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Hell in a Cell (Wrestling)
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Hell in a Cell was a WWE pay-per-view, which replaced No Mercy in 2009 and was a staple of the calendar through 2022.The name of the event comes from the eponymous gimmick match: two or more wrestlers or factions fight inside of a roofed, 20-foot-high (before Unforgiven 2006, 16-feet-high) steel cage surrounding the ring and ringside area. Although the original event featured all matches with this stipulation, in more recent times this wasn't the case and both standard matches and other Gimmick Matches also took place in the event.The eponymous match type itself is a variant of the Steel Cage match. It involves a larger cage which Jim Cornette admits to stealing from (or researching from) a Memphis territory, that includes the majority of the ringside area in its confines, and also has a roof, ala Dusty Rhodes's war games.note WCW also did several matches with a cage that was big enough that wrestlers could fight outside the ring but still be in the cage, in fact the famous Chamber of Horrors match that opened Halloween Havoc '91 was basically a HITC cage but with a hole in the roof so an electric chair could be lowered into the ring during the match. 3 weeks after the first HITC match in 1997 WCW tried a big cage again in a match between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, this wasn't nearly as well received as the match between Undertaker and Michaels, to put it mildly Escape rules don't apply; the match ends only via pinfall or submission, and usually only in the ring. In earlier matches, big falls from the side or top of the cage were fairly commonplace (most famously, by Mick Foley), but these have been toned down due to safety concerns.note There was also a variant, called "Kennel From Hell", essentially a Steel Cage inside the HIAC cell, with angry guard dogs in the ringside space, but was only used for one match (Big Bossman vs. Al Snow, at Unforgiven 1999), and due to a lot of factors, Never Work with Children or Animals being the most prominent, it was never used again.After Triple H took over WWE creative in October 2022, he discontinued Hell in a Cell as an annual event. The eponymous match continues to be occasionally booked. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: During Undertaker vs. HHH III, at one point during the match, things had gotten to the point of Shawn being told by the Undertaker not to stop the match no matter what happened. This was after 'Taker had suffered a few chair shots to the back and Triple H had just gotten the same in return. Watching his best friend and one of his idols beating the tar out of each other was apparently too much; Shawn was sitting in the corner of the ring looking like he was having a nervous breakdown. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Cena's joining Nexus; practically everyone expected Cena to lose his match to Barrett due to prior advertising posters for the Bragging Rights PPV including the Nexus logo. Even worse, WWE aired one of these ads during Hell in a Cell, before the Barrett vs. Cena match took place! | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: When he was proved wrong by John Cena winning the World Heavyweight Championship at the 2013 edition, (JBL had previously dismissed it as impossible due to the speed of Cena's return from a major injury) JBL calmly admitted he was wrong, and led a round of applause for the new champion. | |
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Death from Above | |
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Death from Above: Taken to its absolute with Shane McMahon's performance at WrestleMania 32: Jumping from top of the Hell in A Cell cage - 20 feet! He missed his mark though, but goes to show how ballsy he can get. This is five feet higher than the one that almost killed Mick Foley, and Shane was 13 years older when he did it. | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent: WCW had their own version of Hell in a Cell, called "Caged Heat", which was used from 1999-2000. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The 2011 edition had R-Truth and The Miz beating the crap out of everyone, including the cameramen. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: The titular match itself. With few exceptions, no one wants to go through a Hell in a Cell match, because they know full well that doing so means willingly subjecting yourself to a level of brutality unmatched by any other gimmick match in the entire WWE. When Edge found out his then-wife Vickie Guerrero had put him into a Hell in a Cell match with The Undertaker, the sheer fear was enough to put him into a catatonic state. The following week, he was so desperate to just survive the match that he begged his old foe Mick Foley for help, before going into a severe level of Sanity Slippage that doubled as a full-on Villainous Breakdown for the following two weeks. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: All three consecutive HIAC matches at Bad Blood were won by heels. Shawn Michaels defeated The Undertaker after a debuting Kane interfered and tombstoned his brother. Triple H had won the HIAC match in this event twice in a row. In 2003, he defeated Kevin Nash (with Mick Foley as the guest referee), and a year later defeated Shawn, ending their heated rivalry that lasted for almost two years. Armageddon 2000 had Kurt Angle defeating Rikishi, The Undertaker, Triple H, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and The Rock in a 6-man HIAC match to retain the WWF Title. No Way Out 2000: Triple H beats Cactus Jack inside the cell, thus putting an end to his career (albeit temporarily). No Mercy 2002: Brock Lesnar defeated The Undertaker to retain the WWE Championship. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: John "Bradshaw" Layfield showed this at the 2015 edition, expressing horror and disgust at The Wyatt Family beating down The Undertaker, saying "There was no honour in this." Before that he'd also demonstrated ample respect for Taker's role in the match against Brock Lesnar. | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: R-Truth did the main promo for the 2013 edition (even appearing on the poster, in a suit, of all things) despite not being on the card. The only sense to make of it was the "hell" in the title and Truth's tendency to paraphrase The Bible "The Truth, Has Set Me Free". | |
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Dragged Off to Hell | |
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Dragged Off to Hell: Edge's HIAC match with The Undertaker ended with him being Chokeslammed through the ring and flames rising out of it, the implication being that The Undertaker sent him to Hell. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: After Shane McMahon's plunge from the top of the Cell onto The Undertaker (sadly just missing him), he continued to tell the stunned Undertaker to Bring It even when he was obviously completely done. Undertaker lightly patted Shane on the cheek before planting him with the Tombstone to end the match. | |
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Blood Is the New Black | |
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Blood Is the New Black: The first HIAC match between Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker. Watch the spot with the Snake Eyes to the outside of the cage, and see if you can spot Shawn's amazing mid-air blade job. He's practically all-crimson by the time the match ends. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Every HIAC match booking prior to the instatement of the PPV, outside of WrestleMania. A final match with one last catch... To wit, Hell in a Cell hath no fury like a woman scorned. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Cody Rhodes vs Seth Rollins begins with Cody removing his coat...revealing the purple bruise that is his torn pec. This shows just how much Cody is going to put himself on the line to fight Seth. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first Cell match was not the feud ender that it ended up becoming. That went to Taker's and HBK's casket match in the 1998 Royal Rumble. | |
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Dramatic Sit-Down | |
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Dramatic Sit-Down: Shawn Michaels does this in the third encounter at WrestleMania between The Undertaker and Triple H in their HIAC match, where Shawn was the guest referee. During the match, Undertaker told Shawn not to stop the match no matter what. This was after 'Taker had taken a few chair shots to the back and Triple H had just gotten the same in return, both men bleeding and disoriented at this point. Shawn was sitting in the corner of the ring having a nervous breakdown while Undertaker and Triple H were trying to get to their feet after a two count had occurred. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Kane showed what he was made of when he showed up at Bad Blood 1997, when he ripped the door off the cell. | |
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Juxtaposed Halves Shot: The 2019 poster has Bray Wyatt as himself and "The Fiend". | |
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Spanish Announcers' Table | |
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Spanish Announcers' Table: The famously-known example comes from the 1998 event where The Undertaker throws Mankind off of the cell and crashing on it. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: The Hell in a Cell match was made to put an end to long feuds, at least for the foreseeable future. However, they started moving away from this, as John Cena has refused to abandon his feuds with Randy Orton and Alberto Del Rio even after losing to them in Hell In A Cell, immediately coming back at them on the following installment of Monday Night Raw and laying the feud to rest in a different gimmick match. The HIAC match at Bad Blood 2004 between Triple H and Shawn Michaels served as their final encounter to end a long drawn out feud that started since July 2002. HHH's 2003 match against Kevin Nash was also this to a lesser extent since their feud lasted for about a couple of months. At Vengeance 2005, then-World Heavyweight Champion Batista and Triple H fought inside HIAC, which served as the culmination of their heated feud of that year. The Undertaker and Randy Orton, who had been feuding during most of 2005, had their final confrontation inside the cell at Armageddon 2005. At Unforgiven 2006, the HIAC match between D-Generation X and the McMahons and The Big Show was the final battle of the DX/McMahons feud. At Survivor Series 2007, Batista and The Undertaker fought in HIAC which served at their final one-on-one clash in their feud that year. At SummerSlam 2008, The Undertaker and Edge fought in HIAC which was the end of their long feud that started at Survivor Series 2007. The HIAC match between The Undertaker and Triple H served as their "End of an Era" match at WrestleMania 28 and their third and final WrestleMania match against each other.note It wasn't until Super Showdown 2018 where the two fought again for the "last time ever". The HIAC match between Edge and Seth Rollins at Crown Jewel 2021 served as the third and final match of their feud that started during the summer. | |
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Series Mascot | |
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Series Mascot: The Undertaker has appeared on the poster three times (2009, 2010, 2015 note Brock Lesnar was also on the poster). Sasha Banks appeared on the post twice (2016 note Charlotte Flair was also on the poster and 2020 note Bayley was also included in the poster.) | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Mick Foley was infamously thrown from the top of the cell during the 1998 event and finishes the match in spite of his injuries. | |
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Defeating the Undefeatable | |
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Defeating the Undefeatable: Batista became the first wrestler to defeat Triple H one-on-one inside Hell in a Cell at Vengeance 2005. | |
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Stunned Silence | |
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Stunned Silence: Before Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins squared off in Hell in a Cell 2022, Cody removed his coat to show how damaged his right pec was. The crowd immediately fell into silence that Cody was going to wrestle in that condition. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Before it became a gimmick PPV, Hell in a Cell matches were designed to be the ultimate feud-enders. Just about every Hell in a Cell match prior to the establishment of the annual PPV have been for the most personal feuds in WWE history, such as the two-year blood feud between Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Even after the PPV was established, particularly personal feuds sometimes warrant a Cell match outside of the PPV, such as Edge vs. Seth Rollins. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Undertaker was genuinely afraid for his opponent's life when he accidentally sent Mankind through the roof of the cell during their match. He reported afterwards as feeling nothing but concern for Foley after the occurence. He still managed to avoid breaking character, however. Except for the part where Mick gets up off the stretcher and runs to the Cell to climb it. Again. The match itself doesn't show it but some DVDs that discuss the match have a shot of Undertaker legitimately shocked. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: The Undertaker had a real life one at the 1998 HIAC match. Not from the first fall, but upon seeing Foley climb off the stretcher, smiling, and running to the cage to climb back up. It's not shown during the match itself for more than a half a second on the King of the Ring 1998 VHS tape and DVD, but some video (such as "Eve of Destruction") shows Taker is legitimately shocked. The moment can be interpreted as either Kayfabe that Mankind wants more, astonishment that he was able to get up or a real life concern of what else can happen. He definitely had another real one shortly afterwards, when he chokeslammed Mankind onto the top of the cage, only for the cage to give way and for Mick Foley to plummet to the mat on his back (with a steel chair following him down to land on his face). It's minor, but you can see Undertaker recoil in shock as the wire panel collapses under Mankind's body. Taker would later admit that at that moment he genuinely thought he'd killed Foley. Edge had this reaction when Vickie informed him she had reinstated The Undertaker and booked Edge as his opponent at SummerSlam. The final icing on the cake was that it was a HIAC match. | |
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Broken Win/Loss Streak | |
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Broken Win/Loss Streak: Triple H was undefeated in one-on-one HIAC matches, winning 4 of them in his career until Vengeance 2005, when Batista defeated him. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Sami Zayn, at the 2017 PPV. During the main event, after pulling long-time adversary Kevin Owens out of the path of Shane McMahon as the latter jumped off the top of the cell. After spending several moments seemingly in shock at saving Owens, he then dragged Owens on top of Shane for the three count. The Kabuki Warriors in 2019 after Asuka used green mist on Nikki Cross to win the Women's Tag Team Champions. Tucker in 2020. He attacks Otis with his briefcase, costing him his Money in the Bank contract. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Shawn Michaels announced he'd be the special guest referee for the Triple H/Undertaker HIAC confrontation at 'Mania, and gloated he held the end of an era in his hands. What this actually entailed was watching his best friend and the man he respected more than any other giving each other an utterly brutal beating for half an hour. His expressions of utter misery throughout tell the story. | |
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How Much More Can He Take? | |
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How Much More Can He Take?: Mick Foley in the King of the Ring 1998 match. He was thrown off of a sixteen-foot-tall steel chain link cell and through the Spanish Announcers' Table. The fall was so devastating that he sustained a concussion, spinal damage, a dislocated shoulder and internal bleeding. The EMTs squeezed in to put him on a stretcher and wheel him away, which seemed to signal the premature end of the match. Instead, Foley got up off the stretcher and climbed back up the cell (faster than before his fall!) to resume the match. After some more fighting, Undertaker performed his signature choke-slam, which sent Foley through the chain link cell to the ring below, a steel chair following close behind to smash his teeth out of his mouth, one of which lodged in his nose. Foley was completely knocked out, nearly died, and has no memory of the next few hours...but he got back up and resumed the match, finally ending it after taking two hard falls onto a large pile of thumbtacks. And then, simply because he refused to be stretchered out twice, he got up and walked back up the ramp to a standing ovation. The HIAC match between HHH and Shawn was like this as well, with Shawn taking 3 Pedigrees before finally going down. Then came the HIAC match between Shane McMahon and The Undertaker at WrestleMania 32, where Shane-O-Mac tried to do his elbow drop through the announcers table onto Taker, willingly doing it from the top of the 20ft cell. But as Shane jumped, Taker managed to roll out of the way, causing Shane to crash onto the table, literally silencing the 100,000+ in attendance who were just cheering for him as he made the jump, enough to make them sincerely worry he might have gone too far and killed himself as the refs and medics went to check him out. Even Taker himself was in shock at this, until Shane finally showed signs of life and even gave him two "Bring it on" hand gestures, even knowing he was clearly out of it. | |
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Mêlée à Trois | |
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Mêlée à Trois: Armageddon 2000: The 6-man HIAC match which featured then-world champion Kurt Angle, Rikishi, The Undertaker, Triple H, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and The Rock. | |
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Loser Leaves Town | |
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Loser Leaves Town: No Way Out 2000's HIAC match between Triple H and Cactus Jack had the stipulation that if Cactus lost, he must retire. The WrestleMania XXVIII between The Undertaker and Triple H with Shawn Michaels as guest referee was billed as an "End of an Era" match. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The Undertaker subjected Triple H to this at their WrestleMania XXVIII match. First, there's the match type in itself, considering Triple H himself set the stipulation, and is known for having the most victories in HIAC. Second, there's the ending: after a long beatdown that had shades of their match last year, along with multiple sledgehammer strikes to the Undertaker's face (and a Sweet Chin Music from Shawn Michaels that Hunter chained into a Pedigree, but that's beside the point), 'Taker finally got a hold of the sledgehammer, clobbered Hunter with it, and did the Tombstone Piledriver for the win. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: After Undertaker defeated Edge at SummerSlam 2008, he pushed Edge off the top of a ladder through the mat - and the hole soon had flames coming up from it, symbolic of Undertaker sending Edge to be swallowed up by "the fires of Hell". Why had he done this? Because Edge had almost gotten him banned from WWE for life. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
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Didn't See That Coming: Nobody, not Shane McMahon, not the audience, and not Kevin, expected Sami Zayn to pull Owens to safety during Hell in a Cell 2017. Not even Zayn himself expected the first heel turn in an over fifteen- year career to start with saving his biggest Arch-Enemy from a Leap of Faith. | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: All the main events of Bad Blood have been HIAC matches. All three also involved either Shawn Michaels or Triple H. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: While this is a given for anyone in this type of match, Cody Rhodes showed how determined he was to fight Seth Rollins despite having a torn pec. | |
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There Can Be Only One | |
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There Can Be Only One: In Bad Blood 1997, HBK and The Undertaker fought inside Hell in a Cell for the right to face Bret Hart for his WWE Championship. | |
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Ceiling Smash | |
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Ceiling Smash: Inverted during the match between Mankind and The Undertaker at King of the Ring 1998, in which they brawled on the Cell's roof twice. The second time, 'Taker chokeslammed Foley through the roof, sending him crashing onto the ring below. And Foley still wanted to fight. | |
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