A Beginner's Guide To WWE's Netflix Era

There's always that moment when someone new to wrestling approaches a fan and asks to show them a match. Just one match to give them an idea of exactly what this whole wrestling thing is about. You could show them a technical banger full of submission holds and takedowns but they'd probably get bored quickly. King Of The Ring 1998 says 'have some absolute chaos instead'.

The Hell In A Cell match between The Undertaker and Mankind isn't even the first battle to take place inside the huge cage. It is however the one that leaves the most jaws on the floor. Even the passing of time hasn't dulled the impact of Mankind (aka Mick Foley) being flung headlong off the roof of the cell and crashing through the announce table below. 

The vast majority of wrestling fans can still hear Jim Ross scream "As God is my witness, he is broken in half!" even when only looking at a still image of it. It's a match that seems, like the cell roof, stuck together with cable ties as it feels like something has gone disastrously wrong at every moment. Somehow though it gets through to the end and remains a testament to not only the injuries that wrestlers suffer but also Mick Foley's incredibly high pain threshold. It's something of a miracle that Mick Foley managed to complete a planned run in later on in the night. 

Whilst the rest of the show is certainly worthy of your time with a very early meeting between Triple H and The Rock and the main event of Kane vs Steve Austin being highlights. The Cell match overshadows everything else though. There's a reason why Foley often says his career was split between pre and post Cell eras.