10 Mistakes That Actually Enhanced WWE Matches

2. Hell In A Cell Gives Way (King Of The Ring 1998)

Mankind The Undertaker King Of The Ring 1998
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Botch: Mick Foley managed to recover enough from one fall off the Hell In A Cell structure through a ringside announce table that he and The Undertaker continued. Then, famously (or maybe infamously), 'Taker went to gently Chokeslam his foe on top of the mesh roof and it gave way.

That wasn't supposed to happen.

How It Enhanced The Match: The terrifying bump Mick took, and the way a steel chair crashed into his face on the way down, will live forever. Most fans talk about Foley's two big bumps at King Of The Ring 1998 when they were only supposed to remember one. It could've killed him, but it created a legend.

The image of a worried 'Taker looking down from the remainder of the roof as Terry Funk, officials and medics checked on Mankind became stuff of legend almost overnight. At that moment, as he pondered his next move, The Undertaker thought his friend might be dead.

Chilling.

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