10 Times The Opening Match Stole A WWE Show
3. Hell In A Cell 2019 - Becky Lynch Vs. Sasha Banks
As two of the performers who helped solidify the women’s revolution, it made sense that Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks would put on the first great women’s Hell In A Cell match. The 2019 stipulation-based event opened and closed with cage matches, and the gulf in quality between the two made the booking look downright foolish.
On the one hand, you’ve got Banks and Lynch. Two hugely popular acts, two stars who know precisely what they’re doing in their roles. Banks is superb as the heel willing to do anything for the win, and Lynch couldn’t be more over as The Man, scrappy and resourceful enough to be undaunted by any opponent.
The match is physical and smartly worked, with some innovative spots - Lynch mounting a chair in the cage’s bars, planting Banks on it then walloping her off perhaps the best example - and ends the right way, with the hero gutting it out and catching Banks in an armbar.
The finale, on the other hand, was the infamous non-finish between a flapping Seth Rollins and The Fiend, complete with ugly red lighting and growing crowd rebellion. Perhaps the ordering could have been switched.