10 Worst WWE PPV Endings Ever

9. Hell In A Cell 2019

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If you're looking for a safe bet, put money on the annual Hell in a Cell pay-per-view being a terrible show. Once a hugely anticipated gimmick match, the Devil's Playground may well be wrestling's best example of how important 'quality over quantity' is. The last few years have given fans one bad cell match after another, and the lustre is long dead.

The 2019 edition was particularly galling. Seth Rollins defended the Universal Championship against The Fiend in the main event, although the visibility was so poor that it could have been anyone in the cell. Red lighting and a red cage? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

How did the match end? Well, to put it as simply as possible, it ended when the referee stopped the match because something happened that had already happened multiple times in the match. Seth Rollins hit The Fiend with a hammer (not long after The Fiend had used a mallet, ostensibly a large hammer) and the ref could take no more.

Big hammer good, small hammer bad.

To ram home how dumb this was, the show actually went off the air with The Fiend getting immediate revenge, attacking Rollins and putting him out with the Mandible Claw. Three weeks later, Fiend won the title. What? Why?

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