WWE Hell In A Cell 2018 kicks off with a video package. We go live to the arena in San Antonio, Texas.
Randy Orton makes his way to the ring and steps inside the new, red, Hell In A Cell structure. Jeff Hardy is out second.
Hell In A Cell Match
Jeff Hardy Vs. Randy Orton
The bell rings, and Hardy immediately runs at Orton and punches him into the corner. Orton turns the tables around kicks him and uppercuts him into the ropes. Hardy falls to the apron, and Orton snaps him off the top rope. Orton then hits the ropes and knocks him off the apron into the cell. Orton goes outside and tries to slam his face onto the cell, but Hardy blocks it. Jeff then sends Orton headfirst into the cell before sending him headfirst into the turnbuckle. Hardy then throws him into the cell, and Orton hits the ring post.
Hardy goes outside the ring, under the rings and pulls out a table. Hardy puts it in the ring, but Orton grabs it before clotheslining him on the floor. Orton gets Hardy in the ring, but Jeff uses the table and slams it into Orton’s ribs at ringside. Orton grabs a chair, while Hardy grabs a ladder. Hardy drives the ladder multiple times into Orton’s ribs to take him down. Orton quickly cracks the chair off Hardy’s back and punches him down. Orton sets the chair up at ringside and grabs Hardy. Orton goes for an RKO onto the chair, but Hardy pushes him off. Hardy then jumps off the chair to do Poetry in Motion.
Hardy gets in the ring with Orton and hits a donkey kick before hitting a slingshot corner dropkick. Hardy pulls him to the center of the ring for a two count. Hardy splashes him and signals for a Swanton Bomb. Hardy goes to the top rope, but Orton cuts him off. Orton connects with a top rope superplex and slowly covers him for a near fall. Both men take a few moments to pull themselves to their feet. Hardy gives Orton a back elbow and connects with Whisper in the Wind for a near fall. Jeff heads back outside and sets up the ladder upside down at ringside. Hardy tries to suplex Orton onto it, but Orton counters with a front suplex onto the supports of the ladder! Orton gets him into the ring for a near fall.
Orton grabs a chair at ringside and cracks it off Hardy’s back. Orton takes a few moments before hitting him a second time. Orton talks some trash and rips off Hardy’s mesh shirt. Orton then cracks the exposed back two more times. Orton takes Hardy’s belt, decorated with steel studs, and smacks it off his back for a two count. Orton rakes his boot on Hardy’s face before grabbing the ladder. A “Let’s go Hardy” chant fires up, and Orton looks disgusted. Orton sets up a ladder, but keeps it on its side. Orton sandwiches Hardy in between the ladder faces and pulls his head through a rung. Orton then tries closing the ladder and stomping it to hyperextend Hardy’s neck. Orton pulls him out of this for a near fall.
Orton applies a chin lock, and the crowd gets behind Hardy. Hardy fights up to his feet and elbows out. Hardy has a whip reversed, but he comes back with a running forearm. Hardy connects with an inverted atomic drop, hits a double leg drop to the midsection, and a low dropkick to the face for a near fall. Hardy gets a “DELETE” chant going and tries for a Twist of Fate, but Orton pushes him off and hits a scoop powerslam for a near fall. Orton covers again for the same result. Orton smiles and rolls out of the ring. Orton looks at a few weapons at ringside before going to a toolbox and pulling out a screwdriver. Orton gets in the ring and grabs Hardy by the hair. Orton ties up his arm and looks at the ear lobe of Hardy, already deformed by a gauge. Orton puts his finger in the hole before putting the screwdriver inside. Orton begins to twist the screwdriver, ripping into the ear lobe! Hardy gets to his feet and low blows him to get out of it.
Hardy smacks Orton with his belt a few times before unloading some chair shots on his back for a near fall. Hardy goes to the top rope, but Orton cuts him off and crotches him. Hardy collapses to the mat and rolls to the apron. Orton’s back is bleeding from the metal studs of Jeff’s belt, legit like 40 little holds bleeding. I think Jeff was meant to stay on the top rope but Orton improvises and gives him a hanging DDT from the ropes as usual. Orton’s back leaves a bloody impression on the mat. Hardy somehow comes back with a Twist of Fate and stomps on the chair to flatten it out. Hardy lays it on Orton’s chest, heads up to the top rope, and gives him a Swanton Bomb… but Orton kicks out! Jeff can’t believe it!
There is a big chunk of skin and meat hanging out of Orton’s leg – I don’t know how he got that cut. Hardy gets a ladder in the ring and pulls out another table as well. Jeff sets up the tall ladder in the ring before setting up a smaller ladder next to it. Hardy then sets up a table. Hardy gives Orton a Twist of Fate and lays him on the table before climbing the smaller ladder. Hardy considers leap-frogging the bigger ladder to leg-drop Orton, but instead he climbs the taller ladder and grabs the roof of the cell and hangs on a support beam. Hardy starts swinging back and forth, then lets got and falls down but Orton moves and Hardy crashes through the table! The referee starts to yell and tells Orton to back off. The cell starts to rise, and Orton is furious. Orton tells him to stop and covers. The referee won’t count, but Orton tells him to do his job. Finally the referee counts the pinfall.
Winner: Randy Orton
A stretcher comes down and the cell raises as Orton wanders around the ring. EMT’s help Jeff onto a stretcher and we see replays. There’s a strange air in the arena, like the fans don’t know what to make of the finish. Orton’s music hits and he leaves with his mangled leg and back. The fans give Jeff an ovation and chant his name as he is stretchered off.
