10 WWE Hell In A Cell 2019 Impulse Reactions
7. Randy Orton Vs. Ali
Ali taking a vicious beating from the announce table early doors helped inform Randy Orton's typically "methodical" pace, thanks mostly to the vibrant red gash across his chiseled abs on display for most of the match.
Selling the sh*t out of it when he wasn't revealing the horrors to the hard camera, Ali's selling of an ostensibly injured rib was as good as Orton's measured, targeted strategy to smother salt on the wound.
In a year where the former police officer has suffered knocks at the worst time for his career, this was a karmic freebie - 'The Apex Predator' has killed a fair share of crowds in his time with matches such as these, but the audience stuck with his beatdowns enough to come alive a little bit during his comeback spots.
The victorio RKO was a popper supreme despite the fact that Ali probably should have been given the win after an jaw-dropping handstand counter to the same move seconds earlier. This escape was the moment of the match, and the sort of moment that's had him come so close to all those opportunities before being pulled away by the hand of fate.
This was, bizarrely, a huge push from that same hand, even if it's not, you know, a push.