Armageddon - Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Centre, Birmingham Alabama, December 10th, 2000

This PPV opens with a debut. The debut of the AWESOME Jim Johnson produced “The End is Here” song that would act as the theme song for every Armageddon PPV.

That musical masterpiece is immediately undone by the WWE Network having replaced the actual theme song for this PPV - the Kid Rock cover of “Sweet Home Alabama, which they actually did play on Raw and Smackdown on the Network in the run up to this event - with a generic, janky plinky-plonky royalty free song. 

Earlier tonight on Sunday Night Heat, Commissioner Mick Foley repeated his promise from Smackdown - if someone is seriously injured in tonight’s main event he WILL resign as Commissioner.

Vince McMahon (still walking with a cane) arrives in a limo and is greeted by Brisco and Patterson. He smugly promises that the Hell in a Cell won’t be hanging above the ring for long. His story coming in is the (perfectly logical) belief that putting six of his biggest stars in one match where one is almost guaranteed to be injured is a terrible business decision. 

Six person Intergender Elimination Tag Team match

The Radicals (Perry Saturn w/Terri, Eddie Guerrerro and WWF Light Heavyweight Champion Dean Malenko) vs. The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy) and Lita

Oh I have lots of thoughts on this storyline of Dean Malenko playing a sex pest but first here’s a video package recapping the events of this past week’s Raw and Smackdown.

The storyline itself isn’t that bad because Dean is portrayed as a sleaze and the villain - the issue is more Jerry Lawler on commentary acting like he’s right to be annoyed and talking about Lita like she’s been unreasonable, or “was asking for it”. Though revealing that Jerry Lawler is a massive problematic pervert isn’t a shock.

The Hardyz start the match quick and fast, taking over Dean with a double suplex and then wiping out Eddie and Dean with a pair of dives to the outside but Saturn picks off Matt Hardy and hammers him in the ring in the corner and then with a brainbuster before tagging in Eddie Guerrero. Eddie has been wrestling in a t-shirt pretty much all year, and has switched his ring gear to a singlet for this match. I wonder if he was going through something with his body at the time?

Matt counters a charge in the corner and tags in Jeff who takes over knocking Dean and Perry off the apron and with a big back body drop on Eddie and then counters a hurricanrana attempt by holding the ropes. Lita slips in and gives him a Twist of Fate and Jeff follows with a Swanton Bomb to eliminate Eddie Guerrero first. 

The Hardyz open up with a Poetry in Motion on Dean but when they try the same on Saturn he catches Jeff on his shoulders and gives him a Death Valley Driver to eliminate Jeff Hardy. King picks this point in the match to get deeply sexist talking about how Lita is really only half a partner for Matt, and how no woman is any match for a man. 

Matt counters an attempted headscissors by Perry into a nice slam and follows with a leg drop off the middle rope. Dean breaks up the pin but gets dumped outside and Matt gives Perry a Twist of Fate to eliminate Perry Saturn. 

Terri gets in the ring and that distraction allows Dean to roll up Matt Hardy and eliminate him, leaving this match as Dean Malenko against Lita one on one. 

Jerry Lawler delights in how Lita is now going to “get what she deserves”. 

The former women’s champion gets a pair of near falls on the Light Heavyweight Champion with a roll up, and then another after a hurricanrana. She flies with a moonsault on a standing Malenko for another near fall and then spikes him with a tornado DDT. Malenko blocks her on the top rope before she can dive and brings her down with a superplex. That should be enough but Dean picks her up and doesn’t pin her when he can, dropping her with clothesline after clothesline and then a back elbow which knocks her out. Dean continues to hit her with moves and refuses to pin her while Jerry Lawler giggles and says that she should have just slept with him. The fans start chanting “Lita” but it’s pointless as he quickly rolls her into a Texas Cloverleaf for the submission victory.

This finish was pretty deeply uncomfortable, made significantly worse by Jerry Lawler being one of the worst human beings in all of wrestling on commentary. 

Malenko wants to keep the beating going after the match but Matt and Jeff run down to save her. They help Lita to the back where Michael Cole tries to interview her and a groggy Lita says he knows she can beat him. This storyline should have ended with Lita winning the Light Heavyweight title. But it doesn’t.

Lillian Garcia tries to interview WWF Champion Kurt Angle about his title defence tonight. Kurt gets angry at her for wanting him to stop training and chat to her. She says that he beat a Bulgaria, and a Turk, and a Russian to win his Olympic Gold so he isn’t wearing an eyebrow, or a nose, or a redneck, or a badass or a fatass! He says it’s disgusting he’s been made to defend his title tonight in front of (no offence Alabama) a bunch of inbred hicks. He doesn’t need Undertaker to make him famous by throwing him off the Cell because he’s already famous for winning an Olympic Gold medal and the WWF Championship. 

The PPV has a few “classic Hell in a Cell moments” throughout the show and almost all of them are Mick Foley taking a beating. The first one is Triple H backdropping Cactus Jack through the Cell roof back in February. 

WWF European Championship

William Regal © vs. Hardcore Holly

Before the match, William Regal takes a moment to address all of his friends in Alabama. He says that they’ll cheer hometown boy Hardcore Holly but he’s the one who has their best interests at heart and lectures them on manners and tells them not to “love their farm animals” until Hardcore rushes the ring and attacks the champion.

They brawl with the fight going to the outside and Regal reversing Holly’s Irish whip to send him into the ring post.

Back in the ring, Holly counters with a back suplex for a near fall and then follows with the old “jumping nothing” as he dives off the top rope and right into Regal’s foot - no idea what Holly was going for. Regal puts Holly on the top rope and gives us our second superplex of the night for a near fall. Make that three near falls before locking in a bow and arrow submission.

Holly just doesn’t sell that and fights back with punches and clotheslines and drops Regal with a bodyslam and comes off the top rope with a leg drop which gets a near fall.

Regal counters Holly’s hurricanrana attempt into a power bomb and locks in the Regal Stretch but Hardcore is too close to the ropes and it’s broken right up.

Holly swings wild and knocks down Regal with his metal-plated forearm but as the referee checks on the champion, Raven slides into the ring and drops Holly with a DDT which allows William to cover and retain his European title. 

This match wasn’t very good. It did at least have a finish. Funnily enough I thought their Survivor Series match was much better but that didn’t have a finish so between the pair of matches, these two could have done something good together.

After a replay of Kurt Angle turning on Rikishi and Triple H on Smackdown (in a move that made no sense, why end the alliance before the PPV match?) Kevin Kelly interviews Rikishi. He asks him if he’s worried about Triple H turning on him tonight too. Rikishi says that whatever happens, happens. That makes perfect sense to be fair to him.

Val Venis (w/ WWF Women’s Champion Ivory) vs. Chyna

This match initially started with the Right to Censor protesting Chyna in Playboy and has been on and off since then. I’m still annoyed we didn’t get the logical Eddie Guerrero vs. Chyna match on PPV, but that storyline is long since over now.

Chyna goes out to meet Val and attacks him on the ramp, rolling him into the ring and stomping him down in the corner which gets a big cheer.

She ducks a clothesline and follows with a DDT for the first near fall of the match. 

Val comes back with a knee to the ribs and a Russian Leg Sweep for a near fall of his own before throwing Chyna to the outside and distracting the referee so that Ivory can get a bunch of kicks and cheap shots in. 

Back in the ring, Val follows with a double arm suplex for another near fall. He follows with a bodyslam, but Chyna avoids his elbow drop attempt and fights back with forearms and punches and a back drop off the ropes, followed by a swinging neckbreaker. Chyna was never an amazing wrestler but she looks good here - it was always possible to book to her strengths. She gets a near fall off a stiff clothesline, and then books Val right in the ribs punting him around the ring. 

He counters off the ropes into a scoop slam and tries for the Money Shot splash but Chyna rolls out of the way but can’t follow up as she gets distracted chasing Ivory around the ring. It works like a charm as as she re-enters she’s caught by Val and a fisherman suplex for the victory. 

After the match, Chyna gets her hands on Ivory and drags her into the ring but Val makes the save with a spinning powerbomb and the two Right to Censor members leave.

The next “Hell in a Cell moment” is Cactus Jack hitting Triple H with a burning 2x4. 

Backstage, Vince McMahon talks to his daughter Stephanie. He wants to try and talk Triple H out of tonight’s main event. Stephanie shares his concerns and saw the state Triple H was in after facing just one man inside Hell in a Cell, never mind five! Vince says he’s going to go and speak to Foley and put a stop to this match. 

Earlier today in quite a cool visual, Kevin Kelly interviews The Undertaker inside the empty Hell in a Cell in an empty arena. The Undertaker shares his thoughts which are mostly about how dangerous and evil Hell in a Cell is. He recaps some of the more awful things he personally has done to people and they show footage of all the big spots from his matches with Shawn Michaels and Mick Foley which I think was a mistake - they are really overpromising the level of brutality and the scale of the spots we’re going to see here tonight and it’s giving the main event standards it cannot possibly live up to. 

Vince McMahon heads out into the arena with Pat Patterson and Gerry Brisco. Vince has only been back on TV for a couple of weeks and I’m already sick of him. He was always a great promo and a powerful character but having six months of shows without long, rambling Vince promos was surprisingly nice. 

He starts by recapping his promo from Smackdown - he’s sick of giving everything for the fans and his family, and he wants a divorce from Linda. He then says that his concern for the health and well being of the six men in tonight’s main event is genuine and he is not here as the owner of the WWF or as a certified billionaire - he is here as a concerned and compassionate humanitarian.

JR isn’t buying it and pretends to be sick. He asks the fans to join him in protesting this match and stopping it from happening. He doesn’t care about the superstar’s health (in reality or in storyline) he just sees them as products he doesn’t want to lose or see damaged. He asks for five seconds of silence so that everyone can contemplate the fate of the WWF Superstars tonight. He gets angry when the fans won’t join his protest and says we all need to live with the guilt, just like Mick Foley.

Last Man Standing match

Chris Jericho vs. Kane

A surprisingly low energy video package for this match, but it does at least make this seem like an emotional, long standing main event feud befitting one that’s been running for two full months now. 

Kane enters first and goes up the ramp to meet Jericho during his entrance, starting the match right by the walkway.

They disappear backstage and there’s a long period with no camera backstage where we’re looking at the crowd before it cuts backstage.

Jericho tries to use a trash can, Kane tries to use a shovel but misses. We catch a glimpse of a construction crew backstage with a large open-bed truck with lots of huge bags of sawdust in the back. We’ll see that again later.

The fight heads back into the arena and Kane punishes Jericho down to the ring but Y2J counters an attempted tombstone, shoving Kane into the ring post and then slamming him off the ring steps followed by a spinning back elbow off the top rope in the ring. Jericho dominates with punches and clotheslines his much bigger opponent over the top rope, but dives into Kane’s arms and is caught before being driven into the ring post spine-first. Kane drives Jericho with a big slam on the ringside mats for the first attempted 10 count by the referee. He gets to 5. 

Back in the ring, Kane dominates Jericho first choking him out for a count - Jericho is up at seven. He gives him a flying clothesline and Jericho gets up again and tells Kane to bring it so he drills him with an ungodly looking one-armed chokeslam. That gets a 9 count (technically a 10 but Jericho was too slow to get up and the referee lets it go) so a frustrated Kane gets a steel chair hitting Y2J in the ribs and across the back before trying a tombstone onto it.

Jericho wriggles free and hits a low blow and a DDT for his first offence in a while. Jericho has to use the ropes to pull himself up and uses the chair himself with a big swinging shot to Kane’s head. Kane gets up a 6 and Jericho puts him down with a missile dropkick, a running bulldog and a Lionsault - with a steel chair laid across Kane’s chest - which hurts himself but puts Kane down for an 8 count. 

Kane lifts Jericho and military presses him over the top rope and all the way to the floor. They fight up the ramp and to the sound area. Kane teases giving Jericho a chokeslam off an equipment case through a table, which Jericho counters and gives a jumping bulldog through the table instead. Kind of. They mistimed the jump and it looked rubbish. The table did at least break. 

Jericho then pushes a wall of welded together steel barrels which forms part of the Armageddon set over onto Kane, seemingly pinning and trapping him beneath a huge weight! It looked perfectly safe - the barrels landed on an equipment case and gave Kane room to move. It’s enough to pin him down though and the referee counts to 10 and awards the match to Chris Jericho! Y2J wins the Last Man Standing match.

Jonathan Coachman speaks to Commissioner Foley. He’s not his usual fun loving self and seems deadly serious about the well being of the men in the main event and how guilty and responsible he feels.

Shawn Michaels is live from WWF New York where Jim Ross interviews him about Hell in a Cell. Shawn slurs some of his words as he speaks, and repeats the same talking points about brutality and danger. 

The third “classic Hell in a Cell” moment is from the most famous one of these matches - The Undertaker vs. Mankind. Thumbtacks folks. Thumbtacks. 

Fatal Four Way match for the WWF Tag Team Championships

The Right to Censor © (Bull Buchanan and The Goodfather, w/Steven Richards) vs. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley) vs. Edge and Christian vs. Roaddogg and K-Kwik

This match had plenty of setup in the build to this show with all four teams interacting - especially Edge and Christian with Roaddogg and K-Kwik, and the RtC with The Dudley Boyz. The match itself however was only added earlier tonight on Sunday Night Heat as it certainly wasn’t mentioned on TV before the show. 

Weirdly the defending champions enter second of the four teams but that’s not the last time tonight we’ll see a strange entry for a match like this.

This marks Roaddogg’s last WWF (or WWE) PPV appearance until 2014. I’ll talk more about it during the next Preview and his last actual appearance but the various references and jokes I’ve made about his substance abuse issues over the past couple of years of shows finally came to a head.

It’s a big deal to lose him - he’s been on almost every single show since I began this journey at Wrestlemania 14. That’s not even an exaggeration - I’d put it at about 95% of the shows in general, and probably 99% of the PPVs. 

The champions start off with a double team on D-Von for the first near fall. This match isn’t elimination rules, and has only two men in the ring at a time. 

Roaddogg tags himself in when D-Von gets a little too close to the corner but is quickly bullied by Goodfather and sent to Edge and Christian’s corner where Edge now tags himself in. 

There’s a fun spot as Roaddogg and Bubba Dudley do a matching “shake rattle and roll” punch combo on Edge and Christian but when they realise they’re in stereo they hit each other instead. 

Roaddogg tags out to K-Kwik who impresses with his speed and flips, getting a near fall on Edge but is shut down by Christian. The two then isolate and work over the newcomer as the fans chant “we want tables”. Edge and Christian’s work is stolen as Goodfather tags himself in and takes over where they left off beating down K-Kwik.

King is weirdly really racist during this match, making jokes about K-Kwik and his relatives sneaking in places and talking about Goodfather’s hair. 

Kwik gets a hot tag to Bubba and the match breaks down with all eight men fighting in the ring. K-Kwik is taken out on the outside by Bull and Goodfather, who in turn are taken out by Roaddogg with a double clothesline off the apron. He falls to a Richards superkick leaving this as Edge and Christian vs. The Dudleyz. A Wazzup headbutt takes them out.

Bubba and D-Von hold the ring with a 3D on Goodfather and then a 3D on Bull! The Dudleyz have the tag tiles in the bag here. After another Wazzup headbutt on Christian D-Von goes to get a table. He’s taken out by Steven Richards too and with Bubba in the ring with Edge and Christian a spear and then an Unprettier gives Edge and Christin their fourth WWF Tag Team title reign. 

The match was fine but messy. I am glad Edge and Christian got the titles back.

In the McMahon-Helmsley locker room, Stephanie talks to her husband about how worried she is for his well being. He (just like everyone else tonight) talks about the danger and the brutality of the match but he does at least hammer home how important the WWF title is - the championship is worth the risk. 

The fourth classic “Hell in a Cell moment” is from Cactus and Triple H’s match again. To be fair, they did show most of the good Undertaker/Mankind ones during Taker’s promo earlier. 

WWF Intercontinental Championship

“The One” Billy Gunn © vs. Chris Benoit

Long time readers will remember the four months at the end of 1998 - start of 1999 where Bad Ass Billy Gunn was obsessed with the Intercontinental title, feuding with Val Venis and Ken Shamrock. In that regard it’s nice that he finally got to win the gold. He’s been champion for a couple of weeks at this point. 

JR instantly gets my goat up by mocking Billy for wrestling with two earrings. Apparently that’s disrespectful (and a bit gay) for a champion to be wearing two earrings. What is it with the commentary on this show? They’ve been on my nerves all night. 

Benoit has spent several months flirting with the WWF Championship so this feels like a bit of a step down but he’s a good example of someone who elevates the title, rather than the title elevating them. 

Benoit has been focused on Gunn’s shoulder in the build up to this show, softening it up for the Crippler Crossface. That’s how he starts this match too, taking Billy down and stomping at his shoulder but The One reverses the whip off the ropes and explodes into his face with a clothesline and follows with a big scoop slam for a near fall.

The match goes to the outside and Benoit is run into the ring post but he returns by running the champion into the ring steps.

Billy seems to have hurt his knee from that and so changes tacts and goes after the knee with stomps and a knee breaker. 

Billy counters into a roll up for a near fall and Benoit shuts him down with a dropkick to the knee. Billy does a great job of selling, crying out in pain when Benoit takes him down with a dragon screw which he follows up with a Figure Four submission hold. Billy rolls over to reverse the pressure but Benoit gets quickly to the ropes.

Benoit avoids a big splash in the corner and drives Billy down with a trio of German suplexes but misses his diving headbutt.

Billy follows with a Famerasser but isn’t able to go for the pin right away and that costs him as Benoit kicks out. Gunn tries to set Benoit up for the One and Only (sleeper slam) but Benoit rolls through and takes him down into the Crippler Crossface. Billy’s feet are already in the ropes and so it’s instantly broken.

Benoit charges and Gunn tries to flip him in a tilt-a-whirl slam but his knee gives up and both men collapse. It's hard to tell if Billy is just selling his knee and shoulder or if he is just exhausted from not being used to wrestling long singles matches

Benoit hits a pair of suplexes, both for near falls and after Billy gets a final near fall with a small package, he rushes right into a second Crippler Crossface. The One quickly taps out and Chris Benoit wins the Intercontinental Championship. 

Billy Gunn only got to be IC champion for two weeks, and so ends his singles push.

Jim Ross spoke to Stone Cold Steve Austin earlier today. He didn’t sleep last night - he was up all night drinking coffee and thinking about how this match shortened one man (Shawn Michaels)’s career and ended another (Mick Foley). He says that it’s plenty of motivation that Rikishi and Triple H are in that match as he wants to brutalise them but his focus is on becoming the new WWF Champion.

WWF Women’s Championship

Ivory © vs. Molly Holly vs. Trish Stratus

Ivory is the best member of the Right to Censor. That’s just a fact. Her feud with Chyna seems oddly placed as Chyna had no desire to get involved in the women’s division, but the company doesn’t her wrestling the men anymore. There’s also all the behind the scenes issues with Triple H and Stephanie who were both on screen and behind the scenes running the show by this point. But I’ll have a lot more to say about Chyna at the Royal Rumble and at Wrestlemania.

Molly is really good in the ring, and Trish is eager to learn and one of the most popular on screen characters in the company. 

It’s not a surprise that Molly is flying solo (she’s a babyface) but I thought Trish would have T&A with her and it’s an even bigger shock that Ivory doesn’t have another member of the RtC with her. 

Molly attacks Trish right away, bouncing her had off the mat and chopping her in the corner. Trish reverses the whip and hits a monkey flip out of the corner. Molly impressively lands on her feet and walks right into an Ivory clothesline.

The two villains double team Molly but she comes back with a double clothesline and gets a near fall with a small package on Trish and then a backslide on Ivory. Both are broken up by the other woman.

Trish and Ivory give Molly a double suplex and high five, but then Ivory immediately turns on her. As the two argue (Ivory is trying to cover up Trish’ cleavage) Molly gives them both a crossbody.

Molly throws Ivory out of the ring and gives Trish a powerbomb. Before she can cover, Ivory shoves her out of the ring and pins Trish to steal the win and retain her Women’s Championship.

After the match, Test and Albert come down to the ring and look like they’re going to beat up Molly. Her cousin Crash runs down to attack them from behind but before T&A can beat up Crash two on one, the returning APA saves the day. They havn’t been seen since Test and Albert took them out at No Mercy. Bradshaw hammers Albert with a clothesline from hell, and Faarooq pulverises Test with a spinebuster. The Acolytes are back and save Crash and Molly. 

The fifth and final “classic Hell in a Cell moment” is the most famous one - The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Cell and through the announce desk.

The final pre match comments belong to The Rock. Kevin Kelly interviews him where he repeats the same sentiments - it’s worth the risk, it's worth the danger. He’s going to walk into Hell and walk out as the WWF Champion.

Six-man Hell in a Cell match for the WWF Championship

Kurt Angle © vs. Rikishi vs. Triple H vs. The Undertaker vs. The Rock vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin

This match was announced 10 days ago on Smackdown and since it was there has been three narratives. Kurt Angle is unhappy to be defending his title in such brutal, unfair circumstances but this is ultimately his punishment for the constant cheating and interfering in matches. The five challengers know and understand the danger but very much feel that becoming WWF Champion is well worth the risk. Vince McMahon is unhappy that six of his top stars' well being is being risked and blames Mick Foley specifically for that. His frustrations have boiled over and led to his full scale breakdown, demanding a divorce from Linda. 

What all three narratives have in common is hammering him the danger of this match. The hyperbole has been at its most extreme during this show with all the backstage segments and “classic moments” and so on. They are promising a level of brutality and danger the likes of which we’ve never seen. They are over promising, as we shall see.

I mentioned it during the Tag Team title match but the order entry for this match is odd with the champion coming out in the middle. I guess It makes sense to have the bad guys enter first, then the good guys. Triple H is first (to his much harder, lyricless version of My Time theme music. He’ll have Motorhead by the next PPV). Rikishi second, then Kurt Angle. Triple H and Rikishi want Kurt to get right in the ring so they can get even for Smackdown there’s a wall of referee’s to hold everyone back.

The Undertaker is next and debuts new theme music - he comes out to Limp Bizkit’s Rollin’! And thank God, it’s not censored or dubbed on the WWE Network version of the event. He shows no fear and gets right in the ring. The Rock is next, and finally it’s Stone Cold Steve Austin. Kurt is the last man to enter the cage, hovering around on the outside so it’s up to Austin to attack him first and bring him into the Cell to start the match officially. 

Stone Cold goes right to Triple H and they fight around the ring. This is going to be a nightmare to call as all six men are fighting in pairs, swapping partners and mostly just brawling with punches and running each other into the cage and ringsteps and so on.

Undertaker gets the first near fall on Kurt with a big boot in the middle of the ring. They trade out with Austin and Triple H where the Rattlesnake uses the Thez press and plenty of right hands for another near fall. Angle and Rock enter the ring and fight as Undertaker is now distracted by Rikishi and punishes him.

Triple H gets the better of Austin and works on his knee around the ring post. The Rock gets a near fall on Kurt with a Samoan drop.

Triple H is the first man to bleed as Stone Cold drags his face against the mesh over and over.

Rikishi gets some offence on camera at last as he chokes Taker against the Cell wall. In a spot that gets a big cheer, Austin drags Triple H around the cell wall for an entire lap. 

Austin is caught with a leg drop by Rikishi as he tries to enter the ring and Rikishi helps his partner and co-conspirator Triple H to his feet…but Triple H turns on him with a kick to the gut and a Pedigree but The Rock is thankfully there to break up the pin. He drills The Game with a DDT but Kurt Angle breaks that pin up. Kurt then gives The Rock an Olympic Slam but Stone Cold breaks up that pin and catches Kurt with a Stunner but The Undertaker breaks THAT up. Taker hits a big chokeslam and has the cover but Triple H breaks that pin to complete the cycle. 

The fighting continues with Austin hitting a Thez press on Rikishi and Undertaker throwing Triple H into the cage but then all attention is taken as Vince McMahon brings a construction truck - the one full of sawdust we saw earlier - and sets about trying to dismantle the Hell in a Cell while these men are still inside.

They keep fighting but it’s hard to see what's happening as the cameras catch Vince barking orders. They use a tow chain to pull the door off the Cell, and then attach the hooks to the Cell wall threatening to pull it down (which would probably kill all the men inside if it actually collapsed. Mick Foley comes out to stop Vince and actually beats up Patterson and Brisco before threatening Vince and making him go to the back too. Vince threatens to hit Mick with his cane, so the Commissioner gets security to drag the CEO out of the arena. The Truck is still at the bottom of the ramp by the cage, and the cell door is now open. 

Triple H leaves the cell and seems to be trying to escape or at least get some space but the Rattlesnake follows and attacks him from behind. Austin and The Game’s fight continues at the top of the ramp around the staging area which is made up of junked cars. In a cool spot, Austin uses one of the crane cameras as a weapon, throwing it into Triple H’s face which makes for a cool camera shot later.

The Rock, Rikishi and Kurt Angle join the fighting as now all of these men are out of the cage and fighting on the ramp. 

Triple H manages to pull Austin into one of the car windows, smashing it and busting him open too. 

Amazingly as chaotic as the action is, split up all over the stage in three pairs, long time camera hog and my worst enemy Earl Hebner still manages to be prominent on screen in every single shot.

The Rock tries to give Triple H a Rock Bottom on the roof of a car but a low blow stops him and he hits a Pedigree instead. 

The Undertaker just walks around throwing punches at Angle and Rikishi. This is near impossible to cover in any detail. That Pedigree on the car now has The Rock bleeding too.

Fighting back to ringside, Undertaker throws Angle around over the announce desk but the WWF Champion comes back with a big stiff chair shot to the head which busts Taker open.

Triple H, still trying to get away from Austin, starts to climb and ends up on the roof of the cell! He kicks Austin down from following so Stone Cold walks around the Cell and climbs up the otherside! The Game and the Rattlesnake trade punches and fight on top of the cage as Triple H teases falling off - the fans are so loud we can hardly hear JR.

Kurt Angle climbs up too followed by The Undertaker as Austin gives Triple H a Stone Cold Stunner on the roof of the cell. 

With four men fighting on the roof of the cage, walking around slowly and sticking close to the steel supports for safety, Kurt Angle starts to bleed too. Triple H takes the distraction to try and climb down and Austin catches him by the hair. It’s not enough and The Game gets down safely, followed by Austin. As they disappear down one side, the massive Rikishi climbs up the other. 

The Undertaker gets the time keeper to throw a chair up to him - it takes a few attempts - and blasts Angle with a sick chair shot. He drops it without thinking and Rikishi comes from behind to use it on the American Badass himself. 

With those two fighting, Kurt Angle escapes and climbs down the Cell. The fans pick up as they fight over to the edge of the cage as you can see it coming and the fans explode as Undertaker chokeslams (more choke-pushes) Rikishi off the edge of the Hell in a Cell, falling 15 feet and landing on the huge packs of sawdust in the back of the construction truck.

In the ring, Austin and Rock stare down before coming to blows and the fans erupt as it seems like one of these men is going to win the WWF title. They’re the only two standing. 

The Rock blocks a Stunner and hits a spinebuster but Triple H is there to stop the People’s Elbow attempt. Triple H and The Rock exchange blows and The Game goes to the outside. Kurt Angle charges The Rock but takes a Rock Bottom! Stone Cold breaks up the cover. 

Austin drops The Rock with a Stunner but as he tries to go for the pin, Triple H cuts him off. Kurt Angle crawls and manages to get his hand onto The Rock’s chest as the referee counts the three and Kurt Angle retains the WWF Championship in this first and (at time of writing) last Armageddon six man Hell in a Cell match.

As a bloody and beaten Angle struggles to lift his WWF title belt in the air, he can’t even celebrate as Stone Cold hits one last Stunner on the Champion so that the show ends with all six men bloody and not moving. Undertaker still up on the roof of the cell and Rikishi unmoving in the back of the truck.