WWE Hall of Famer Kane reveals that he came up with the idea to have his mask removed in 2003
While speaking with the Going Ringside podcast at River City Wrestling Con, Kane (Glenn Jacobs) commented on his mask being removed in 2003…
“It was my idea. I talked to Vince [McMahon] about it. Vince liked it—probably not so much for the reasons from my perspective.
My perspective was as a performer, and yeah, I felt that being under the mask—I don’t want to say run its course because, you know, it was a really cool character and it still worked—but there were constraints and limitations that it put on me. Obviously, the biggest one is I couldn’t use my face to show people emotion, which is one of the most important things.
I just didn’t talk. I talked more when I had the mouthless mask, but I still wasn’t talking that much and things like that. And I just felt that I could do more, and I felt that I was kind of being stifled.”