Marsha Blackburn won the race for governor of Tennessee on Tuesday. She is giving up her seat in the United States Senate to take the job. The Nashville Scene reports that the quiet race to replace her is already on, and Glenn Jacobs is in the middle of it.

Jacobs is the man who wrestled for years as Kane. He was mayor of Knox County until September. He was Blackburn's campaign treasurer, he backed her early, and he stood with her on election night. Before the vote he said that if she won and asked him to take the Senate seat, he would do it.

Blackburn won a second Senate term in 2024. Four years of that term will still be left when she is sworn in as governor on January 16. She has said she will stay in the Senate until that moment, then resign, and fill the vacancy herself. The person she names would serve with Senator Bill Hagerty until Tennessee voters pick someone on November 7, 2028.

Other names are in the talk. Congressman Tim Burchett is one. If he left the House, that district would have to hold an election, and Democrats have momentum there. Pete Hegseth was mentioned and then moved out of the conversation. Damon Hininger, the head of the private-prison company CoreCivic, is treated as a long shot because of the look of it. The day after the election, Blackburn was asked about the seat and said the conversation would come later. It was not a conversation for that day.

I know Kane from the Gutfeld show, on Fox News at night. I find him funny. He is a very big man, about seven feet tall and very strong. I watched him pick up Big Show, who weighed about 450 pounds, and he did it with ease. I watched him wrestle The Undertaker for years. He was one of the giants in WWE. When the mask came off, he was still about seven feet tall and about 330 pounds.

Then he became a mayor. He is a very smart guy. He seemed like a moderate to me. He did not seem like a MAGA person. I can see him becoming a senator, and I wish him all the luck. He survived all those hits to the head in the ring. Now it is time for a new career that is much less painful physically, and maybe more painful emotionally.