10 Mistakes WWE Made With Alberto Del Rio

10. Brief Match With John Cena

As mentioned in the introduction to this piece, when Del Rio made his return at Hell in a Cell to answer John Cena’s US Open Challenge, it made for a pretty awesome moment. The resultant match, on the other hand, was rather less impactful.

Sure, Del Rio pinned Cena clean in the middle after following up the Backstabber with a Superkick, but the preceding action had lasted less than eight minutes in total.

Eight minutes is a fairly meagre runtime for any title match on PPV, but when we consider some of the other epic contests that we’d seen from Cena’s US Open Challenge - including numerous matches that lasted more than 15-20 minutes on Raw - this just felt even more underwhelming.

If they’d really wanted to put their best foot forward with Del Rio’s return to the company, this match should really have gone twice as long at it did. In the end though, the rather lacklustre contest proved to set the tone for the subsequent reign.