#9 – The Undertaker vs The Big Boss Man – Hell in the Cell – Wrestlemania XV

If you’re like me, then you like your Hell in the Cell matches to come in at around nine minutes long. Oh yeah! Carnage! I’ll get into the whole “Undertaker at ‘Mania” thing a little later on, but for right now I’ll just keep it simple. This match blew. There was no heat going into it and it was part of the whole “there are no good guys or bad guys” thing that WWE was trying out. The Undertaker was playing out his whole Ministry of Darkness thing and Boss Man was one of Vince’s Corporation goons.

And then came the end, which was supposed to hit us all with its outrageous “shock” appeal. The Boss Man! Hanged! To death! Murder on TV! Controversy! Extreminess! This moment of mayhem was brought to you by Mountain Dew and…I don’t know…Arsenic! Edge, Christian and Gangrel came down and helped their Dark Lord put a noose around Boss Man, but all I could wonder was how uncomfortable it must have been for Boss Man to have had to wrestle in a suspension harness.

By the way, not to totally sour the mood, but this whole “suspending from ropes and cables” thing did wind up having extremely dire consequences the following May.