The Undertaker Breaks Down the First Hell in a Cell Match

hey guys Maven here today we are joined by WWE legend the Phenom Hall of Famer The Undertaker or Mark Callaway thank you for coming out man I just uh it's been it's been a while it's been too long today we're going to be breaking down the very first Hell in the Cell match featuring you versus Shawn Michaels and what I love about this match is it's still going on today [Music] okay so we're in St Louis Missouri at this point wrestling fans they knew cage matches they knew the old steel cage with the blue right this was the first time anyone had ever seen a cage with the top am I correct yeah you're absolutely correct yes so Shawn and I had been in this angle and every kind of match every kind of thing that we did some way or another he found a way to weasel his way out and that was how the the Hell in the Cell was created two men enter one man one men go out and there's no exit so going into this match you you are the baby face the good guy and he is the heel the bad guy mhm no indeed not is the official hand locking the change up until this point how much had you worked with Sean um we had worked quite a bit he was a reason why I I at SummerSlam that year i' lost the title and that kind of started our our Feud what's so funny is at this point like I don't care a whole lot for Shawn right personally but there's probably no one that I'd rather be in the ring with moment you get in the ring the way you feel about someone backstage it's out the window yeah you don't care yeah but you know Shawn is going to do business he's going to bring it and he's going to bring the best out of you yes absolutely you know there's also just that little bit of like I want to you know I want to I want to better than you I want to show you what I got yeah he wants to be better than me cuz we're you know still kind of climbing and fighting for those top spots and uh this was uh this this was I'm pretty proud of this match it really is good is to make certain there's only one way in and one way out the official will have the key small things like that is what sold it Sean checking y to see am I really locked in am I really locked in wait a minute guys this is not what we planned kind of a deal look at and I'm taking my time look I'm I'm about you got where you want yeah I'm about to wear him out and I know it it it's the art of wrestling is the storytelling aspect I like a great white shark and that that's a wounded tuna right there yep Michael underneath Michael now oh this is not going to be pretty how much of this would you I mean did you guys have any of this called or some of the the obviously some of the bigger stuff but all this is all this is all ad yeah this is ad lib this is him me letting him do his thing and giving him the space and and the time to do it and the time to digest it yeah there I'm you know the story I'm telling here I've got him where I want him right there's nobody that can help him there's no way out I'm going to all my frustration from all the matches and all the times I'm taking it out on him right and this is what's so good right here about Sean is good as he was athletically and all the things that he can do which he was ahead of his time when it came to Dukes like when it came to fighting you still believed in him yeah because he's fighting for his life right now you still believe he could be in a fight yes with you look at Michel remember when I first got called up and you and I were doing business together and just trying to think of what is it going to how am I going to make people think that I'm in a real right fight with you because I mean let's be honest it didn't really look like it would have been much of a fight unless we tell the story unless you tell I would hung with you for a while but it's you talk about the telling the the the story you if it's not real if it doesn't look like it could be a realistic fight what are the PE the people don't want to see it I noticed Sean the way he kind of turned the tables slightly was a cheap shot to the top of the knee which the way to bring a big man Down chop chop chop him down and then also what Sean did in that is is the intensity yeah he raised ited he had to raise the he had a window right yeah he had a window this is a big dude I've got to pour on the gas where I think uh today there's too much like after that kick I think a lot of people in today's right they would have glad-handed the people they would have went through the crowd yeah it doesn't make sense would you do that you wouldn't do that in a fight you wouldn't do that in that kind of situation and it that's one of my biggest pet peeves um as you know athletically gifted as as the the talent pool is today they they they they gra they glad hand too much with the with the audience and Sean Michaels hammering away on the Undertaker I remember fit Finley when I was transitioning to a heel he used to tell me moment you get that heat set it in MH whether it's if you do a kick or whe you do get them off their feet go do something that sets it in that the tables have turned and do it aggressively you've got to be you got to change gear there's there's gears yes to what what's going on you you start in first gear but when that window opens up brother you got to go you got to hit Sixth and hit it quick because if you don't you're not only not protecting yourself you're not protecting your opponent no you're not doing anything yeah and you both look like yeah exactly very well said submission no disqualifications in this match obviously as a heel even when I was a baby face and the way I like to to sell personally I like to sell on the move a lot of times someone will take a bump and then they just they just sit there yeah they die and they die and what do you got to do you're not going to pin them yet and why would you pick if you're somebody that youve knocked down your goal is to get them down why are you picking them up why are you picking them up right so with me like when I when when I would got into a really good cell like I never I tried not to die until it was at the very end for whatever the spot might be you know trying to pull myself up to the ropes and by the time I get up you know when I finally get to my feet man they're right there boomop me down again chop you down and then have to start the process all over again vertical base and try to and Michael oh did you see that like that's a hell of a bump people don't realize people that just watch they don't realize how high a wrestling ring is and then they think we're falling on pillas yes it's the MS have mats have improved through the years as as everything has but those mats right there are thin glorified yoga mats were those mats different than the mats I would be on five years uh no no I think those these are about these are about the same about the same yeah get away get away [Applause] uhoh Michael's trying to climb but there there's no place for him to go who who was leading this match um Sean's the heel Sean's and Shawn was a little more tenur you know he he had a year or so ahead of me during these it's it's kind of both of us like I would think of something you know that I wanted to do and boom I'd give it to him and then you know he would come back like all give me this cuz I want to take this bump for to do this kind of thing so it's this was kind of a a collaborative type um call where like you're you know back in the day the heels usually always called the match and and uh this is more of a is more of a 50/50 that has been done and again all this that you're putting in that's like just money in the bank that you're putting in no pun intended for yeah got you see how you did that look at that actually looks like I know what the hell I'm doing and but that's the story you guys are really telling putting it in so when Shawn does yep change it over it's going to mean something yep oh did you hear that oh look at the Undertaker rights and lefts he used his hair to sell so good and you would whip your hair just little things yeah it's one of the things that bust bald guys yeah well you know and here [Applause] comes as far as you know pacing and everything we're the we're the we're the last match tonight we know exactly how much time is left in the in the pay-per-view so and I I I think they backed out 30 40 minutes I was going to ask say how much time did you have going in yeah we had we had plenty of time we knew that we didn't have to rush anything uh we knew the story that we wanted to tell no no no no no an Undertaker and look at that fa look at his facial yeah it's like everything that he's trying um everything he's trying to do because you finally have him where you want him exactly it's all over the Undertaker [Applause] Tide's been turned a little bit is that now is are we into the heat yeah I think we're we're we're getting into the heat but just you know boom what I don't remember what he did there to stop me but man he just hammered me Hammered me Hammered me and then he dies into the ring like he's just basically trying to create enough time to recoup yes instead of like Zero to Hero and here comes Mich oh the cell that you're enclosed in how does that make it more difficult to have a banger to have a great match you have to be able to use the cell as a weapon right that's the key to okay this is oh man this is different than than than a cage with a cell I mean you're not really limited um because you have plenty of room to work and move around cages are more difficult because the cages are moved up to to you know right up against the apron so you know you got to be careful when you like you get thrown into the ropes and you're not you know and you hit and your head whiplashes into it so here you got you have lots of room to to do things and and use the cell like I said as a weapon it's almost like its own character in itself yes look at this Michael's going up now and did you guys go into the whole Hell in a Cell and did you think it would one time one time only or did you hope you know we might we might be on to something here no this was this was just designed as a as was going to be the this was going to be the Cuda or our angle and Lord I mean we'd have any clue that it would go on yeah you don't be so many hell in the cells I mean it's a part of it's a part of wrestling now and it'll I think it all it will always be the uh be all endall kind of match to have it's only fitting it started this let's end it this way you could hit me with a chair in the back right now like he did and I'd be fine with it hitting hard and safe places this could be it Michael's with the cover nobody could do it he did it no and I like the hard kick out the hard kick out he's like what the and his frustration going extending to Earl and then as soon as I I gave him a Target he's on me there you go there's no exactly what we were talking about you fed him something to get on is assaulting him in this capacity and now the under that's what's missing in today's business you guys squared off he was hitting you two times for your one big one which would make sense right which made him turn it on even more Yep to get you in this position and now that's working yeah now he he's got me John Michaels peppering The Undertaker now has him in the Rope locks him is he locked up in there yes he just called something it takes a trained eye but you saw his head dip down yep and and he called that right there on the spot Primo Michael's coming right back oh God he just wiped out the cameraman and there we have there's there's the cameraman the cameraman whenever you see someone that's taking punishment that's not AR wrestler they're they're usually workers they're somebody sure that's I mean that's obviously not a union cameraman do you know who that who that was I don't remember I I think I think it was an extra I think you think it was an indie guy or or something somebody yeah I don't I don't know he definitely wasn't part of our our usual ring crew right [Applause] yeah what story were you guys telling with the bump the cameraman bump so what we're trying to do is figure out a way to get the door open ah so uh in desperation yes Des desperation get the door open they got to get the cameraman out of this this situation and so the door gets that's how they get the door open and then they take advantage of that situation got a hurt cameraman yeah you can't have you can't have a hurt cameraman while all this yeah Carnage and my God guys yeah exactly yeah beat up a cameraman he just kicked him in the backet what is this leave him alone this guy's good cuz he's not he's not you know textbook no he's like a dead piece of meat sounding like a worker you know we might want to get some medical attention for the cameraman I don't know if anybody cares he may be too dead yeah you might want to roll around just a little bit you you love how you know how you can see when somebody they work out yeah like you can see his arm he can tell he works out doesn't have that normal cameraman physique and you know why he is because he can be and Here Comes Here Comes sge commiss Here Comes the commish it's one of those The Undertaker was smart he'd stay down sea thinks he has you right where he wants you he can get out due to the cameraman due to Sarge coming down you're you're down yeah he he he he thinks and now he's calling for it he's he thinks he's got this now in the in the back oh wait a minute wait a minute Michel Michel is so what's he thinking here he's just trying to get away he wanted out of the damn cage now he's once on top of it he's just trying to get away from me to of the the going right after what is this you did scale that damn fence pretty pretty quick Michael and The Undertaker no fan had ever seen wrestling on top of an elevation like this yeah I mean that had to be something you guys were thinking you know would just be an a struck moment oh oh yeah we knew this was going to be yeah they were going to be losing their over this uh the the fighting on top of it they didn't there's no way you see that coming um and then some of the stuff we're about to do up here is just amazing it is is nuts that shot I love that shot right there that farway shot because that looks like yeah right here the blood coming down onto the camera you're working you're CH grading it in absolutely unbelievable was there a part of you worried that that fence wasn't going to hold him when it came down no this cage was so much better built than the one that me and Mick worked in really yeah and when Mick and I were just walking on top beforehand yeah you you can you can hear the the the metal ties these ties right here yeah as our weight was as we were stepping on them you could hear them just going and it wasn't kind of like a stretching no no it they were flying off and you can see cuz our feet are getting deeper and deeper that shot of you what do you think what are your thoughts right there I'm like like I'm listening like I'm listen and I like we got them yeah got you I still know what's coming up too but I know right now we got these people they're eating out of the palm of our hand it's coming poor Spanish announce table yeah it's taken a beating through the years it has Undertaker and Michael that might have been a little snug that table didn't give much no it didn't No it didn't and Michael's now back in the ring Michael's back into purgatory and it's it's the most awesome feeling knowing that your vision and what you've you know what you what you envision for the match to be is being received in the way that you want it to be received by the audience and this is one of my absolute favorite matches yeah it's hard to tell these kind of Stories on six minutes on Sunday night heat yeah Michael Michael oh my God ring a bell it does it does that's it right there baby hey I got this one hey as weird as it sounds as safe as you can hit somebody with a chair in the head and that crazy saying only in our business only only in wrestling now we'll come to tomb St no wa a minute what's happening here this is this is the debut of Kane now that's got to be [Applause] Kane Paul Bear had for weeks been talking about my little brother and this is this is the debut right now of Kane they have never seen him ever ever this is the this is his debut right [Applause] now and in him ripped the damn dude he was large yo Glenn's a big man under set up put a to driven down to the canas what are you thinking right as you lay right there we just tore the house down we we K yeah we just tore it down and we just brought in and and started a new story line a new story a new character uh there's a lot that just happened yeah that would change the change the WWE in that match yeah we have two no come on come on no no no oh what was the reaction in the back when you went back whether it be from Shawn from Kane no Kane I mean he was just so grateful and then obviously you know Sean and I were just you know we were pretty damn tickled with ourselves we you know when you when you have those kind of matches it's just like you know there just a a bond you you have and a and a moment you share back there and you don't care about the blood you don't care about the the sweat and the cuts and how you feel you are so proud that you just went out and displayed your craft right at the best of your abilities and we paid it off and that's there's not a greater feeling than that well taker where can we find you these days these These Days uh six feet under with Mark Callaway me and my buddy Matt Lia are fake podcasters new episode out every Monday um and then the one dead man show brother I thank you so much thank you man anything I pleas don't and the oneman show I'm in you just let me know tell me where all right I'm GNA get you

Channel: Maven Huffman

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Keywords: the undertaker, world wrestling entertainment, hell in a cell, wwe undertaker, shawn michaels, first hell in a cell, hell in a cell 1997

Id: 8bgLeEe_wx8

Length: 20min 35sec (1235 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 21 2024