7 Ups & 8 Downs From One Year Of Bray Wyatt’s Fiend In WWE

3. Hell In A Cell

Seth Rollins Bray Wyatt Hell In A Cell
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Awful, but nowhere near as epically bad as Hell In A Cell.

The original purpose of the Cell gimmick was to ensure finality in a feud between two workers, or at least that's how it seemed. For example, DX leader Shawn Michaels had nowhere to run when locked in there with The Undertaker. He was screwed, kinda' like fans in Sacramento on 6 October 2019.

They rained boos down on both Wyatt and Seth Rollins as their headliner creaked to an unwanted match stoppage after babyface Seth had buried Bray under a pile of rubble. Nobody looked good coming out of this one - the backlash was so bad that Rollins' was dead man walking as a good guy afterwards.

WWE had made a mockery of the beloved HIAC stipulation. Though true it had been wobbling for a decade or more ever since they turned it into an annual pay-per-view instead of a necessary evil amongst rivals, this was a nail in the proverbial coffin.

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