7 Things WWE Killed Forever At Hell In A Cell 2019

7. Chad Gable.

Chad Gable was so close to taking off after King of the Ring. So, so close.

Though the former American Alpha man was undermined by constant height jokes, high-effort matches with Andrade and Baron Corbin won the crowd over. The guy has always been awesome, of course, but he has been given so few opportunities to show it over the past few years that huge chunks of WWE’s fanbase must have forgotten about him. In KOTR, Gable woke them from their slumber.

A run like this would act as a springboard to something greater in any other promotion. Not WWE, though. Rather than elevating Gable, a company that have diminished him by constantly drawing attention to his one glaring performance weakness have instead made that weakness his thing. Greg Hamilton announced him as “Shorty Gable” in last night’s win over Corbin. Later, Kayla Braxton did the same. There goes any hope of anyone ever taking him seriously again.

The Corbin victory was trash, too, with Gable’s He Stole One! moment painting it as a fluke, not opportunism, and it came following a painfully tedious bout that allowed Corbin to indulge in his worst in-ring instincts. The result? A technically outstanding babyface who’s now colder than a polar bear’s penis.