{"id":34202,"date":"2016-10-30T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=34202"},"modified":"2016-11-01T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T02:38:05","slug":"mcneills-live-blog-wwe-hell-cell-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/10\/30\/mcneills-live-blog-wwe-hell-cell-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"McNEILL&#8217;s Live Blog of WWE Hell In A Cell 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4096040664\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>The Kickoff show is on. We may have a match later. The New Day will visit with Tom Phillips. And Melvin Gordon is trying to cost me a fantasy football game. We&#8217;ll return after a few hundred video packages.<\/p>\n<p>So, is there any chance I can skip Raw tomorrow and watch &#8220;The Kevin Owens Show&#8221; instead? It looks more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick wants to know if TJ Perkins is going to let him win tonight. But first, he wants to take Perkins on a trip. A guilt trip.<\/p>\n<p>Booker&#8217;s reaction is that TJ Perkins seems soft for not beating up Kendrick. And that about sums up WWE in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StaffMcNeill07_120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2659 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StaffMcNeill07_120.jpg\" alt=\"StaffMcNeill07_120\" width=\"120\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Rich Swann is in the Lita seat on the panel. Renee Young wants Swann to teach her how to dance. I&#8217;d watch that on WWE Network.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander\/Dorado\/Sin Cara vs. Tony Nese\/Drew Gulak\/Arya Daivari. If someone knows why Nese is dressed as Hawkman, drop me a line.<\/p>\n<p>Sin Cara catches Daivari (and himself) with a quebrada.<\/p>\n<p>Things are looking good as we throw to an ad for Col. Ziggler&#8217;s Louisville Fried Chicken.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2036703957\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>SHILL: Guess who&#8217;s coming to PWTorchLivecast.com? It&#8217;s me and Greg Parks, following tonight&#8217;s Hell In A Cell show. Be there LIVE.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all hit some big moves. Then Cedric pins Gulak with the Lumbar Check. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Phillips is here to ask The New Day questions from Twitter users. The New Day is here to mock Tom Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>We cut back to the panel. Three out of four panelists surveyed enjoyed watching the champs bully Tom Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Foley tells us that in 2016, a woman can get herself killed going off the top of the Cell, just like a man.<\/p>\n<p>Time to lower the cell. Which means it&#8217;s time for Roman vs. Rusev. See you on the other side of the intro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Evil has awoken in Boston&#8221;. Come on, leave Bill Belichick out of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin Owens is just a cog in the machine&#8221;. I like how Rollins raised the stakes for this match with that promo.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1591265367\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I hate to nitpick, but Lana&#8217;s Titantron should be done in Cyrillic.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us tonight at ringside, please welcome our Klingon announce team of Bob K&#8217;Ehleyr and Lieutenant Worf.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you can discuss this show on social media by using the hashtag #WWELockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Cole reminds us that the first Hell In A Cell was Undertaker vs. Michaels in October 1997. If there&#8217;s a better match than that on tonight&#8217;s show, I&#8217;ll eat my Logitech headset.<\/p>\n<p>You see how Rusev sold that first bump into the cage? If all six main event wrestlers can sell like that for the next three hours, we&#8217;ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd is chanting &#8220;U-S-A!&#8221; Yes, for Roman Reigns, you smartasses.<\/p>\n<p>Graves says the impact from Reigns and Rusev could damage the Cell. That&#8217;s okay, as long as they leave the LED ringposts intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know what Rusev&#8217;s capable of with those stairs&#8221;. Climbing? Oh, hitting Reigns with them. That makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p>Rusev puts the ring steps on the turnbuckle. That takes real strength because those steps are 200-250 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd chants for tables and Rusev goes under the ring. Don&#8217;t be silly, there aren&#8217;t any tables&#8230;Well, I&#8217;ll be damned.<\/p>\n<p>Reigns takes a yuge beating and comes back. This should be the formula for all Roman&#8217;s matches. Oh, it is already? Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Reigns takes stairs to the face and Rusev locks in the Accolade. Reigns starts making his way to the ropes, defeating the laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, who left a chain under the ring? Were they using it to chain the tables together? So many questions.<\/p>\n<p>Just one of these times, I&#8217;d love to see a heel take all the stuff under the ring and create a giant Wile E. Coyote roadrunner trap.<\/p>\n<p>Reigns samoan drops Rusev on the steps and hits a spear off the steps for the win. Really good opener, but I&#8217;m not eating my headset yet.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, the shreds of Tom Phillips&#8217; dignity are interviewing WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens. Owens doesn&#8217;t bully Tom. Tom&#8217;s been through enough.<\/p>\n<p>Bayley vs. Dana Brooke. Speaking of bullies, Dana does a fine job. Bayley was once part of the Four Horsewomen of NXT. Dana&#8217;s one of the women who dated Dolph Ziggler, a slightly less exclusive group.<\/p>\n<p>Dana works the arm. Bayley fights from underneath. Belly to Bayley. That&#8217;ll do. Fine match.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial break while Colonel Dolph takes on Pupper Clucker.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, Mick Foley &amp; Stephanie McMahon congratulate themselves on getting through the first two matches.<\/p>\n<p>#Raw Talk is on after the pay-per-view. If you really think you can afford to miss the PWTorch Livecast, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Time for Enzo &amp; Cass against the Bullet Gang. Enzo &amp; Cass think &#8220;The Big Gal&#8221; is a poor nickname for Luke Gallows.<\/p>\n<p>After an extended rant from Enzo &amp; Cass, we introduce their opponents, Bald Guys With Matching Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>The thread on commentary is how disappointing Gallows and Anderson have been since their arrival in WWE. That&#8217;ll get this match over.<\/p>\n<p>Cass does well against Da Baldies. Enzo does not. Magic Bullet finishes the match. To be continued, tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha Banks puts over a breast cancer survivor. It would be nice if they tied this in to Survivor Series. But they can&#8217;t. Wrong month.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see Goldberg vs. Lesnar at WWE 2K17.<\/p>\n<p>They lower the cell again for Owens vs. Rollins. So, because Smackdown had its main event early at No Mercy, Raw has to do it too?<\/p>\n<p>Universal Title match. I&#8217;d complain about Owens entering the Cell first. But if I was in this match, I&#8217;d want to be the one entering first, so I think we&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n<p>There are no rules to this match, so both wrestlers stand by patiently in the ring for their introductions.<\/p>\n<p>The bell rings. Owens rolls to the outside, checks under the ring and yells &#8220;Who took my chain?&#8221; (Okay, not really.)<\/p>\n<p>Owens attacks Seth&#8217;s back. Worse yet, he rips off Rollins&#8217; Kinesio tape. &#8220;He&#8217;s got a mean streak in him, Corey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Owens gets a table and sets it up, then sets another table against the cell. It was getting interesting until Rollins suplexed him on the apron.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin sprays the referee with a fire extinguisher, which would have made more sense if he&#8217;d set the official on fire first.<\/p>\n<p>Cole references the Boston Massacre, which took place in the autumn of 1990 when Kansas City beat the Patriots 37-7.<\/p>\n<p>So spraying the ref was the setup for Jericho entering the cage. Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins are having a classic steel cage bout. The crowd, of course, chants for Chris Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins powerbombs Owens through both tables, without damaging Seth&#8217;s knee. Jericho saves Owens from being pinned.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho hands Owens a chair. What could possibly go wrong? Oh. Seth could take the chair away.<\/p>\n<p>Back comes Owens, who powerbombs Seth through double chairs. That&#8217;s the finish. It almost seems anticlimactic. If only Seth Rollins had, you know, friends. Jericho beats up Seth after the match, to underline the point.<\/p>\n<p>Back to our Kickoff Panel. Lita liked that last match so much, she&#8217;s willing to ignore that Owens &amp; Jericho beat up her favorite in a two-on-one finish.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, our Cruiserweight Title match. It&#8217;s Super Gamer against The Man With The Plan. Kendrick&#8217;s plan is to rig the elec&#8230;I mean, the title match.<\/p>\n<p>Cole thinks he should explain the back story between TJ and Kendrick. Well, what the (bleep) were those video packages for?<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick grabs TJ&#8217;s athletic tape and tapes Perkins&#8217; wrist to the bottom rope. You know, like they do in Bellator.<\/p>\n<p>An audience member (obscenely) calls Kendrick a hippie and tells him to get a haircut. Dude, you know you&#8217;re in Boston, right?<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick fakes a knee injury, suckers TJ Sting in, and beats him with a headbutt and the Captain&#8217;s Hook. New champion.<\/p>\n<p>Time for the announcers to tell you what a dummy you are for ordering this show on pay-per-view. (Plus, you can&#8217;t see Nakamura vs. Samoa Joe.)<\/p>\n<p>Up next is our tag team title match. I knew I forgot something.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us tonight at ringside, please welcome our Rigellian announce team of Tom Kang and Troy Kodos.<\/p>\n<p>The New Day vs. Sheamus &amp; Cesaro. The Americans like each other. The Euros bicker amongst themselves. Xavier Woods is wrestling tonight. That feels like foreshadowing.<\/p>\n<p>Sheamus accidentally kicks Cesaro, but that&#8217;s not the finish. Sheamus dives from the top rope onto the New Day on the floor. Cole dubs it the Air Lingus. I&#8217;ll give him that one.<\/p>\n<p>Cesaro gets Woods into the sharpshooter, but Sheamus is mixing it up with Big E and Kofi on the floor. Kofi kicks Sheamus, and that&#8217;s an automatic disqualification. The New Day loses by DQ. Tune in tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Video package for Goldberg vs. Lesnar in three weeks. Sorry, but &#8220;You&#8217;re Last&#8221; isn&#8217;t the catch phrase I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Cole pitches the main event as &#8220;Women&#8230;in a cage!&#8221; It&#8217;s novel. I mean, when have women ever fought inside a cage before?<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Flair gets the full Macho King Randy Savage entrance. I like it, but what do you do to top it? Oh. Sasha comes out in an Escalade, like a boss. Trailed by an entourage, like a boss. Eating protein bars and swearing, like a boss.<\/p>\n<p>Cole points out that no woman has ever entered the Hell In a Cell. They still haven&#8217;t. (Lower the Cell already!)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Charlotte attacks and they fight out into the crowd before the Cell is even lowered. Now the cell is lowered.<\/p>\n<p>Byron talks about Mick Foley&#8217;s &#8220;cryptic&#8221; promo on Raw. I don&#8217;t think that word means what Byron thinks it means.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte powerbombs Sasha through the Maltese announce table. On her bad back. Well, that should do it. Show&#8217;s over!<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Sasha climbs off the stretcher to start the match. I get the feeling this might be going a bit past the 11PM window.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha does a suicide dive onto Charlotte at ringside. Since she isn&#8217;t Seth Rollins, this is not a transition spot.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte gives Sasha a backbreaker onto a chair, and then bends Sasha&#8217;s back around the ringpost. You know what would have helped this match? If it wasn&#8217;t the third Cell bout on this show.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha climbs the inside of the Cell and hits Double Knees To Chesty on Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Tres Amigos and the Eddie frog splash by Sasha. Nope, not the finish. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha ties Charlotte to the, um, Tree of Wooo and hits a double stomp. Still not the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte bounces Sasha off the stairs and gets the table. Yeah, dead silence. But this is the main event! So let&#8217;s get our stuff in.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Tip: When a wrestler bounces off a table instead of breaking it, that ain&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte goes for the figure-eight. Sasha counters by hitting Charlotte with a chair. Three backbreakers by Charlotte. Not the finish.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad when fans are looking at their watches. It&#8217;s worse when they start shaking their watches.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte throws Sasha onto the table, then hits Natural Selection to win the title. That&#8217;s it? That&#8217;s the finish? 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