7 WWE Hell In A Cell Facts And Figures You Need To Know

3. A Champion’s Edge?

Kane Mankind Hell In A Cell
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Seth Rollins might he has a leg up going in to Sunday, but that isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, the odds are stacked against him (and Rusev and Charlotte as well).

Despite being trapped inside the cell with a challenger with nothing to lose, a world champion has far better odds of retaining his (or her) title inside Hell in a Cell (11 times out of 15) than (s)he does against the winner of the Royal Rumble (8 times out of 22). Out of 15 title matches, only three times has a title switched hands inside Hell in a Cell, two of which came at the first Hell in a Cell PPV in 2009 (Undertaker over CM Punk and Randy Orton over John Cena). The other match was a three-way bout at the 2011 HIAC, with Alberto Del Rio beating CM Punk and Cena, who was the champ.

The oddball match (as you might have noticed there have been three title switches and 11 defenses) is the 2013 cell match between Orton and Daniel Bryan, which was for a then-vacant title. On Sunday, three titles (Universal, United States and Women’s) will be defended, so this statistic could change drastically.

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