestling and he was the one that gave me a tryout too with WWE. I got a contract shortly after that. Vince McMahon wanted to meet me in his office. JJ Dillon was still Head of Creative back then. I get into his office and Vince McMahon walks in and asks me if I have ever been afraid to go to the dentist. I said, no, I wasn’t. I thought Vince was just trying to get into my head. He said that he always had this idea for a character”
Kane continued:
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“A wrestling dentist; Isaac Yankem. He said that he thinks that I would be perfect for it. Here I am sitting across from the most powerful man in my industry, and I am trying to keep a poker-face; meanwhile, I am going, dude, you flew me in all the way from Knoxville, Tennessee just to tell me that you are going to make me a wrestling dentist? I flew back home, but really in the end the thing was on me. That wasn’t a character that I could invest in, and I didn’t. It was my fault. My teeth were painted. It tasted terrible. Vince McMahon thought it was ironic that his Dentist had bad teeth. My entrance music was dental drill.”
Safe to say that things ended up working out just fine for Kane.
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