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WWE's Hell in a Cell PPV aired last Sunday from the AT&T Centre in San Antonio, Texas. When the smoke settled, it was the Beast, Brock Lesnar, who made the biggest impact of the night by returning to WWE and putting down the Big Dog, Roman Reigns, and the Monster among Men, Braun Strowman.
It not only made Strowman only the 4th superstar to fail at cashing in the MITB Briefcase, but also made sure that Brock Lesnar was back in contention for his Universal Title Rematch.
Before the Universal Title match started, Ronda Rousey made sure that Alexa Bliss would not be in the RAW Women's Championship picture at least for some time.
After taking a bit of punishment to her injured ribs at the hands of Alexa, the former UFC champion cinched in her favorite armbar submission, making Little Miss Bliss tap out and ensuring that she retained her RAW Women's Championship, and Alexa was shown the door out of the title picture.
On the Smackdown Live side of things, Becky Lynch got maybe the loudest cheer that a heel may have got after defeating a face champion. Even when the Lasskicker said "No" to the peace offering from Charlotte, the crowd was firmly behind her.
It seems Becky cannot do anything that can make the crowd boo her. We are however set for more clashes between these two in the coming weeks.
Now that the PPV is behind us, we have 3 PPVs set at intervals of 3 weeks each - WWE Super Show-Down, Evolution and Survivor Series. With that in mind, Let us take a look at the three worst decisions that WWE can make coming out of the Hell in a Cell PPV.
Becky and Charlotte play Hot Potato with the title
After pursuing the title for quite some time, Becky Lynch finally won it at the Hell in a Cell PPV, defeating her ex best friend, Charlotte Flair. Even though she was booked as a heel, the crowd was firmly behind Becky every step she took.
Now that she has the title in her grasp, the worst thing WWE can do is to make Charlotte and Becky play hot potato with the title.
We all saw how the Sasha - Charlotte feud for the RAW Women's title went - Charlotte winning it at PPVs and Sasha winning it back on a later RAW. Becky deserves a decent title run. Tossing the title from one person to another will only make both of them look weak. I hope that does not happen.
Ronda keeps having short, formulaic matches
In the Hulk Hogan era, most of his matches had a similar flow. Hogan dominates in the beginning, the heel makes a comeback and dominates for sometime, Hogan then hulks up, hits the Big Boot, Atomic Legdrop and that's all she wrote. Ronda's most recent match with Alexa had a similar flow, complete with Ronda's version of hulking up.
For all her good looks and mic skill, Alexa is not a great worker in the ring. So, Ronda got away with that. But if she keeps having these formulaic matches with other more capable women, like Natalya or Ember Moon, the same audience who cheer for her right now will slowly turn against her.
Ronda has shown that she is a quick learner in pro wrestling. I hope she goes on and puts on great matches that leave a lasting impression as she did in UFC.
WWE Draw out the Shield vs Dogs of War feud
WWE seems to be all set to drag out the Shield vs Dogs of War feud across the PPVs till December. This same 6 man tag team match is supposedly set for WWE Super Show-Down and Starrcade and is rumoured to be the main event of the TLC PPV set in December.
While Roman is set to defend his Universal Championship against Brock Lesnar & Braun Strowman in the Crown Jewel event to be hosted in Saudi Arabia on November 2nd, this feud being drawn out essentially means that we will get to see less defenses of the Universal & Intercontinental titles in PPVs unless Roman and/or Seth pull double duty.
This does not bode well for the feuds around the said titles.
One way WWE might get around this conundrum is to book "Winner Takes All" matches. If the Shield wins, Ambrose & Seth get the Tag titles, and if the Dogs of War win, then Braun gets the Universal championship.
Contrived as it might be, at least it will keep the match ups interesting as there would be something at stake.
Otherwise the same 6 man tag match will start to grate on the viewers irrespective of who wins and this will essentially rob Rollins and Ambrose of the momentum and crowd support they had built up before the most recent Shield reunion.
