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

3. A Non-Finish Sends No One Home Happy

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For the second PPV in a row, a WWE world title match ended inconclusively. Last month, AJ Styles and Samoa Joe ended in a DQ.

This month, in addition to AJ/Joe ending in controversy, we saw a referee wave off the WWE Universal Championship Hell in a Cell match because “neither man could continue” after Brock Lesnar interfered. (And this came after Braun Strowman and Roman Reigns’ teammates brawled down to ringside.)

A Hell in a Cell match is supposed to be decisive. This is only the second time in the cell’s 21-year history – and first in 20 years – that a HIAC match ended without a winner, and first time on PPV.

That is not the kind of record you want to set with your PPV main event.

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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.