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 fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
