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

8. Gold Fever

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There was a somewhat scary statistic thrown out before the WWE Universal Championship cell match: Seth Rollins has now competed in a title match on 16 straight PPVs (when he’s been healthy).

That is just a crazy number of matches, spanning back to WrestleMania XXXI last year, when Rollins won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. He defended it at eight PPVs before getting injured. Rollins then returned to win the world title and immediately lost it. He’s been competing for the Universal Championship since SummerSlam.

This is not to say that Rollins shouldn’t be a top guy fighting for a championship (his face turn seems to be catching on more day by day). But it wouldn’t hurt to have someone else step in and battle for the top prize and let Rollins fight someone else in a feud that doesn’t involve a title for a change. Maybe Chris Jericho’s Codebreaker after the cell match will lead to just that.

Let’s face it: If this was Roman Reigns we were talking about, fans would be apoplectic about it, so let’s be fair about 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.