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

2. Overdone

Charlotte Sasha Banks
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The Hell in a Cell match between Charlotte and Sasha Banks could have stood out a little more and might have been even better received had it not been the third HIAC match of the night. That’s a lot.

Three out of seven matches took place inside Hell in a Cell, putting it on par with TNA’s Lethal Lockdown, where every match takes place inside a steel cage. By the time we got the Women’s Championship HIAC match, we had seen broken tables, bent steel chairs and wrestlers flying into the steel cage. That’s not to say that it wasn’t still impressive, but it definitely lost its luster by having three cell matches in one night.

This should be a lesson for WWE in the future to limit these to one or two at a PPV. Better yet, do away with the HIAC PPV theme and save the gimmick for a match that demands the cell to end a feud.

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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.