Who was the Kane's best Tag Team Partner?

[123NewChamp]

What's up Everybody?

For those of us that watch the WWE if we don't then we all should know that Kane is once again a Tag Team Champion with Daniel Bryan as members of "Team Hell No." So my question is since Kane is no stranger to the WWE Tag Team Title Ranks; who was his best Tag Team Partner?

We all known he's best known for as a member of the Brothers of Destruction with The Undertaker. Also let's not forget that emotional babyface personality stint with X-Pac. Also he was in a comedic tandem with The Hurricane in which they became also WWE Tag Team Champions. He also won with RVD. (I really enjoyed that pairing.) He teamed with Big Show and on 2 occasions and became Tag Team Champions, they should still be tag team champions till this day. (You have 2 dominant and the largest athletes in WWE.) And also although they didn't win the tag team Titles, back in 1998, he aso teamed with Mankind.

So out of all these guys, who do you think was Kane's best Tag Team Partner?

 

[Brewski]

The team that I enjoyed the most was Kane and X-pac. Thats the time where I feel like he had the most character development, particularly when he started talking without the voice box. This was also when he started to develop a relationship with Tori Wilson and the huge tease where it looked like he would become a member of DX. I was sold this was going to happen and when pac turned on him I was pretty upset. It was such a feel good moment turned around on me. I felt like it was really easy to feel sympathy for Kane through this storyline.

 

[Airehk]

Kane and X-Pac as well. Kane was Kane. He didn't play the trombone, he didn't eat salad, he didn't do the spinarooni and he didn't talk like Hulk Hogan. Kane is a monster and with X-Pac, he was a monster.

With X-Pac having guts to actually take on Kane as a parter was shocking. Kane was a remorseless monster and there was a (wrestling) emotional moment with X-Pac seeing a human inside of that beast, trying to bring him out. After so long, Kane became more and more human — something we haven't seen before. Only as things were going well for Kane pairing with X-Pac, he even caught the interest of a girl by the name of Tori. With the snake the X-Pac character was, X-Pac turned his back on Kane for his girl and a feud developed out of what looked like one of the most genuine on screen friendships from WWE.

So much emotion in all directions from these guys in that pairing.

 

[jrush1978]

X-Pac, for all the reasons those above me said. It really was easy to feel sorry for Kane during the storyline. Unlike one of the previous posters I personally saw it a mile away so for me it was one of those enjoying the storyline but waiting for it to happen type deals. They just had chemistry and both men played their part perfectly.

 

[crippler]

Defiantly The Undertaker is Kane's best partner taker brought out Kane's best performances weather it was as partners or opponents and was more feared as takers partner

 

[Jmeeks]

Popularity I would say RVD and Kane,
I have dvd's from 1999-2012 I would say kane and show 2005
they beat Batista and John Cena at Armeggeddon they had the titles for a solid 6 months

 

[HBsam31]

X-Pac for all of the reasons mention, and this was mentioned in I believe the Brain mention this in another thread. There partnership lead to one of the coldest heel turn ever by X Pac. Kane never really had a friend like Pac before, and Kane was starting to show a bit of human. He talked for the first time, and was starting to have feeling. Then X Pac turned on him and stole his girlfriend, and I believe it lead to the reforming of DX as well. Great partnership, and an even better split. One of the better midcard storylines of the time actually.

 

[HBKistheHOF]

Daniel Bryan has to be a clear top contender just based on their skits & promos alone. Not to mention they make a great "odd couple" pairing, are both EXTREMLY solid performers, & have held the titles for a several months now. And at this point they might even have a memorable moment at Mania as tag team champions.

But I think I have to go with The Undertaker. Besides Bryan he is just my favorite wrestler to be paired with Kane, as well as accomplishing almost all of the same things Team Hell No has. Also I think a main factor in any team is if they have good battles before and/or after breaking up, & Undertaker & Kane have had some great matches over the years & are a classic feud in WWE. Finally Kane was literally made to compliment Taker, so them as a team and/or being involved in each others storylines & feuds just enhances each of them IMO.

 

[Rockyfolifebo!!!]

X-Pac all day long.

I'm not saying X-pac because everyone else did, I legit believe that X-Pac was always Kane's best partner. To be honest, when I started watching wrestling around 1999, this was one of the main stories that pulled me into wrestling. Here you have the highly energized X-Pac, who just likes to kick ass. Then, you have the big, red, mute, soul-less, ass-kicking, machine. You put them together, and you create one of the most emotionally driven, underrated storylines of all time. So much went into this pairing. You had DX on the side, the tag team championships, Kane's first words, Tori (not Wilson), and the eventual split. Kane and X-pac may not have had 10 tag title reigns, or didn't even last a year, but they made the perfect tag team! Usually when WWE/F pairs somebody up with Kane, we get a clusterf*** of meaningless tag title reigns. But with Pac, it was pure gold. I miss that.

 

[Doctor Awesome]

It's hard to imagine from the debut of Kane that here we are, 15 years later almost and we can honestly acknowledge him as a true great tag team specialist. He has had several outstanding pairings in that time and even when it seemed forced or unnecessary at the time they all turned into good runs, even if some were brief.

I can't argue that his pairing with X-Pac was one of the major storylines of the attitude era, that making peace and becoming partners with UT wasn't phenomenal, he and Big Show had an awesome run and that he and RVD (though I didn't care for their chemistry) weren't successful. But, I feel that the current program w/DB is the best. First and foremost, Kane had a very well deserved dominant run as champ two years ago and that seeing DB win gold brought my faith back to the industry. But let's face it, the main event is crowded and what the company has accomplished w/pairing these two together has been nothing short of either man's best work to date. It's not always easy to imagine Kane as the dominant monster after years of going from heel to face to tweener often multiple times in a year, so to see him embody all of those traits at one time along with his partner makes it even better for me. Many people are privy to Glenn Jacobs the Liberitarian, and great public speaker (very intelligent and articulate w/his words), so it's nice to see the company continue to have faith in him and let him cut most of his own promo work; it's honestly making DB better in the process.

I love the pairing and just hope that they transition them into an eventual feud w/one another when the time is right. Even if that were to happen around WM time that would mean they've worked a program for almost an entire year straight; something you rarely see if the name Cena or HHH isn't attached. Great team!

 

[Bernkastel]

Kane has had several good tag team partners over the years. Kane and Rob Van Dam had several good matches and title defenses and they meshed quite well as a team. Kane and Big Show basically just destroyed everyone the first time they team up. Makes me sad WWE booked them to drop the titles against the Spirit Squad in favor of that failed May 19th storyline. Team Hell No has been fantastic since the start; when they drop the titles I hope they do so spectacularly.

I feel Undertaker was Kane's best tag team partner. The Brothers of Destruction was significant due to the love/hate relationship between the two. Their matches with the Two Man Power Trip were awesome.

 

[Mustang Sally]

I always liked the "Brothers of Destruction" thing, partially because it was so rare and had such long periods in between, and partially because the two of them are so big and mysterious that it seemed they were capable of just about anything.

Did they ever appear together as heels in the old days? I can't remember, but that would really have been something. As it was, having them show up before the last Wrestlemania was an exciting surprise. As always, seeing two characters of such discordant personalities working together makes for great theater; you never know whether they're going to attack their enemies......or each other.

It's a measure of Kane's development as a character that this topic asks who Kane's best partner was, rather than asking it about Undertaker, given the legendary status of Mark Calaway. Long ago, I believed the Kane persona would have the shelf life of, say, Tensai as far as being an effective force. It's a tribute to Glenn Jacobs that he's handled everything thrown at him by the writers and made a highly successful career of it.

 

[johnnboy]

CLEARLY THE HURRICANE WAS HIS BEST PARTNER!!!

.. juuuust kidding, though I did think it was comical. They both did chokeslams (Hurricane's was ridiculous) They both had masks which was different for a tag team at the time, I think? and the clever name of HurriKANE. But, all in all, it was just another silly team for a character like Kane to have part in.

I believe his ACTUAL best tag-team partner has gotta go to The Undertaker: Taker is the only reasonable partner Kane has ever had, considering their backstories and what-not. Sadly the Undertaker was the biker-guy for most of their tenure as a tag team.

 

[GameOver]

Brothers of Destruction or Mankind.
they may have only been 2 timte tag team champs each partner but they were easily the most imposing teams in the division and in a time when Kane was relevant as a monster heel.

Can't argue Kane was more entertaining when he began to speak and wsas teamed with Hurricane Helms but The Brothers of Destruction for me are like DX, they are timeless. everything else is forgettable as far as Kane and the tag division goes, until now ofcourse Team Hell No has grown on me, they are hell funny..

 

[TheHorndogSays]

The word "best" has always been my least favorite word in these forums because it's usually about best overall instead of a best part. All of Kane's pairings have brought out the best in one aspect of Kane, however I simply asked myself: if they were to do a vote/raw active/whatever where we picked Kane's partner out of the above, who would I pick? When asking myself that question, the answer was Taker hands above all others. The two have been a HUGE factor in each other's career and I would even say they were each other's best feuds yet best partners. When you heard that some tag team was facing the Brothers of Destruction, you knew they were going to get destroyed. It wasn't a matter of being the biggest or even the strongest, it was a matter of being the "baddest" in the best sense of the word.

 

[Just Do It]

Brothers of Destruction in storyline terms as they were a main event tag team. Artistically I'm loving Bryan and kane right now though.

 

[Slash-LN]

X-Pac for me. I really liked the big man little man dynamic. Plus we got to see Kane more humanized and he got rid of that stupid voice box thing. I think the two of them worked well together and it allowed us to see Kane in a totally different way.

Kane and RVD were awesome too.