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That Cell is really bad at its job. The Hell in a Cell cage isn’t exactly the best method of keeping wrestlers inside and others outside. It seems that it’s rare to see a match where people don’t either get in or go out at will, which defeats the purpose of the Cell entirely. That’s such a reality that WWE is taking a look back at all the times the Cell hasn’t worked, and it turns out that there are quite a few.
That’s gotta be #1.
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WWE has posted a list of the Top Ten Hell in a Cell Invaders, meaning people who have broken into the Hell in a Cell cage over the years. The list is pretty inclusive, with entries from the first Cell match all the way up through last year’s show. Some of these entries were complete surprises while others were people already involved with the match, standing outside.
Opinion: I mean, was there really any doubt? Numbers ten through two aren’t exactly memorable entries while the first was a game changer for the co..

There is evil in wrestling. Week in and week out, bad things happen in the wrestling world. It might be an attack, it might be something that is said or it might be something that’s a bit remorseless. Other times though, the villains can take things a bit further than that and do something that is downright cruel to someone else. Those can often set up some of the biggest things in wrestling and that’s what WWE is looking at today.
Some of these were pretty horrible.
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WWE has released a new List This video, looking at Seven Remorseless Moments That Made Us Sick. The list includes a variety of things, including physical attacks, psychological attacks and even having a snake bite someone. The list spans over the course of several years, with one dating back over twenty five years to the early 1990s. As bad as some of these were, several of the people involved later reconciled with each other.
Opinion: I hadn’t thought about some of these in a..

Switch em up. With Hell In A Cell coming up this Sunday night, the card is entirely set up by now. We know all eight matches announced so far (though there’s always the chance that more could be added), including a variety of title matches. Obviously these are more important than most, but WWE felt that one of them wasn’t quite important enough to make the regular show.
As announced on WWE.com, the SmackDown Tag Team Title match will now serve as the Kickoff Show match as the New Day will defend their titles against Rusev Day. Rusev Day earned their shot by defeating the Bar to win a short tournament for the #1 contendership. New Day has held the titles since last month, when they defeated the Bludgeon Brothers to win the titles on SmackDown Live.
A reminder of how we got here:
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Opinion: Works for me and it’s not like this match is anything serious in the first place. Rusev Day has turned into a popular act but we’re about five months remov..

Keeping it in the family. There are various wrestling families who are just bigger deals than others. There are the Harts, the Andersons, the Windhams and a variety of others, but one of the biggest and most active is the Anoa’i family. The family includes names such as the Wild Samoans, the Usos, Nia Jax and of course the Rock. They’ve been wrestlers for generations now, and there may be a new generation coming in.
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, the Rock’s daughter Simone Johnson has been training at the WWE Performance Center in recent months for a potential in-ring career. Since Johnson is only seventeen years old, the training can only be on a part time basis until she turns eighteen next August. There is no word on whether or not WWE would be interested in signing her to a contract.
She does have a good teacher.
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Opinion: I have no idea if Johnson will be a wrestler or not but when you have those genetics going for you, there’s cert..

What a masterpiece. On October 6, Triple H will face the Undertaker for the last time ever at the Super Show-Down in Melbourne, Australia. This match is built entirely around the history between the two, which is mostly centered around their one match at WrestleMania 28. The match was an absolute masterpiece and still holds up to this day. It holds up well enough that it’s worth seeing again.
What a performance.
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WWE has posted the full version of the Undertaker vs. Triple H Hell in a Cell match with Shawn Michaels as guest referee inside Hell in a Cell at WrestleMania 28. The match was billed as the End of an Era with the previous three WrestleManias being billed all setting up this one final match. The entrances and iconic post match scene between the three of them are included as well.
Opinion: The more I see this match, the more I absolutely love it. They played the emotions to perfection here with shows such as Undertaker stepping on ..

Add another one to the list. We’re getting very close to Hell In A Cell and that means the card needs to be finalized in a hurry. The majority of it is already set but there are one or two things that still need to be locked up. One of those things is New Day needing challengers for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles, and with five days to go until the pay per view, they now have them.
On this week’s SmackDown Live, Rusev Day defeated the Bar to become the new #1 contenders for the SmackDown Live Tag Team Titles by winning a mini tournament. Their match will take place this Sunday at Hell In A Cell, which will be Rusev Day’s first shot at the titles since December when they challenged for the titles in a four way match at Clash Of Champions.
Here’s how they got it done.
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Opinion: That’s an actual surprise as I would have bet on the Bar getting the shot, since that tends to be their custom. It’s very nice to have this thrown out there instead as ..

Well….of course? Last week on Monday Night Raw, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre defeated the B Team to become the new Raw Tag Team Champions. That puts them on top of a pretty weak tag division, but that’s been the case for a long time on Monday Night Raw. They need some strong challengers and with the next pay per view coming up on Sunday, the best option wasn’t exactly a surprise.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins were announced as the new #1 contenders to the Raw Tag Team Titles and will be receiving their title shot at Sunday’s Hell In A Cell pay per view. Rollins and Ambrose are no strangers to holding the Tag Team Titles, holding them for about two and a half months last fall. The match will be a standard tag match.
And here’s how it happened.
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Opinion: Was there really a surprise here? There wasn’t exactly a big group of challengers to pick from so they went with the logical pick. It’s not a secret that the..

He knows his way around the place. We’re coming up on the annual Hell In A Cell pay per view, meaning it’s time for some people to walk into one of the most violent structures that wrestling has ever seen. The thing is though, the Cell can’t be exactly as violent as it once was due to the changes in the times. However, there is still a great history of the Cell and now those two eras are coming together.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Mick Foley made his return to the company and announced that he will be guest refereeing Sunday’s Universal Championship match between champion Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman. Foley talked about wanting to make history with the Cell again and being granted the spot by Stephanie McMahon. This is Foley’s second time refereeing a Cell match, after guest refereeing Triple H vs. Kevin Nash at Bad Blood 2003.
What did he have to say?
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Opinion: I mean….sure? Foley is my all time favorite wrestler and I can never com..

That’s quite the spot to be in. One of the most entertaining things to do in WWE is seeing which talent will be brought up from NXT to the main roster. You can often guess who it’s going to be, though every now and then there might be a surprise. This spring we saw a pair of talents being brought up from NXT and they’ve certainly hit the ground running. It turns out that someone has been impressed.
According to Fightful, Vince McMahon is very impressed by Andrade Cien Almas and Zelina Vega, especially due to Almas’ work with Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles in recent weeks. Almas was brought up with no particular plan but McMahon being impressed with Almas’ main event matches would suggest that he will be wrestling near the top of the card going forward as well.
Maybe this got McMahon’s attention.
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Opinion: Good for Almas. The guy has come off like a complete star in the last few weeks and hopefully that trend continues. Almas came into the devel..

That’s one way of getting them. With most of the action on a wrestling show taking place in the arena, there aren’t a lot of places to get things done. Of course there’s the ring itself and various backstage places, but what if you want to mix things up just a little bit? There aren’t many other options available, but the entrance ramp is pretty ideal for a surprise attack, and it’s happened several times over the years.
Make sure to shut the curtain behind you.
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WWE has released a new Top Ten video looking at Ten Entrance Ramp Ambushes. The video is exactly what it sounds like, with wrestlers being jumped as they make their entrance down the ramp. These range back a long time over the years, with some of them going all the way back to the famed Attitude Era and coming all the way forward to earlier this month for some modern flavor.
One of the most recent entries took place last week. Check out the details here.
Opinion: These things almo..