5 Lesser Known Facts about Hell in a Cell match

Multiple Encounters inside the Cell

This wasn't the only time they faced each other inside the Cell.

Before the Hell in a Cell pay per view became the permanent home of the demonic structure, the stipulation was only utilized when it was time to bring an end to the rivalry. However, with three or four matches taking place every year, the chances of two superstar coming face-to-face inside the structure on more than one occasion has become a common thing, something that rarely happened in the past.

Before the start of the Namesake event, the only pairing to have faced each other inside the Cell was the duo of The Undertaker and Mankind. The two wrestled in two matches, a tag team match and a one-on-one match, inside the Cell within a span of 2 weeks in 1998. Interestingly, the next pairing was not a duo, but a trio, when John Cena, Alberto Del Rio and CM Punk were part of two HIAC in the same week in 2011.

This was followed by the duo of CM Punk and Ryback, who met each other inside the Cell in two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013. Two more pairing were added to this list in the subsequent years when John Cena and Randy faced each other in 2014 for the second time after their first clash in 2009 and Undertaker and Brock Lesnar bringing an end to their rivalry inside the Cell in 2015 after beginning it inside the Cell in 2002.