Location from WWE by WWE / TKO Group
A twenty-foot cage of chain-link and steel that encloses the entire ring and ringside area — the structure designed to end the most violent feuds, but which history has proven cannot contain what it tries to cage.
Hell in a Cell is the endpoint — the place characters go when regular brutality isn't enough to settle what's between them. The structure exists in kayfabe as the ultimate deterrent, proof that WWE will sanction almost any level of violence to resolve a feud. Mick Foley's falls from and through the roof in 1998 redefined the structure's mythology and set a standard of escalating horror every future match has lived in the shadow of. The Undertaker's dominance inside the Cell — decade after decade — made it his cathedral. The red lighting era added to the demonic atmosphere. No one gets sent here unless the feud has become genuinely personal.
A black steel lattice descends from the arena ceiling, swallowing the ring, the apron, the announcer's area, and the space between — twenty feet high, wide enough that the action inside is slightly obscured to the live crowd, lending every match a sense of illicit danger. The structure is lit from outside, casting jagged shadow patterns across the mat. The roof is steel mesh and flat, a platform that a deranged mind might use as a stage.
Also known as: HIAC, The Cell, Hell in a Cell