Wrestle Review: Hell in a Cell 2018

Breaking The Phenomenal Psyche

Night night

AJ should come soon

For the WWE World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe

Despite a silly end forced into the narrative to prolong this feud, you have to give it to both men for pulling out an interesting contest that plays to their experience with each other. After all these years Samoa Joe and AJ Styles know each other just too well. Yet beautifully it hasn't been about this in the ring but rather out of it.

Joe's genius shines in the way he has angered AJ Styles by bringing his family into the mix. Samoa Joe is aware that his foe's weakness is his family (the very family which he took years to sign with WWE for) and utilized it to chip away at AJ's psyche. So come match time AJ came rushing in, with the upper hand against Joe but his anger fueled energy was easily spent.

This allowed Joe to take the match to his domineering pace and bully AJ into near submission, heck submission because Styles did actually tap out. Yet why would Joe do such a thing, why rile up a man so much that he'd be that vicious.

Because for all their contests through the ages, Joe knows one thing. He just can't go on the same level he used to and AJ just keeps getting better with time. Once AJ can look past Joe's mind games and ironically stop being blinded by his confidence, he will see Joe for who he really is and that's a shadow of his former self.

That's when he'll beat Joe, it'll be just that much more satisfying if it were to regain his title so let's hope Joe clinches the big one down under to set up another rematch but in a better fashion.

Result: Samoa Joe has AJ Styles tapping but all the referee counts is a Styles pin that gives him the win to retain the WWE World Championship!

Rating:

3.5 out of 5 Stars