7 Positives Heading Into WWE Hell In A Cell 2018
Just look at that poster... can that be an honorable mention?
Hell in a Cell 2018 is shaping up to be one hell of a pay-per-view. With WWE tweaking some characters and giving us storylines actually worth getting invested in, good booking could make this one of the year's most exciting events.
The Hell in a Cell match started to gain a bad reputation, especially around the 2010s when they became an annual pay-per-view event. The cell match is a great stipulation, but placing a date on the calendar and saying "here's when the cell matches are coming" kind of takes away the whole point of intense rivalries. This year, however, WWE decided to book feuds that actually made sense inside of the steel structure (although arguably their two most heated feuds haven't yet been announced as cell matches).
Outside of just the match type, Hell in a Cell 2018 should be the culmination of multiple great storylines. Between wrestlers like Becky Lynch, The Miz, and Samoa Joe being on their A-game and things like the whole Shield vs. the locker-room debacle from last week's Raw, this pay-per-view is managing to spark interest while looking incredibly promising.
7. Guaranteed Tag Team Goodness
The New Day are set to defend their newly-won SmackDown Tag Team Championships against either Rusev Day or Sheamus & Cesaro. Either way, that's a win for the fans.
Rusev Day have carved out a perfect spot on the roster for themselves and quickly became one of the most over acts in the entire company. Genuinely, Rusev might get louder pops than Daniel Bryan. Also being one of the highest merchandise-movers of 2018, 'The Bulgarian Brute' and his personal singer Aiden English have managed to capture the hearts of the entire WWE Universe. While Aiden is fairly mediocre in the ring, Rusev can really go and always puts in a good showing. The New Day also find themselves to be one of the most popular acts consistently putting on entertaining matches, so this is sounding like a great way to set the crowd on fire.
Sheamus & Cesaro might not get Rusev Day levels of crowd reaction, but boy do they make up for that with skill. The New Day and Sheamsaro have put on some top-notch bouts before, so this match definitely has high hopes as well.
Whoever New Day faces, it's sounding like a good night for SmackDown Live!'s tag team division.