Ranking Every 2019 WWE PPV From Worst To Best

13. Hell In A Cell

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The Good: Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks had an absolute ripper of an opener inside Hell In A Cell for 'The Man's Raw Women's Champion. Banks bettered her performance from her last Cell clash with Charlotte Flair, whilst Lynch at long last got the gritty, believably violent title defence she'd been trying to muster since WrestleMania.

The Bad: Charlotte Flair's victory over Bayley triggered the latter's image-altering heel turn, but the match was one of their worst together. Chad Gable was "Chad" for the last time, and had his victory over Baron Corbin nullified by a brutal backstage assault. Whatever fire Ali had left was doused by a routine defeat to Randy Orton.

The Ugly: In only the second match for the character, The Fiend was mishandled and abused beyond all comprehension because the company didn't have the guts to put the Universal Title straight on him or have Seth Rollins somehow defeat him. A chronically awful match saw Rollins booed mercilessly by a crowd that could barely even see all the action because of a debuting stupid red spotlight. The second Hell In A Cell non-finish in as many years was the worst case scenario and a fatalistic bottle job by the company. Already on the ropes, Seth's babyface persona was blown to pieces by it. So soon into an intriguing repackaging, Bray Wyatt lost invaluable support too.

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