Hell In A Cell may be a B PPV on paper but the card is shaping up to be fantastic. We have three Hell In A Cell matches which may slightly be overkill but as a huge fan of the cell matches I’m not going to complain.
The WWE Universal Championship, the Raw Women’s Championship will be defended inside the dreaded steel cell. The WWE Tag Team Champions will defend this coveted titles against the unlikely team of Cesaro and Sheamus as they look to break Demolition’s record.
The cruiserweight division is also heating up with the feud between champion TJ Perkins and grizzled veteran Brian Kendrick. Kendrick has made the most of his return to WWE with a revitalised heel character and this match will be a great way to start the show.
However, if WWE truly want to make Hell In A Cell an amazing show and progress storylines the right way, there are certain pitfalls they must avoid.
5: Rusev must look strong in defeat
The Bulgarian Brute has revitalized himself since Wrestlemania earlier this year and his dominant run with the US Championship transformed him into a force to be reckoned with once again. His run with the title was ended at Hell In A Cell however, by ‘the guy’ Roman Reigns.
Rusev enters the cell for the first time at Hell In A Cell in less than two weeks and there is no doubt that the match will end with Roman Reigns retaining his title. However, WWE must make Rusev look strong in defeat. Rusev has been on a roll of late and has been in some stellar matches in recent months. The Bulgarian is one of the top heels on Raw and will no doubt look to impress in his ‘cell’ debut.
4: TJ Perkins needs to retain
WWE has tried its best to embrace Cruiserweight Wrestling in 2016. Following the success of the Cruiserweight Classic, WWE has now introduced the Cruiserweight Division on raw with CWC winner TJ Perkins as its first Cruiserweight Champion.
Perkins defends his title against 38-year old veteran Brian Kendrick at Hell In A Cell. Kendrick has always been a great heel and has come into his own during his current run as a heel nearing the end of his career who will do anything to win another championship and stay relevant.
While it may be tempting for WWE to put the belt on Kendrick two weeks from now as there are a row of babyface challengers in the division, Perkins is on a hot streak since the CWC and needs to cement his place as a champion for now. Kendrick’s time will come, it’s just not now.
3: The Club desperately need a win
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson made their names in Japan as part of the Bullet Club and are one of the most feared teams in modern Japanese wrestling history. However, they’ve been completely neutered in WWE.
Their debut was sort of promising with them taking out the Usos and threatening to run roughshod through the division. Then they aligned with former Bullet Club leader AJ Styles and things began to look good. Then, however, came the WWE Draft and The Club got drafted to Raw while AJ got drafted to SmackDown where he has since become WWE World Champion.
The Club, on the other hand, have just had their legs cut out from under them. They faced New Day for the Tag-Team Championship twice and they lost with screwy finishes both times – scratch that, they won by DQ at SummerSlam after Big E returned and lost at Clash of Champions.
Gallows and Anderson are awesome as a tag team and Anderson jobbing every time he has a singles match doesn’t help. If Gallows and Anderson don’t beat Enzo and Cass in two weeks at Hell In A Cell, their WWE careers may no longer be salvageable. No one will take them seriously anymore.
2: Kevin Owens needs to beat Seth Rollins
I’ll be honest. As entertaining as the Jericho and Owens being best friends storyline has been, it has made Owens look like a weak champion who’s afraid of Seth Rollins.
Where is the smack-talking badass who’ll fight anyone to feed his family? Owens will be a great babyface someday when the time is right but for now, he needs a big win to cement his position as Universal Champion, preferably clean.
There is no doubt that Owens and Rollins are two of the best performers in the WWE right now or that they’ll tear the house down at Hell In A Cell – it’s just that Kevin Owens needs to be portrayed as a big deal, because he is one as the top heel on Monday Night Raw. WWE has had a bad habit in recent years to make their heel champions look like cowards and its high time they stop with this age old adage – just look at Samoa Joe in NXT and the success he’s had.
Owens needs a huge win at Hell In A Cell to cement himself as the face of Raw. Period.
1: Sasha Banks vs Charlotte HAS to main event
Sasha vs Charlotte is the hottest feud on Raw right now, by a mile. The two women have outdone themselves with their feud and deserve this chance.
Their ‘cell’ match will be the first time two women will fight inside Hell In A Cell and is a history-maker in itself. However, WWE needs to take this chance and let the two women headline Hell In A Cell and cement the Women’s revolution.
No matter which woman wins at Hell In A Cell, they’ll steal the show. They deserve to create history by main-eventing too.
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