No Mercy - Alltel Arena, North Little Rock Arkansas, October 20th 2002

No Mercy! Another show with a WWE produced Jim Johnson track for its theme song. The PPV opens with something funny as “brothers” Undertaker and Kane who’ve had their own ROUGH weeks for deeply personal reasons share a little moment. I’ve left it on the front of the video package for you to enjoy too.

It’s a pretty great video package I think. Interestingly it recaps all of the mind games and mental assaults of both World Champions on their respective challengers but leaves out all the “did Undertaker cheat on his wife?” stuff. I suspect he decided he didn’t like the way the storyline was making him look but we’ll see if it comes up later

World Tag Team Championships

Chris Jericho and Christian © vs. Booker T and Goldust

Raw’s Tag Team Championships, now officially known as the World Tag Team Championships to match Raw’s World Heavyweight Championship, were captured by Jericho and Christian six days ago on Raw but Jericho’s feud with Booker has gone back a few weeks. There’s a recap of some of the events that lead to tonight, but it skips the various casual insults thrown out by Booker T and Goldust prior to Jericho’s original assault. 

I mentioned it on Raw but Christian must be one of the most prolific Tag Team wrestlers of all time - he held the titles with Lance Storm last month, lost them and then regained them with a new partner in less than four weeks. What a guy. 

Booker T has gotten so popular in the last few months. I think they thought pairing him with Goldust would make him popular but it’s the other way around - he’d have become one of the top babyfaces on Raw with or without Goldust’s comedy antics. 

It’s back and forth in the early going with Booker and Goldust coming out on top with a nice slingshot to Jericho sending him up and over the top to crash down awkwardly on Christian. Thankfully neither man was hurt. 

Jericho gains control with a missile dropkick off the middle rope and he and Christian isolate him in their corner, tagging in and out quickly and choking, stomping and just generally beating him down as the crowd chants for Booker T. 

Christian has changed up his ring gear a little after looking the same more or less since his debut (if we ignore his big puffy shirt phase in 1998) and I like it. 

Goldust finally counters Christian into a powerslam which gives him enough time to make a tag but Booker’s momentum is stopped with an illegal double team so Goldust tags himself in and the match breaks down a little with Goldust hitting Shattered Dreams on Christian and then drop toe holding Jericho’s head right into his own partner’s crotch. 

Christian takes a breather and returns with one of the Tag Team title belts but Goldust stops him from using it. Jericho attempts a springboard dropkick but the middle rope breaks! That was unexpected and the four men are forced to scramble with Goldust getting a near fall with a bulldog headlock.

Christian and Booker fight on the outside and with the referee distracted “trying to fix the ropes”, Jericho hits a bulldog on Goldust driving his face into the tag team title belt. He can’t follow with the Lionsault because there’s no middle rope so instead hits a nice one off the top rope to win the match and retain the Tag Team titles. 

This match was fine but the messy finish probably distracts from what it could have been. Basically a fine Raw match, didn’t feel like a PPV effort.

Backstage, Smackdown’s NUMBER ONE announcer Funaki interviews Torrie Wilson’s dad, Al. They recap Dawn Marie’s flirtations with old Al which you’d assume was just an attempt to get in Torrie’s head during their feud but then Dawn did end up in the shower with him this past week on Smackdown which is a crazy length to go to in order to win an unimportant women’s feud on a brand which doesn’t even have a women’s title. Al stumbles through this interview and doesn’t have much to say for himself. Funaki does get a big laugh at the end asking why Al Wilson was wearing his clothes in the shower. Al gets one of his own with a Bill Clinton quote in Arkansas, where he was governor. 

Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie

Neither of these women are wrestlers really, but in fairness to Torrie she’s had more matches in her year with WWE than she ever did in WCW and it does seem like she’s been working hard to improve. 

I’ll talk a little more about this later but this PPV marks the first time in the history of the company that there were two women’s matches on the same show. That’s a hell of a legacy for these girls. 

The action is sloppy and Dawn drops Torrie with a kick in the corner, Torrie sends Dawn to the outside and follows out to brawl but is rammed into the apron, hurting her lower back and giving Dawn control. 

She slowly works Torrie over in the ring with kicks and focuses on the lower back - the fans lightly boo the match. 

Tazz has a good line. “Hey Cole I know you like blondes and brunettes and also you like girls too so who are you pulling for in this match?” Michael Cole doesn’t answer.

Torrie fights back with a spear/tackle and the crowd cheer as they roll around on the mat and up and over the referee who comes up with a big smile on his face.

Dawn sees him smiling and calls him disgusting, which he is but also he’s only human. Dawn regains control with a clothesline.

Torrie shows off some wrestling moves with a suplex, a slingshot into the corner and a schoolboy (school girl?) for a near fall but finally hangs Dawn up on the top rope and runs in with a swinging neckbreaker to win the match. This wasn’t great but also wasn’t terrible - good job ladies.

The Coach interviews Rob Van Dam ahead of his match tonight. RVD says that Flair might be a 16 time World Champion and runs down all of Flair’s catchphrases before saying he’s more of a “chair smashing, frog splashing, risk taking, yinging and Yanging, VanDaminating dude”.

Coach then spots WWE Champion Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman and the one and only Tracy arriving at the arena so he runs over to get some comments. Lesnar and Heyman blow him off but Tracy stays to say that her “allegations” against the Undertaker aren’t just allegations, they’re the truth and he’s here to watch that scumbag get his comeuppance  inside Hell in a Cell. Ok so I guess they are going to acknowledge the cheating scandal stuff. 

Ric Flair vs. Rob Van Dam

There’s a little bit of a recap of these two men’s history before this match too - specifically, Flair cost RVD the World title with a sledgehammer last month at Unforgiven when he shockingly aligned with Triple H, and has been a thrown in his side since costing him the lumberjack match on Raw by hitting him with the World title belt.

Flair enters first and Van Dam rushes him and attacks, fighting to the outside and beating Flair up. He jumps off the apron with a kick which sends Flair up and over the security wall into the crowd and then comes flying off the apron with a spinning leg drop across Flair’s back.

In the ring, the match finally officially begins but RVD has a huge advantage and drops Flair with another diving kick and gets a near fall with the Rolling Thunder.

Van Dam is a man possessed here, making the Nature Boy pay for costing him the World title. 

Flair finally gets a breather with an undetected low blow and then focuses his attack on RVD’s leg to soften him up for the Figure Four, lighting him up with chops to the chest and stomping and beating him down in the corner.

Ric Flair gets called the greatest wrestler of all time by a lot of people but Bret Hart, someone else who gets that same title, doesn’t rate him. He’s pointed out that the chops hurt opponents for real and serve no purpose, and has accused Flair of working on a body part and then randomly changing direction mid-match which defies logic. There’s a little of that here as Flair works on RVD’s leg but then changes tacts and uses chops and chokes rather than keeping the focus there. It’s a pretty subjective thing who’s style you prefer and who you actually think is the best of all time. Personally? It’s Shawn Michaels.

After a back suplex, Flair locks in the Figure Four somewhat out of the blue and RVD screams in pain and sells for a bit before turning it over to reverse the pressure, but they both quickly roll to the ropes and Slick Ric goes right back to RVD’s leg with stomps.

RVD finally mounted a comeback and after a string of kicks, got enough space to get to the top rope and crashed down with a Five Star Frog Splash to pick up the victory.

Backstage, Raw’s Big Show chats to Smackdown General Manager Stephanie McMahon. It sounds like he’s asking for career advice when his boss, Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff shows up and demands to know what they’re talking about. Stephanie backs down and leaves them to discuss “Raw things”. Show is pissed - he hasn’t been on a PPV since July and hasn’t headlined one in even longer. He’s a former WCW and WWE World Champion and wants his shot. Bischoff isn’t happy with his tone, or that he was talking to Stephanie McMahon. Show doesn’t like how Eric is talking to him and grabs him and says he better be in the main events again soon or he’ll snap Easy E’s neck like a twig! 

WWE Cruiserweight Championship

Jamie Noble © (w/Nidia) vs. Tajiri

This match was added earlier tonight and wasn’t announced ahead of time. Both are still technically heels but Tajiri being the third man in this weird open relationship was always going to end in tears. He was special referee for a boyfriend vs. girlfriend match on Smackdown, Noble won and he and Nidia made up, but he was also mad at Tajiri for letting Nidia lose? I dunno, maybe you can make more sense of it than I can.

They’re both very good wrestlers and move at 100mph with Tajiri coming out on top. Noble goes to the outside for a breather but my boy Tajiri follows with a springboard moonsault to the floor and drags him back into the ring. 

Tajiri scores a couple of near falls with some brutal kicks and maintains control of the match until Noble catches his challenger on his shoulders and drops him on his back. Sort of a backwards powerbomb.

Noble focuses on Tajiri’s back with a back breaker and a submission but doesn’t have it locked in for long. They are racing through spots.

At one point I thought my feed had skipped or something as I glanced down and back up and after a series of moves (all kind of punches and kicks) Noble had Tajiri back in the exact same hold, in the exact same position in the ring with the exact same camera angle as he did a couple of minutes ago.

Tajiri comes back with a counter out of the corner into a tornado DDT which was really nice. 

Tajiri mounts a comeback with a cool aeroplane spin with Noble across his back and then a bridging German suplex for a close near fall.

The challenger locks in a Tarantula across the ropes but when he goes for his kick to the head finisher Noble ducks. Tajiri catches him with a straight superkick in the follow up but Nidia distracts the referee so he can’t count the fall by kissing him! 

Tajiri breaks his fall to yell at the referee and pays for it after walking into Noble’s tiger bomb finisher but Tajiri kicks out! 

The action continues but when Tajiri goes for a roll up off Noble’s shoulders, Nidia grabs her boyfriend's ankles to block it and the Cruiserweight champion gets the three count. 

The action here was really good - both men are excellent wrestlers - but it was too short to be special. 

After the match, Tajiri grabs Nidia and plants a big kiss on her! She has a big smile when Tajiri releases. Noble tells him to stand back and watch how a REAL man kisses and plants one on Nidia of his own so Tajiri kicks him in the back of the head, knocking them both out. Tajiri gets the last laugh for now.

Backstage, Chris Benoit tells Eddie Guerrero that Kurt Angle is beating up Chavo. Eddie runs to the door but stops short, even though he hears the bangs and screams inside. He assumes Benoit and Angle are setting him up just like he set them up a couple of weeks ago on Smackdown - that’s not Chavo screaming, that’s a little girl! The door opens and a badly beaten Chavo flies out onto the floor at Eddie’s feet. It was him being beaten up by Angle! Chris and Kurt share a laugh together and look like they’re finally on the same page as officials and referees hold back Latino Heat from attacking them to get payback for Chavo.

Let's talk about Katie Vick. This storyline was despised at the time, called everything from tasteless to dumb, and it totally contradicted everything we knew about Kane. Amazingly, the worst part of this storyline is still to come but if you were watching wrestling at the time you know how bad this was. Katie Vick is still remembered as one of the worst things WWE ever did and even in 2025 if you ask any fan over 30 to list their least favourite storylines ever, poor Katie will come up in the top three every time. Kane was riding so high with popularity at this point too - the most popular he’d ever been - but this storyline killed his momentum. Just terrible. I’ll talk a little bit more about it in the next Preview (and I’m dreading it) but thankfully by Survivor Series the whole thing has been forgotten and isn’t mentioned anymore.

For fans of this kind of thing, if the music from this video package sounds familiar it’s because it's a royalty free song that WCW used more than once as a theme song for PPVs, most famously Halloween Havoc 1995 which is fitting given the Halloween theme for this PPV’s commercial.

Championship Unification match - World Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships

Triple H © vs. Kane © 

Kane is the last ever Intercontinental Champion. I mean he’s not really, but I’ll talk about that title after the match. The championship element of this match has very much fallen into the background with all the murder talk. It’s interesting that Triple H’s accusations about semen and sex were left out of the video package. One might think that means they’ve abandoned that element of the storyline but sadly there is still more to come. 

They two lock up and Kane chokes Triple H in the corner, no-selling his punch and dropping The Game with one of his own. King really distracts from the match as he endlessly bickers with JR about Kane’s guilt and whether he is a murderer. 

Kane dominates Triple H and bounces him around the ring and to the outside. Triple H mounts comebacks with a neck breaker and clotheslines but Kane continually no-sells and sits back up to continue his onslaught. He cannot be denied.

Triple H finally makes some progress with a clothesline up and over the top rope and kicks as Kane crawls back into the ring. He lands big shots on Kane and slows things down with a neckbreaker and a spinebuster.

King’s endless talking about Kane’s past finally gets a laugh as JR threatens to talk about King’s embarrassing past and he cuts him off to refocus on the match. 

There’s boos as Triple H grinds Kane down with a long sleeper hold after a second spinebuster but Kane fights back and muscles out of it and gets on a roll with a big boot and connects with a flying clothesline. That brings Ric Flair running down to the ring to get a distraction.

Kane shoves the referee out of the way to get to Flair and fights him off but in the chaos, Triple H cracks Kane with the World title belt. There’s loud boos as the fans assume that’ll be the end but Kane kicks out!

Kane’s recent tag team partner Hurricane runs down and attacks Flair, knocking him into the crowd but he pays for that with a Pedigree on the outside.

Back in the ring, Kane sits up and gets on roll, bouncing Triple H around and getting ready for a chokeslam but Triple H wriggles free and then ducks Kane’s big boot which takes out the referee.

On the outside, Kane plants Triple H through the announce table with a chokeslam and Ric Flair chops at Kane’s chest which he again no-sells and gets punched in the face for his troubles. 

Kane rolls Triple H back into the ring and covers but Flair is there with a sledgehammer. Kane blocks him from using it and is about to hit Triple H with it for all of the pain and anguish and mental torture of the past two weeks but Triple H responds with a low blow and then counters a Tombstone attempt with a sledgehammer to the gut. He swings for Kane’s head but Kane ducks and plants The Game with a chokeslam. He has the World title won but there’s no referee to count, and when a replacement runs down Ric Flair pulls him out of the ring and stops the count.

He pays for it with a chokeslam of his own but all of this chaos and distraction allows Triple H to recover and spike Kane with a Pedigree. That’s enough to keep Kane down for the three count and after a chaotic, wild few minutes Triple H retains the World Heavyweight title, absorbing the Intercontinental title into it. Raw now has only one men’s singles champion and it’s Triple H. The reign of terror continues.

Was this a good match? It’s hard to say. It was pretty dull for the first few minutes but all of the chaos and run-ins and interference and weapon shots certainly increased the drama and excitement for the finish. 

Why was the Intercontinental title absorbed into the World title? Triple H’s ego basically. The plan was for the IC title to become Raw’s main men’s title and be elevated to the status of a World title. That’s why the European and Hardcore titles were absorbed into it. Triple H felt that being Intercontinental Champion would make him seem like a midcarder and so the plan was changed and the Big Gold belt was unretired. The idea for both brands to have a men’s title, a tag team title and a novelty title (women’s and Cruiserweight respectively) sounded fine at the time but with the rosters deep enough, there were lots of guys who had nothing to do and so the Intercontinental title was brought back in May 2003, followed shortly after by the United States title for Smackdown in July 2003. It’s been that way ever since.

They did show a video tribute to the Intercontinental Championship earlier in the show. It’s the same one from Raw but I feel like this one is a little longer and they’ve improved on it so this is the one I captured and included in both the Preview and here. This nice video is instead of a dedicated article like I wrote for the Light Heavyweight, European and Hardcore titles because, as discussed, the Intercontinental title isn’t gone for long.

I do wonder why Rob Van Dam wasn’t the man wrestling Triple H here. He was IC champion, he unified it with the European and Hardcore titles and he was feuding with Triple H only weeks ago. It would have made a lot of sense for him to keep or even just regain his title for this Unification match, a rematch from Unforgiven where Van Dam got screwed but I guess they wanted Kane back in the main event. He is super popular (or was at least until the Katie Vick mess).

Stephanie McMahon calls Tracy into her office and tries to talk to her gently about the situation with the Undertaker. Stephanie manages to get her to admit that she didn’t sleep with Undertaker 10 years ago - Undertaker was telling the truth and he hasn’t seen Tracy for years. Paul Heyman put Tracy up to it and she is doing all of this because she wants Undertaker back. The American Badass was behind her the whole time and with his character now saved, Tracy is once again kicked out of the building - for good this time. 

WWE Tag Team Championships Tournament Final

Edge and Rey Mysterio vs. Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit

This is the finals of a tournament which ran for the past three weeks on Smackdown and was very good, mostly thanks to the efforts of the four men in this final (as well as Eddie and Chavo Guerrero)

Benoit and Angle seem to have found a bit of a rhythm as a team. They were working together on Smackdown and had a little laugh together earlier tonight. Winning heals all wounds I suppose.

Spoilers - this is one of the greatest tag team matches in WWE history so it’ll be impossible for me to do it justice.

Kurt and Rey kick things off and keep their distance with a feel out process but Angle scoops up Rey and chucks him across the ring, disrespectfully. Rey won’t back down and doesn’t tag out. He wants to prove himself to Angle.

Rey wins the next exchange, taking Kurt down with a pair of headscissors and a hurricanrana and tags out to Edge. They revert back to slowly feeling each other out, and Edge wins that exchange too so Kurt, on the ropes, tags out to Benoit. Edge and Benoit then exchange back and forth until Angle gives Edge a cheap shot to the lower back and a second, hanging him up on the ropes. That finally allows Benoit to control the match and one team to build some momentum with Kurt and Chris working over Edge in their corner with quick tags in and out. 

Benoit drills Edge with a series of German suplexes and goes up top for his diving headbutt but Edge stops him and brings him down the hard way with a superplex. 

Edge gets the hot tag to Rey who comes in on fire and sends both Benoit and Angle flying around the ring with armdrags and hurricanranas and, with Benoit hanging across the middle rope, drills him with a springboard legdrop for a close near fall which is broken up by Angle.

Benoit counters another Rey flip into a Crossface but thats broken up by Edhe. Rey goes for the 619 but its caught by Benoit and turned into a powerslam, which is in turn countered by an Edge missile dropkick into Rey, landing him on Benoit. 

Kurt brings Rey down off the top with an overhead belly to belly and that gets another close nearfall too. The action is frantic with counters and nearfalls from all four men but settles back down with Benoit and Mysterio legal, and Kurt and Chris start to grind him down in their corner with tags in and out too. At least Edge gets a break to get his breath back on the apron now. 

Rey is pummeled with suplexes by both Benoit and Angle who get multiple near falls but Rey is tough and keeps kicking out, and counters an Angle suplex with an awesome flip into dropkick after landing on his feet. He tags in Edge who runs wild on both guys and he and Rey show off some spectacular double teams, whipping Rey into a bronco buster on Benoit and then boosting him up and over his shoulders into a top rope hurricanrana on Kurt Angle. 

It’s a wild flurry of finishers and close falls as Benoit locks in a Crossface which is broken up, then an Angle slam but the cover is broken up, then a Spear is countered. 

In another spectacular move, Edge launches Rey off his shoulders into a moonsault over the top rope to Benoit on the outside.

In the ring, Kurt gets Edge in the ankle lock, which he counters into one of his own! Kurt is the master though and rolls through a second time to lock it in and Edge is forced to tap out. What an amazing match, and I hope I did it anywhere close to justice.

This is only the third tournament of this kind in WWE history with the matches taking place over several weeks leading to a final - all the others featured at least the Semis on the same night as the final. Obviously there’s been many more since 2002 but at the time only the 1995 tournament for the vacant Tag Team titles and the 1997 tournament to crown the inaugural European Champion followed this format.

This victory also makes Kurt Angle the fourth Grand Slam Champion in history. Only three men won the original version of the grand slam (WWF, Tag Team, Intercontinental and European Championships) and those were Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chris Jericho. The Grand Slam has since been amended to be a World title, two different men’s singles titles and a Tag title and it's still a fairly short list of men who’ve achieved it.

In the trainers office, Undertaker is with the doctor who has reservations about giving Undertaker an injection in his broken hand. He calls it unethical. Undertaker tells him he needs to do it or he’ll do it himself. It’s presumably a cortisone shot which is a powerful painkiller and numbing agent which isn’t used very often. We’ll see if that comes up again later. 

WWE Women’s Championship

Trish Stratus © vs. Victoria

I mentioned earlier during the Torrie and Dawn Marie match that this is the first PPV in history to feature two women’s matches. That’s iconic. The treatment of the women in WWE is still pretty problematic (confirmed by JR calling Victoria permanently premenstrual, which even King calls sexiest) with all the HLA and bikini contests but at least Eric Bischoff’s comments that “no one cares about women’s wrestling” were treated as a heel thing to say.

I’d have liked a video package for this one as its been quite heated with Victoria alluding to their history before WWE and accusing Trish of “sleeping her way to the top”, plus that brutal chairshot to the head Victoria gave her a couple of weeks ago.

This is pretty good as Trish rushes Victoria and hits her with a barrage of kicks which connect stiff and send Victoria packing to the outside for some space. Trish is too amped up and follows and pays for it, being run into the ring post and then dropped across the security wall. Trish has had a lot of matches and good opponents now (mostly Jazz and Molly Holly) but Victoria’s “crazy witch” gimmick makes her a physical challenge Trish has never faced before. That’s a good story.

There’s a bit of a botch as Victoria brings Trish out of the corner with a monkey flip but she doesn’t go far enough and Trish lands on her face, hurting them both.

It’s back and forth and they take turns hitting big moves like a flip over the ropes into a legdrop by Victoria and a top rope hurricanrana by Trish but neither woman can put the other away.

Victoria locks in a nice over the shoulder backbreaker and thats where she puts her focus - Trish’s lower back. She spins her around into a sidewalk slam and tries to follow with a moonsault but is blocked and Trish brings her down with a backdrop which also only gets two. This is pretty good! 

Trish catches Victoria out of nowhere with her Chick Kick but the challenger kicks out! The Stratusfaction bulldog is blocked but Trish gets a roll up and secures the three count in a very good women’s match for this era. 

Victoria isn’t happy and boots Trish right in the face which might have knocked a tooth out! The referee is there to basically tackle her and get her out of the ring and avoid further damage to Trish. JR again calls Victoria premenstrual and talks about her needing peppermint tea, which is one of those things some women drink for period cramps. Jesus Jim, usually its King who gives me all the grief.

Michael Cole and Tazz conduct a brief interview with Rikishi who is at The World in Times Square, specifically about Hell in a Cell and his experiences - Remember when Undertaker threw him off the top of the cell into a pile of sawdust at Armageddon 2000? Rikishi for once doesn’t talk about his ass and instead somberly calls Hell in a Cell dangerous and says it could have ended his career. Tonight’s main event is no joke. His prediction for tonight? Undertaker is going to make Brock Lesnar famous. 

Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship

Brock Lesnar © (w/Paul Heyman) vs. The Undertaker

The cage itself gets the star treatment with strobe lights and its own theme song as it's slowly lowered down around the ring. That Cell is one of the biggest stars in the company. 

Lesnar paces the ring like a caged animal waiting for Undertaker to make his entrance which is I suspect is why the champion entered first. It’s a cool visual. 

Undertaker swings with his cast as Lesnar keeps his distance and goes back to what made him successful with a take down. He tries to wrestle but Undertaker clobbers him with the cast which doesn’t manage to re-open the cut on his head yet. 

Lesanar gets out of the ring and tries to escape the cage but can’t get the door unlocked, but gains control of the match with stiff kicks to Undertaker’s cast, and focuses on his injured arm. 

Lesnar goes with what works and swings with big punches and it works, re-opening Brock’s cut and this is already the biggest test for the Next Big Thing as Undertaker brutalises the bloody WWE Champion on the outside, running him into the cage wall over and over. 

It’s quite dramatic as Undertaker punishes Lesnar with big leg drops on the apron and then a diving one from the top rope (which didn’t quite work) all while Heyman begs and screams for mercy on his client’s behalf. 

He pays for that as Undertaker grabs Heyman’s tie and pulls him into the cage, busting him open too. The distraction allows Lesnar to get some offence and he drives Undertaker into the cage and then the ring post, followed by a spinebuster. 

Heyman hands his belt through the cage to his client and they work together, Undertaker has the belt around the cast as Heyman holds him in place through the mesh allowing Lesnar to hammer on him and blast him with a steel chair all while Heyman tells Undertaker he’s about to die.

Lesnar hammers on Undertaker’s broken arm, trapped against the Cell wall over and over and over until the belt actually snaps and then Lesnar, using his teeth and anything he can, tries to rip Undertaker’s cast off completely! It takes some effort but he does manage to get it off, leaving Undertaker’s broken hand exposed for the WWE Champion to stomp on. 

He goes for a superplex which gives us a cool visual with him holding onto the roof of the Cell to effortlessly walk around on the top rope but pays for the delay with a low blow and is sent flying off the top rope with a shove.

Undertaker boots Lesnar off the apron and he crashes into the Cell wall, and then Undertaker gives through the ropes! He tries to use the ringsteps but can’t lift them, selling his broken hand and Lesnar comes back with a clothesline. This is brutal and bloody. 

Lesnar smashes Undertaker in the head with the ringsteps twice and it's a DEEP blade job with the blood gushing out of Undertaker’s head and pooling on the mats at ringside. He is gushing blood. Lesnar throws the ringsteps clean across the ring - he is terrifyingly strong. 

Some of Undertaker’s blood lands on the camera as, in the ring, they trade right swinging punches. Undertake puts down the champion with another big boot and starts to stomp on his hand, returning the favour.

They throw their big bombs at each other - a chokeslam, which Lesnar kicks out of. Lesnar hammers Undertaker in the corner and is given a Last Ride. Brock grabs the ropes to break that pin (which doesn’t really make sense but I’ll allow it). Undertaker goes for a Tombstone but Lesnar counters into one of his own and then, in an awesome feat of strength, throws Undertaker up onto his shoulders from that position and drills him with an F5 to win an awesome Hell in a Cell match and retain his WWE Championship.

Brock Lesnar goes to get his WWE title belt but, before leaving, decides to climb the Cell and the PPV ends with an iconic shot of the Next Big Thing celebrating with his title belt on the roof of the Hell in a Cell as Undertaker, soaked in blood, looks up at him from the mat below.