Steel Cage Matches - How Should They End?

In the old days, a steel cage match was the way to blow off the feud, but it meant something more. It meant, simply enough, that the heel has nowhere to run, and thus, the logi behind the escape rule made perfect sense. The Heel has to be able to incapacitate the face to the

Look, you know how far back my love for Old School Wrestling goes, and thus, I'm going to have to say that both points have their merits. Unfortunately, to the wrestling mind, the concept of a Steel Cage has evolved over time, and I blame the rampant use of outside interference being the cause of the evolution of the steel cage.

In the old days, a steel cage match was the way to blow off the feud, but it meant something more. It meant, simply enough, that the heel has nowhere to run, and thus, the logi behind the escape rule made perfect sense. The Heel has to be able to incapacitate the face to the point that he can escape, and there's typically a psychology involved with the heel looking for the way out of the cage, with the face beating him down, and finally getting the vengeance he's been looking for. Consequentally, when it comes the face's time to get out of the cage, the heel fights him back in, because frankly, that's the best way a heel can get heat in the cage. It was magnificent, as the psychology worked both ways, but in different reasonings for the wrestlers.

Now, however, the focus has shifted from "The heel can't escape" to "The Face and Heel are trapped in the cage, and no one can help them". Of course, it never typically works out that way, but that's the intention of the cage now. It's made to keep the wrestlers away from outside interference, in a shift that started I want to say in 1999. Actually, yes, I can pinpoint that period in which that happened, and it was in 1999, with Austin and McMahon in the cage. You'll notice, before the bell I admit, that the two wrestled outside the cage for a while. The focus was clear; the cage wasn't so much about containing Austin and McMahon, so much as it was keeping The Corporation at bay. The psychology has changed now, and the times have made it so that the old way in which things are done, the way of "escaping the cage" is a little obselete. Of course, this could be solved by less outside interference in matches, but that would be far too simple, wouldn't it?

For the record, I'm going to take the wild stab that I'm arguing The NorCal side of things. You both seem pretty old school, but I think you're more of the Old School mindset in this. It's ok, I am too, but we have to accept that the times have changed

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