WWE's Hell in a Cell PPV comes to us at the tail end of one of the biggest weeks in wrestling history, to the point where it feels almost like an afterthought.

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Kickoff Match: Natalya vs Lacey Evans

Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks

Daniel Bryan & Roman Reigns vs. Erick Rowan & Luke Harper

Ali vs Randy Orton

WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross vs. The Kabuki Warriors

Viking Raiders and Braun Strowman vs. AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows

Chad Gable vs. King Corbin

SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair

Universal Champion Seth Rollins vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt

Yes, up until a few hours ago, when half of the card was announced on WWE NOW Live, there were only four matches officially booked for the show - and one of those was just booked Friday night, after SmackDown's debut on FOX! There aren't even any actual match graphics done up for half the show. It's a strange occurrence indeed, this event being caught between SmackDown's big shift to a major network AND the main roster draft that starts next Friday.To be honest though, I'd have been more than okay with a four match PPV. We've all watched, in the very least, nine hours of wrestling this week already. Give us a two hour show. We'd be forever grateful.Does this mean we'll get no title changes tonight, because no one knows what the full plans are going forward, or will both Seth and Becky lose their belts because there are larger designs in the works? Either way, we're getting TWO Cell matches tonight. One has Universal Champ Rollins taking on The Fiend and the other features Lynch clashing with Sasha Banks.Will Daniel Bryan turn on Roman Reigns? Will there be a Wyatt Family reunion between Wyatt, Harper, and Rowan? Will absolutely nothing interesting happen at all? LET'S FIND OUT?WWE's latest ask of Nattie Niedhart is that she work with Lacey Evans for a while and give the green Sassy Southern Belle a few in-ring pointers. Their feud has been a kind of a zero sum 50/50 split and now it, presumedly, ends with this Hell in a Cell Kickoff Show match. If you look at the matches added to the show this afternoon...they all kind of feel like standard RAW matches. Nothing special. Maybe WWE storylines have been running on fumes because the draft is right around the corner. Why build up anything big when the deck's getting reshuffled? The Kevin Owens/Shane McMahon feud isn't even ending on this PPV. They finished it off on Friday's SmackDown.Anyhow, Lacey dominated for the most part, until she missed with a moonsault and tapped out to the Sharpshooter. Natalya landed her own version of the "Women's Right" after the bell, to salt the wound.NatalyaThese two women truly went to hell here. Wow!Chair shots, kendo stick shots, suplexes into the sides of the cell, Meteoras into ladders, Meteoras INTO TABLES - there was so much carnage! Arms crushed, faces smashed...I don't think there's been a women's match this brutal since Becky fought Charlotte in that Last Man Standing Match at Evolution.Becky even set up a chair in the cage corner, propped up on kendo sticks, sat Sasha down in it, and then nailed her with a running dropkick off the apron! This was an incredible display and a fantastic story. I kind of wish Sasha had taken it, in the end, but they're just not willing to strip Becky of that belt yet. Do they feel the same about Seth though?These two gave us the main event early. Like, do they really even need to air the other bouts now? This is a near-impossible match to follow and we've still got hours to go. An instant classic.Becky LynchI'll say this. These four dudes gave it their all too. It was a "Tornado"-style tag bout, which means there were no tags, so they could just keep the action going non-stop for 15 minutes. The crowd was still alive for this one, which speaks well of the action since Sasha and Becky slayed it so hard. The Tornado call was the right one. There was no down time here at all.Spears through announce tables, barricades being ripped up and used as weapons, powerbombs from the top rope - it was a true demolition derby. Sure, the end was predictable, especially since Roman already beat Rowan on SmackDown just two days ago, but this one still did a decent job of making us forget that the story that got us here was pretty damn dumb. It ended with Harper getting a Superman Punch, a Running Knee, and then a Spear.Daniel Bryan refused a handshake at the end...opting for a hug instead. Do we have a new Team Hell No? Sorry, a Team CELL No?Roman Reigns and Daniel BryanAlso, anyone notice Daniel Bryan stumbling on the way out, holding his neck? This seems...not great. Hopefully it was part of the show.Not even set up mid-day, this match was booked on the Kickoff Show and, sadly, it was just an inevitable Orton win from the start.Firstly, Ali can't seem to catch a break on the main roster. Secondly, Orton is the headlining member of Team Flair at Crown Jewel 2. And thirdly, Ali has way too many aerial moves NOT to get caught in an RKO. Which he inevitably did. We didn't need this, but here it was. Orton beating on Ali is getting uncomfortable.Randy OrtonOkay, I was ready to dismiss this bout. Even though I like all four women involved and I supremely enjoy the fact that, with Alexa and Nikki, WWE is finally doing a solid run with these Women's Tag Titles.But the match was booked this afternoon and these teams haven't really been feuding for real. The Kabuki Warriors were formed with the specific purpose of fighting the Iiconics, and then they never did. Now they just kind of exist.Until tonight. They ascended.Yup, we got a title change. Asuka came through with a heel move. The green mist. Hell yeah! She spit it right in Nikki's eyes and the 1-2-3 came soon after. What a ferociously fun moment.The Kabuki WarriorsSo Braun Strowman was the mystery partner of the Viking Raiders here. Anyone's best bet would have been Cedric Alexander, but...it was Braun. Braun who's totally okay, it would seem, with being put down by The Fiend last Monday on RAW. So much so that he didn't mention it once on SmackDown. Leaving him free and clear to get into a tiff with Tyson Fury.Not a bad match, but also not important. Plus, there wasn't even a real finish. The ref DQ'd the heels after, like, a couple of moments of double teaming. It just seemed strange after the maniacal melee that Bryan, Reigns, Rowan, and Harper put on. Sure, that was a Tornado affair, but there's never any real consistency when it comes to tag match "leeway." In the end, Braun laid out AJ with a punch and it was all meant as a "message" to Tyson Fury.No message for The Fiend though.Viking Raiders and Braun StrowmanWe're a little bit into the dregs here. The reason half of this show feels like a RAW is because we've seen these matches already. Multiple times even. It's not like these couldn't have been PPV-worthy matches with proper build (and without having run them already over and over on TV), but everything here just feels like filler. This could have been a lean and mean show. Instead a lot is needless bloat.At least it had a different finish than usual, with Chad "Shorty" Gable pulling off an upset win, rolling up Corbin after the King tried to use his scepter as a weapon. Also, LOL at the announcer calling Chad "Shorty Gable" at the end.Chad GableAt one point, right after Sasha's return and heel flip, I envisioned her and Bayley as the two (heel) women's champions. Now that Sasha failed to get the RAW Women's title twice, on two different PPVs, Bayley was super vulnerable. She was no longer protected by my dream booking.Anyhow, this was a good match. And much more of an actual match than we saw at Night of Champions, which was an ass-whooping that lead to a Bayley cheap (but smart) win. Charlotte made Bayley tap out and nabbed her record-setting 10th women's world championship.Bayley lingered on the floor outside the ring for a while, despondent and inconsolable. With both her and Sasha giving menacing looks after these losses, you have to think this is all going to continue. Especially if we're hoping for an Evolution 2 PPV (to take the edge off Crown Jewel 2).CharlotteOh, man. Did y'all hear those boos when Seth kept hitting those Stomps over and over? And then the Pedigree? And then more Stomps? Then a chair shot? And then they kept having Bray kick out AT ONE?This was so...weird. Hoowwwwww do you f*** this one up so badly? Like, how?I love that's The Fiend is a powerful monster, but...maybe he's a little too strong?This is stronger than they ever made Undertaker. Or Brock Lesnar. This was like...Ultimate Warrior kicking out of five of Macho Man's Flying Elbows at WrestleMania. But...way more. It made for a really awful match ending as Seth just kept trying to do crazy s*** to keep The Fiend down. The Fiend didn't fall to - I dunno - 15 Stomps? How does Seth beat him now? 20 Stomps? And what about anyone else who ever faces The Fiend?And I haven't even mentioned yet that the entire bout was done under bright red lights. Yup, a red cell cage AND red lights. No explanation given. None at all.The ref, by the end, tried to stop Seth from using a sledgehammer, which at that point felt kind of tame. Then Seth used it and...the bell rang?THIS CROWD (AND ALSO ME) WAS PISSSSSED! This was bad, you guys. Don't book a match if you don't know a way out. We all wanted The Fiend as the champ. There was a huge "Restart the Match!" chant (which doesn't roll off the tongue) once Bray popped back to life after he'd been put on a gurney and attacked Seth.Then an "AEW" chant.It was deserved.WHO THE F*** KNOWS??

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