10 Wrestling Matches You Won't Believe Happened In 2020

2. Bayley Vs Sasha Banks (WWE Hell In A Cell)

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It's important to call this what it was.

WWE booked a story that lasted the better part of a year, arrived at a major stipulation pay-per-view worthy of the Championship blowoff, and presented a match even better than the high expectations set by those parameters.

They did that.

Or Bayley and Sasha Banks did that, and they didn't make a total mess of that. You decide, but consider what happened when the company tried to fold the carefully curated rivalry between the two into separate programmes with Asuka, Kairi Sane and Io Shirai across Raw and NXT and consider how well that went.

Ignoring that stumbling block, Hell In A Cell was for many the most satisfying moment of the year. A vision of what could and should be the case with most high profile feuds between great workers on a wrestling show if WWE wasn't micromanaged within an inch of its life by a past-it billionaire that will never ever reach the end of his thanks to the same serum that keeps Mr Burns ticking.

This was, without caveats, qualifiers or a crowd, f*cking end-to-end awesome. UncancelWWENetwork and treat yourself.

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