The PPV started strong with a fantastic Hell in a Cell match, but the ending left a lot to be desired. Even after the lights went out and the show was done, the crowd was booing incessantly. What was it that led to the crowd getting understandably outraged?

In this article, we take a look at the biggest mistakes that WWE made in the PPV. Even though it was a relatively shorter show as compared to many of the previous PPVs this year, there was, unfortunately, a lot lacking in the final product.

Here are some of the big errors committed.

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#6 Adding so many last-minute matches

On the Kickoff show, Randy Orton and Ali had a small altercation, leading to them having a PPV match on the main card. Before the show, there were just four matches announced, leaving fans confused as to why WWE wouldn’t add more matches.

If you include Natalya vs Lacey Evans on the Kickoff show, then there was a total of 9 matches, quite standard for a PPV. However, the last-minute additions felt unnecessary because there was no build at all. It made it feel like just another episode of RAW and these matches were simply throwaway ones.

Granted, they were not all that bad, but at the end of the day, people want to see matches that mean something on PPVs. This felt short-sighted as a whole on their part.

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#5 Heat on Baron Corbin… again?

Chad Gable and Baron Corbin had the third match of their trilogy, and this time around, Gable managed to get the big win over Corbin. With a big size difference that they over-emphasize, they have great chemistry in the ring together.

We can’t recall the last opponent who Corbin has had really good in-ring chemistry with and Gable came out of the PPV with more positives than negatives. The crowd is slowly getting behind him and if rumors are to be believed, then Vince McMahon himself has been a fan of Gable and intends to push him.

His win against Corbin and the fact that they’re building him up as such an underdog certainly helps his cause. However, they shouldn’t have ended the night with Corbin attacking him. We understand that they want to continue the rivalry, but they could have just waited a day longer.

In such cases, it’s important to give babyfaces their moment. Attacking Gable again so Corbin can get heat seems to be a bit of an overkill. With that said, we do hope Gable changes his attire and mannerisms to suit a rising star.

#4 Charlotte Flair becoming SmackDown Women’s Champion

Speaking of overkill, Charlotte Flair is now a 10-time Women’s Champion - just four years into her run on the main roster. We understand that WWE wants to build Charlotte as potentially the greatest female superstar in WWE history (and she’s already in the conversation), but there didn’t seem to be a need to take the title off Bayley.

She was enjoying a decent run as SmackDown Women’s Champion. She wasn’t setting the world on fire but that title reign was important in her redemption arc. We get that they’ve gone a different direction and she’s turned heel for the first time in the WWE main roster, but putting the title on Charlotte Flair felt like a title change just for the sake of having a title change.

Those are the worst kind of changes to happen and Bayley’s momentum has now been affected for what looks like a last-minute decision. There hasn’t been too much thought put into the rivalry and it doesn’t seem as though this was planned until the last minute.

Either way, it’s an injustice to Bayley, who has had a really good year as champion.

#3 Trying to hastily wrap things up before the draft

While the PPV wasn’t all bad, one of the key flaws that we noticed was how WWE tried to rush everything. They rushed at the end to add five more matches, they rushed Bayley’s title reign and shortened it more than it needed, and most importantly, they were trying to wrap everything up quite quickly.

The Draft will take place this Friday Night on SmackDown and spill over to RAW a few days later. From the look of things, superstars aren’t really assigned to a brand anymore and it will be a fresh start.

We understand that WWE wants to change direction entirely and Hell in a Cell would have actually been the perfect place to wrap up the existing storylines - except they didn’t do that properly at all. Firstly, there was so much emphasis on the SmackDown on FOX debut that they decided to forget about the PPV entirely.

It was clear that they tried to wrap up a lot of things, but it was far too rushed and not well-executed.

#2 The main event finish

The main event of a Hell in a Cell PPV which happened to be inside the Cell ended in disqualification. You read that right.

There have been “no contests”, like when Mick Foley faced Kane in the fourth-ever Cell match and last year when Roman Reigns took on Braun Strowman. When realizing that the last two Hell in a Cell PPVs ended with an indecisive finish, it can be a bit frustrating.

It seemed clear that WWE had no clue how to protect both superstars. They didn’t want to take the title off Rollins (which was a good call), but they also wanted to protect The Fiend. It seems as though the match-up itself may have happened at the wrong point of time.

Rollins is clearly the guy they’re going with but we can’t be sure about why they would build The Fiend so much if they had no clue how to get around this match. It’s one of those cases where WWE backed themselves into a corner and paid the price for it big time.

#1 Not letting the women main event

At this point, it’s hard to argue that Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks was the match of the night. The two women seem to have an unreal level of chemistry with each other and Sasha Banks knew how to make Becky Lynch look like a million bucks.

They could have main evented the PPV regardless because they are two big enough names on a big enough stage capable of carrying a main event. Don’t get us wrong - Seth Rollins vs The Fiend was a very entertaining match up until the bell rang, but when something that controversial happens, it leaves a sour taste in the mouth and makes fans forget about how good the match actually was.

Since Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks was clearly the best match, the most intense bout and the one that had the most satisfying finish, would it not have made sense to put them on last? Fans would have cooled down by then and been hot for the main event. Becky Lynch winning clean would have been a great closing shot for the PPV.

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