7 WWE Hell In A Cell 2021 Impulse Reactions

7. Natalya Vs. Mandy Rose

WWE went for some pathetically low hanging fruit on the Hell In A Cell go-home Monday Night Raw when Tag Team Champions Natalya and Tamina responded to Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose's assertions that they were undeserving by calling them ugly.

Reductive, race to the bottom bullsh*t, but announcing a singles split for the show's Kickoff was at least in service of the eventual Championship match between the pair. A quality match (if one only officially announced during the pre-show itself) stood to turn things around for the Champions and the last remaining team left to challenge them.

Unfortunately, the battle for mutual respect that informed the first half of this match rapidly dissolved, bringing it dangerously close to the footage you see in vignettes from the Performance Center where William Regal and Albert pay taciturn complements to trainees with names they can't remember.

Natalya won the stoic and unmemorable battle with the Sharpshooter, which arguably should remove Rose and Brooke from title contention. That we know the opposite will occur rendered the finish meaningless before it could even be effectively sold. Reaped. Sown.