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How WWE Should Book Hell In
A Cell 2018
Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, every month before major WWE pay-per-views, I’ve come on here and booked the cards to make them as exciting, intriguing, and best possible scenarios for the future. I do both NXT and main-roster pay-per-views, as well as the occasional big RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how WWE Should Book Hell In A Cell 2015.
KICKOFF-SHOW
·
We get the UNusual kickoff panel with JOHNNY
COACHMAN, Booker T, Sam Roberts and David Otunga. The panel do their usual
blabbering by hyping up the card, giving their predictions, showing us video
packages, and all that fun schtuff. A Social Media Lounge segment is
announced earlier in the day on WWE’s twitter with Jeff Hardy. Use
#AskJeffHardy. A little over halfway through the show, we get to our
kickoff match.
KICKOFF
MATCH: The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) (w/ Kofi Kingston) (c) vs. Rusev
Day (Aiden English and Rusev) (w/ Lana) (Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown
Tag Team Championships)
·
So WWE spent nearly a month doing all these big, long
tournaments to crown new No.1 Contenders to these championships after Rowan got
hurt, advertised it like their lives depended on it, just to boot it to the
kickoff show. Haha. Hahaha. Hahahahah, Chuckle. Laugh. New Day are out
first followed by the Day of The Rusev variety. The match goes 11 minutes.
Had this been on the main card, I was planning to put it on just before the
main event, following Joe/Styles and preceding Braun/Roman as kind of a
cool-down match so the fans wouldn't be dead following the fantasticness that
is sure to be the WWE title match. As much as I’m sure we all love Rusev Day
and want nothing more for them to succeed, the sad truth is that the act is
dead. They should’ve won those titles when the time was right between Clash Of
Champions and Wrestlemania 34 last year. There’s just no sense in putting the
titles on them right now, and New Day is always your safest bet for great
matches and great TV in the SmackDown tag division. The match ends when
Big E and Woods hit the Midnight Hour on English for the win. I’ve got no
idea when WWE plans to break up Rusev Day at this point, I would’ve done it at
Summerslam the way I had it in my post. Just when they looked like it was gonna
happen, they were put back together like nothing happened, so really no point
in speculation at this point.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL the WWE SmackDown Live Tag Team Champions: The New Day
·
We get the Social Media Lounge with Jeff, and he basically
straight up says he’s jumping off the cell tonight without actually saying it.
The panel give their final predictions for the main event matches, and we get
to the main show.
MAIN-SHOW:
·
Before we begin yet another post, I’d just like to say that this
happens to be my 50TH EVER “HOW WWE SHOULD BOOK” POST. Over all the
PPV’s, Takeovers, Network Specials, RAWs and SmackDowns since late 2015, I
thank you all for keeping on reading. Let’s get into the home of the
SATAN’S PLAYGROUND…. I mean the DEVIL’S STRUCTURE… of fire and hell and evil
and stuff.
1ST
MATCH: Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan vs. Maryse and The Miz (Mixed Tag Team
match)
·
Miz and Maryse are out first followed by Bryan and mode
Brie. The match goes 10 minutes. This needs to be kept short, as we
don’t want too much Bryan/Miz interaction until WM, but at the same time
they’ll probably be doing most of the work as Brie and Maryse have not been
doing too well at anything in their job description as of late. Let’s refresh
things and begin a PPV with a shorter match for once, every time now it’s some
huge near half hour classic, let’s get moving quick. The match ends
when Brie and Maryse are legal. Brie calls for the Yes Kicks but Maryse
scrambles away to her corner and hides behind Miz. Bryan comes out of nowhere
off the top rope with a Missle Dropkick, sending Miz outside the ring. Bryan
follows and the ref is distracted as Maryse tries to undo a turnbuckle pad. On
the outside, Bryan and Miz engage in a wild brawl and out of nowhere Miz nails
Bryan in the skull with a monitor from the announce desk. DB is out cold and
Miz laughs as he looks at what he’s done. Brie notices the scene and rushes to
the outside to be at Bryan’s side. The count to 10 begins as doctors tend to
Daniel and Brie now has to decide whether she wants to get back in and save the
match, or worry about her unconscious husband’s well being. Brie gets up and
starts to get back in but stops herself. She looks at the ring then and Bryan
and back and forth, and eventually decides to go help Bryan get on the
stretcher. The referee has counted to 10 now and Miz and Maryse win in the
dirtiest of tactics possible once again. This isn’t over, but on from here
for The Miz is the WWE Title, and therefore a victory just one more time over
Bryan at SSD. If you wanna know my further plans on how and when Miz
would win the title, go to the end of AJ vs. Joe.
WINNERS
by COUNT-OUT- Maryse and The Miz
·
We get an ad for WWE 2K19.
2ND
MATCH: Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Becky Lynch (Singles match for the WWE SmackDown
Women’s Championship)
·
We get a pre-match video package recapping the feud until
now.. Charlotte is out first followed by Becky, who just slowly walks
to the ring with an intense, cold glare in her eyes. We get formal ring
introductions and the match goes 16 minutes. Thankfully WWE seems to have
semi-cleared-up the mess that was Becky Lynch’s heel turn, and she now seems to
just be attacking Charlotte instead of insulting the fans or anything of the
sort. I’ve said it before and I will say it again- If you are the BEST at what
you do in your division at any given time, then the BEST should hold
Championship gold. Becky has the greatest fan support, want to succeed,
character work, promos, charisma, and one of the best in-ring women WWE has
got. You might argue that this feud should continue and I agree on that because
this match will surely be phenomenal and fans will immediately be itching for
more, but WWE shouldn’t make the mistake they made with Rusev Day that I
mentioned earlier in this post. Becky is the hottest she’s ever been right now,
and WWE needs to capitalize, pull the trigger, and lay that title over her
shoulder Sunday night. Fans can get tired of something pretty quickly, WWE
themselves even more so. Can’t risk anything. Becky wins the title
after locking Charlotte in the Disarmher, but Charlotte gets to the ropes.
Becky pulls her back to the center of the ring and begins to jump up and down
on her knees, wrenching and trying to yank Charlotte’s arm out of it’s socket.
Charlotte submits to give the greatest wrestler in the history of our sport the
title she has deserved since the second she lost it in December 2016.
WINNER
by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE SmackDown Live Women’s Champion: Becky Lynch
·
We get an ad for Tapout,* then go back to the ring as the lights
begin to flash, the music begins to play, and the cell lowers to engulf the
ring for the 39th time. It’s time for the death of Jeff Hardy*.
3RD
MATCH: Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton (Hell In A Cell match)
·
Randy Orton is out first followed by Jeff Hardy. This isn’t just
any ordinary entrance by Jeff Hardy. Tonight, for the dream match of
his career, for the match that will house one of the scariest stunts of his
career, for a rivalry reborn, NO MORE WORDS RETURNS. Jeff comes out first to
the usual Hardy Boyz theme, but Jeff doesn’t come out. The music stops, No More
Words hits to the poppiest of pops, and Jeff hops out. The match goes 22
minutes. Ever since Jeff returned the RAW after Mania, I’ve been an
advocate for saying that No More Words should only return if Jeff enters a
World Title program, but this is pretty much equal to that, right? Plus WWE has
been using it in videos of Jeff applying his facepaint, it’s coming, people.
Back to the match now, we all know that Jeff is gonna Swanton off the cell.
It’s inevitable. The man has a deathwish and has his whole career. This is a
FIGHT that is ultra brutal in the worst ways. Here are a few spots in the
match:
·
Orton gets a chain from under the ring and links it to the cell
wall and Jeff’s earing hole. JEFF IS TRAPPED TO THE CELL BY HIS DAMN EAR and
Orton brutalizes him with chair and kendo stick shots.
·
A Twist Of Fate countered into an RKO countered into a Twist Of
Fate countered into a RKO countered into a Twist Of Fate countered into an RKO
on the steps.
·
Lots and lots of face grinding against the cell wall
·
Jeff runs off the ropes and tries for a Poetry In Motion to the
outside but Orton moves and Jeff crashes into the cell wall.
And
then finally. Jeff starts beating up on Orton, finally making a comeback with some
steel chair shots. Orton manages to find some hedge clippers under the ring and
breaks the lock on the cell door. The two fight around the cell to the announce
tables area and Orton clears off one to backdrop Jeff through. The table stays
intact as does Jeff and Orton tries to escape up the cell and both men climb in
pursuit to the roof. Let’s not waste any more time- Jeff swantons off
the cell through the table, likely missing Orton at his own request. Orton
carries Jeff’s limp body back into the cell and into the ring, hits one final
spike RKO on a chair and gets the victory. Orton needs to win this match,
and it’s pretty clear he will. Jeff needs time off for a few months. Much like
his brother, his body is breaking down. Maybe he can return in the Rumble, but
no earlier. Don’t even bother commenting “NO, THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS,
JEFF COULD DIE, HE SHOULDN’T DO IT FOR HIS OWN SAKE”, because you know Jeff is
gonna say fuck you all and do it anyways, especially after telling a news
outlet this week that ‘he was ‘GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT THE FANS WOULD NEVER
FORGET”.
WINNER
by PINFALL: Randy Orton
·
We get an ad for Super Show-Down, followed by a backstage
interview with Mick Foley, in which he promises to be an unbiased and fair
official tonight.
**4TH MATCH: Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler
(c) vs. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins (Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team
Championships)
·
Drew and Dolph are first followed by Dean and Seth. The
match goes 15 minutes. This is going to be a beat the fuck out of each
other match. And I really love beat the fuck out of each other matches. Rollins
has the chance in this match to become a TWO-TIME DOUBLE CHAMPION, after
winning the US Title while already WWE Champion at Summerslam 2015 against
Cena. I would’ve personally had Ziggler retain at Summerslam via shenanigans
and lead to a Ziggler/McIntyre match at Mania where McIntyre wins the belt, but
clearly plans will have to change. The match ends when the ref’s back
is turned and Ziggler Low Blows Rollins and McIntyre hits the Claymore to
retain the titles. I don’t see ZigIntyre as transitional champions and I
hope WWE don’t either, they’re both too talented. Ambrose and Dean have held
the titles billions of times already and they don’t need them right now at all.
Dolph and Drew are money, especially Drew, and I think they should undisputedly
have a longer reign. Plus, it plays into the ending of the main event.
WINNERS
by PINFALL and STILL WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: Drew McIntyre and Dolph
Ziggler
·
We get an ad for WWE Champions
5TH
MATCH: Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Alexa Bliss (Singles match for the WWE RAW Women’s
Championship)
·
This will hopefully be a much better contest than at Summerslam.
Two bad PPV matches in a row could spell disaster for Ronda, considering how
hot the WM mixed tag was. Alexa is out first followed by Ronda and the
match goes 5 minutes. We get formal ring introductions. Alexa
targets Rousey’s arm all throughout the match to try and prevent her from getting
full torque if she were to lock in the Armbar. Alexa slams it against the
post, stomps on it, slams it on the apron, but of course Ronda Rousey
is a former UFC fighter and Alexa Bliss is a 5 foot pro wrestler so Ronda gets
it on anyways and Alexa taps right away. Plain and simple, Ronda retains.
Alexa/Trish shouldn’t be for a title.
WINNER
by SUBMISSION and STILL WWE RAW Women’s Champion: Ronda Rousey
·
We get an ad for the new shows coming to the WWE Network, and
then go up to our Kickoff panel for their exciting and relevant thoughts
on the show so far.
6TH
MATCH: AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe (Singles match that should be a Hell In A
Cell match for the WWE Championship)
·
Joe is out first followed by AJ. Both men are shown
walking through Gorilla position and through the curtain before their music
hits and come out on stage. The match goes 30 minutes. Yes, 30 minutes. The
longest match of both AJ and Joe’s WWE careers so far. They can still go, they
can still keep up for this long. They can use this time to tell a great story
and they can go at a slower pace full of big spots if either really needs to.
This needs to be a long war, and hopefully instead of putting Joe in multiple
grounded headlocks for disrespecting his family, AJ instead punches Joe in the
face very hard this time around. The match ends after AJ goes up to the
top rope to try a 450 Splash but Joe scoops him up before he can leap into the
air and delivers his first Muscle Buster since 2015 for the win and the WWE
Championship he so rightly deserves. I know what the Muscle Buster did to
Tyson Kidd, I know that no one wants something like that to happen again. I’m
not saying bring it back as a regular move. Only pull it out when it’s
absolutely necessary, like right before Joe wins the World Title. It’ll get a
huge pop and be a shocking ending, considering how often Joe wins with the
Coquina Clutch. Like I said in my SS post, NOW is the time to pull the trigger
on Samoa Joe. NOW is the time. I just want to be able to say that Samoa Joe was
WWE Champion. If you have him lose it back to AJ at Super Showdown to
drive buyrates for the game, so be it. Nonetheless, the next unique man in line
for the title should be The Miz. If you put the title on Joe and
have him keep it, then have Miz win it from him at TLC in a Ladder Match so Joe
doesn’t have to be pinned or submitted. If you have AJ retain here or win it
back at SSD, wait one more month and have AJ vs. Miz at the Rumble, Miz wins
the title, immediately preceding Daniel Bryan winning the Royal Rumble. You
can’t write it better than that.
WINNER
by MUSCLE BUSTER and NEW WWE Champion: Samoa Joe
·
We go backstage to Baron Corbin’s office, and the MITB briefcase
is sitting on a table next to him. Braun walks in, the two exchange nods, and
Braun grabs the case and walks out. For the second and final time tonight, the
music hits, the lights flash, and the cell lowers for our main event, and the
fortieth HIAC match of all time.
7TH
MATCH: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Braun Strowman (Hell In A Cell match for the WWE
Universal Championship with Mick Foley as Special Guest Referee)
·
The Mickster is out first donning the stripes. Braun is
out first followed by Roman, and both men circle the outside of the cell before
walking inside of it. The match goes 18 minutes and we get formal ring
introductions. Foley raises the title and the door is padlocked shut. This
doesn’t need to be some half hour HIAC classic, this should go a not too long
but not too short 18 minutes of pure BEATING-THE-SHIT-OUT-OF-EACH-OTHER-NESS.
Can either guy afford to lose cleanly? No. So that’s exactly why the
match ends when Braun Powerslams Roman through a cell panel, knocking it over,
allowing McIntyre and Ziggler to get in and beat up THE BIG DOG. Luckily,
Ambrose and Rollins are also alive and stumble over the collapsed cell wall and
it’s a wild 6-man brawl. Bodies flying everywhere, Mick tries to stop the chaos
and gets a Superkick by Ziggler for his troubles, easy bump. Eventually Corbin
comes out on stage and signals for the remaining RAW roster to rush out to try
to get Dean, Seth, Drew and Dolph out of where they don’t belong. There’s
dozens of men in the cell now and one by one, Roman and Braun both clear them
all out. Finisher after finisher on every geek you could imagine, there are bodies
everywhere on the outside and Foley is still out after the Superkick, so Corbin
nearly rips the ref shirt off his body, puts it on himself, and just as Braun
knocks the last two in Ambrose and Rollins out of the ring, Roman hits a Spear
on Braun and Corbin counts the 3. If this were truly ANY OTHER kind of
match I’d no doubt have it end in some kind of Draw or No Contest to protect
both guys, but i think Braun and Roman both being exhausted after fighting off
the entire damn RAW locker room would be about the most padding Braun could get
in defeat here, and you’re not gonna take the title off Roman after a nearly
year long build to beat Brock.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL WWE Universal Champion: Roman Reigns
FINAL
RESULTS:
|
No. |
Results |
Stipulations |
Times |
|
1PS |
The
New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) (w/ Kofi Kingston) (c) defeated Rusev Day
(Aiden English and Rusev) (w/ Lana) by Pinfall |
Tag
Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships |
11
minutes |
|
2 |
Maryse
and The Miz defeated Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan by Count-Out |
Mixed
Tag Team match |
10
minutes |
|
3 |
Becky
Lynch defeated Charlotte Flair (c) by Submission |
Singles
match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship |
16
minutes |
|
4 |
Randy
Orton defeated Jeff Hardy by Pinfall |
Hell
In A Cell match |
22
minutes |
|
5 |
Drew
McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler (c) defeated Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins by
Pinfall |
Tag
Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships |
15
minutes |
|
6 |
Ronda
Rousey (c) defeated Alexa Bliss by Submission |
Singles
match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship |
5
minutes |
|
7 |
Samoa
Joe defeated AJ Styles (c) by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE Championship |
30
minutes |
|
8 |
Roman
Reigns (c) defeated Braun Strowman by Pinfall |
Hell
In A Cell match for the WWE Universal Championship with Mick Foley as Special
Guest Referee |
18
minutes |
·
Usually after my “Final Results” table, I put here my suggested
card for the next PPV. That happens to be Super Show-Down, and I think that
show is already entirely booked. Not much to say about that, although like I
said in the Braun/Reigns match portion, I would make the 6-man tag a Winner
Take All match for the Universal, Intercontinental and RAW Tag Team
Championships. You can’t get bigger than that. So, instead, I’ll put my card
for a PPV TWO months from now, with no announced matches as of yet, one of the
big 4, a Thanksgiving Tradition, RAW vs. SmackDown, SURVIVOR SERIES. This will
be an easy one, and damn let me say this would look like a remarkable show.
MY
SURVIVOR SERIES 2018 CARD (November 18, 2018; Los Angeles, CA)
|
No. |
Matches |
Stipulations |
|
1 |
Roman
Reigns vs. AJ Styles |
Universal
Champion vs. WWE Champion match |
|
2 |
Seth
Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura |
Intercontinental
Champion vs. United States Champion match |
|
3 |
Drew
McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler vs. The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (w/
Xavier Woods) |
RAW
Tag Team Champions vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions match |
|
4 |
Ronda
Rousey vs. Becky Lynch (save Charlotte for WM..) |
RAW
Women’s Champion vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion match |
|
5 |
Kurt
Angle vs. Shane McMahon |
RAW
Authority vs. SmackDown Authority Los Angeles Street Fight |
|
6 |
Baron
Corbin (Captain), Bobby Lashley, Dean Ambrose, Finn Balor and Kevin Owens vs.
Andrade “Cien” Almas, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, Rusev and Samoa Joe
(Captain) |
Men’s
Traditional 5-On-5 RAW vs. SmackDown Survivor Series Elimination match |
|
7 |
Alexa
Bliss (Captain), Bayley, Ember Moon, Mickie James and Sasha Banks vs. Asuka,
Carmella, Charlotte Flair (Captain), Naomi and Peyton Royce |
Women’’s
Traditional 5-On-5 RAW vs. SmackDown Survivor Series Elimination match |
Well,
that was How WWE Should Book Hell In A Cell 2018. Thanks for reading. Tell me
what you liked or disliked from the post, and what from the post you’d like to
see actually happen on the show. As always, be sure to look out for my
post for the next upcoming PPV, “How WWE Should Book Super Show-Down 2018” the
weekend of the show. Enjoy the PPV, everyone.
