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thebasketballguru said 08/24, 08:47 PM
In honor of last weeks phenomonel Hell In a Cell Match featuring the Undertaker and Edge, I decided to start a TD of the Top 5 Hell In a Cell Matches in the history of the WWE.

Here Goes:

1. Undertaker defeated Mankind(Mick Foley). King Of The Ring 1998

2. Shwan Michaels defeated Undertaker. Bad Blood 1997

3. Undertaker defeated Edge. SummerSlam 2008

4. HHH defeated Shwan Michaels. Bad Blood 2004

5. HHH defeated Cactus Jack(Mick Foley) No Way Out 2000

thebasketballguru said 08/25, 01:34 PM
I actually enjoyed the Undertaker-Edge match at SummerSlam basically because it encorporated something we never seen in a Hell In A Cell match:

Tables, Ladders, and Chairs

It was a fusion of the two of the most hard hitting matches and had both of the superstars "specialties". The ending was weak, but it does leave open for the mystery of how this rivalry is going to continue.

You can say the same thing that you stated about Undertaker in 08 as Cactus Jack(Mick Foley) was in 200, also that match was a "retirement" match, so we all knew that HHH was going to retain the title.

You have to have King of the Ring 98 as #1, and Bad Blood 97 was the first and arguable the reason we still have these matches, but I truly believe that the Undertaker-Edge match will be more memorable over time than the HHH-Cactus Jack match, and the HHH-Shawn Michaels match.

thebasketballguru said 08/26, 11:26 AM
I think that the standard for Hell in a Cell matches was pretty much set in stone coming into this year's SummerSlam, I personally thought it was going to be the usual match with Undertaker just destroying and the opponent taking huge bumps.

But that was not the case.

The incorporation of Tables, Ladders, and Chairs allowed for moves we have never seen, I mean we have seen people break through annouce tables in Hell in a Cell before, but we did not see that many in one match. We have never seen ladders either, like honestly wrestling fans complain about the lack of hardcore wrestling featured in the WWE nowadays, if you know these people show them that match.

Foley-HHH was too predictable, it was known that it was supposedly Foley's last match and since it was for the WWF Championship we knew that Foley was going to lose.

Also Foley was in even worse condition than the Undertaker at the time of this match, I mean after King of the Ring 98, Foley was never the same wrestler and it showed. He put on a good show, but not as good as Undertaker and Edge. They showed wrestling fans things that we couldn't even dream of.