10 HUGE WWE Hell In A Cell 2018 Predictions You Need To Know

7. Lynch Mob

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WWE steering backwards from Becky Lynch's post-SummerSlam heel turn has been a pleasing development for their ordinarily fragile talent maintenance.

The company have allowed fans to cheer and boo who they like in 'The Irish Lass Kicker's rivalry with the current SmackDown Live Women's Champion, despite anti-hero Becky taking countless shortcuts she now feels justified in trying. Charlotte - brilliantly - has thus been unapologetic for taking advantage of the opportunities given to her by a rattled General Manager Paige ahead of the SummerSlam title switch.

More seems destined for their immediate future, with the feud perhaps likely to mirror Charlotte's with Sasha Banks in 2016 without quite as much hot-shotting. Lynch winning here may predicate further switches at Super Show-Down and Evolution, so a thrown-out brawl may be the best way to delay an eventual change.

Neither can afford to look weak and nor should they have to. The rivalry is heated, the tension feels real, and fans are in full voice for the entire thing. That this isn't taking place inside the structure hung above the pair speaks only to the timing of Becky's turn rather than the quality of the angle.

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