Who Left WWE Hell In A Cell 2022 As Raw Women's Champion?

Women's title match opens Hell In A Cell and nearly steals the show from the get-go.

by Scott Carlson
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When babyfaces make guarantees, like saying they 100% are going to leave a premium live event with their title, they better come through. Thankfully, that's exactly what Bianca Belair did at WWE Hell in a Cell Sunday, retaining her Raw Women's Championship.

Belair defeated Asuka and Becky Lynch in an ultra-competitive match that saw all three women go at top speed for the entire bout. Each woman dominated at various points and had opportunities to pick up the win. We got to see some unique triple threat spots, like Asuka cinching in a double anklelock, or Bianca hitting a double handspring moonsault.

This marks Belair's second successful title defense, and it gave her a high-profile win over two top stars in the division, getting her reign off to a solid start. The match itself opened Hell in a Cell and had pretty strong fan participation throughout.

It's worth noting that this triple threat was a plan B for WWE, as the original plan was for Naomi to emerge victorious in a six-pack challenge for the #1 contendership, but as fans know, that fell apart when Sasha Banks & Naomi walked out on Raw, forcing a change of plans.

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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.