WWE Hell in a Cell Discussion

iMoreland · Post #1 » by **iMoreland** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:07 am

Date: September 16th, 2018
Location: San Antonio, Texas

Kickoff Show

— SmackDown Tag Team Championship: The New Day (c) vs. Rusev Day

Hell in a Cell

— Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan vs. Maryse and The Miz

— Hell in a Cell Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton

— Raw Tag Team Championship: Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins

— Raw Women's Championship: Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Alexa Bliss

— SmackDown Women's Championship: Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Becky Lynch

— WWE Championship: AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe

— Universal Championship Hell in a Cell Match, Special Guest Referee - Mick Foley: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Braun Strowman

improper · Post #2 » by **improper** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:11 am

What in the world is that poster?

Post #3 » by **loserX** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:21 pm

improper wrote:What in the world is that poster?

I thought the same thing. "That can't be the REAL poster, right? Why does it have their names in tiny font, are people having trouble figuring out who they are?"

I don't much care about the first couple of matches listed, but the rest of the card isn't too bad IMHO. Hopefully there isn't a lot of silly overbooking.

Flames24Rulz · Post #4 » by **Flames24Rulz** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:21 pm

Another PPV where the card looks pretty good, but at the conclusion of the PPV, we'll probably all wonder why in the hell we wasted four hours of our lives watching this.

improper · Post #5 » by **improper** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:46 pm

Flames24Rulz wrote:Another PPV where the card looks pretty good, but at the conclusion of the PPV, we'll probably all wonder why in the hell we wasted four hours of our lives watching this.

It's football season, so I only go back and watch WWE shows if the reviews are good.

Spoiler: They usually aren't.

Scott Hall · Post #6 » by **Scott Hall** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:34 am

Not a bad card considering the awful build specifically on the RAW side...

Jeff Hardy has been very vocal about wanting to have a HIAC match since his return as he's never done
one in his career before so should be interesting to see if he can do something innovative or have some
cool spots.

There's no way Reigns is dropping the tittle after one month so should be interesting to see how Foley
ends up being involved.

Becky vs. Charlotte is the hot feud coming in curious to see what kind of chemistry they have not sure if
they've wrestled each other before but if they did it was awhile ago.

Styles vs. Joe should still have a lot of juice left after this feud would like to see Joe go over here
and have some momentum going into Smackdown 1000, Australia Super Show Down and Survivor Series.

iMoreland · Post #7 » by **iMoreland** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:57 pm

The HIAC structure is red now apparently. That looks ugly as f*ck.

Read on Twitter

improper · Post #8 » by **improper** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:03 pm

iMoreland wrote:The HIAC structure is red now apparently. That looks ugly as f*ck.

Read on Twitter

Man, WWE just can't do anything right. That cell looks stupid.

bestnamezRtaken · Post #9 » by **bestnamezRtaken** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:41 am

That's so weird...whyyyyy

improper · Post #10 » by **improper** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:06 am

bestnamezRtaken wrote:That's so weird...whyyyyy

Post #11 » by **Stanford** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:54 am

I don't think it looks bad. Difficult to tell without the context of a live show. No one would care if it had always been red. People love that blue cage.

Post #12 » by **Stanford** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:59 am

bestnamezRtaken wrote:That's so weird...whyyyyy

Vince is very much into specific branding like this. He wants HiaC to be strongly associated with the color red. All the promotional material has been very red, the color of hell.

WRau1 · Post #13 » by **WRau1** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:20 am

You could probably fantasy book a better card with the talent left off of this PPV than the actual HIAC PPV.

Post #14 » by **Stanford** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:11 pm

On the cell: shots from inside look cool as ****. Shots from the outside are bad. Hurts my eyes.

improper · Post #15 » by **improper** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:10 am

Charlotte, the face, offers to shake hands. Becky, the heel, talks sh*t and holds the belt up in her face. Crowd goes nuts.

Yeah, maybe you're booking this one wrong, WWE.

iMoreland · Post #16 » by **iMoreland** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:39 am

That Raw tag title match was great

improper · Post #17 » by **improper** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:41 am

Why can't they book all the shows sensibly like this?

It's almost as if giving the fans what they want makes the show better.

Spens1 · Post #18 » by **Spens1** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:24 am

Has their been a AJ styles title match in recent times that hasn't been screwy? What is this

Spens1 · Post #19 » by **Spens1** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:26 am

Stanford wrote:
bestnamezRtaken wrote:That's so weird...whyyyyy

Vince is very much into specific branding like this. He wants HiaC to be strongly associated with the color red. All the promotional material has been very red, the color of hell.

He had the PPV called armageddon before, again, is that not hellish enough for him (then again he ruined all his PPV names for generic, non inspiring names, like backlash, judgement day, great american bash, cyber sunday/taboo tuesday, no way out, all basically described the PPV theme without being that overt, then again WWE always treats its fans like idiots).

improper · Post #20 » by **improper** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:38 am

They structured this PPV very strangely. Usually you want to finish strong, not start strong and suck down the stretch.