The Day WWE Hell In A Cell Died

Both matches need finishes. All matches need finishes, but this is WWE so that's now sadly a sentence.

Bayley and Sasha Banks needs a finish even if it's just for now rather than forever, and brilliantly, both results have strong narrative justifications. Banks winning the belt would be the perfect payoff to a storyline with substantial investment in that very outcome. 'The Role Model' retaining would treble down on Banks' inability to win in the Cell, and reemphasise her pay-per-view curse ahead of her winning the Royal Rumble and snapping her own streak at WrestleMania 37.

Roman Reigns and Jey Uso needs a finish because it had an absolutely mesmerising one at Clash Of Champions and the top priority in the entire company should be preserving the magic they have in this current version of the 'The Big Dog' for as long as possible.

To build excitement, the company has to build emotional investment. To build emotional investment, the audience needs suspension of disbelief. All the opposites have been true for the last two years, but WWE have the opportunity to right two mammoth wrongs in just two matches on Sunday. If they do, they stand a chance of salvaging a brand for years to come. If they don't, the bloodthirsty domain may as well be one giant cartoon. And that's the one reanimation Hell In A Cell doesn't require.