5 WWE gimmick matches and the reason why we don't see them anymore

#2 Inferno match

Undertaker vs. Kane in an Inferno match

Just as drawing blood doesn’t fall in line with the company’s current PG stance, neither does the act of trying to set your opponent on fire.

That’s the basic premise of an Inferno match, in which the ring is surrounded by a low wall of fire that opponents attempt to throw one another into. As you probably guessed, the idea was born out of the Attitude Era, but since the company officially went PG we’ve yet to see it return to WWE programming.

The closest we came a modern-day Inferno match was Kane vs. Bray Wyatt in a Ring of Fire match at SummerSlam 2013. There, the ropes were surrounded by—surprise, surprise—a ring of fire, similar to that of an Inferno match, but the key difference was the removal of the ‘set your opponent on fire’ stipulation.

Instead, Wyatt won via pinfall, and after Luke Harper and Erick Rowan had negated the ring of fire with a flame-resistant blanket. All in all, it made for a fairly anti-climactic match and one that thankfully we haven’t seen since.