On a recent edition of his “Something To Wrestle With” podcast, Bruce Prichard stated that he isn’t a fan of the big, iconic bumps in the WWE Hell In A Cell matches.
The famous WWE gimmick match includes many historic moments such as Triple H backdropping Mick Foley through the top of the cage, Rikishi going off the top of the Armageddon 2000 HIAC cage, and Foley’s dangerous bumps against The Undertaker.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the difficulty of doing production on multi-man gimmick matches: “Yes, it’s challenging at best. And you know, Camera Two is your friend, because it’s post to
post.”
On the big bumps in Hell in a Cell: “It was understood with talent [that it would happen]. Wasn’t understood with me, I hated it. Mick did his bump, great. Wasn’t wild about that. But you know, there were a lot of safety precautions put in. But man to me it was — and even with the safety precautions, Mick gets all his teeth knocked out. Didn’t work like it was supposed to. A lot of different things that can go wrong, and I cringe every time that somebody tries to one up. ‘Well, this has never been done!’ Well, there’s a reason it’s never been done.
“And I didn’t always have the most confidence in in some of the folks that that would set things up like that, and that worried me as well. But I think that we should have stopped it and made the Hell in the Cell be what the Hell in the Cell should have been. And that’s a structure that takes place inside the cell. A match inside the cell, yeah. That takes place inside the cell.”
