10 WWE Hell In A Cell 2017 Impulse Reactions

5. Going On Tour

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You didn't need a strong grasp of Hindi to work out that international broadcasters Obaid Kadwani and Sehz Sardar were plugging the company's December tour of India during their fluff piece to camera mid-way through the broadcast.

Triple H may have had to re-upload a tweet with a poster actually featuring the current WWE Champion when he errantly promoted the tour with the 'Modern Day Maharaja' nowhere to be found, but if harder evidence of the company's stubbornness towards 2017's ill-fated push was needed, Hell In A Cell offered it in hefty supply.

It was another boring match. It was another bout blighted by interference, but shockingly another one where Nakamura looked well beaten by the end.

WrestleMania has become something of a qualifier in determining if the company are making the best of a performer in the modern age, but if it feels quite a way in the distance for the 'King Of Strong Style', it feels a f*cking lifetime away for fans that continue to tolerate Jinder's wretched stewardship over SmackDown Live!

Time's tide will smother you, and Mahal's title reign will too. Bigotry in the build-up was too close to home and too near the bone. That joke isn't funny anymore.

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