10 Sickest Spots In The Iconic Undertaker Vs Mankind Hell In A Cell Match

Terry Funk was chokeslammed OUT OF HIS SHOES.

The just-held King of the Ring 2015 will be remembered as the night we crowned Wade Barrett as king. However, look back 17 years ago to June 28, 1998's 1998 King of the Ring tournament and no, Ken Shamrock's victory via submission over The Rock is not what you're remembering most. Eleven times out of ten, it's that one time, two times, three times, no, make that like five different times that The Undertaker nearly legitimately killed Mankind. See, Undertaker versus Mankind on one level was a Hell in the Cell booked in order to add a darker veneer to The Undertaker's character. Just one month prior, Mankind was Dude Love, a comic foil to Mr. McMahon who was bent on winning the WWF Championship from Steve Austin. One month later, he was shirt-and-tie wearing Mankind, being sent after an Undertaker that Vince McMahon had challenged to be a meaner and angrier wrestler. Meaner and angrier meaning "toss your opponent off the side of the roof of a steel cage and have him endure a 22 foot fall broken by an announce table?" Yeah, that's what Undertaker did, as well as a bunch of other heinous acts that pushed the boundaries of good taste and human decency. This isn't a match as much as it is a violent performance art piece, Undertaker and wrestling's Vincent van Gogh (severed ear and all) making a brutal masterpiece. These are the ten "sickest" spots in that match.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.