10 Great Wrestling Performances (That Nobody Ever Talks About)

5. Mankind - Vs Hunter Hearst Helmsley (SummerSlam 1997)

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Once again we stumble upon another largely overlooked treat from an eventually legendary wrestling feud, and this specific top-class performance also involves Triple H standing on the other side of the ring once more. People just love to turn up for The Game, don't they?

Years before the vicious rivals would wreck each other in iconic Street Fight and Hell in a Cell bouts, Mankind and Hunter Hearst Helmsley met inside of a steel cage at SummerSlam 1997. Here, Trips was exposed to a truly unhinged Mick Foley, highlighted by the untamed star's use of a truly chilling piledriver early on.

Putting it all on the line for our entertainment, as only Foley can, the future Hall of Famer also took a devastating superplex from the top of the blue cage and a cage door to the skull from Chyna which would of knocked most human beings senseless there and then. This willingness to put his body through hell brilliantly sold the genuine dangers of a match of this type, and also made the moment a beaten and outnumbered Mankind escaped the structure first a true under-appreciated highlight of Foley's career.

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