10 Hell in a Cell matches that should not have happened

#5 Randy Orton vs. Sheamus (Hell in a Cell - October 3, 2010)

It was a regular No DQ match

Beginning to see a pattern? Four of the six matches on this list so far have occurred at the PPV of the same name. Two of them happened on the same night!

Sheamus defeated John Cena at TLC 2009 to win the WWE Championship in his first opportunity. He defeated Randy Orton the next month at the Royal Rumble PPV to retain his title by disqualification.

The next month, he lost the title inside the Elimination Chamber to John Cena. He lost to Triple H, his real-life workout buddy next, at WrestleMania 26. We’re going to continue chronicling Sheamus’ year just to explain why his match with Orton should not have been inside Hell in a Cell.

At Extreme Rules, Sheamus did his first legitimately brutal action, as he defeated Triple H in an Extreme Rules match and then put him on the shelf for 10 months. He didn’t even get a spot on the card the next month at Over The Limit, although he did beat up John Cena after a gruelling I Quit match that he won over Batista.

Sheamus won the WWE Title for a second time at the next PPV, Fatal Four Way in, you guessed it, a Fatal Four Way match, with Cena, Orton and Edge as his opponents.

He defeated John Cena in a cage match at Money in the Bank the next month (hey, another unnecessary gimmick match!) and then successfully defended the title against Randy Orton at SummerSlam when he lost by DQ after not agreeing to give the referee a chair.

He didn’t actually hit Orton with the chair. He just said “no” to the ref when told not to use it.

The next month at Night of Champions, Sheamus lost the title in yet another multi-man match, as Randy Orton pinned him in a 6-man elimination match to become the new WWE Champion. And then finally, at Hell in a Cell, the two men went at it in a tame, tame, tame (and lame) match inside the Hell in a Cell structure.

Not quite a series of events that you would expect to lead to a HIAC match. If anything, Triple H should have returned and challenged Sheamus to a Hell in a Cell match. That would have actually made sense.