10 Best WWE Hell In A Cell Matches EVER - According To Dave Meltzer
6. Batista Vs Triple H (Vengeance 2005, ****1/2)
As if to atone for the numerous Monday Night Raw talents left grasping for air as he poured dirt on their main event dreams, Triple H went all in when he helped elevate Batista through three powerful promotions in 2005.
Foreshadowing WWE's philosophy going forward with three excellent and high-drawing World Title main events (before the bastardised concept left us all with 2017's Bray Wyatt/Finn Bálor programme), the pair's Cell match was the fitting final end to a blood feud that saw the collapse of an empire and the theoretical dawning of a new era.
Decked out in brilliant white, Batista highlighted just one of the lessons he'd learned from NWA loyalist Hunter and cage veteran Ric Flair. It was 'The Game's blood that added an ominous pink hue to the attire, but the Champion's soon followed after a brutal DDT on a barbed wire steel chair.
From then on, it became little more than an exhausting fight between warlords. Whomever hit harder would walk out a winner, leaving a loser with literally nothing left. Batista's astonishing physical mass won out as he utilised the ungainly steel ring-steps to splatter his former boss across with a frightening spinebuster.
Triple H grabbed his beloved sledgehammer as he was hoisted up for the Batista Bomb, but he was simply too immobilised to use it. It lay flat-out and dormant alongside its soundly defeated owner in the shattering aftermath.