7 things that went wrong in Hell in a Cell

#4 The failure to put the WWE Championship match in the main event again

AJ Styles has yet to main event a co-branded pay-per-view in his current reign.

The WWE Championship is widely considered as the most prestigious title in sports entertainment due to the history and longevity this title has acquired over the years.

A title that has existed well over half a century (albeit with a fair few belt differentiations), this title has been won by only 51 different wrestlers, where a third of whom have already been inducted into WWE’s Hall of Fame.

Furthermore, there are a plethora of legends that have never won this Championship including Mr. Perfect, Owen Hart, and Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts to name a few, and with all of the accolades this belt has behind it, it is the most desired belt in all of WWE.

Or is it? If you actually look at the WWE pay-per-views in the last few years, you will notice that the WWE Championship has played second fiddle to the Universal Championship.

Since the Universal Championships’ inception just before SummerSlam 2016, the Universal Championship has been the main event in three out of the last five ‘big four pay-per-views’, whereas the WWE Championship last main evented a pay-per-view at Fastlane 2018, a pay-per-view exclusive to the Smackdown brand.

In fact, the WWE Championship has failed to main event any co-branded pay-per-view since the introduction of the Universal Championship.

Whilst one can argue that this pay-per-view made sense to have a Hell in a Cell match as the main event, this brings me to my next point…