The preview says it all, but I have the duty to expound a little more. In 1999, the Undertaker had his Ministry of Darkness thing happening, and it wasn't too bad. It gave some of the mid-card workers a chance to get a rub from the Taker, plus TV time to let people get into their characters. The Ministry, for reasons that turned out to be completely inane, was feuding with the Corporation. So we get the Undertaker, leader of the Ministry, against the Big Bossman, lackey for the corporate team. Yeah, right, Russo was a genuis...

So anyway, this match had very little heat, and seeing this, the WWF decided to give them the famous Hell in a Cell in order to catapult more interest. Now that may have barely raised interest in the common fan, although I doubt even they were enticed anymore, but the internet fans were blasting this one before it even happened. Yeah, the Undertaker was/is good, but the Bossman sucks, he has no heat, and there's no real story behind this match, yet it gets a major stip added to it.

What followed was seemingly years of bad wrestling, a dead crowd, and a Todd Pettingill wanna-be giving away the result of the main event. I wouldn't be surprised if Cole had let that one "slip" just to make sure the fans didn't turn of their TV's. When Taker finally tombstoned Bossman to put him away for good, there was no pop...nothing. The Cell's legend was already hard enough to live up top, much less top, but at least they could've given us two guys that were willing to bump and maybe *gasp*, had a history with each other.

So as we now listen to Vince Russo's whining about how he was given the shaft in WCW, remember that even under the watchful eye of Vince McMahon, Vinnie Ru managed to slip this one into the top event of the year, and nearly killed the entire show.

Ron Gamble on Undertaker vs. Big Bossman (Hell in the Cell), WM XV
One of the only two HITC clunkers (the other being the Kennel from Hell
match between Al Snow and -- surprize! -- the Bossman), Taker won the
match, then hung him from the top of the Cell (with the help of Edge,
Christian, and Gangrel). Bossman "died," then came back one week later.