The Undertaker's 5 Greatest WrestleMania Matches

#4 The Undertaker vs Triple H: Hell in a Cell Match - WrestleMania 28 (2012)

The Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania 28 was pulsating and dramatic

This was a rematch from the previous edition of WrestleMania. The entire contest and the storyline leading up to it was full of engrossing drama. It started when Undertaker made a sudden appearance a few weeks before WrestleMania and with his signature decapitation gesture, demanded a rematch with Triple H at that event. The Deadman didn’t want him leaving the arena after his WrestleMania 27 match to be his last image from the biggest wrestling extravaganza.

Triple H repeatedly refused to accept the challenge. There were some terrific promos featuring Shawn Michaels and Undertaker trying to provoke and convince HHH to accept the match. Eventually, during one of these promos, The Deadman tauntingly said that the real reason for The Game’s refusal was his realisation that he can’t do what his ‘buddy’ Shawn Michaels couldn’t. This, Taker said, is because he knows that HBK is better than him.

This caused HHH to come back to the ring and accept the challenge while declaring that the match will be inside Hell in a Cell. The story was complicated even more with Shawn Michaels being made the special guest referee. The match was equally dramatic. Triple H, at one stage, took out the sledgehammer and was going to smash Undertaker’s head but Shawn stopped him. Undertaker then locked Michaels into his ‘hell’s gate’ hold and HHH relieved him by hitting the aggressor with the hammer.

With Michaels temporarily down due to Taker’s assault, the latter locked the hell’s gate on Triple H and looked set to win but with the special guest referee out of action, it amounted to nothing. Then, in a heart-stopping moment, Michaels delivered the ‘Sweet Chin Music’ and Triple H followed it up with a Pedigree. Undertaker’s opponent immediately covered him and he kicked out with a microscopic second left in the three count by Michaels.

The climax was brilliant. Undertaker regained the upper hand and told HHH to stay down. But he defiantly made the DX chop to which Undertaker responded by knocking him down with Triple H’s own sledgehammer. Then, he delivered the Tombstone Piledriver and finished the match with Michaels making the three count fairly.