7 Extreme WWE Hell In A Cell Moments You'll Never See Again
3. Choking Out And Hanging
The most famous incident involving a hanging inside Hell in a Cell came after the abysmal Undertaker-Big Boss Man match at WrestleMania XV. It represented one of the worst examples of doing something solely for shock value during the Attitude Era. Seriously, hanging a person on PPV? But this wasnt the only example of wrapping something around a wrestlers neck and trying to cut off his supply of oxygen. http://youtu.be/xSWlsqsM0VE?t=2m43s Thats right, six years after the Taker-Boss Man incident, the current COO of WWE tried to choke out and then hung Batista over the top rope with a steel chain inside Hell in a Cell. It wasnt the goriest part of that match (check out the barbed-wire wrapped steel chair for example). But it shows that as recently as 2005, the choking out/hanging spot was acceptable on WWE programming. It wasnt until after the Chris Benoit double murder-suicide in 2007 that WWE began sanitizing its matches, first outlawing spots like wrestlers using cords, wires and ropes to choke, strangle or hang an opponent. (And of course, Daniel Bryan became a casualty of this rule in 2010 when he strangled ring announcer Justin Roberts using his own tie.)
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
