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HIAC PPV matches
- In the 2018 event, the Hell in a Cell match between Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy. One particular spot that made fans cringe was when Randy twists Jeff's earlobe with a screwdriver, proving how sadistic the Viper really is.
- In the 2020 event, the "I Quit" match beween Roman Reigns and Jey Uso shows Roman at his most vicious. At the end, Jimmy Uso rushes in and tries to talk him down. Roman seems to be listening... and then grabs Jimmy and starts strangling him to death, forcing Jey to surrender before Roman kills his brother.
HIAC matches outside of the PPV
- Mankind and The Undertaker's infamous match at King of the Ring 1998. Mankind took two hideous bumps; one (intentional) from the roof to the announcer table, and another (accidental) through the roof to the ring below. Undertaker later admitted he thought he'd killed him. In WWE's 20th anniversary retrospective on the match, Taker described the aftermath of the second bump with the words "Mick had basically just had two really bad car accidents".
- The second of those two bumps is even more horrifying when you know that there were TWO ways in which, with only the tiniest difference in circumstances, it could have gone from a shock to an all-out catastrophe. Firstly, when Taker was going for the chokeslam, he'd initially had one foot on the panel he was about to slam Mick onto, but had shifted it at the last second to put his weight on the crossbar. If he hadn't, he would undoubtedly have pitched forward and fallen through the cell roof himself when the panel gave way under Mick, possibly sending him plummeting down head-first to land on top of Mick. Secondly, Mick was still too dazed to be able to sell the chokeslam properly, so he barely even got off the cell roof when Taker "lifted" him. This undoubtedly saved his life, as if he'd gone up properly to come down flat on his back on the mesh, he would have over-rotated when he went through the roof and come down on his neck or even his head, which would unquestionably have killed him on the spot. Both men danced with death on top of that cell, and yet they still carried on with the rest of the match afterward!
- After an awful, bloody mess that was the Hell in a Cell match in WrestleMania XV, The Undertaker proceeded to summon the Brood to let down a noose and hang Big Boss Man from the cell with assistance from Paul Bearer, because that's how their match ended. (Of course, this was mitigated as an illusion, because Big Boss Man had worn a safety bungee harness underneath his suit when he was attached to a long harness cord disguised as a noose while playing the "hanging victim" card; and he had to be taken down off-camera so that he could get to a hospital on a stretcher, but still...)
- Shane McMahon jumping off Hell in a Cell through a table as a 46-year-old non-career wrestler who hadn't been in a match in eight years at WrestleMania 32 (By his own admission, he broke two ribs doing that
). - Following the story regarding Edge, Vickie Guerrero and the reinstatement of The Undertaker is the SummerSlam 2008 HIAC match, possibly the most brutal of them all of the post-Ruthless Aggression Era. The match ends with the Rated-R superstar losing and getting "sent to hell" for three months until that year's Survivor Series.
