WWE's most iconic Hell In A Cell Moments

#3 The entire Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker match at No Mercy 2002

Brock Lesnar spent 27 minutes trying to break The Undertaker's hand

No, not their match from 2015, though that was also a great fight. However, it's hard to not pick the first Hell In A Cell match between The Beast Incarnate and The Undertaker, Big Evil Taker specifically.

By the time No Mercy 2002 came around, Brock Lesnar had held the WWE Championship for only a few months. After the Next Big Thing won the Undisputed Title from The Rock at Summerslam, he signed an exclusive deal with the Smackdown brand, renaming it the WWE Championship while Triple H was awarded the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw.

No Mercy 2002 featured a pretty impressive card even without the main event. Triple H and Kane defended their World Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships in a unification match, and Chris Benoit teamed with Kurt Angle to win the WWE Tag Team Championships by defeating Edge and Rey Mysterio. However, no match would be able to stand up to the vicious bout between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar the crowd would see later in the night.

Heading into the bout, The Deadman was sporting a cast on his right arm, which he earned after the Champion broke his hand earlier that month. With an easy target for Lesnar to exploit, the whole bout came down to the Deadman attempting to protect his damaged hand from his monstrous opponent. Over the next 27 minutes, the Alltel Arena bore witness to one of the most gruesome Hell In A Cell matches the WWE had ever produced.

Lesnar battered Undertaker's cast with chair shots as the Deadman's screams echoed throughout the arena

Though they never left the structure, Lesnar and Taker went to war. The Deadman started off the match by busting the WWE Champion wide open with his cast and launching Lesnar into the cell. However, Paul Heyman distracted The Phenom long enough to give Lesnar a chance to catch his breath, allowing the Beast to gain the upper hand. Eventually, after slamming Taker's arm into the cell and the ring post repeatedly, he would twist the cast off, and continued to work on the injured hand.

What really made this memorable had nothing to do with someone being dropped through the cell or ran through the cell walls, but the brutality that was shown that night as Brock Lesnar attempted to break Undertaker's hand again over an almost thirty-minute brawl. It was disgusting, it was vile, it was bloody, and it was just the kind of fight we expected to see from Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker.