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The 2019 WWE Hell In A Cell pay-per-view takes place at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California on Sunday, October 6.
Given that WWE has had so many shows to promote over the last week, only four matches have been announced for the PPV so far, with the Hell In A Cell encounter between Seth Rollins and “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (Universal Championship) expected to headline the event.
One other match will take place inside the steel structure – Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks (RAW Women’s Championship) – while Roman Reigns & Daniel Bryan will face Erick Rowan & Luke Harper in a regular tag team match.
As of the time of writing, Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair (SmackDown Women’s Championship) is the only other match that has been added to the event, but WWE is almost certainly going to announce more matches in the hours leading up to the show.
In this article, let’s try to predict the outcome of the four matches that have been confirmed so far.
#4 Roman Reigns & Daniel Bryan vs. Erick Rowan & Luke Harper
Barring another spectacular swerve in this storyline, it looks as though Daniel Bryan really has turned babyface again and that he and Roman Reigns are on the same page heading into their tag match against Erick Rowan and Luke Harper.
For a long time, it appeared that this ongoing rift between Bryan and Rowan may have been a setup, with both men pretending to have fallen out in an attempt to get one over on Reigns, but the former SmackDown Tag Team Champions have proven that not to be the case during their many physical altercations over the last few weeks.
Long-term, WWE surely has to be looking at building towards a Reigns vs. Bryan match. It is just a question of whether that happens before 2020 or whether they decide to hold off on having the two men face each other until WrestleMania 36 next year.
Short-term, the safe bet here is to predict that Reigns and Bryan will co-exist just fine as a tag team and pick up a win over the former Wyatt Family members.
As for the finish, let’s assume that Bryan will get some revenge on the man he once considered his intellectual equal, Rowan, by pinning him after a running knee.
Prediction: Roman Reigns & Daniel Bryan def. Erick Rowan & Luke Harper
#3 Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair (SmackDown Women’s Championship)
Following the underwhelming SummerSlam storyline between Bayley and Ember Moon, there was a lot more hype around the SmackDown Women’s Championship when Charlotte Flair challenged “The Hugger” for the title at Clash of Champions last month.
However, after Bayley essentially cheated to retain her title at the PPV, it felt like the storyline fizzled out and became a lot more about Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks, as opposed to Bayley and Flair.
“The Queen” made the SmackDown Women’s Champion tap out on the first episode of SmackDown on FOX, so she will now get another opportunity to challenge for the title this Sunday at Hell In A Cell.
The match announcement might seem a little rushed, with WWE trying to cram some extra matches onto the PPV card at the last minute, but it will still be interesting to see who picks up the victory to lead the SmackDown women’s division in the new era on FOX.
Eventually, it seems inevitable that Flair will win the title, becoming a 10-time Champion in the process, but perhaps that can be a big moment on SmackDown. On Sunday, let’s predict that Bayley will get herself disqualified to plant yet another seed for a full-on heel turn.
Prediction: Charlotte Flair def. Bayley via DQ; Bayley retains
#2 Hell In A Cell match: Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks (RAW Women’s Championship)
Becky Lynch has been the RAW Women’s Champion since defeating Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in the main event of WrestleMania 35 in April 2019.
Sasha Banks, on the other hand, took a four-month leave of absence after losing the Women’s Tag Team titles at the event, and she has since become the biggest heel in the women’s division after making her return after SummerSlam.
As we saw with her appearance with The Rock on the first episode of SmackDown on FOX, Lynch is being presented as WWE’s biggest star on the blue brand’s new home, which surely means she will be performing on Friday nights after the draft takes place next week.
With that in mind, she has to lose her RAW Women’s Championship at some point before the draft ends on the October 14 episode of RAW, so it seems likely that her title reign will end this Sunday at Hell In A Cell.
If the bulk of the FOX promotion had focused on somebody else (say, Roman Reigns or Brock Lesnar), then Lynch might have a chance of retaining her title, but it makes no sense for the holder of a RAW title to represent SmackDown when the rosters are just about to be separated.
Prediction: Sasha Banks def. Becky Lynch
#1 Hell In A Cell match: Seth Rollins vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (Universal Championship)
Everything about the build-up to this Hell In A Cell match has revolved around Bray Wyatt (and Ramblin’ Rabbit) warning Seth Rollins about what is going to happen to him when he gets locked inside the steel structure with “The Fiend”.
Wyatt’s alter-ego has attacked various Superstars and Hall of Famers over the last few months, from Mick Foley and Kurt Angle to Kane and Braun Strowman, and he appears to only care about hurting people who he thinks have wronged him in the past.
Where does the Universal Championship come into this? Well, although it will be on the line at Hell In A Cell, Wyatt and “The Fiend” do not seem to be interested in Rollins’ title, which makes it difficult to predict the outcome of this match.
Without the title involved, it would be a no-brainer to predict a win for “The Fiend”. With the title, however, it is hard to believe that “The Fiend” will hold the Universal Championship when he has not even made it his mission to win it.
Before SmackDown on Friday, this prediction was going to say that Strowman could get some revenge on “The Fiend” by causing a no-contest finish, just like Brock Lesnar in 2019. However, now that he is seemingly occupied by Tyson Fury, let’s opt for “The Fiend”.
Prediction: “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt def. Seth Rollins
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