Randy Orton defeats Daniel Bryan in Hell in a Cell to win WWE Championship
Worst Case Scenario: An actual screwjob.
What Will Happen: An actual screwjob. (For the fans, at least.)
An excellent, enjoyable match between the two best workers in the company right now. This feud — which, for those that complain about continuity and hot-shotting has been going on since Act III of the Team Hell No saga — continues to deliver in the ring from the beginning of the match until SOMEWHERE NEAR the end. I — and this entirely a personal preference — very much enjoy the chase they are making Daniel Bryan go through, but I totally understand why other people don’t, and I can totally see why people thought this botchy-mcbotched ending was not anyone’s idea of a good time.
HAVING SAID THAT, I will be watching tomorrow to find out about the fallout from this, thought the work before the WCW-execution on what would have been a really GREAT ending was unsurprisingly amazing, and at the very least, finally gave us a champion. This could have been their best match if the ending had been better. But even if, because of that, it ended up being the worst out of the three, it is definitely definitely worth watching.
Match: .75
Depending on how you felt about the ending of the DB/RKO match, this was a decent PPV, with better matches than Battleground, just less of them. This is something that would be a GREAT non-premium PPV once the network comes out, but for now, this is a less than great buy.
PPV: 3.8 | Match Avg: .475 (.48 if you’re nasty)
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