Big Red Monster Inserted Into A Wrestling Classic

Kane has been inserted into the title match that will be happening between Daniel Bryan and CM Punk. Good or bad? Considering how good CM Punk and Daniel Bryan work together, inserting a big guy like Kane may ruin the potential of the match for those kind of fans who love the style Punk and Bryan bring. In that sense, adding Kane is bad. On the other hand, Punk and Bryan have already been facing each other way too much in recent months. Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing? In this case, it just might be. It might run stale after a while.

Speaking for myself, someone who does not consider himself as elitist in my opinion as certain other fans, I think they should have kept Kane out. There was already AJ Lee in this storyline to make it interesting and more than a basic title feud. Even though I don't watch wrestling simply for great wrestling matches, I was imagining the idea of having Punk and Bryan face in an Ironman Match. It has been a while since you had one of those. And a match like that between these two would definitely be a classic and please a lot of fans. Of course, problem is, if Daniel Bryan does win the title at No Way Out, that would have to lead to a rematch. That would mean even more matches just between these two within the span of a few months. If that is where the WWE goes with this, you have to accept Kane being inserted into this as a welcomed break from the same old thing. However, if the WWE does not plan to have AJ turn on Punk and help Bryan win the title, and Punk thus ends up retaining, adding Kane was just unnecessary baggage.

From the standpoint of a Kane fan, adding Kane is not too bad. What else would the guy really have had to do in the last few weeks and at the PPV? Look at how far he has sunk since his return. He returns to put over the centerpiece of the company. He then gets demoted down to putting over the "Franchise Player" of Smackdown. He spends a few weeks not being relevant, defeating Zack Ryder in a pre-show PPV match. Ryder? Seriously? Woo Woo Woo? Point is, Kane really has fallen. And it is pretty clear that he has been forced into this feud. This feud was already good with the storyline involving AJ. Now they have this second storyline of Kane trying to get revenge on Punk and Bryan and possibly win the WWE title. It definitely makes things interesting. But if Kane was not getting this, how likely would it have been that he would still be lost in the shuffle?