10 Times WWE Booked Themselves Into A Corner
7. Hell In A Cell 2019
How transcendently brilliant is Daniel Bryan?
He recovered this piece of sh*t and worked several thousand people into thinking the Fiend could be good again. This piece of sh*t, of course, was the infamous main event of Hell In A Cell, which was shockingly awful on every conceivable level.
The Fiend brought out a big, oversized mallet. This was considered fair game in a barbaric match with no rules. The presiding official could not however condone a smaller hammer, and called the match off. This was the equivalent of a boxing referee calling off a bout for a body shot. A disaster of psychology and presentation, there was no need for this to happen. WWE booked a match between two acts they didn't want to beat, in a match where there must be a winner, and simply didn't deliver a winner. They strapped the f*cker later that very month, and if they wanted to wait until Halloween for full spooky effect, that should tell you all you need to know about how superficial this nonsense is.
The disaster of the finish was thrown into even sharper relief when one considers how the main event of TLC and the injury to Kairi Sane played out.
What this means, in storyline canon, is that WWE officials were concerned over the fate of an invincible supernatural monster in proximity of a sledgehammer than a concussed, diminutive human being in proximity of a ladder.