10 Terrible Gimmick Wrestling Matches One Tweak Away From Excellence

4. Steel Cage

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Why It's Terrible: WWE's Hell In A Cell put paid to it being the most violent end to a feud. Many believe WWE had already done this years earlier by introducing the escape-to-win stipulation.

One Tweak: Get back to basics and lock the spartans in there until only one emerges. WWE have potentially cooked the Cell as it is, so they might as well try and reheat the cage back to being the sort of devil's playground it was once known as.

The blue bars instigated by Vince McMahon in the 1980s allowed Hulk Hogan-sized behemoths to climb the structure, but his organisation is now furnished with super athletes capable of doing just as much with the mesh. Beyond that, consider the ending isolated to one single conclusion - knockout finishes only.

At the point at which the opponent can't answer the referee - or anybody - thanks to exhuastion, submission or total destruction, they're done for.

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