Wrestle Review: Hell in a Cell 2018

Subversive Shocking Savagery

As I saw this I felt Jeff's shrieks reverberate through the room, little did I realize it was me screaming

Hell in A Cell Match: Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy

Subversion is the name of the game.

WWE fans couldn't deny that the only reason this match was inside the cell is for Jeff Hardy to fulfil a lifelong dream and pull off something crazy. Most likely a Swanton from on top of the cage.

It didn't happen.

Instead what we got was a brutal and horrifyingly silence and scream-inducing beatdown between the two men. Playing well of Orton's reputation as a lethargic competitor, the match started slow and continue that way for much of its runtime. Yet within the very confines of that Randy Orton cliche, came a Hell in a Cell match like no other.

There is brutality in the hell in a cell that causes the audiences to lap it up in a cocktail of ecstasy and shock. Then there's this savagery that simply felt all too real and cut right to the bone, the kind where deep gashes on legs, slashed backs, broken and bloodied bodies don't seem part of an escalation but in fact a norm.

These two men are the first off their kind willing and even excited to enter Satan's Structure. It didn't change them it made them and that real horror got amplified by Hardy reckless spot hanging from the cell roof crashing onto a table. That the referee legit feared for Hardy's health and Orton still couldn't care, makes him a brutal psychopath Smackdown better watch out for.

Result: Referee calls for medics and the cage to be lifted as a broken Jeff Hardy lay barely breathing, but Randy Orton forces a pin to cruelly win the match.

Rating:

4 stars out of 5