8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 31)

2. Hell In A Cell = Walk In The Park

Roman Reigns Chris Jericho
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Well, it looks like it’s official: Hell in a Cell is no longer a dangerous, career-shortening, demonic structure. It might as well be a ball pit or a pack-and-play.

Six competitors entered Hell in a Cell Sunday night. Five of them showed up Monday, and aside from a couple small, nagging injuries, no one looked worse for wear. (Only Sasha Banks, who was put on a stretcher before the match started, didn’t show.) The only one of the five to wrestle a match, Roman Reigns, was pummeled with a chain, thrown into steel steps repeatedly and put in the Accolade twice. He sold a mild arm injury and maybe some hurt ribs, but he clearly was on par with a relatively fresh Chris Jericho.

Shouldn’t one of those five have sold their beatings as if they were incapable of standing Monday? Or at least wrapping an arm or wearing tape on their backs? That would have made it appear that the cell, as Mick Foley said, can shorten careers and put wrestlers on the shelf, rather than being just another gimmick match.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.