10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE's Hell In A Cell Gimmick

8. Hell In A Cell Really Is Career Ending

Hell in a Cell is the kind of gimmick that generates all sorts of hyperbole from the WWE announce team. Jim Ross is perhaps more famous for his Hell in Cell line about Mick Foley than anything else he ever said. His line about Foley's fall is almost as memorable as the incident - "Good god almighty, good god almighty, that killed him, as God as my witness he is broken in half!" As the years went on, we started getting lines about Hell in a Cell being "a career ending match" and a place "where careers come to die." In most cases, it was just hyperbole, but one person who did enter the cell, really did see their career wiped out... and it wasn't Mick Foley. The man in question was WWE referee Tim White. He was officiating the Hell in a Cell between Triple H and Chris Jericho, when he suffered a severe shoulder injury. The story would later have it that Triple H injured White's shoulder, but it was more of a case that the referee was just old and unlucky. His career was over. White did manage to return in 2004 to referee one match, but it wasn't until 2005's "lunchtime suicides" that he really found prominence again. These skits were mainly on WWE.com and featured White killing himself each week. The distastefulness in this was pretty shocking, especially considering WWE's record with deaths and suicides. White ended up released in 2009. For all intents and purposes, Hell in a Cell ended his main WWE career.