Brock Lesnar’s History Inside Hell in a Cell

Brock Lesnar faces the Undertaker at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in what is set to be the last match between the two men, we look at Brock’s history inside the Cell.

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When I say history there’s only one match to talk about. Ironically that match was also against the same man he’ll face in this feud ending Hell in a Cell match, The Undertaker.

The match happened at No Mercy 2002 and the pair squared off for the WWE Championship inside the Hell in a Cell. Brock was the Champion with Taker the challenger, they’d faced each other the previous month and gone to a no contest. In between that and the Cell match we saw Undertaker beaten by Matt Hardy with help from Brock, we saw Brock and Paul Heyman introduce some random woman from Takers past who had apparently been sleeping with him (even though he was married and was later proved false) and then Brock not wanting Undertaker to wrestle with a cast on his broken hand. By the time we got to the actual Hell in a Cell match the two men were ready to bludgeon each other, which they more than did.

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Brock was the “Next Big Thing” at this point in his career, Undertaker was in the midst of his “American Bad Ass” run, motor cycle and all. This was the man who’d been at the top for a long time in Taker against the young gun that WWE was trying to push as an unstoppable monster, and my lord did it live up to the pre match billing.

Brock took control with his power early on. Undertaker ended up busting open Lesnar with the cast that was such a big talking point in the build up to the match. It looked like Taker’s experience in the Cell was going to help him get the better of his younger opponent but Brock slowly took control. That was only after Undertaker had bloodied up Paul Heyman, with the assist of Heyman’s own tie and the side of the cage. The sight of Heyman bleeding as much as Lesnar was a bit of a shock, it wasn’t really a thing that happened seeing a manager in such a state.

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The match fell apart a bit as Lesnar became obsessed with getting the cast off the hand of the Undertaker. After achieving that he took advantage of the hand injury and got the better of the Deadman. A shot with the ring steps saw Undertaker bleeding (a lot) and Brock really took advantage. The match ended after Undertaker hit basically all his big moves but couldn’t get the three count. A choke slam, Last Ride power bomb and then an attempted Tombstone Piledriver which was reversed into an F-5 for the winning pin fall. This was an absolute battle between two of the best brawlers that the company had at the time.

In the landscape that this match took place this was a massive win for Brock Lesnar. We were in the midst of the brand split, when Brock and Undertaker were the two big men on SmackDown. In a world where the likes of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit were feuding with Edge, and Rey Mysterio, these two were the two power men that gave you something different. This was a blood soaked war between two absolute monsters on the WWE roster.

Without a doubt that Hell in a Cell match made Brock Lesnar the undisputed king of WWE. He’d only been in the business for a couple of years and became the second fastest winner of the world title behind Ric Flair, taking the belt only 126 days after his debut. Coming out of the feud with Undertaker as the winner was a stepping stone to greatness in WWE for Brock Lesnar.

After this feud Brock went on to face Big Show, we all remember the vision of them in a broken ring after a superplex. Lesnar would see Paul Heyman turn his back on the Beast and side with Big Show, but they eventually ended up back together. In the following couple of years Lesnar faced some of the best in the company, Kurt Angle, John Cena and eventually back to facing Undertaker, then facing Eddie Guerrero before seeing out his first stint in the company with a match against Goldberg at WrestleMania 20. The match where the fans knew both men were leaving the company and treated them both with the disdain they thought they deserved.

The man we now know as The Beast Incarnate, Brock Lesnar, was given the boost he needed from that Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker in 2002. Nobody had man handled the Deadman the way Brock did during that match and feud. In 2015 we seem to have come full circle and will see the pair end their current wars with exactly the same match.

Will it be as brutal? Yes.

Will it be as bloody? Probably not.

Will it be a match you cannot afford to miss? Of course it will.

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