>unforgiving steel barbwire hell with absolutely NO WAY OUT
>except the door lol, you can just walk out the door

Escaping the cage is the dumbest stipulation in wrestling.

>>18363404
It works during territory era/house show era wrestling, where the heel can just run away every night and no one gets pinned. In modern wrestling that's televised it's just stupid

>>18363404
>>18363417
Except escaping is the perfect way to do chickenshit heel/babyface overcoming the odds

>>18363429
As I said, back in the era where no one did clean jobs sure, but nowadays fans expect clean endings to feuds because everyone knows it's fake

It just doesn’t make a lot of sense as a story device. I get it gives options for finishes but the idea of a cage is that I’m not stuck in here with you, you’re stuck in here with me shit. It works when you’re selling territory tickets town to town as a draw, but if you’re pulling a cage out for a televised match, it should be the feud ender as punishment for the chicken shit heel who keeps finding ways to duck the babyface.

>>18363468
Anon, that's what the hell in a cell is for.

>>18363476
But a HiaC is only used when it’s the right time of year.

>>18363404
Shawn doesn't like it either, any time they run a steel cage match in NXT they make escaping a DQ

>>18363507
I feel like most wrestlers dislike it because it's stupid and hard to work in a way that's believable. The Owen/Bret cage match is basically an exercise whether you can even work a match around that stupid rule that they both disliked.

>>18363532
That Bret Owen match is a perfect example of the point above. The live crowd was white hot for every escape spot but it is painfully boring to watch when you’re not in the building.

>>18363550
That match is so shit and I'll never understood how it got five stars from Meltzer

>Grrr, I hate you so much, brother!
>[both spend the entire match trying to run away from each other]

Cool stage and graphics, but awful show.