10 Quietly Brilliant WWE PPVs
1. WWE Hell In A Cell 2015
The Hell In A Cell Pay Per View, introduced in 2009, is often held up as an indictment of the latter day creative process.
Instead of allowing feuds to play out organically, reaching a logical peak, the stipulation - once the ultimate and literal blood feud battleground - is often imposed before the requisite intensity justifies it. The event doesn't just ruin rivalries with a contrived bent - the fact that the Pay Per View exists alone often means the Cell cannot be used elsewhere, less the lustre of it is ruined through overexposure (try and work that logic out).
The aesthetic of the event itself has been compromised in recent years by the middle pink rope, put in place in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month - it is a conspicuous reminder, a potent visual metaphor, that the PG mandate has diluted what was once a bloody stipulation.
Lost among this universal and much-warranted criticism is that some of the events have been damn good (try and work that logic out). The 2015 edition remains the best; a night on which even Roman Reigns lived up to his imagined billing as a top babyface, his uplifting war with Bray Wyatt was bettered by the Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker main event - a match which so flattered the Undertaker in defeat that Lesnar had to destroy everything in his path, causing almost unprecedented destruction, just to put him away.