4 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Hell In A Cell 2018

4. A Riveting Opener

Hell In A Cell Randy Orton Jeff Hardy
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When you think, “exciting PPV opening match,” you generally don’t think of Randy Orton.

Orton is a talented wrestler, one the best on the roster, but he is anything but an exciting performer. And so his Hell in a Cell match with Jeff Hardy naturally opened the PPV, moving along at a… methodical pace.

The match was a snoozer up until the point at which Orton grabbed a screwdriver and inserted it into Hardy’s dangling earlobe and started to pull and twist. Then the match became squeamish. We got a series of spots involving tables, ladders and chairs (oh my!), and a car crash ending with a stretcher-job bonus, but that was it.

This really wasn’t a good match to open HIAC, but the fans in attendance seemed interested enough.

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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.