10 Best WWE Hell In A Cell Matches EVER - According To Dave Meltzer
1. The Undertaker Vs Shawn Michaels (Badd Blood, In Your House, *****)
Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker contested what many people consider to be the greatest match in WWE history at WrestleMania 25, but Dave Meltzer had already afforded them a perfect score 12 years earlier for the first and best Hell In A Cell match ever.
Like the exhausting Steve Austin/Bret Hart WrestleMania war that challenged it for Match Of The Year honours in 1997, the Badd Blood made the very best of having all the ingredients necessary in assembling a bonafide classic.
The Cell itself was both novel and needed. Replacing WWE's traditional blue bar cage with the wire mesh and a roof was as much to do with creating an antidote to antagonists as it was aesthetics. Shawn Michaels had, in the main, escaped The Undertaker's wrath thanks to endless interference from his soon-to-be-DX comrades Triple H, Chyna and Ravishing Rick Rude. The locked steel structure would negate his numbers game.
Few took a sh*t-kicking better than Shawn Michaels, particularly as a heel when he didn't need to pepper the contests with hope spots and comebacks. Subsequently, the match was a protracted massacre, with half of Shawn's offence motivated by sheer desperation in between running like f*ck from a vengeful 'Deadman'.
And yet, the snivelling little turd still escaped with a win. Kane's spectacular debut could have found no better home than the 'Devil's Playground', and his legitimately shocking arrival crafted a grand conclusion to a war for the ages.