WWE Wrestlemania 29 – “End of an Era Match” Hell in a cell: Triple H vs. The Undertaker (Special Referee Shawn Michaels)
Undertaker’s entrance is still epic with his “Master Shredder” jacket and smoke, still gives me Goosebumps. Hunter’s was pretty weak while Michael danced around like this was the 90’s and he was still high on crack. And before the match even starts we had some EPICNESS! As taker pulls down the hood reveal his new (at the time) new Mohawk hair and Hunter backs up, possible rethinking this
Don’t worry he man’s up as we have a face-off with Triple H talking shit, then they both look up and he Hell In A Cell lowers to its own theme music. I should point out the HIAC lowering was longer than the world title match, FUCK THIS COMPANY!
Slugfest to start and Taker is getting the better, until Hunter gets a boot up and comes back with punches of his own but that’s short lived until taker throws him out and continues the slow methodical assault on Hunter which included a whip into the cell then a backdrop on the mat outside. A great moment happen as Shawn was checking Hunter for blood, but Taker goes in full on dick mode and shoves Shawn out of the way. And continues to slow beating but throwing him into the steps, back in and Hunter comes back with a face buster that Taker no sell and hits a clothesline before softening the arm for “Old School” and it connects. Back to the outside and Taker drills Hunter in the face with the steps, he then gets the bottom bigger steps and puts those in the ring. BIG LEG DROP ON THE APRON! Taker slowly gets back in but by then Hunter has recovered and hits an desperate DDT and repeatedly rams Takers head into the steps. HHH sets up the Pedigree on top of the steps but Taker counters with a body drop and more right hands. BUT OUT OF NOWHERE TRIPLE H HITS A DOUBLE A SPINEBUSTER ON THE STEPS, HE THEN TRIES TO PICK TAKER UP BUT TAKER COUNTERS INTO HELL’S GATE! BUT TRIPLE H DOES THE RAMPAGE SPLASH SPOT FOR TWO
Chairs are brought in by Hunter and he nails Taker in the back 2-3 times then whips him into the steps before picking up the chair again and nails the Taker like 14 more times until HBK tells him it’s too much and he knows Taker is not gonna quit just cover him. But again Taker refuses and punches Shawn out of the May and he even tells Shawn “NOT TO STOP IT! DO NOT STOP IT!” MORE VIOLENT CHAIR SHOTS lead to a two count. More of taker begging for this not to be stopped so Hunter pulls out his real BFF the sledgehammer, Shawn quickly rushes over to stop this and Triple H tells him to end this. SLEDGEHAMMER SHOT TO THE FACE OF TAKER GETS A close two count. OH SHIT! Hunter then tries to smash Takers head in but Shawn jumps HHH and gets the hammer away, Shawn then acts like he wants to call for the bell but he clearly doesn’t want HHH to do what he couldn’t so instead TAKER LOCKS Shawn in the hell's gate but this time HHH comes to the rescue and hits Taker again in the head with the hammer. Hunter then goes to check on Shawn, which allows Taker to lock the hell’s gate on Hunter this time and they do the call back spot from last year with the hammer but this time Taker breaks the hold. As Charles Robinson ran to the ring in record time, Chokeslam connects and that gets a near-fall. Taker doesn’t like the count so he chokeslams Robinson
SHAWN BACK TO HIS FEET AND SO ARE HHH AND TAKER, TAKER SETS UP FOR THE TOMBSTONE BUT HHH PUSHES HIM TOWARDS SHAWN WHO CONNECTS WITH SCM! AND TAKER TURNS RIGHT AROUND INTO THE PEDIGREE FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST NEAR-FALLS IN WM HISTORY! Shawn’s face knowing what he did was EPIC! Sledgehammer in the hands of Hunter and Shawn begs him not to use it so what does Triple H do? Throws Shawn out of the ring
But Taker sits up just in time and catches HHH with a big boot, and has a pretty great comeback, just a shame he no-sold all of the assault done to him. TOMBSTONE CONNECTS! And that gets two
THIS FUCKIN’ STORYTELLING MAN! Both men fighting each other while trying to get to their feet was great, back and forth punches but a Tombstone is countered into a pedigree for 2. SIT UP! By Taker and Hunter crawling to the hammer, and Taker crawls to the chair, Taker up first and he steps on the hammer even shaking his head NO! And now it’s Taker beating the shit out of Hunter with the chair with Michaels helpless to do anything. Taker hit him maybe 12 times and that only gets a 2 count, and again Hunter goes for the hammer. He gets it and uses the buckle to get to his feet, he tries to lunge towards Taker but Taker simple grabs him and shakes his head thinking “Just stay down ”Triple H being Triple H shoves Taker back then gives him the CROTCH CHOP! Taunt, so TAKER GIVES HIM THE SLEDGEHAMMER SHOT
Hunter is still not staying down, this time he uses Taker’s own body to get to his feet and TAKER ENDS IT WITH THE TOMBSTONE! Post-Match: Shawn picks Taker up and raises his hand, so Taker gives us the 20-0 celebration. Hunter is still selling on the mat, what a guy. So Taker comes over and helps Shawn pick HHH to his feet and all 3 men leave we even get a group hug at the end. As for the match its story telling at its best, it’s like watching one of those superhero movies. It’s just magical what these three did here. The only reason I’m not going the full five is the action at times was slow and normally I like the methodical pace but this just seem weird and the No-sell was a bit much. ****3/4
