How WWE Should Book Hell In A Cell 2019

 

How WWE Should Book Hell In

 

A Cell 2019

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 milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how Hell In A Cell 2019 should be booked!

KICKOFF-SHOW

·         We get the usual kickoff panel of Jonathan Coachman, Charly Caruso, Sam Roberts and Beth Phoenix. Throughout the hour, the panel runs down the match card giving their predictions, hyping up the matches and showing us video packages. About halfway through the hour, we get to our match.

 

KICKOFF MATCH: Bobby Lashley (w/ Lana) vs. Rusev (Singles match)

 

·         Rusev is out first followed by Lashley and Lana, who make their entrance down the ramp filming for Brazzers. The match goes about 8 minutes. This feud is still young, so you don’t want them going too long and you don’t wanna give away EVERYTHING that they can do together between the ropes yet, but you also need to fill some more matches for this show, so this would be fine for the preshow. Don’t worry dear reader, you’ll be okay. This isn’t the most important feud in the company. The match ends when Rusev and Lashley are exchanging strikes in the ring and Rusev sends them both to the outside with a Cactus Clothesline. Rusev is intent on beating the hell out of Bobby, and he reaches under the ring apron to unveil a Steel Chair! Lashley stumbles to his feet and grabs Lana, trying to get away. Rusev snaps and nails Lashley in the head with the chair WHO THEN FALLS BACKWARDS INTO LANA, KNOCKING HER INTO THE STEEL STEPS. Lana is now unconscious and the ref calls for the bell and we get a Double DQ for Rusev because he used a weapon, and for Lashley because he, although inadvertently, made violent physical contact with a woman. And I’m not talking about sex.

 

Bobby Lashley vs. Rusev ended in a Double Disqualification

·         We go back to the panel and they give their final predictions for the main event matches of the night. Coach signs us off and we get to the main show.

MAIN-SHOW

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 We get our usually devilish, spOokY opening HIAC PPV video package. 93,845 TRILLION POUNDS OF STEEL…. IT'S THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND.... or whatever. 4 MATCHES being advertised for this show currently. Unheard of. I’ve got some great ideas with new matches and segments to fill up some more time. Keep reading on. We get the opening wide shot and we see the cell towering over the arena, and it begins to lower down with the music and lights for our first match.

 

1ST MATCH: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Sasha Banks (Hell In A Cell match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship)

·         Because it’s the WWE formula, we must have one of cell matches kick off and one of them main event. Had Rollins been wrestling anyone other than The Fiend, I would’ve had this one go last, but The Fiend is too big a star to not be in the main event. It’s where he needs to be right now. It wouldn’t be in the nature of his gimmick to “kick off” a card. That being said, we’re talking about the Women here. Sasha is out first followed by The MAN Becky Lynch. We get formal ring introductions and the match goes around 24 minutes. As you read on, you’ll realize that this is the longest match of the entire show, and if done too often, this can be a bad idea, but in this case it fits because these two want to beat each other to a bloody pulp and get the crowd hot early. Some major spots in the match are as follows:

·         Becky and Sasha tackle each other through the padlocked door of the cell

·         After the door is burst open, Sasha rolls into the ring and goes for a Suicide Dive to Becky who is standing in the doorway, but Becky SLAMS THE DOOR INTO SASHA’S FACE MID-AIR.

·         Becky locks in a brutal Disarmher on Sasha through one of the holes in the Cell wall on the outside

The match ends with a series of reversal out of each other’s submissions. Becky locks in the Disarmher, Sasha rolls over into the Bank Statement, and repeat. Sasha has had it after a few seconds of this and she grabs a Kendo Stick near her lying on the mat and locks it in a KENDO STICK Bank Statement with all the added torque of the modern version of the move. Becky manages to get to the ropes but Sasha pulls her back into the middle of the ring, where Becky taps out. Don’t forget that this is for the RAW Women’s Title, and you know FOX are gonna be wanting Becky on SmackDown. She’s the company’s biggest female star (while Ronda Rousey is away makin’ babies). Sasha has been excellent since her return and it would hurt her big time if she failed to win the title here again. Sasha is the face of RAW women, and you could build a title program with Becky and Bayley on SmackDown after Survivor Series, the only combination of the 4HW that have not yet wrestled on PPV. I have a vision surrounding the Boss ‘N Hug Connection team for the next few months which I will detail later in this post, in the Bayley/Charlotte match. For now, we have a new RAW Women’s Champ: The BOSS.

WINNER by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE RAW Women’s Championship: Sasha Banks

 

·         We get an ad for NXT on the USA Network, followed by a backstage interview with Charlotte Flair, who cuts a promo vowing to become CHARL10TTE by defeating Bayley later.

 

2ND MATCH: Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns vs. Erick Rowan and Luke Harper (Tag Team match)

·         The Bludgeon Bros 2.0 are out first followed by Roman Reigns and finally Daniel Bryan, who both walk down the ramp together. The match goes 17 minutes. This storyline has only gotten more confusing since the last time I called it the most confusing storyline in WWE; even if Bryan does end up turning here and we do end up getting the Bryan vs. Roman match to close out this angle once and for all, I’m not even really sure that most people would want to see it anymore because of how little sense it would make with everything that’s happened. Nonetheless, Reigns has eaten more pins this year from guys like Rowan and Shane McMahon than he has pretty much since the Shield split up for the first time. The match ends after all 4 men are brawling in the ring, and Harper and Rowan both whip Bryan and Reigns into the ropes. The Bludgeons swing at them and try to fold them in half with clotheslines but both men duck and BRYAN HITS A RUNNING KNEE ON HARPER IN SYNC WITH REIGNS NAILING A SPEAR ON ROWAN. Rowan rolls out of the ring and Bryan gets the pin on Harper for the big victory. Rowan has already beat Bryan and Reigns both clean countless times and it’s surely time for the babyfaces to get the upper hand in this feud. It’s a mega-powers team, two of your biggest male stars in the entire wrestling world. The BEARED BIG DOGS oughta get the win here. Where this storyline goes from here, I'm unsure, but all I know is that this result feels right and that I want both these guys back in the World Title scene sooner rather than later.

WINNERS by PINFALL: Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns

 

·         We get an ad for Tapout.

 

SEGMENT: Live Firefly Funhouse with Bray Wyatt!

·         We get the graphic and theme song for the Firefly Funhouse, and we go to the set which appears as normal, but we then zoom out and see that Bray has brought the Funhouse to Hell In A Cell for a special live performance for all his loyal fireflies! Bray does his usual antics, Rambling Rabbit probably ends up dying for a 35th time, but Bray ends the segment with his new tagline, “SEE YOU IN HELL!”. Bray waves goodbye and the camera zooms in on his face but out of nowhere, SETH ROLLINS RUNS IN WITH A SUPERKICK TO FUNHOUSE BRAY WYATT. Rollins destroys the set and lays in the punches to a downed Wyatt. Bray doesn’t fight back one bit as this is the non-evil version of him, but as Rollins prepares to hit a Curb Stomp onto Huskus The Pig, THE LIGHTS GO OUT and The Fiend noises play. The lights return and the whole Firefly Funhouse setup, and BRAY HIMSELF, are all gone.

 

·         We get an ad for Crown Jewel 2 at the end of the month.

 

3RD MATCH: Bayley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship)

·         Bayley is out first followed by Charlotte. We get formal ring introductions and the match goes around 16 minutes. I really did not like how their COC match was handled. The execution was not very smooth at all. Hopefully here they get a good amount of time to show what the fuck they can really do. I don’t have much to say about the match itself other than that the match ends with Bayley down on the mat and Charlotte calling for a Natural Selection, she goes to hit the move, but Bayley SWEEPS THE LEG AND NAILS A BACKSTABBER INTO A BANK STATEMENT WHICH TAPS OUT CHARLOTTE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. About that vision I mentioned earlier in this post- Sasha Banks as RAW Women’s Champion. Bayley as SmackDown Women’s Champion. BOTH OF THEM as the Women’s Tag Team Champions. Boss ‘N Hug rule the division with ALL the gold. You couldn’t do this for too long, since there ARE other women in the company, but it would last leading just past Survivor Series, where we would ALSO FINALLY get a Sasha vs. Bayley singles match on PPV. This is a win-win situation for everybody involved. And after that, like I said, we could have a Becky/Bayley program where Becky could take the title off Bayley, and things would go back to normal. There is only great television to come out of this. Trust me.

 

WINNER by SUBMISSION and STILL WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Bayley

 

·         We go to the announcers who thank the artist of the official theme song of the PPV. The announcers then begin addressing the upcoming WWE Draft, when all of a sudden, BIG E IS HEARD OVER THE MICROPHONE AND HE WALKS OUT ON STAGE, DOWN THE RAMP, AND INTO THE RING. E talks about Brock Lesnar’s victory over Kofi on SmackDown, and goes on to cut a heartfelt promo about Kofi and The New Day’s journey to that point. Big E explains that Woods isn’t out there with him because he is staying by Kofi’s side as he gets evaluated for a minor (Kayfabe_ injury suffered from the F-5 that Lesnar delivered, and says that he wants to get the title back for his brothers and CHALLENGES LESNAR TO A MATCH RIGHT THEN AND THERE. ALL BY HIMSELF. Lesnar’s music hits, he walks out with Paul Heyman by his side AND WE HAVE OURSELVES A WWE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH.

4TH MATCH: Brock Lesnar (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Big E (Singles match for the WWE Championship)

·         We get formal ring introductions and the match goes around 3-4 minutes. Lesnar tackles Big E right off the bell ringing and rams into him in the corner. Lesnar tries for a triad of German Suplexes, but Big E is too strong and breaks Lesnar’s arms from around his waist, and Big E himself hits some Belly to Belly suplexes on Lesnar. The two lay into each other in a 3 minute sprint and it eventually comes to crashing halt for Big E as he calls for the Big Ending, crowd going wild, and he gets Brock up on his shoulders, but Brock slides off and hoists Big E up for an F-5, THEN ANOTHER, THEN A THIRD and final F-5 for the retain. This would mark the end of the Kofi vs. Brock storyline, and I would have New Day go over to RAW in the draft to separate them from Lesnar and since they’ve been on SD for the longest time now. This would be an incredible moment and impromptu match and it would give us the taste of Big E in the main event that we have longed for forever.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL WWE Champion: Brock Lesnar

·         The cell music begins to play and the structure lowers as we get a video package for The Fiend vs. Rollins for the final transition.

5TH MATCH: Seth Rollins (c) vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (Hell In A Cell match for the WWE Universal Championship)

·         The champion of the universe, Seth Rollins is out first followed by THE FIEND AND HIS AMAZING CODE ORANGE THEME REMAKE. The match goes around 12 minutes. This NEEDS to be very Fiend-offense-heavy. I thought that even Finn Balor got too much offense in the Fiend’s debut match at Summerslam. This is a brutal match where weapons are swung, heads are ripped off shoulders, and human flesh is ripped off by the cell itself. The match ends when Rollins hits a Curb Stomp. Fiend kicks out at 1. Rollns hits another Stomp. Fiend kicks out at 1. Rollins hits a Curb Stomp on the stairs, Fiend kicks out at 1. ROLLINS HITS A PEDIGREE ON THE STEPS, FIEND. KICKS. OUT. AT. ONE. Rollins is out of options now, but he has one idea left. Seth retrieves a table from under the ring, lays the Fiend on it, goes up to the top rope, and is about to hit a frogsplash WHEN THE FIEND GETS UP AND LAYS IN THE MANDIBLE CLAW, SENDS ROLLINS CRASHING OFF THE TOP ROPE THROUGH THE TABLE, STILL WITH THE CLAW LOCKED IN, and this is the final blow for Rollins, who passes out, meaning The Fiend has now become Universal. Fiend is the face of RAW, and Rollins goes to SmackDown in the draft. The PPV goes off the air with The Fiend on kneeling over the broken body of Seth Rollins, new champion of the universe.

WINNER by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE Universal Champion: The Fiend.

FINAL RESULTS:

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1PS	Bobby Lashley (w/ Lana) vs. Rusev ended in a Double Disqualification	Singles match	8 minutes
2	Sasha Banks defeated Becky Lynch (c) by Submission	Hell In A Cell match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship	24 minutes
3	Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns defeated Erick Rowan and Luke Harper by Pinfall	Tag Team match	17 minutes
SEGMENT	LIVE In-arena Firefly Funhouse with Bray Wyatt Segment	N/A	5 minutes
4	Bayley (c) defeated Charlotte Flair by Submission	Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship	16 minutes
5	Brock Lesnar (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) defeated Big E by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE Championship	4 minutes
6	The Fiend defeated Seth Rollins (c) by Submission	Hell In A Cell match for the WWE Universal Championship	12 minutes

MY CARD FOR CROWN JEWEL 2019 (October 31, 2019; King Saud University Stadium)

No.	Matches	Stipulations
1	Team Hogan (Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, Ricochet, Roman Reigns, Rusev) vs. Team Flair (Randy Orton, AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre, Triple H)	10-man Tag Team match
2	Brock Lesnar (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Cain Velasquez	Anything Goes match for the WWE Championship
3	“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Aleister Black	Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship
4	Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Ali vs. Mansoor	Triple Threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
5	Braun Strowman vs. Tyson Fury	Singles match
6	probably some 214 man battle royal	the greatest greatest royal rumble match
7	Andre The Giant vs. Ultimate Warrior	Buried Alive match with the Saudi Prince as Special Referee

Well, that was the post. Thanks for reading! As always, let me know what you liked and/or what you didn’t like from the post, and what from the post you’d like to see actually happen on the show tonight! Be sure to look out for my next post for the upcoming PPV, “How WWE Should Book Crown Jewel 2019” the weekend of the PPV’s. Enjoy the show, everyone.

 

How WWE Should Book Clash Of Champions 2019

 

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 milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how Clash Of Champions 2019 should be booked!

MY NIGHT/CLASH OF CHAMPIONS POSTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:

·         2015 (My first booking post ever): https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3lpfiw/how_i_would_book_noc_2015/%E2%80%AC

 

·         2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/54a7hp/how_wwe_should_book_clash_of_champions_2016_raw/

 

·         2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/7kfgd3/how_wwe_should_book_clash_of_champions_2017_sdlive/

 

 

KICKOFF-SHOW

 

·         We get the usual kickoff panel of Jonathan Coachman, Charly Caruso, Sam Roberts and Beth Phoenix. Throughout the hour, the panel runs down the match card giving their predictions, hyping up the matches and showing us video packages. Right as we’re getting ready to transition to our kickoff match of the night, 24/7 Champion R-Truth interrupts and says that he ran out of the locker room after he’s been told he has to defend the 24/7 title tonight. The usual cast of characters then invade the panel area and chase Truth through the crowd into the ring. Matt Hardy hits a Twist Of Fate on Truth to win the title and as Matt is retreating up the ramp, Mike Kanellis emerges from the back and rolls up Hardy to win the bet for a second time. Truth has climbed up on the scaffolding now and Kanellis turns around into a CROSSBODY FROM TRUTH, who rolls him up to become a 16 TIME CHAMPION. Truth runs to the back and locks himself in the bathroom to end the segment. I love the 24/7 title.

 

KICKOFF MATCH: Drew Gulak (c) vs. Humberto Carrillo vs. Lince Dorado (Triple Threat match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship)

·         Welp, I hate to continue the tradition nowadays of the CW’s making the kickoff every month, but it seems to be their designated spot. Lince Dorado is out first followed by Handsome Humberto, and finally the leader of the GULAXY, Drew-05-Live himself. We get formal ring introductions and the match goes 13 minutes. I see this match as sort of a farewell, or a final hurrah for 205 as a brand as it’s soon to be merged with NXT when we go 2 hours on USA, which I may or may not do a post for this week. It’s insane that Dorado has been on the show since the very beginning and this is his FIRST title shot. An absolute injustice. This match is gonna be batshit insane, though. All three are very talented, but there is no other option here than to have Drew retain. If you are the best in your division at what you do, then you should be holding gold, and Drew is still the best right now. He’s the best promo, most charismatic, best character, and probably most marketable of anyone on the roster currently. He would be a great flag bearer heading into the Wednesday Night Wars, and 205 always seems to like lengthy reigns anyways. The match ends when Drew locks Dorado in the Gu-Lock for the submission win. Dorado is the lowest on the tier list of 205 right now of the three men in this match, so he should be the one to take the fall. Humberto can get his one on one title shot on the first NXT on USA this week. Who would win that match I’m unsure, but Gulak remains on top and we can continue the storyline of dissension in Lucha House Party can continue.

 

WINNER by SUBMISSION and STILL WWE Cruiserweight Champion: Drew Gulak

 

·         We go back to the panel and they give their final predictions for the main event matches of the night. Coach signs us off and we get to the main show.

MAIN-SHOW

 

·         We get a big video package to kick off, honoring all the titles of WWE and their best holders and moments. We waste no time getting things started afterward as Braun Strowman’s music hits and he makes his way down to the ring.

 

1ST MATCH: Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode (Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships)

 

·         Braun is out first followed by the triple double champ, Seth Rollins. RUDOLPH THE WRESTLING TAG TEAM, THEY HAVE A VERY SHINY NOSE… are out next and during their entrance we get introduced to the foreign commentary teams. We get formal ring introductions and the match goes 12 minutes. We start off in the ring with Rollins and Ziggler, who have history having wrestled all throughout 2018 for the IC Title. Some big spots in the match include when Braun is legal and he’s got Rick Rude and Mr. Perfect dazed in opposite corners of the ring, and he runs back and forth with big Stinger Splashes on both. Ziggler falls down after a few and Braun runs toward Roode to finish him off but Roode hooks Braun by the head and nails a Glorious DDT for the near fall. The match ends soon after another big spot where Ziggler jumps on Strowman’s wide back and locks in a Sleeperhold and Braun looks to be fading. Rollins, trying to save the match for the match for his team, slides into the ring and superkicks Ziggler but Ziggler hangs onto Strowman as they both fall and NAILS A ZIGZAG. This doesn’t keep Strowman down for long though as Strowman begins to argue with Rollins who thinks he deliberately meant to superkick him. Braun snaps and sends Rollins to the outside with a big boot. Braun nails a RUNNING POWERSLAM ONTO THE APRON and then dumps Rollins next to the announce table WHICH HE FLIPS ONTO ROLLINS and then storms to the back, up the ramp. Roode, Ziggler and Rollins are all down and the referee counts to 10 on Rollins, ending the match off a count-out. This is a match that just could not end clean, or with any sort of decisive finish like a pinfall. If you beat RuDolph, who have only just begun teaming for a few weeks now, you’ll make both look weak, and you could really have something with them. And if you just beat Braun and Rollins clean, WHY would you do that? What’s the reasoning in making the two men in your WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP match later in the night lose and look weak that same night? It dims the excitement for the singles match. We would get some sort of rematch the next night where Strowman defends the titles by himself after Rollins refuses to defend with him after the attack on him here, and Roode and Ziggler could win the titles to end this program the next night on RAW after The Fiend attacks Braun to set up for a match at HIAC, so Braun doesn’t look weak.

WINNERS by COUNT-OUT: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode; however STILL the WWE RAW Tag Team Champions; Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins

·         We get an ad for Tapout.

2ND MATCH: Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross (c) vs. Fire And Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville) (Tag Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships)

·         Fire and Desire are out first followed by Bliss and Cross. The match goes around 10 minutes. This feud has been troubling, the little build it’s had. The promo with Mandy calling Cross ugly was dumb and just not nessecary. There’s no way that Cross and Bliss should lose to the big bully team, so the Women’s Tag Titles are retained and the match ends when Bliss hits a Twisted Bliss on Mandy Rose followed by the Fisherman’s neckbreaker finisher by Cross, who pins the woman who humiliated her. It’s how wrasslin works, folks. The babyfaces avenge the devious doings of the heels. Not much more to say here.

WINNERS by PINFALL and STILL WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross

·         We get a backstage interview with Sasha Banks. She announces that the RAW Women’s Title is main eventing and vows to beat Becky.

3RD MATCH: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) (w/ Sami Zayn) vs. The Miz (Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship)

·         Miz is out first followed by Zaynamura. King Of Ska Style. Yeaohhhhohhhohhhohhhohhh. I say it all the time, please hire me WWE solely to come up with your tag team names. The match goes 11 minutes. Everyone’s thinking about this match is that WWE doesn’t like Jericho having the record for most IC title reigns now that he has defected to that one T-shirt company. Honestly, there’s no way they care. I think all wrestling is great and that the business thriving anywhere is great for everyone, but I don’t even think that WWE is that petty. Nakamura and Zayn together are a great new alliance that is too young to ruin by having the title taken off Nakamura. After all, this is how WWE SHOULD book and not how WWE WOULD book, so the best thing to do is keep the title on Nakamura, just for a little bit longer. The match ends when Miz has Nakamura locked in the Figure 4 and Zayn hops up on the apron to distract the ref as Nakamura begins to tap. The ref doesn’t see it and Miz releases the hold to go take out Zayn. Zayn jumps off the apron and Miz turns around into a big Kinshasa from Shinsuke for the retain. If this pairing fails horribly within the next few weeks, then just book a rematch between Miz and Nak with Zayn banned from ringside, something like that to make it a different match than this, and have Miz win the title there. I would like to see Miz tie the record eventually, but just not yet.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL WWE Intercontinental Champion: Shinsuke Nakamura

·         We get an ad for WWEShop.

4TH MATCH: AJ Styles (c) (w/ Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) vs. Cedric Alexander (Singles match for the WWE United States Championship)

·         Ceddy Alexander is out first followed by the champ AJ Styles, with the ORIGINAL, THE ONLY CLUB THAT MATTERS, the O.C. We get formal ring introductions for this one and the match gets 15 minutes. This could honestly steal the whole damn night. I’m SO happy that guys like Cedric who were once being wasted away in the small, small town of 205 finally being able to wrestle on the big stage and prove that everyone should’ve been watching them all along. Guys like Murphy, Ali, and now Cedric have all proved that they are more than capable of hanging with the bigger guys and that it can be absolutely believable that any of them could bring the fight. That being said, it’s too early for Cedric to win any titles. You can really build up something special with him. He’s such a great babyface. He’s amazing in the chase for titles as we saw on 205 and the O.C. is still a great stable that has lots of juice left in it as as championship act. The match ends when the O.C. get ejected from ringside and AJ goes over to the ref to try and protest this but he turns around right into the Lumbar Check and just before the ref counts 3, Gallows and Anderson pull the ref out by his foot and the ref is sent crashing onto the floor. Gallows and Anderson see an opportunity here and they hit a Magic Killer on Cedric. The ref is revived now and the O.C. are heading up the ramp, convinced they have it won but ALEXANDER KICKS OUT. Styles swoops to the apron and hits one last big Phenomenal Forearm to finish it off. Styles retains, but Cedric looks amazing in defeat after outlasting so many big moves. It’s only up from here.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL WWE United States Champion: AJ Styles

·         We get a video package for the New Day/Revival match as our next transition, detailing the attacks and attempts to cripple Xavier Woods by FTRKO.

5TH MATCH: The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (c) vs. The Revival (Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson) (Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship)

·         The Revival are out first followed by the champs. The match goes 14 minutes and it seems as if we’re about to get ring introductions but in the middle of Greg Hamilton introducing New Day, the Revival Woods and Big E mid-sentence and the bell rings, starting the match off on a brawl with all four men in the ring. FTRKO is a big money stable. This feud cannot end here. I’ll have my card for HIAC at the end of this post, go to that to see the match I have in mind between these factions, it’s pure sex. That being said, I think it’s best for the Revival to win the belts here. It’s a mess, the Revival are a RAW team, I know, but it’s best for them to win the titles here to lead into that HIAC match. I’m not gonna spoil the rest of this post, but I think that one of these teams should be dripping in gold come the FOX debut. New Day are all gonna win the belts back in that match anyways, so don’t worry. The match ends after Dawson and Wilder grind Woods injured ankle to a pulp and hit the Shatter machine to pick up the titles. With this win, they also become the first team (besides Chad Gable, who’s done it, but with different partners) to have held the NXT, RAW and SmackDown tag titles. ⅔ of FTRKO now hold championship gold, and the sun looks to be setting on a New Day.

WINNERS by PINFALL and NEW WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions: The Revival

·         We go to the announcers as they plug the official theme song of the PPV, and then we get a video package for Bayley/Charlotte.

6TH MATCH: Bayley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship)

·         Bayley is out first followed by the challenger, Charlotte Flair. The match goes 16 minutes. Charlotte has become a 9-time champion in just 3 years and it’s definitely time to slow that on down a little bit. Charlotte can wait for the big double digits. I’m sure she’ll be fine. Bayley really needs this win, she just realigned with the returning Sasha Banks and this new delusional tweener character of hers could use the title a little while longer. I also don’t think that Charlotte should lose clean as, hate her or love her, she’s the biggest women’s star they have (while Rousey is off makin’ babies and farming). The match ends when Bayley goes to the outside to get a chair. It looks like she’s about to use it on Charlotte and the ref is warning her that she’ll be DQ’ed. Charlotte stands up, Bayley tosses the chair at Charlotte, Charlotte catches it, Bayley catches her off guard with a roll-up with her feet on the ropes for the retain. Bayley is a slimier version of her past self, and the chair would be a callback to when her and Sasha beat her down with the chair the night after they did the same to Becky a few weeks back. This is a way for Bayley to keep the title, while continuing to raise questions about which side of the good or evil coin she falls on. Plus, my vision is really just to have Sasha holding the RAW Women’s Title, Bayley holding the Smackdown Women’s Title, and both of them collectively holding the Women’s Tag Titles. Boss N’ Hug with all the Women’s gold, heading into Survivor Series where we would FINALLY get our big main roster Sasha vs. Bayley PPV match. There's no better route to go right now.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Bayley

·         We get a video package for Rowan/Reigns.

7TH MATCH: Erick Rowan vs. Roman Reigns (Singles match)

·         Roman is our first followed by Rowan. Man, this is gonna get a little hard to read since their names are so similar, so I’m just gonna refer to Rowan as Erick for the rest of this post. The match goes 12 minutes. Doesn’t need to be some needlessly drawn out and extended brawl, just a relatively fast paced brawl that will end up being a real slobber knocker. Erick has REALLY impressed me with his promo work in this feud, confusing as it may have been. I love the guy and his work, but there’s no way this angle should be ending with THE VINTNER as the true cultprit. This is all leading to Bryan vs. Reigns in the cell, as I have at the end of this post for my HIAC card. I’m SURE of it. The two get incredibly physical with each other and The match ends when Erick has steel stairs in his hand and puts them down on the mat in front of him, seeming to be plotting some devious attack, but he turns around and tries to run at Reigns in the corner but Reigns powers out of the corner and SPEARS ROWAN ONTO THE TOP OF THE STEPS. The ref counts on top of the steps and Reigns gets the win. It’s unlikely that he’s even there, but MAN do I wish Harper would be brought back and involved in this storyline somehow. I was weary about including him in this match since he might not even be there but I would love to see him get involved in this match somehow, costing Rowan and Bryan and returning as a babyface on the side of Reigns. It seems he is in WWE limbo, though. There’s probably some sort of secret stipulation on this match that if Rowan loses, Harper gets 6 more months tacked onto his contract. Poor bastard.

**WINNER by PINFALL: Roman Reigns

·         We get an ad for Hell In A Cell next month, followed by a video package for Kofi/Orton.

8TH MATCH: Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Randy Orton (Singles match for the WWE Championship)

·         Kofi is out first follower by Randal Keith Orton. We get formal ring introductions and the match lasts 15 minutes. Being completely honest here, their Summerslam match was boring as hell so I’m giving them less time here then I usually would for a world title match. Hopefully better things happen the second time around. I know they’re capable. This feud in terms of storytelling however, has fuckin ruled. I’ve loved everything about the character work in this rivalry, and I really think that this should extend just one more month until HIAC, FTRKO vs. New Day, winner take all. That match will be BONKERS. That being said, I think the smart move here is to give the title to Orton to boost ratings for the Smackdown debut on Fox since Orton is a real big name, and then casually lead into New Day winning all their titles back in the cell to end the rivalry between the teams. The match ends when Orton is making a comeback and nails Kingston with the draping DDT. Orton goes to the corner and teases the Punt Kick, starts running but Kofi leaps over Orton, tries for a Trouble in Paradise, Orton ducks, spins Kofi around and nails an RKO for his umpteenth title. I am dead set on the 6-man Tag inside the Cell for all the titles being the main event at HIAC. Somethings gotta give. Hell’s gonna freeze over. Post-match, Big E and Woods come out to comfort Kofi, and a New Day, stripped of all their gold, despondent and broken, walk to the back together. But this will not be the case for long.

WINNER by PINFALL and NEW WWE Champion: Randy Orton

·         We get an ad for new original content coming to the WWE Network in the next few months, followed by a video package for Braun/Seth.

9TH MATCH: Seth Rollins (c) vs. Braun Strowman (Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship)

·         BRAUN is out first followed by the triple double champ, Seth Rollins. Rollins has his ribs taped up after the brutal attack from Strowman in the opening match where they defended the Tag titles. We get formal ring introductions and the match goes 21 minutes. The bell rings, but before the two even get a chance to lock up, the Firefly Funhouse music hits and we get a shot of Bray standing in front of what is an obvious and badly greenscreen of him standing in front of fire. Bray has a cold stare at the camera and we zoom in on his face for him to simply say “Good luck Braun. Good luck Seth. See you in hell!” and then laughing ensues and he waves goodbye. I honestly find it shocking that not once in this feud has it been mentioned that Rollins and Strowman were actually the final two in the men’s Rumble match this year. That’s kinda an important piece of the history between these two guys. The match ends when the two are brawling on the outside and Rollins nails a Curb Stomp to Braun on top of the announce table. Rollins rolls in the ring and hits a frog splash off the top through Braun and the table, rolls him into the ring, and gets the pin. Rollins retains the title, and Braun would go from here into a feud with The Fiend at HIAC. I do not think in any way that Wyatt should be challenging for the title, or any title for that matter, until Wrestlemania. He is my first pick to win the men’s rumble this upcoming year. It’s not in his character though to outlast everyone or to last like an hour either so he has to come in pretty late. Like 25 at the earliest. 2020 is really going to be Bray’s year if this character doesn’t get messed up and HIAC is just too early for him to become champion. All he’s been saying in his promos lately has been “see you in hell”. He hasn’t said “See you in the cell”. He could’ve just meant that he will be wrestling period at the PPV. Him and Braun is a match long overdue, and the rumor is that Rollins next program will be with the returning Drew McIntyre. I don’t love that Braun is losing yet again in a title match, but I wouldn’t have booked this match in the first place. The draft coming up in October will change everything so it’s hard to say where the product is going, but it is what it is.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL WWE Universal Champion: Seth Rollins

·         We get an ad for Skittles, the official sponsor of the PPV.

10TH MATCH: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Sasha Banks (Singles match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship)

·         The Boss is out first followed by The Man. The match goes 24 minutes, the longest all night. There is no question that this should main event. It’s the match that the most people are looking forward to and it’s just the biggest they’ve got on this card. Plus, we need more women PPV main events this year, they’ve only gone on last once this year, at Wrestlemania. This match is perfect for this spot. The two ladies destroy each other with all sorts of holds and strikes and finishers and dives. The match ends with a series of reversal out of each other’s submissions. Becky locks in the Disarmher, Sasha rolls over into the Bank Statement, and repeat. Sasha has had it after a few seconds of this and she gets the torque on it for the modern version of the Bank Statement. Becky manages to get to the ropes but Sasha pulls her back into the middle of the ring, where Becky taps out. Immediately, your first thought is probably that well, Becky is on the cover of the new video game coming out, there’s no way they’re gonna take the title off of her! Maybe, but Reigns isn’t a champion right now either, and won’t be for a while until this Bryan/Rowan feud ends, presumably at the next PPV. Becky and Roman are still two of WWE’s top stars so I don’t think the title being taken off Becky for a while will Impact game sales very much if at all. Becky’s momentum has cooled off considerably anyways since Wrestlemania and she could gain some of her fan support back if she were to be on the chase again. Sasha has come back better than ever before and this is a title switch that needs to happen. This feud is just getting started in my eyes and they could wrestle again next month in the cell. It’s money waiting to be made. The show goes off the air with Boss N’Hug standing over Becky holding their titles.

WINNER by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE RAW Women’s Champion: Sasha Banks

FINAL RESULTS:

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1PS	Drew Gulak (c) defeated Humberto Carillo and Lince Dorado by Submission	Triple Threat match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship	13 minutes
2	Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode defeated Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins (c) by Count-Out	Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships	12 minutes
3	Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross (c) defeated Fire And Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville) by Pinfall	Tag Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships	9 minutes
4	Shinsuke Nakamura (c) (w/ Sami Zayn) defeated The Miz by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship	11 minutes
5	AJ Styles (c) (w/ Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson) defeated Cedric Alexander by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE United States Championship	15 minutes
6	The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (c) defeated The Revival by Pinfall	Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships	14 minutes
7	Bayley (c) defeated Charlotte Flair by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship	16 minutes
8	Roman Reigns defeated Erick Rowan by Pinfall	Singles match	12 minutes
9	Randy Orton defeated Kofi Kingston (c) by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE Championship	15 minutes
10	Seth Rollins (c) defeated Braun Strowman by Pinfall	Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship	21 minutes
11	Sasha Banks defeated Becky Lynch (c) by Submission	Singles match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship	24 minutes

MY CARD FOR HELL IN A CELL (October 6th, 2019; Golden 1 Center; Sacramento, CA)

No.	Matches	Stipulations
1	FTRKO (Randy Orton & The Revival) (c) vs. The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods)	6-man Tag Team Winner Takes All Hell In A Cell match for the WWE Championship and SmackDown Tag Team Championships
2	Seth Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre	Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship
3	Sasha Banks (c) vs. Becky Lynch	Hell In A Cell match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship
4	Bayley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair	Singles match; if Charlotte loses, she will quit WWE
5	Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Sami Zayn vs. The Miz	Triple Threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
6	AJ Styles (c) vs. ???	United States Championship match
7	Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode (c) vs. The O.C. (Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)	Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships
8	Daniel Bryan vs. Roman Reigns	Hell In A Cell match
9	Braun Strowman vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt	Singles match

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