WWE Roadblock 2016: Ranking Every Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Match
By Tim Sherry
WWE.com
5. RAW Women’s Title Match: WWE Hell in a Cell 2016
This Hell In A Cell match is a really difficult one to critique. On paper it had potential for an absolute classic. Two women in the midst of a searing feud climbing into the most demonic structure in the WWE, battling for a championship in Banks’ home town of Boston. It gives me chills just thinking about what might have been.
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This was a great match, no doubt, but a few major botches turned this from brilliant to only great. Charlotte’s half-hearted fall through a ringside table and a fluky ending that nobody understood especially in Banks’ back yard are the only reason we’re not calling this the best women’s match of all time. Those might only be a couple things, but they were big.
However, it was quite a sight to see the ladies ratchet up some violence. Between Charlotte sending Banks through an announce table, to both of their creative uses of chairs and steps, the HIAC match was well represented in Boston that night. Being that this was the first time two women stepped inside the cell they set the bar very high for any future female HIAC combatants.