10 Best Wrestling PPV Cliffhanger Endings
8. "That's Gotta Be Kane!" (Badd Blood: In Your House)
22 years later, Kane's remains the benchmark against which all other WWE debuts should be measured. Not even Chris Jericho and Goldberg's Rock-swatting escapades can match the 'Big Red Machine' and his 1997 arrival, which closed the Badd Blood: In Your House pay-per-view with hellfire, brimstone, and a shadow over The Undertaker's future.
Months of build culminated during 'Taker's Hell In A Cell main event with Shawn Michaels. The cage couldn't contain the action in one of the stipulation's most compelling encounters, with both men making it to the roof, culminating in HBK falling from the side and through an announce table. Locked back inside, the action continued. It reached a point where Undertaker was on the verge of finishing Michaels after a concussive chairshot, but the lights cut out, organ music hit, and the building was soon bathed in blood red.
Paul Bearer brought 'Taker's vengeful brother to the ring, and the cell provided no safety for 'The Phenom.' Kane tore its door off, smashed Earl Hebner, summoned fire from the ring posts, then put Undertaker down with a Tombstone Piledriver, gifting Michaels the win and leaving the building stunned.