10 Classic WWE Matches (That Nobody Remembers As Classics)

Somewhat weirdly - given that it was performed by a WWE institution - this sickening Hell In A Cell match owed more to the limb-breaking NWA style of old than the company that promoted it.

'Taker entered the match with a broken hand and protective cast. It's likely not held aloft with the greatest bouts in company history because it isn't self-consciously spectacular.

It revels in its ugliness.

'Taker threw Lesnar into the mesh walls with abandon in the early exchanges and rendered his forehead a bloody pulp with stiff blows, scattering the blood across his face by scraping it against the cage. Unlike previous Cell matches, which with their terrifying bumps from lunatic heights relied on visual violence, this was an aural masterpiece. The sound design was an ugly cacophony of thuds and wails. 'Taker's agonised howls, when Lesnar annihilated the cast with a series of gruesome, full-on chair shots, echoed the agony of Magnum TA, tracing its psychology back to the mid 1980s. Lesnar destroyed both 'Taker's hand and his head; after firmly assuming the advantage, he literally drilled him with an edge-first steps shot, leaving a f*cking hole in the Dead Man's temple.

The sight was grotesque - difficult to stomach, let alone revisit - which might explain why so few include it in their canon of classics.