The Hell in a Cell curse
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The pain of losing a Hell in a Cell Match can stick with a Superstar long after the bell has rung.
Of all 21 Hell in a Cell Matches before WWE Hell in a Cell 2011, none of the competitors who've entered the vile, satanic structure have ever left the same - some more impacted and scarred than others.
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Mick Foley
After making his career
inside the Cell, Foley lost it all at No
Way Out in 2000 when Triple H defeated him, forcing his retirement from
WWE.
Fallout: Aside from the
aforementioned retirement, Foley also suffered setbacks after his eventual
return to the company. Returning to WWE four years later, he lost a handicap
match to Evolution at WrestleMania XX,
was beaten to a pulp by Randy Orton at Backlash
and Speared through a flaming table by Edge at WrestleMania 22. To cap it off, Foley was humiliated by Mr. McMahon in order to protect Melina, only to have her
dump him a few weeks later.
Kevin Nash
Nash went toe-to-toe with
Triple H inside the cell at Backlash 2003
in an all-out war for the WWE Championship. Even though Nash put up a decent
fight, The Game pounded him into submission with the steel steps, a chair to
the skull and a Pedigree to the mat.
Fallout: Nash was absent from next
month’s Vengeance and suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks on Raw, culminating inside the Elimination Chamber that August at SummerSlam, where he was the first
person ejected from the structure. Nash left WWE immediately after and didn't return until the 2011 Royal Rumble Match.
Shawn Michaels
At 2004’s Badd Blood, Shawn Michaels and his
former DX cohort, Triple H, battled it out inside the Cell with Mick Foley as a
special guest referee. Although Michaels managed to land an elbow drop off of a
ladder, The Game won the hellacious bout by flattening HBK with a Pedigree.
Fallout: Michaels suffered a torn meniscus in the bout, which
cost him the World Heavyweight Championship at Taboo Tuesday and sidelined him for three months. He then suffered
humiliation following his return to action when Kurt Angle eliminated him from
the Royal Rumble and defeated him at WrestleMania
a few months later. The Showstopper would fortunately bounce back, continue to perform en route to his induction in the WWE Hall of Fame.
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