11 Things That Must Happen At WWE Hell In A Cell 2017

No falling off the cell please, it's 2017.

by John Bills
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What has happened to SmackDown Live? In the immediate post-draft world, the blue brand was leaps and bounds ahead of RAW. AJ Styles was carrying the WWE Championship with class and Bray Wyatt, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, and others were finally given time to shine. Fast forward a year and the roster has been depleted, the writing has been uninspired, and worst of all, Jinder Mahal is WWE Champion.

The lack of interest surrounding Daniel Bryan’s show means this Sunday’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view isn’t exactly brimming with intrigue. Shane McMahon and Kevin Owens will do battle inside the eponymous structure in the main event, with the entire world expecting Shane-O Mac to fall off the cell to end the match.

The rest of the card doesn’t inspire much excitement in the viewing public, as a number of SummerSlam re-matches sit aside a deader than ditchwater Dolph Ziggler taking on Bobby Rode in a battle of what? Entrances? Gimmicks? Who knows.

Is Hell in a Cell a show that is dead on arrival? Of course not. WWE has a chance to salvage something from this mess. Expectations for the event are low, meaning the company can set the tone ahead of Survivor Series with little external pressure. A number of things must happen on Sunday in order to right the SmackDown Live ship.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.