7 WWE Hell In A Cell Statistics You Need To Know
3. A Champion’s Edge?
“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt might have the upper hand in his feud with Seth Rollins, but does he have a good chance – statistically speaking – of walking out of Hell in a Cell with the WWE Universal Championship?
Despite being trapped inside the cell with a challenger with nothing to lose, a champion has far better odds of retaining their title inside Hell in a Cell (14 times out of 19) than they do against the winner of the Royal Rumble. Out of 20 title matches (one was a vacant title), only five 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). Another was a three-way bout at the 2011 HIAC, with Alberto Del Rio beating CM Punk and Cena, who was the champ.
In the last three years, we’ve seen Charlotte Flair defeat Sasha Banks for the Raw Women’s Championship in 2016, and The Usos topple the New Day in 2017 for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.
The oddball match is the 2013 cell match between Orton and Daniel Bryan, which was for a then-vacant title.