7 Extreme WWE Hell In A Cell Moments You'll Never See Again

6. Thumbtacks And Barbed Wire

While these two objects have only really been used in a Hell in a Cell match by wrestlers like Mick Foley and Triple H, it€™s a safe bet they won€™t resurface again, even if Combat Zone Wrestling vet Dean Ambrose winds up in the cell. WWE€™s edict outlawing blood from matches renders Hell in a Cell matches today quite antiseptic compared to earlier battles, and it leaves no room for plunder like thumbtacks and barbed wire, which only serve to rip flesh and make people bleed. In some ways, it€™s for the best that these weapons don€™t surface again. They were broken out specifically as part of Foley€™s hardcore and sadistic personae (Mankind and Cactus Jack). Triple H, having beaten Foley in a cell match (more on that later), appropriated some of Foley€™s hardcore tendencies, using a steel chair wrapped in barbed wire to great effect in a 2005 cell match at Vengeance and a barbed wire-wrapped 2x4 at Bad Blood in 2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYgMYqqzi2E And while Ambrose (given his background competing in deathmatches) might be the closest thing to a successor to the Hardcore Legend, his presence in a cell match isn€™t going to override WWE€™s more family-friendly image. Somehow, turning someone into a human pincushion just isn€™t PG.