Ranking Every PPV World Championship Steel Cage Match From Worst To Best
5. JBL Vs. Big Show - No Way Out 2005
Title: WWE Championship
Match Time: 15:11
The barbed wire steel cage had an extreme sound to it. It had a nasty look about it too, a real high-security prison vibe.
Neither JBL nor The Big Show were ever going to climb over it - it was legit barbed wire - but that didn’t stop them from awkwardly trying.
They really just sat at the top of the ropes trying to reach their arms out over the wire as far as possible to look like an effort was being made, maybe draw some blood from a nick on the forearm until the other came to pull them back down.
During his WWE Championship reign as a rich-racist-heat-magnet heel, this was actually a rare occasion where JBL teetered on the line of babyface.
He was the champion in peril, trying to escape the clutches of a brutal giant. For a fleeting moment, he was drawing sympathy.
After a chunk of interference from The Cabinet (JBL’s stable of mid-card heels), it looked for all money like Big Show had actually won the World Championship.
He chokeslammed Bradshaw straight through the ring. Seriously, through the damn ring!
Show, along with everyone else, believed he’d won; until JBL was announced the winner.
The sneaky Texan had crawled out onto the floor from underneath the ring apron, using his chokeslam misfortune to give him a shortcut out of the match.
A great escape if there ever was one.