1997 WWE’s Bad Blood. In Your House: It became an iconic event for the company, despite a mostly forgettable undercard. However, the main event saw The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels in a heated feud, competing in the first ever Hell in a Cell match, resulting in; Kane makes his monstrous debut.
At the time, Matt Hardy was only 23 years old and his WWE career had yet to take off, but he vividly remembers watching the show main event. “It was impressive, yeah,” Hardy said of seeing the cell lowered in a segment of his film before the game.The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy“Podcast.
“I’ll never forget sitting and watching that match and that was the first time I was like, ‘Wow,'” Hardy continued. “Shawn Michaels is like. we knew he was great, but he was on another level in that game. It stood out like that. It was so incredible to watch.” Hardy also said that The Undertaker was also great to watch because the Deadman wasn’t just steamrolling Michaels like he was doing to his other opponents at the time.
Hardy also commented on seeing Kane unmasked backstage before the match, detailing the history he and Jeff had with Glenn Jacobs prior to WWE. “We worked with him on Smokey Mountain when he was the Unabomber,” Hardy recalled. “It was so weird because we say, “It’s crazy, this guy gets this amazing image, he’s Undertaker’s brother. We were there for him when he was Isaac Yankem.”
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