5 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Hell In A Cell 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. Banks, Lynch, Set The Bar

Sasha Banks Becky Lynch
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The Hell in a Cell structure might be red, but the opening cell match between Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks was white hot.

The two women absolutely killed it with their Raw Women’s Championship contest, with Banks jumping Lynch before the cell was even fully lowered, Becky responding by stealing the chain and pummeling Sasha with it, and both wrestlers attacking each other with pure venom. Steel chairs, ladders, kendo sticks and a table all got involved, but the match kept moving at a breakneck pace.

Yes, they took time to sell the impact of the moves, but they didn’t lay around for five minutes between big moves. This was a fast-paced, hard-hitting match that really served as a “can you top this?” call to the rest of the locker room.

It might have only been the second women’s cell match, but Lynch and Banks proved that they deserved their spot in 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.