WWE Hell in a Cell: Predicting the Finish to Every Match 

This Sunday night, the WWE presents their annual Hell in a Cell PPV. The card features eight matches, two of which will take place inside the titular structure, and six of which will see titles defended.

With two historic events coming in October, Australia's Super Show Down show, and the first-ever all female PPV, Evolution, the WWE will want to use Sunday night to establish some of the big storylines heading into each event.

The build to Hell in a Cell itself has been a tale of two brands. Raw has only three matches booked for the card and has relied heavily on the ongoing storyline between The Shield and the team of Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler, and Drew McIntyre. SmackDown, on the other hand, has been excellent over the last month and boasts five matches on the card for Sunday night.

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There are many twists and turns we could see in the matches this Sunday, so let's take a rather optimistic stab at predicting the finish to each of the night's eight matches.

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#8: Aiden English Costs Rusev Day

The New Day will keep hold of their titles at Hell in a Cell

The injury sustained by Erick Rowan at SummerSlam clearly led to the WWE being forced to change their plans in the SmackDown tag-team title division, and as a result, we have a match between The New Day and Rusev Day on Sunday night.

This match will probably prove to be one of the most enjoyable encounters of the night, with the two teams being among the most over acts in the WWE.

While the match will no doubt be a lot of fun to watch, tension has been brewing in recent months between Aiden English and Rusev, and Sunday is the ideal opportunity to pull the trigger on a feud between the two men.

Rusev forgave English's mistakes at the start of the month, so having English attack his partner on Sunday would be a nice way to swerve the fans and would also finally give fans the Rusev face turn we have all been waiting for.

#7: Miscommunication costs Ambrose and Rollins

Ziggler and McIntyre will find a way to cling to their gold

This match is perhaps the most difficult encounter to call on Sunday night. While the fact that Ziggler and McIntyre just won their belts would normally suggest that they are likely to keep hold of their titles, there is also the possibility that the WWE wants to close the show with all three members of The Shield holding titles.

That being said, there is every chance that this Shield reunion is just to set up a triple threat up between the three men later down the line, and a nice way of creating tension in the group would be for Dean Ambrose to be the only member not holding a title.

A slight miscommunication between Ambrose and Rollins could cost them their match on Sunday. Nothing major, just something that plants a very tiny seed of doubt between the two men, that can slowly begin to blossom over the coming months.

#6: Brie Bella pins Maryse as The Miz runs away

Daniel Bryan and Nikki Bella will exact some revenge on The Miz and Maryse

Daniel Bryan's feud with The Miz has the potential to go all the way until WrestleMania, and Sunday's match between them is likely to just be one of many matches involving the two men to come between now and then.

With The Miz having picked up the victory over Bryan at SummerSlam, Bryan needs to pick up a win this Sunday so that he doesn't look too weak, but it seems unlikely the WWE will want to give away Bryan picking up the victory over The Miz on what is essentially, a B show.

Instead, Bryan's partner, Brie Bella, is likely to score the victory for their team. The circumstances leading to that finish will be the interesting part though, and my money is on The Miz leaving his wife to take a beating from her rival as he runs away to avoid a Bryan beating.

#5: Charlotte Flair makes Becky pass out

Becky Lynch will come up short against Charlotte

Okay, this one is more in hope than expectation. The decision to turn Becky Lynch heel has been greeted with quite a lot of anger from the WWE universe, and the WWE should try to go some way to solving that problem on Sunday night.

It seems unlikely that Flair will drop the belt on Sunday given that Evolution is just around the corner and the WWE seems intent on building her for her rumoured Mania match with Ronda Rousey. The least they can do, then, is have Becky Lynch look strong in defeat.

Casting Lynch as the division's tweener makes a lot more sense than having her play an out and out heel, so having her refuse to tap to the figure-8 and ultimately pass-out would be an excellent way to do this.

Lynch is adored by the WWE universe, so having this little nod to Stone Cold Steve Austin would also be a nice touch.

That being said, this prediction is easily the most optimistic of the night. The SmackDown's women division has been ruined by Road Dogg, so don't rule out Santino Marella running down to cost Lynch and set up a match between the two at Evolution.

#4: Ronda Rousey makes short work of Alexa Bliss, stares down Nikki Bella

It seems highly unlikely Rousey is dropping her title on Sunday

Ronda Rousey's match with Alexa Bliss for the Raw Women's Championship is probably the most predictable bout on Sunday night.

Rousey is being positioned as the top woman in the WWE right now, and with Evolution around the corner, and Alexa Bliss already being booked in a match at the event, there is only one way this bout is going to end.

This match will likely be a slightly more extended squash than their SummerSlam encounter, and there will probably be some shenanigans with Alexa's cronies and Rousey's little team.

After making Bliss tap for the second consecutive PPV, Rousey will end up being either attacked or challenged by Nikki Bella. The two women are rumoured to meeting at Evolution, so the WWE will likely take their chance to set that match up on Sunday night.

#3: Randy Orton wins after Jeff Hardy misses a Swanton from the Cell

Jeff Hardy is going to do something insane on Sunday night

Everybody knows that Jeff Hardy is going to do something absolutely insane on Sunday night.

The former WWE champion has made a career out of hitting crazy spots, and he is not going to miss out on the chance to deliver one of his biggest ever inside the cell.

While the WWE did do a similar spot last year with Shane McMahon missing an elbow from the top, this one seems like too good of an opportunity to miss out on.

After a vicious encounter, Hardy will climb a top of the cell, hit his signature pose, then go flying off the top, only for Orton to move at the last minute, snatching victory away from Hardy and leaving him unconscious at ringside.

#2: A no-decision finish in AJ Styles Vs Samoa Joe

Joe and Styles are set to meet again in Australia

AJ Styles's feud with Samoa Joe has been one of the best WWE title programs in some time, and given that the two men are set to meet at least one more time at October's Super Show Down event, it seems unlikely that this match will have a definitive finish.

At SummerSlam, AJ Styles cost himself the match when he hit Samoa Joe with a chair, leading to a disqualification. The very fact that this match isn't a no-DQ match, implies that the WWE is planning an equally screwy finish second time around.

With AJ's temper set to boil over, the two men will quickly descend into an all-out brawl Sunday night, and the match will finish with either both men getting disqualified or a crazy spot which sees both men fail to reach the count of 10.

#1: Roman Reigns wins with a Spear through the Cell

Braun's cash-in attempt will fail

Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman have a long history of beating each other to within an inch of their lives, and their match at Hell in a Cell looks set to be their most brutal encounter yet.

The cell gimmick means that this match could be one of the most violent we have seen in the WWE in a long time, and the addition of Mick Foley as special guest ref probably means he will have to intervene to stop one of the men killing the other.

While the WWE has done the spear through the cage spot once already this year, the cell is a slightly different structure, and a spear through the cell could be the only thing that could keep the monster among men down.