Hot take: WWE should do away with all cage matches

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - JUNE 27: Bron Breakker in action against Seth Rollins inside a Steel Cage during Night of Champions. | (Photo: Joe Maher/WWE via Getty Images) Following a Hell in a Cell match between Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi at SummerSlam that was a Cell match in name only, I realized something. WWE should do away with all cage matches. Seriously, what’s the point anymore? Today, cage and Cell matches are glorified eyesores for what amounts to just another match filled with tables, kendo sticks, and other wacky items. Oh, and, appropriately, garbage cans because modern cage matches are trash. There was a time when the cage was the weapon. Wrestlers used it as a face shredder to torture their most hated enemies. But for a match that’s supposed to settle a blood feud, there’s no blood, mutilation, or even some clever incorporation of the cage. In the past 16 years, we’ve had only one Cell match that rivaled the original. One. If we have to wait 16 or so years to see another, it