6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Hell In A Cell 2022


Whenever WWE ditches the silliness and minimizes their overproduced segments,

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scripted promos and various overplayed tropes, and they just focus on the in-ring

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performance, things just amazingly tend to turn out well for them.

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Thus, Hell in a Cell has to be termed a qualified success. They delivered a red-hot opener and white hot main event that made you feel.

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Throw in five matches in the middle that ranged from passable to decent,

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without anything registering as an outright embarrassment, and you’ve got a pretty decent PLE.

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The two big stories coming out of HIAC have to be Bianca Belair’s title defense in a solid

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triple threat that played to a fired-up crowd right out of the chute, and Cody Rhodes overcoming a torn pectoral muscle,

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gutting out a tremendous performance that was cringeworthy and jaw-dropping at the same time.

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