Chief Jay Strongbow vs. "Bulldog" Don Kent - shark cage match - Big Time Wrestling (1977)
The exact opposite of a Hell in a Cell match. This match is simple, two men go in a shark cage and try to fight their way out. No pinfalls, no submission, no sharks; just two guys in a really small cage.
This match here includes the legendary Chief Jay Strongbow and "Bulldog" Don Kent of The Fabulous Kangaroos fame in the Detroit promotion, Big Time Wrestling. It also features a run in by the US champion at the time, Mark Lewin.
I'm not certain about the year on this match but I know it's from the 70's.
The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels - first Hell in a Cell match - WWF Bad Blood: In Your House (1997)
The match that started it all: the very first "Hell in a Cell" match. The main differences between a Hell in a Cell match and a regular WWF/E cage match is that the cage is wider with room for the wrestlers to go outside the ring, there's a roof on the cage, and you can't win via escaping the structure.
While this match between the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels marked the first Hell in a Cell match, the match is probably remembered more for its ending. The ending goes like this: Just as Undertaker is about to finish off a bloodied Michaels after blasting him over the head with a blue steel chair, the lights got and from the darkness appears Paul Bearer, Taker's former manager, following a large figure clad in black and red from head to toe. After weeks of Bearer mentioning that Taker has a long lost brother, it is finally confirmed that he is still alive and looking for his brother. As the large individual walks to the cell, Vince McMahon from his headphones reveals, "that's gotta be... that's gotta be Kane!" before ripping the cage door right off its hinges. The two brothers of similar height then square off in the middle of the ring until Kane makes his move and takes out Taker using the Phenom's own tombstone piledriver and forever cementing his legacy as the Big Red Machine!
This match also features a fair amount of brawling outside the ring and on top of the cell, Michaels abusing cameramen, and a bump off the cage that will forever be overshadowed by the legendary bump that Mankind takes in the next Hell in a Cell match.
In honor of Hell in a Cell this month and Battleground not having a Wargames type match like rumors had hinted at a few months back, this weeks theme will be all about cages.
Any type of match featuring a cage of some sort is fair game... even that one in Spider-man.
Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Katsumi Usuda - BJW vs. Battlearts (1998)
When Battlearts own, Katsumi Usuda took on Big Japan Pro Wrestling deathmatcher, Ryuji Yamakawa in a special BJW versus Battlearts event, Usuda decided to get a little hardcore himself. Part way through the match, Yamakawa grabs some loose barbed wire from under the ring and throws it into the squared circle. Before Yamakawa has a chance to do any damage to Usuda with it, however, Usuda takes the barbed wire and wraps the wiry mess around his kickpad. Usuda then proceeds to kick the living shit out of Yamakawa with it until his opponent is heavily scarred up.
Lita vs. Victoria - steel cage match - Raw Roulette (2003)
In a surprising turn of events AKA the spinning of the Raw Roulette wheel, the returning (from neck injury) Lita took on her scheduled opponent, the deranged Victoria, in Raw's (and WWE's for that matter) first ever women's steel cage match to kick off the very first Raw Roulette episode in 2003; and it's really not that bad.
Victoria returned to the cage in 2010 when she took on Mickie James for Impact Wrestling as Tara.
