4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Hell In A Cell 2021

by Scott Carlson

1. A Brutal Cell War

Drew McIntyre Bobby Lashley
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The final battle between Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley needed to be an all-out war, with both men tearing into each other and using everything at their disposal to try to end the other man’s career.

And thankfully, that’s what we got in the Hell in a Cell main event on Sunday night. Lashley and McIntyre attacked each other with various weapons, battering each other with chairs, kendo sticks and ring steps, putting their opponent through tables and brawling all over the cell. They hit all their signature spots and kept fighting until neither had anything left.

It took an x-factor – MVP – to tip the scales, grabbing McIntyre’s foot before a climactic Claymore attempt, which allowed Lashley to grab a desperation rollup for the win. Normally, a rollup would be a disdainful finish, but after a half-hour HIAC match, it’s believable that a wrestler just wouldn’t have enough left eventually (plus Lashley’s pin was a pretty deep one).

Regardless, this feud needed punctuation, and we got it on Sunday night. Drew can’t challenge for the WWE Championship as long as Lashley holds it, so this hopefully means that both men move on to new feuds.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.