7 WWE Hell In A Cell 2021 Impulse Reactions
4. Alexa Bliss Vs. Shayna Baszler
The bar set for Shayna Baszler Vs Alexa Bliss was at an all time low thanks to a Monday Night Raw segment that somehow reduced the standards beyond the rock bottom we all thought we'd reached at WrestleMania 37.
There, the burned alive Bray Wyatt was put down with RKO thanks to what we might generously call mind control from an Alexa Bliss gimmick he helped foster. Here, Nia Jax lost complete control and Baszler struggled to regain any, all thanks to Bliss' indiscriminate magic claiming yet another scalp.
There was some decent stuff buried in the treacle of the plot. When Alexa wasn't (gamely) entirely in character, she was walloping 'The Queen Of Spades' with some super stiff kicks that would mattered more in a match that wasn't mostly about possessions and spooky powers.
Baszler no doubt pleased her boss no end with her ac-ting, and based on how McMahon hated her original character, it probably bodes well for her after the fact. All of these bits of isolated praise required manually isolating in the first place though. This was a bad match with snatches of good entirely overwhelmed the stupid story. A stupid story that's nearly a year old if the lore losers want to trace this back to the Swamp Fight.
Get them back in there - if they're gonna be forced to work stupid, they may as well do it in a stupid location too.