Glenn Jacobs is healthier recognized to WWE followers as “Kane,” or “Isaac Yankem DDS” to sure subsets of the fanbase, however the former WWE Champion is now a full-time public servant, at the moment serving as Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. In a latest interview with “Six Toes Beneath,” Jacobs advised his previous tag associate The Undertaker that WWE was his preparation for the political world, even when he did not comprehend it on the time.
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“Folks say ‘wrestling into politics, fairly the departure’ and I am like ‘no they are not,'” Jacobs defined. “Totally different varieties however politics is all over the place in our world and positively in WWE you needed to study to navigate the inner politics should you have been gonna achieve success. As bizarre because it sounds, there actually is not a lot of a distinction.”
Jacobs believes that politics might be as “entertaining” as wrestling, generally extra so, and that successful over a crowd in an enviornment or at a rally aren’t that totally different.
“Politics is attention-grabbing as a result of you’ve got people who find themselves simply targeted on that as effectively…You are attempting to attraction to voters and the neighborhood at giant,” Jacobs defined. “So you may’t fear about what the media or what a few of these folks say…I’ve to persuade of us I am not the individual they see on TV.”
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Jacobs was first elected in 2018, and gained his second time period as Mayor in 2022, defeating Democratic candidate Debbie Helsley. It was throughout his first time period that the previous World Heavyweight Champion was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame.
