12 Best WWE Pay-Per-Views That Didn't Have A World Title Match

For a card that had unpleasant shadow cast upon it thanks to the death of active roster member Brian Pillman earlier that day, the company presented a one-match show that still managed to over-deliver on tempered expectations.

Rolling out Hell in a Cell for the very first time, the roofed cage was an unknown quantity but the talents of Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker were not.

In only their second ever televised match, the pair assembled one of the finest contests in company history and one of the rare few WWE matches to get the full five stars from esteemed industry journalist Dave Meltzer.

The story was simple enough but required the innate ability of 'The Deadman' and especially Michaels to sell it so dramatically. Shawn had dodged a deserved thrashing from 'Taker for months, and with the cage trapping him in and his DX buddies out, there was finally no escape for the cocky European Champion.

Taking an ungodly beating with occasional fightbacks, Michaels was tossed from pillar to post, edged off the top of the cage through the announce table, leathered in the head with a chair and lawn-darted into the mesh cell wall (spectacularly blading mid-move in an oft-repeated sequence) on the outside.

Seconds away from victory, Undertaker was famously stopped in his tracks by the anticipated arrival of a brother he long-thought dead. Kane's shocking debut capped off the scintillating brawl and gifted unjust victory to a depleted 'HBK'.