Monday, October 7, 2019

Hell in a Cell 2019 | Thoughts

Welcome back to the blog, Hell in a Cell is now in the archives. Here are my thoughts about the matches I predicted previously. 

Hell in a Cell - Raw Women's Championship Match.
Becky Lynch (c) vs. Sasha Banks. 
This was a fantastic show opener, both competitors bought the fight to each other using weapons and attempting their submission holds, but in the end, it was "The Man" that prevailed. Winner: AND STILL Raw Women's Champion. Becky Lynch.

Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns vs. Erick Rowan and Luke Harper. 
This was an unexpected fun match, what made it even better was the Tornado Tag rule. Winners: Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns. I thought for sure that Bryan was going to turn heel and align with Rowan and Harper here. It might happen on Friday on SmackDown if Bryan doesn't get drafted to Raw. We will found out.

SmackDown Women's Championship Match. Bayley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair. 
I didn't expect a title change here as I thought Bayley was going to win. Towards the end of the match, Bayley attempted to cheat by putting her feet on the ropes during the pinfall attempt but the referee saw it just in time. Charlotte made Bayley tap out via the figure 8. Winner: AND NEW SmackDown Women's Champion! Charlotte Flair. 

Hell in a Cell - WWE Universal Championship Match. 
Seth Rollins (c) vs. "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt. 
I loved the dark red lighting during the match, it had Attitude Era Kane vibes about it when he debuted at Badd Blood all those years ago. Seth was trying his best to take down Wyatt with weapons but it didn't phase "The Fiend" now this is where things got annoying because of the amount of times the champion hit his opponent with stomps. Wyatt was down, he was covered with weapons, just as Seth was about to hit Wyatt with the sledgehammer, the referee attempted to put a stop to this, which he failed to do so as Rollins hit his opponent with the hammer resulting in a DQ/No Contest. The crowd sh*t on this. They wanted "The Fiend" to win. I did a preliminary prediction for this match which was a DQ finish. I then thought, why would they book a finish like that? They're in a cell! The cell itself can be used a weapon also. What a load of trash. Poor booking. 

There were AEW, Bullsh*t and restart the match chants. The boos were loud. This was reminiscent of the times where Ryback and Braun Strowman were over with the crowd. Until the momentum ended, coincidentally, in Hell in a Cell. Can you believe we've had two years in a row of Hell in a Cell main events where it ended in a DQ/No Contest? That's ridiculous right there. I'm going to go on record right now and say that the Hell in a Cell pay per view needs to be scrapped from the schedule permanently. Like I said, the crowd booed the finish loudly, it'll be interesting to see and hear the reaction from the crowd on Raw. 

Three shows, Raw, SmackDown and Hell in a Cell all started off great and ended terrible. What a bad week of programming in WWE. Thanks for reading.