Triple Cage Match Rules

I love how 4CW didn't have the funding for this match and forced Sery to raise it, but they are more than happy to spend the unknown amount of money it takes to have both the Triple Cage and the Hard Knocks Life Structures all under one roof without complications. 😄

Gotta love those imaginary companies with their imaginary cheque books and their imaginary yet ridiculously efficient stage crews! :-P

So is it this one

Or this one

It'll be the top one.

So we are now 4CWCW?

To be honest, it sounds kinda pointless. What is the point in the 3 cages? From what I can gather, there's nothing stopping both guys from just making their way straight to the top  cage to fight to get the belt and then battle their way down, because there's no incentive for climbing up to the second cage. I mean, if it was me, I'd just say to my opponent "wanna just go to the top and fight to get out of that cage since that's where the belt is?"

Should make an incentive to get to the second cage, else what's the point in even battling in the bottom one?

Unless I'm missing something. I do love the idea tho and the way this has gone about.

To be honest, it sounds kinda pointless. What is the point in the 3 cages? From what I can gather, there's nothing stopping both guys from just making their way straight to the top  cage to fight to get the belt and then battle their way down, because there's no incentive for climbing up to the second cage. I mean, if it was me, I'd just say to my opponent "wanna just go to the top and fight to get out of that cage since that's where the belt is?"

Should make an incentive to get to the second cage, else what's the point in even battling in the bottom one?

Unless I'm missing something. I do love the idea tho and the way this has gone about.

From what I understood, the door to escape doesn't open til someone is up there. If you beat the guy so badly you can climb up and grab the belt, you have a clear path to victory, all you have to do is jump down both and get out... if you both said "let's just go up and fight there" well, they have easy access to the belt, so if you mess up somehow, they could snatch it, jump down the cages and escape. It's harder to fight someone going down than it is going up.

To be honest, it sounds kinda pointless. What is the point in the 3 cages? From what I can gather, there's nothing stopping both guys from just making their way straight to the top  cage to fight to get the belt and then battle their way down, because there's no incentive for climbing up to the second cage. I mean, if it was me, I'd just say to my opponent "wanna just go to the top and fight to get out of that cage since that's where the belt is?"

Should make an incentive to get to the second cage, else what's the point in even battling in the bottom one?

Unless I'm missing something. I do love the idea tho and the way this has gone about.

The incentive to get to the second cage is that you have to go up there to get closer to getting the belt...? Sure they could both climb up there together and fight up there. If thats the strategy they want to take. Doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. Once you get your ass handed to you up there and your opponent grabs the belt, you probably aren't gonna catch him while he makes his way down. Atleast if you get your ass handed to you on the bottom story, you would still have a shot at stopping him once he tries to get down.

Why not add little time limits to them. Like they're in the bottom cage, but you won't be able to climb up to the next level until 5 minutes has passed... something like that? Then they have to fight as they're not going to stand there for 5 minutes doing nothing. Then again, thinking about it, if I was in there I'd want to get a weapon first so probably wouldn't agree to just go straight up. Eh, ignore my first post then 😄

I figured it would be something like this:

Each roof other than the top one will have a small, locked hatch (imagine if the broken panel from the Taker/Mankind Hell in a Cell match were on purpose and smaller) in the middle that will be opened remotely by a ... dunno the right word here... stagehand? Ring worker? Whatever the term... it would be electronically unlocked from offscreen upon a competitor signalling for it. So, say on the first story, Sery climbs to the top of the ladder and does the signal (some simple gesture—maybe a thumbs up). At this point, the roof hatch is unlocked and either he climbs through and it locks shut until Paige gets up the ladder and gestures... or if, say, Paige prevents him from entering it for... hmm... 10 seconds?—it gets re-locked until next gesture. This advancement system would repeat at the top of the second story's rope ladder, and at the third story's cage door. The gesturing aspect could create a dramatic element in terms of briefly halting a competitor's progress on their way up—they'd really have to knock their opponent senseless to proceed up and through the hatch unobstructed. And moreover (to me, this next bit sounds really cool) having to gesture on the way back down would make the scramble back to the ring mat and out the first story door (I'm presuming the only story without a door is the 2nd, but the first story (ring level) door must only be interacted with after someone brings the belt down with them to said door.

Phew! Did that make sense to anyone?

Just my two cents/an idea.

Last edited by Pilgrim Paige (Fri-30-Jun-2017 03:28:42)

How much funding did he earn?
Enough for automatic doors? Maybe instead of it being a stage hand or anything like that it could be something like a button activated opening.
When you get to the top of the ladder, you have to hit a button, that will cause the cage door to open (You can have it slide, or you could have it be opened on a hinge). And it will take 20 seconds or so to open fully, 20 more seconds opened fully, then 20 seconds to shut....
With this being the case, you can still squeeze through when the cage is a jar, but to easily climb through you would need it to be open all the way, and then if another competitor hits the button, they still have to wait some time before the cage door opens fully again.

Although, I do think we are making this overly complicated.

I figured there would just be a hole that they'd climb through to get to the next story lol. This is going to be an even bigger pain to write if we add all these time limit rules.

Last edited by Sery (Fri-30-Jun-2017 14:41:33)

Everyone is thinking about how complicated this match could be and Sery is like "nah, it's simple as fuck" haha. So here's my thought. Best 2 out of 3 falls in smaller and smaller cage for each match. Although I've not thought it through properly as I have no idea what happens with the third cage match if someone won the first two matches in a row. So really mine makes no sense.

I know, it's a triple cage match...

You fight inside a regular cage, while both of you have two bird cages locked around your heads. Possibly a small chain connecting those two cages.

Everyone here is definitely over thinking this.  I'll draw a diagram in paint later today.

I drew up a diagram of the cage.

Those ladders will collapse without any support beam holding them together.
Does the rope swing like a pendulum?
Is the title belt hung sideways instead of long ways?

I like the keep it simple aspect of what Sery's thinking, so, my thoughts are as follows; Hang the belt from the roof of the top cage. So the competitors fight their way to the top, grab/unlock the belt in the top cage, then fight their way down and then out of the bottom cage. Having the exit in the top cage confuses things a little IMO and this still allows for the one who got the belt in the first place to still lose it on the way down...

The belt is hanging from the rafters basically. Lol

But have it hanging inside the top cage so the participants don't have to exit the structure to get it. Unless they manage to break their way out of course! :-P

It's going to be hanging outside the cage. You have to climb the cage to get it.

yeah the final cage has an outside door to get out, then you have to climb on top of that to get to the title belt.

Jeez, haven't you guys seen Ready to Rumble!? (This movie was my first date).

You'd all be in love with this match if it was in Japan...

Its unfair to pass judgement on the match until its written to be honest!