{"id":2383,"date":"2016-10-30T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2017-05-18T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:48:26","slug":"hell-in-a-cell-2016-kickoff-recap-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/hell-in-a-cell-2016-kickoff-recap-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell in a Cell 2016 Kickoff Recap &#038; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>October 30, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n(aired live)<br \/>\n#HIAC<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: Boston, MA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: TD Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel: Renee Young, Lita, Booker T, Jerry Lawler<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Social Media Lounge: Tom Phillips<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Corey Graves<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Jojo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brand: RAW<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Theme Song: &#8220;Breakin&#8217; Outta Hell&#8221; by Airbourne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRenee Young introduces the kickoff panel and plugs WWE Network. She also introduces Tom Phillips as the host of the social media lounge. He will have New Day as his guests later on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nHighlights of the history of the feud between Reigns and Rusev.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBooker T is looking forward to the match, but he can&#8217;t pick Rusev or Reigns. Lawler thinks experience will make no difference. Lita thinks the cage is the perfect environment for Rusev and Reigns. Booker picks Reigns, Lawler and Lita pick Rusev.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBayley joins the panel, replacing Lawler. Bayley says tonight is about revenge. Dana Brooke made it personal, so she needs to take care of her before she proceeds to becoming the champ on RAW. Bayley wants to inspire everyone to follow their dreams. She&#8217;s also proud of Charlotte and Sasha for competing in Hell in a Cell tonight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nA few clips are shown of the feud between Enzo &amp; Cass and Gallows &amp; Anderson. Lita picks Enzo and Cass, Lawler and Booker pick Gallows and Anderson in their tag match tonight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKevin Owens and Jericho are best friends. Owens has retained the title with help. Seth Rollins is trying to drive a wedge between the best friends. Tonight, Owens and Rollins will be alone in Hell in a Cell. According to Jericho, it will be just another episode of the Kevin Owens Show.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe panel is impressed by Rollins&#8217; win over Jericho and Owens. Booker picks Owens, Lawler and Lita pick Rollins.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBrian Kendrick approaches TJ Perkins and wonders about his request to let him win. Kendrick thinks it can be like old times, when Kendrick did everything he could for TJ. Perkins tells Kendrick he should go out there and win, Kendrick says Perkins should let him win.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRich Swann joins the panel, replacing Lita. Swann thinks Kendrick is disrespectful for what he&#8217;s doing. Booker questions Swann on his dancing. Renee insists on some music. Swann dances, Booker joins, then Renee tries but reminds Booker of Lawler&#8217;s heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Sin Cara &amp; Lince Dorado &amp; Cedric Alexander vs Tony Nese &amp; Drew Gulak &amp; Ariya Daivari<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Darrick Moore)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e6117515d97','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e6117515d97\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e6117515d97\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Cedric Alexander pins Drew Gulak after a lumbar check<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 7:57<\/strong> (1 break)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nGood match. Sin Cara was highlighted in the match, but Drew Gulak and Cedric Alexander stood out as the best. This was a fun and exciting match. It was better than an opening match, and it felt like the cruiserweights wanted to take advantage of the time they were given.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Social Media Lounge<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nNew Day reminds Tom that he should take care of his body. Woods is looking forward to all of the video games. New Day also does not divulge their strategy. Tom gets beat the hell up by New Day (verbally, not physically).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nClips of Foley making Charlotte versus Sasha an important match (with clips of most, but not nearly all, of the women who have made an impact in women&#8217;s wrestling in WWE\/WWF).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nLita puts over the women&#8217;s Hell in a Cell. Booker T names the women&#8217;s match his Shucky Ducky Quack Quack moment of the night. Lawler thinks the women should think about what they&#8217;re doing. Booker and Lawler pick Charlotte, Lita picks Sasha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYeah, it was a fine kickoff. The match was really good for a kickoff, but the hour itself was filled with a lot of talk that only felt like filler.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Cara &amp; Dorado &amp; Alexander vs Nese &amp; Gulak &amp; Daivari<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause it was the only match, but it was also pretty dang good. A fine warmup for the show.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=2386\">&gt;&gt; Read the Recap &amp; Review for Hell in a Cell 2016. &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cruiserweights kick off Hell in a Cell in a fine fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334,625,297,622],"tags":[875,547,494,38,980,786,535,629,903,1335,1336,291,532,626,151,891,277,737,517,354,1118,451,776,332,888,570,906,7,1213,482],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hell-in-a-cell","category-ppv","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-ariya-daivari","tag-bayley","tag-big-e","tag-booker-t","tag-brian-kendrick","tag-cedric-alexander","tag-corey-graves","tag-darrick-moore","tag-drew-gulak","tag-hell-in-a-cell","tag-hell-in-a-cell-kickoff","tag-jerry-lawler","tag-jojo","tag-kickoff","tag-kofi-kingston","tag-lince-dorado","tag-lita","tag-mauro-ranallo","tag-new-day","tag-ppv","tag-raw-ppv","tag-renee-young","tag-rich-swann","tag-sin-cara","tag-tj-perkins","tag-tom-phillips","tag-tony-nese","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-ppv","tag-xavier-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}