Variously referred to as a Doomsday Cage, a Tower of Doom or a Triple Decker, the Triple Cage match takes place in a three-story cage, the bottom of which covers the ring. Rules, stipulations, objectives and such all tend to vary: in some cases, the performers begin in the top cage, and need to fight their way to the bottom cage to escape a door to win. In other cases the performers begin in the bottom case and need to fight their way to the top one (referees having control of the doors between cages) in order to release an item hanging there like a championship belt. Sometimes the objective is to reach a cage where falls count: other times, one or more of the cages will be divided into two rooms. The number of participants will also vary: at WCW Uncensored in 1996, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage faced off against eight opponents. So many different rules, and things to fight for, but the common denominator in all of them was mass confusion. Half the time the commentators wouldnt fully understand what was going on, as it was practically impossible to see what was happening even with a full camera crew and a professional TV production. The live audience were hopelessly lost, as half of the action was twenty feet or more in the air, and usually fully obscured by a mass of metalwork and then theres the performers, all of varying size, shape and ability, many of whom had no idea what they were supposed to be doing in there to kill time until the next door opened. Historically, a cage match was supposed to cap a feud off because it provided a clean, definitive winner. A cage match so hopelessly convoluted and messy that no one has any idea whats going on is the polar opposite of clean and definitive.
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