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

6. A Commercial For A Boxing Showdown

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You had to wonder why Braun Strowman was partnered with the Viking Raiders to take on The OC at Hell in a Cell Sunday night. Cedric Alexander would have had a better case for wanting revenge.

But we got our answer after a decent six-man tag match ended in a disappointing DQ. Things broke down and left Braun and AJ Styles alone. AJ went for a Phenomenal Forearm, only for Strowman to slug him on the way down, knocking the United States Champion out. What came next was pure “hilarity.”

Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson tried to rouse Styles, who was spaghetti-legged and loopy, unable to stand or walk after the power of that one, solitary punch from Strowman, a scene that lasted for a solid two minutes all the way up the ramp with Anderson having to tell AJ what day it was and where they were.

You see, Braun had a staredown with Tyson Fury, the (has to look it up) lineal boxing heavyweight champion, at SmackDown on Friday. Since Strowman was already slated to have another riveting staredown with a boxer only boxing fans know, WWE felt the need to suddenly have Braun’s fists feel like cement blocks, leaving Styles to act like a concussed baby.

The six-man tag match wasn’t bad, but having it turn out to be an inconsequential commercial for a Raw showdown between Braun and Fury made this an easy negative.

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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.