5 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Hell In A Cell 2016

1. Deflating The Hometown Crowd

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WWE’s obsession with having wrestlers lose in their hometowns is a ridiculous ploy that is going to backfire someday really bad.

Sunday’s decision to have Sasha Banks lose the first women’s PPV main event in her hometown was just a horrible decision that pissed off the crowd and let to a pretty deflated group of fans. Many were counting on Sasha overcoming and finally getting a decent reign with the title, but it looks like they’d rather have around Charlotte’s waist.

Beating the hometown girl in a title match is one way to tick off fans and lead some to not show up the next time you’re in town. That might sound extreme, but why should fans shell out their money, if they’re local heroes are going to get toppled like that?

You’d think WWE might have learned a lesson from Raw, when they clearly were counting on the Minnesota crowd to boo hometown hero Brock Lesnar, and it tanked so badly that Vince McMahon pulled the plug on the segment. But it sure doesn’t look like it.

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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.