7 WWE Hell In A Cell Stats And Facts You Need To Know
3. A Champion’s Edge?
Roman Reigns might be the “golden child” of WWE, 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 world champion has far better odds of retaining his (or her) title inside Hell in a Cell (13 times out of 19) than (s)he does against the winner of the Royal Rumble (11 times out of 25).
Out of 19 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 two years, we’ve seen Charlotte Flair defeat Sasha Banks for the Raw Women’s Championship in 2016, and the Usos topple the New Day last year for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.
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.