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The Undertaker’s History Inside Hell in a Cell

By Michael Whitlow

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The Undertaker vs. Triple H, 2012

In wrestling, there are matches that come along and for 20, 30, 40 minutes, and you find yourself glued to the television screen for every second of them. The final encounter between The Undertaker and Triple H at WrestleMania XXVIII was one of those matches.

In a four-year span from 2009-12, The Undertaker’s toughest tests to date at WrestleMania, all came from either Shawn Michaels or Triple H. The Deadman retired HBK after their rematch in 2010, but their match in 2009 may have been the greatest match in WrestleMania history. Triple H got his second shot at breaking “The Streak” at WrestleMania XXVII after an unsuccessful try in 2001 and couldn’t get the job done.

So, what was left for The Undertaker? Despite The Game dropping to 0-2 at WrestleMania a year prior, he was the one who actually walked out of the ring that night in Atlanta.

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The Game wanted one more crack at breaking the greatest streak in sports entertainment. The last two pieces of the Attitude Era would duke it out one more time inside Hell in a Cell. Not only would the greatest era in wrestling be coming to an official close, the man who helped led the company into that era — Shawn Michaels — would be given the task of counting the pinfall for this rematch.

For 31 minutes, we all witnessed a fitting end to an era. This match had brutality, physicality, emotion, pain, and told quite a story. Despite a glance into a time machine with a Sweet Chin Music-Pedigree combo that brought the nearest of pinfalls, The Undertaker would leave Miami with his unbeaten streak intact.

The three cornerstones of the company did it the right way and left the stadium together arm-in-arm. There would be a lot of arguing and a lot of discussions to be had, but if a “Mount Rushmore” was made for WWE, these three men would probably find themselves on it.

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