WWE: Kane's New, Ugly Costume Makes Him Look Too Goofy Compared to His Old One

Whether we like it or not, appearance is everything. 

The world has undoubtedly become a place where people are judged not by their character but by what they look like or what they are wearing. 

If you see someone wearing raggedy clothes, you’re automatically going to assume they’re either poor, lazy or a combination of both. Likewise, if you see someone wearing a nice suit and tie, then you’re probably going to assume they’re at least well-off. 

Just like appearances mean everything in the real world, they mean everything in professional wrestling as well. 

It’s why guys who are seven-feet tall or jacked up wrestle in main events while guys who look like Husky Harris get sent back down to WWE developmental. It’s also why I cannot even begin to take Kane’s new attire even remotely seriously. 

In all honesty, the outfit that the Big Red Monster debuted when he returned to the WWE last month might be one of the worst looking costumes I’ve ever seen. It’s like someone in the WWE brought a bunch of red, black and orange fabric to a local high school Home Economics class and then said, “Hey, can you guys make the most hideous costume ever for our seven-foot tall monster?” 

What has resulted is a costume that kills any chance of Kane being taken seriously as an unstoppable heel. 

For starters, I don’t get why Kane wears two masks on his way to the ring. It was OK the first time so he could build up the suspense as he revealed the second mask, but now, I just want to tell him that he looks like Leonardo DiCaprio. 

Yes, Kane is undoubtedly the modern version of The Man in the Iron Mask and is now on the same level as a teenager who fell in love on some big ship that sunk almost 100 years ago.  

The first mask is horrendous, and the red mask (the one he actually wears during matches) is solid because it’s not much different from his old ones. But I really can’t handle the amazingly ugly tights. 

You ever had a friend that wears an outfit that looks at least halfway decent overall but is ruined by one giant blunder? 

Yeah, well, that’s how I feel about Kane’s new pants. 

We should take Booker T away from the announce table, bring back Stevie Ray, let Kane join them and then—what do you know?—we have a reincarnation of Harlem Heat. 

OK, we get it—Kane is all about “hellfire and brimstone,” he has participated in inferno matches, he does that little fire thing during his entrance, etc. 

But that doesn’t mean you have to stick him with some reject pants from Harlem Heat’s closet. They don’t make Kane look intimidating; they make him look like an idiot. 

I realize the WWE was going for something “new” and “different” here so that masked Kane didn’t just come back as the same ol’ masked Kane. But there’s a very thin line between “something different” and something stupid. 

Kane’s new attire is (pun intended) flaming with stupidity, and until the WWE changes it in some way, I’m going to laugh every time I see the Big Flaming Monster on my TV screen and beg for the real Kane to come back.