5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Sept 21)
5. Hellscape Of A Cell
The old Hell In A Cell structure conveyed itself as a deadly battle ground because it was this chillingly viable thing. It looked liked a death sentence. It looked like a haunted monstrosity abandoned in a scrapyard in a Stephen King novel. It helped that Jim Ross sold it with the cornball creepiness of Pet Sematary's Jud Crandall as portrayed by Fred Gwynne.
"You don't wanna go down that road. I got Maria Kannellis tied up down that road."
And now it looks like a shiny new garish red toy thing to match Roman Reigns' Universal Title. That's the reason, isn't it? "On brand" promotional synergy. It's telling that Roman has only just won the f*cker, and it's not as if they painted it yellow. So WWE's new strategic drive to get Roman over involves ruining a cherished institution. He's already knackered the main event of WrestleMania, and now this.
Either that, or because the pay-per-view is entitled 'Hell In A Cell', the Cell now must be red in colour to convey this theme because we are all too pigsh*t thick to grasp it otherwise.
Sunday daytime and its shocking leaked pictures threatened something far beyond goofy - and it still is, let's face it - but one Randy Orton helped make the colour of it meaningless by doing some very un-PG things in a PG setting...