WWE Hell In A Cell 2016: 11 Things WWE Got Right

by John Bills

1. The Main Event Was The Main Event

Sasha Banks Charlotte Hell In A Cell
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Forget all the hoopla about a triple main event here; the first ever female Hell in a Cell match was the main event of this show. Rumours spread before the show that everyone wanted it to go on last except Vince McMahon himself, and luckily sense prevailed. A genuinely historic match is more important than a No DQ match between Roman Reigns and Rusev that happens to have a cell around it.

Now, you can question whether the Charlotte/Sasha match itself was fitting for the stipulation. A lot of people have forgotten that the original cell match (Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels) came about not because of some mega-heated feud, but because the previous month a match between the two had been plagued by outside interference. The Cell was where matches went when things needed to be settled one-on-one.

Minor gripes aside, the right call was made with regards to the main event. WWE likes to talk about multiple main events, but to the majority of the fanbase the main event will always be the match that goes on last. A huge congratulations must go out to Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks for the history they made last night, and now the onus returns to the WWE creative teams to not pat themselves on the back and consider it a job done.

The true revolution starts now.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.