10 Best WWE Matches of the Year 2005

#9 Triple H vs. Batista - Vengeance

Batista's first great match

This Hell in A Cell match at Vengeance was the third pay-per-view World Championship match for Triple H and Champion Batista.

Batista had lifted the Championship from Triple H at WrestleMania 21 and retained at Backlash, so surely this was The Game's time to regain the Championship?

Especially since he was 4-1 in Hell in A Cell matches, with having only lost the six-man Hell in A Cell match at Armageddon 2000, right?

They both fight outside the ring at the beginning, using the Cell as a weapon. Triple H gets hold of a chain and choked Batista in the ring with it. Batista eventually fought him off and began to use the chain as a weapon himself. Batista then sent him into the Cell again, this time busting him open.

Triple H brought out a steel chair that was wrapped in barbed wire and hit Batista in the back with it. Batista then fought back and hit Triple H with it, and this was already one of the more violent Cell matches in recent memory.

Both men used the barbed wire chair for a few more minutes until Triple H reached for the old faithful sledgehammer, and hit Batista in the face with it for a two count.

Both men also used the steel steps for a while on each other before Triple H hit a low blow and a Pedigree for a two count.

Judging by the ecstatic reaction to the kick out, everyone seemed to think that would be the end. As Triple H attempted to use the sledgehammer once more, Batista countered into a Batista Bomb for the three count.