The Day WWE Hell In A Cell Died

Drew McIntyre defeated Randy Orton at SummerSlam with a wrestling move. These are the facts. In WWE, that wrestling move wasn't his finisher (and 'The Viper' put a load of legends in hospital), so they had an ambulance match. Orton got punked out by all the aforementioned oldies, before McIntyre polished him off with his own move and sent him packing.

Ric Flair being behind the wheel of the ambulance itself was so charming that it almost justified some of the dafter chapters. All until Orton nope'd the f*ck out of it and bought some night-vision goggles from Wish.com. They're doing it all over again, and it's happening in the Cell because it's October and that's what October feuds do.

The match isn't about not being able to get in, or get out, or the sheer scale of violence that can take place within it, or up against it, or on top of it. It's not about any of that. It used to be that only when a rivalry warranted these stacked extremes would it be afforded the once-terrifying structure.

But that complaint's beginning to feel as old as NXT's best demo. WWE have been doing this multiple-cell sh*t for over a decade. Other than when the cage got taller, then sprayed red (!), it's not changed and we can't expect that now. But what can we expect? Unknown, but if the answer to that question even remotely resembles the events of the last two years, the gimmick will stay dead forevermore.

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