WWE's Worst Hell in a Cell Match - The Fiend vs Seth Rollins
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"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt vs Seth Rollins took place at WWE Hell in a Cell 2019 and it turned out to be one of the most bizarre Hell in a Cell matches in WWE history.
Wyatt's Fiend character had been building a lot of momentum as he headed into HIAC to wrestle Universal Champion Seth Rollins. Firefly Funhouse segments and a match against Finn Balor at SummerSlam left viewers wanting more as Bray's popularity reached new heights in a short period of time. WWE fans would cheer for The Fiend heading into the Hell in a Cell bout, but at the end fans chanted for refunds.
This video looks at the journey towards HIAC 2019, The Fiend's debut, and the match itself.
#WWE #Wrestling
"The Fiend then lost the title to Goldberg" that sentence sums up this entire era of WWE, hilarious in hindsight, really
That needs to be a video in itself, really. But I guess he'll cover it when he does the full Fiend video.
This whole thing is a product of the Saudi shows, and I feel like that is when it was starting to hit rock bottom.
@@adamalberts2 It was a Goldberg thing. He politicked his way into beating The Fiend.
Goldberg wanted the title to show he still had it . . . But enough of the Goldberg era . . .
It was hilarious at the time too. So much salt flowing on social media.
Xpacs reaction was everyone else’s watching at home. He was the best part of this!
Sean Waltman is a legend
X-Pac said what we was all thinking. "No contest" in a HIAC was 100% BS.
he was there . under a ring
I found it hilarious during the watch along that everyone was trying to cover for Xpac but all of them couldn’t even make a valid reason why they stopped the bell.
@@jiovanysoltero923 .yup lol
This is the match that not only killed Seth's babyface run, but killed any memory people had of him as a good babyface. Dude was one of the most over guys on the roster for a while, wins the belt, gets booked pretty poorly, then he's put into this feud where he's crying and screaming and dying from The Fiend. Oy vey
WWE. Where future stars are buried
@@zemox2534 stfu, Rollins is still a top guy today, you internet smarks cry "BURRIED" at everything
facts, seths beast slayer run started perfect too. they killed that momentum
I beat fiend but the fear is come on me i not understand why i loss in crown jewel
Wasn't just this. This was the thing that truly did it, but in 2019 Seth was pretty Twitter crazy and he shared A LOT of pretty unpopular opinions, before he started feuding with The Fiend he started getting jeered and go away heat a few times, this match though definitely threw napalm on him though. His babyface title run didn't ever really get off to a good start though, he spent the first two months teaming with Becky in a programme against Lacey Evans and Baron Corbin.
A wrestling match never pissed me off more than this one
More than...the Montreal deal?
Super weird see Wrestling Bios talking about modern wrestling. But very welcoming, there's a lot a interesting stories to cover, like this one.
I’d love to see more honestly:
•Double Or Nothing 2019
•Brawl Out
•Seth Rollins vs Rey Mysterio Eye for an Eye
•Kofimania
•CM PunkAEW debut
•All Out 2021
•Forbidden Door 2022
•Revolution 2021 Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match ending
•WrestleMania 35 and the first women’s main event
•Royal Rumble 2015
•WrestleMania 31 ending
•First Stadium Stampede Double Or Nothing 2020
•Daniel Bryan in 2013-14 when he was so over fans kept highjacking the show
•Rock vs Cena twice in a lifetime
•Undertaker vs Triple H 2011-2012
Just a few that come to mind
@@heartless_raven he has the undertake triple h mania matches covered already
@@Jamie-oo4ng thanks, forgot about it.
@@heartless_raven Brawl Out is probably a bit too recent to be covered, especially since the investigation details aren't out yet.
@@heartless_raven "Rise of the Man" - Becky Lynch post SummerSlam 2018 until she bleeds before Survivor Series. For those 2 or 3 months she was the talk of the wrestling world.
Its crazy how "2019" is already almost 4 years in the past, time is really flying by! It almost seems like we were JUST getting alot of this fiend stuff
It sounds nostalgic
The Fiend character never recovered from this.
Good
Nah it did, but it didn't recover from the Goldberg clean pin loss.
@@J.D.1. No not good you bloody Cornette Crusader
I’ll never forget XPac on the watch along 😂
The problem for me with this was when they debuted The Fiend they pretty much backed themselves into a corner by pushing him straight into the main event. He actually didn't need to be in the main even as the character could have been a spectacle. I get the fact that they wanted to capitalise on the media buzz the character was getting. They screwed his whole persona up though and of all the ones that have come through in the past decade in WWE both of these guys have been some of my favourites as they both have good personalities that can change and adapt to their current situation.
He's like the Undertaker: he's a spectacle and a big draw all by himself and doesn't really need a title for that.
Seems like whenever Bray got the title WWE creative quickly removed it.
@@nuclearbullfrog And yet whenever Taker got a title he kept it for at least a month. Double standards much?
Quite honestly I thought we were going to see more matches between him and Finn Balor. Vince pushed him too hard to where his last feud with Randy Orton made no sense. Then Vince didn’t want to hear any advise from the man who created this character because if it didn’t come from Vince it won’t be good, and fired him when Bray asked to make modifications on the burnt suit that was uncomfortable. Pretty sure Vince would’ve destroyed the WWE if he was still running it now.
The problem for me is that he should have been like early undertaker, never in the main event spot but was considered a main event, even when he was in the main event it never last long. Wwe pushed the fiend right to the main event and they hit the brick wall that was reality. If the fiend won congrats you now have to completely get behind him 100% even when the fans turn oh him, if he loses than the character is damaged.
This match did help create one of the best official WWE shirts ever: sky blue with a picture of Bray in the sweater, smiling, and it says "See you in Hell"
Wasn't sure if I was the only one who hasn't watched wrestling regularly in ages but loves listening to podcasts about it and especially watching this channel. Seems like a lot of people are the same.
You’re definitely not alone my man. I grew up flipping back and forth between WCW and WWE. It was such a huge part of my childhood
12:10 That WWE2k20 image in the corner, pretty much sums up WWE during this period of time.
Matches like this is the reason I get my wrestling fix from OSW and Wrestling Bios.
Wrestling With Wregret by Brian Zane is great too
L
Eh, that should be for your wwe fix only. There is so much good wrestling out there worldwide, to restrict your viewing to just comedy podcasts and video essays.
@@claymathewselevator8121 Brian Zanes humour is so flat and cringeworthy most of the time, and now 90% of his channel is pushing his crappy independent stuff he does. He's in a lower tier than whatculture now
@@michaelkeller5927 🤡
Thanks for covering these matches. I checked out of WWE back in like 2004
Don't blame ya, bro
The Fiend was originally meant to win but then Vince changed his mind and wanted him to win it in Saudi Arabia on Halloween
WWE screwed the fiend up so badly. Absolutely happy to see Bray back and hopefully treated right.
fiend was always cringe. bray over rated overweight headass looking dude in clown pants
Doubt it with WWE has the belts on Roman for the past 2 years. That's more wasted opportunities for other wrestlers.
The fiend screwed the fiend.
Hopefully no fiend
Jesus not this again with the reigns. Just stop.can't wait for "wrestling fans" complains about how reigns holding the titles is the reason for inflation next. Let's say reigns drop the titles and bray wins it. Then what? What's that gonna accomplish? What's a title gonna do to bray? The moment bray stops being the newest toy hhh bought you guys gonna want him to drop the title to new nxt or return wrestler. Bray don't need titles. Bray needs to finally figure what bray is. Not what bray is in 2022 but what bray in in general. He need to build his character in a way that will allow him to have a long future with it before it loses its "allure" and he needs to find the right opponent to cement his legacy the same way undertaker did with mankind and kane instead of being back on defending titles with random guys while still trying to find his foot in a long term character. Stop acting like reigns losing is the solution to every wwe problem cause it isn't
This match was the final nail in the coffin for my brother and I. We immediately cancelled our WWE subscription once the match was over. This was such a poorly booked match altogether that it astounds me how anyone thought this would go over well on the creative team. I'm hearing a lot of good things now that Hunter is in control so who knows maybe I'll come back. But this was definitely a dark time in the WWE's history where it just seemed like nobody won. Not the brand, not the wrestlers, and certainly not the fans.
I was pretty much one foot out the door by the time this event happened. I didn't even watch it. A buddy told me the next day that I had to watch it, and he didn't mean it in a good way. I did, and I haven't been back since. The shitty pandemic empty-arena broadcasts helped that, too.
I only kept my subscription for NXT before it went to 2.0
Randomly, this was the first match I watched in over a decade. All I took away from it was they didn't know how to put on good matches anymore and the modern era just wasn't worth watching.
Good god talk about being a spoiled baby much come on now it’s just a tv show soap opera nothing to get but hurt over. It’s so sad and hilarious at the same time
@@Turnheadcough No, what's sad is people defending it.
Legend has mr Bios is still talking about seth’s accolades there are so many!!
This channel got me back into pro wrestling, and then I got back into WWE after Vince left... but this video made me realise that even though I really like the current talent, the booking was not what it is now and would probably leave me sad... or mad... or both had I tried to watch pre-Triple H era. Excellent video once again, sir!
Amazing what a change in management can do.
This was October 2019, the same month AEW Dynamite premiered. I bet a lot of people tuned out and switched to AEW that month.
Because you can't watch both....weird.
Nah the ratings did show that people tuned out but nothing showed AEW benefited.
I mean, aews highest rated show is their very first show, and they haven't been able to up it in what, 3 years now?
also smackdown's debut on fox saw brock beat kofi
I was in the venue and people were chanting AEW
I literally did a loud "WHAT!?!" when you said the ref stopped the match. I've clearly not been paying attention to things for a long time.
This wasn't the first time a HIAC ended without a winner
Yep. Third time, actually.
First time on PPV though.
Heh. A mind-change from talking rubbish about your sexual fantasies for Alexa Bliss? Maybe I realized that you are like every WWE fan out there where you're nothing more than just a bloody character/persona!
2018 HIAC
On a side note besides the usual very nice and in depth vid… That Wyatt theme in the intro is way too good! Absolutely perfect
No push in history has ever stupified me more than Bray Wyatt. As both a wrestling & horror fan, I simply don't get it. Kudos for getting me to watch a video about two guys I couldn't care less about though! Great work as always
Only the most hardcore WWE fans will admit to watching regularly during McMahon's final years.
Hard to believe that Vince is gone for good.
@@hakimdiwan5101 Vince is back sadly
@@zemox2534 And he’s gone
Can't wait for the detailed video about the Firefly Funhouse and The Fiend!
When he said, "I realize most my viewers haven't watched wrestling in years..."
I am glad he recognizes this.
I haven't watched this 'Soap Opera for Men' in many years.
Keep up the great videos.
I'm glad he said that. Because I was worried he was gonna start making a bunch of videos on modern wrestling which I don't watch lol
I’m still a big WWE fan, that match made me shake my head and going “what the hell were you thinking?”
We needed to have a moment of silence after the referee rang the bell. That was funny Mr Wrestlingbios.
Must of watched it 5 times
During this babyface run, it felt like the Curb Stomp was as effective as using harsh language.
And they bloody let The Fiend lose in one botched jackhammer 😂😂😂😂
Wwe booked themselves into a corner with this one
I barely watch wrestling these days but I do love Seth. I hope he stays active for many years to come
God what a dreadful match, how dare you remind me off it!
Great video.
Thanks for covering something more modern! Great video!
I really struggled with those red lights. I can't see clearly what's going on!
XPac was never invited back for another watch along because of his reaction 😂
The sad thing about modern wrestling in my opinion is how much everyone looks like a Create-a-Wrestler, and everything looks too vibrant and colorful. That, and kayfabe lost a Buried Alive match and has stayed there ever since.
To paraphrase Eddie Kingston, "Kayfabe is dead but we don't gotta piss on its grave"
Waylon Mercy was a big influence on the Bray Wyatt character, it would be good to see a bio on Dan Spivey/Waylon Marcy at some point. You know what I mean! 😉
It's funny because 1st time I seen Bray in white slacks I was reminded of Waylon.....
Spivey six eight. Vicious six feet nine, The Skyscrapers. Top hat and tails. Talk about having a night on the town!!
Even with 2 world championships I'll never get putting one in the curtain jerker
I love that you cover stuff that not everyone has or is covering
Covering modern wrestling like this could revive lapsed fans! Keep it up! Especially now Triple H is in charge!
it’s how i catch up on things i’ve missed out on in the past decade plus that i’ve been away
No just makes us yearn for more vintage content
@@adamalberts2 Speak for yourself Cornette Crusader
Booooooooooooo
The Bloodline angle is the best creative story that the WWE has churned out in over a decade.
@19:05 xpac's reaction had me crying. LOL!!!
XPac is hilarious
X-Pac's response was hilarious at the time
didn't he disappear from the watch along right after that?
@@woobgamer5210 yeah he’s like yeah they’ll probably never invite me back for these 😂
Wait what the f is this Brian. Am I watching wrestling Bios or am i in another dimension. Hahaha glad to see you doing some modern stuff. Keep it up love all your content.
Wow we are now in the modern era of Wrestling Bios. Excited for him covering everything the Shield trio of Rollins, Reigns and Moxley. Hopefully some AEW also.
I was there live at Sacramento and I will never forget that crowd TV did not do the justice.. I will never in my life forget that crowd and the amount of booing I heard it all the way in the parking garage when I was leaving..
Seth Rollins run was so good, it got me watching again. After this match, I was bummed. Both of these great characters were set back a good deal.
this is a Russo WCW tier moment right here...
I remember watching this match live on the WWE Network and I knew the longer the match went, the more ridiculous it became. Also, even before the match happened, the fact they booked this match wasn't going to be well for anyone involved at the end.
That intro was fantastic, no idea who that was though.
Bray Wyatt with a mask on is a different character? Didn't Finn Balor do the same damn thing like 5 years before this? He came out in a mask and painted himself and called himself the fiend too, or something like that.
I know they rehash everything but you can't rehash stuff like that.
If Jim Ross and The King were calling the match:
J.R.: "GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! THAT BURIED HIM! AS GAWD AS MY WITNESS, HIS PUSH IS BROKEN IN HALF!"
King: "That's it. He's a midcarder."
Your ability to know I clocked out during the RA era in uncanny, sir.
I Hope to see a Goldberg vs The Fiend vidéo someday 😄
Amazing content as always lad 😁
What you said about people tuning out during ruthless aggression area And after this ppv is so true. The fans deserve better
I did not tune out during ruthless aggression but I can understand why others did
@@zemox2534 Me neither. I continued watching.
Was waiting on a video like this
Cant stand today's wrestling but Mr Bios somehow makes it interesting 👍
Whilst the booking of the fiend did suck after this PPV I have to say though the Fiend v Cena 'match' at Wrestlemania 2020 was awesome.
The worst things to happen to The Fiend’s character was to make him invincible and to make him a champion. Every Horror Character needs a weakness and motivation that fits their stories. Them making him a Champion and invincible at the same time when we know every Champion has to lose was death sentence.
The lighting for this is interesting....the viewer at home probably has a better view than the audience. 🤔
Please make a video about Austin's co-general manager stint back in 2003.
I was there. Took a buddy of mine to his first live show let alone a PPV.
That was the night I fell out of wrestling again, haven't been back since.
This a great topic to dive into for the Halloween season. 😁
Both wrestlers were lucky this didnt ruin their careers. WWE got what they deserved from the fallout. Thank god HHH is at the creative top.
If nobody has made a casestudy of Wyatt’s Promos, then who better to pave the way then you, WB 🙂
Isn't this the match WWE put the poll up asking what people thought the result would be and one of the answers was no contest?
Agree 100% we still havent seen the best of Rollins. Awesome video as always. Such good sh*t pal!!
Getting DQ'ed in a HIAC Match?
Everybody: "WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK???!"
Thankfully, Seth has rebounded nicely since then.
I remember watching this thinking there were better ways to have your super natural character no-sell without making it look as fake as it did.
The Fiend was booked like early Undertaker and Kane
Yoooooo thanks for doing some more recent wrestling content
This match killed Seth's face run but it's for the better. Look how good the Seth "Freakin" Rollins gimmick now.
Seth was massively over as a baby face right up til this match. Never seen a character completely killed like this in victory.
This is my favourite wrestling video channel keep up the good vids like this one
Man I remember watching the PPV, it had been the longest time since I had watched one and I was like, really this was the one I finally tuned into?
You know what would have saved this match? Some chinlocks.
R.I.P Bray Wyatt
GREATEST INTRO EVER 💯
It's incredibly easy to play "woulda, coulda, shoulda" in hindsight with just about anything in wrestling, but it was a big mistake to make The Fiend "just another wrestler" involved in the title picture and moving feud to feud. As cool as it was initially to see basically a slasher villain from a horror film come to the WWE, there's no longevity in that and it had a built-in shelf life. The move was to have the Fiend horrifically terrify and destroy everything in its path for a year leading to a final showdown with a top baby face at Wrestlemania. Then stop the angle. Have Bray return to his old self after that final (and only) defeat, repackage again, something. Anything but have him invade John Cena's subconscious (which is also somehow visibly televised on PPV?) and enter into a feud of the month to do occasional jobs.
I hated when Rollins said the beast slayer died when he faced the fiend when clearly the booking killed Seth with the swiftness. Like those somehow made two massively over stars look horrible in one night.
Really enjoyed the vid! Nice seeing you cover modern wrestling🤝
I always think that fans are too harsh on the finish. I agree that how a refree can stop a hiac but...
The main damage was the match itself, how on earth a guy is kicking out of 11 freaking curb stopms!! On top of that chair shot, ladders, tool box on head and fiend is kicking out on 1!! But it's not over because after the match it looks like fiend is not hurt 1perc.
The main problem of this match was the way fiend was booked! I don't get the all the hate towards the finish only.
It's just like making a movie with a budget of 3B and when the studio loses money then people are pointing towards the story, climax etc like come on! How can anyone think that things could be positive if the budget is that much. 🙄
Bray's characters are interesting, but after a while it's hard for him to go where they need to. The fiend looks scary as hell, but at the end of the day he's not going to do anything worse than beat someone up. I feel he'd be better served working in another medium, because he's got some genuinely gripping ideas, they fizzle out because the stories can't go where they need to.
do you think you could do a mini series on ECWs most controversial matches and videos that pinpoint it's demise. if that makes sense. I know a lot of people covered ecw and I've seen all your ecw videos but I think you could pull it off the best.
Sandman's Crucifixion would be a good video, considering that without this controversy, Kurt Angle wouldn't have gone to WWE.
It was this match that marked my decision to stop watching WWE. I originally had major hope for AEW, being a huge fan of cruiserweights since childhood seeing WCW, both Matt and Jeff Hardy's careers, and many of the NXT headliners like ricochet, Alister Black, etc. So when I gave AEW a chance I was emensely disappointed after seeing a a few Kenny Omega v. Jon Moxley matches, some Chris Jericho matches, and the Miro match where he used the gutted arcade machine as a weapon and pretended to strain to lift it. After all that I just have only gotten my content from YT channels. I may be ready to give WWE another shot with what potential changes that have happened and ones that may be happening along with the return of Bray Wyatt.
This works if the Fiend absolutely destroys Seth Rollins to a bloody mess to the point that he is off tv for a couple/few weeks and has a baby face comeback and slowly works on figuring out how to beat the fiend.
This finish made a Dusty finish look sensible
3 LONG YEARS since WWE f'd this up
I’m honestly surprised it was only 3 it felt like forever ago. (Covid really messed up my perspective of timing huh?)
WWE always screwed over Bray Wyatt, hopefully this time is different.
I'm glad now that Triple H is bringing excitement back to the wwe but i still can't get into it as much as i had been through the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. I love the idea of the Feind and Seth Rollins is one of the best modern heels but i just don't get excited as i do still when going back and watching classic matches. Great insight into two modern superstars though.
Matches like this are why for such a long time modern wrestling was unbearable unless you were deep in the niche. Great talents, terrible booking. Ironically these days it seems WWE and AEW are trending in different directions from how things started but overall things are getting better.
love to see you branching out into more current stuff
1:03 I mean I can't be the only person here who grew up with this stuff during the invasion angle right?? 😅😅
I feel ya Big Sexy. That ending was B.S. 😆
Great video 😊and here’s a fun fact about 99 kane in house shows he would wrestle with the lights red
This match ruined the Fiend character. Thank God Vince finally "retired" because his booking decisions were more misses than hits over the last 5 or so years.
Man I can't wait for you too do my bray wyatt videos this guy is awesome
If you haven't done so, you should check out PartsFunKnown's 3 part series on The Fiend. They go indepth into some of Wyatt's early promos. Anyways: great work! I love your work and find them inspiring for my own creative writing.
Ryan you are awesome for this....I'm tired of the marks and disco infernos of the internet saying the fiend was the greatest gimmick ever ! It's the worst!!!!!!!!
Not a fan of modern wrestling, though will watch this because ryan tells a great story
After watching Reliving the War for so long, it seems weird hearing you talk about modern wrestling. Still good though.