IWE Hell in a Cell (2021)

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Hell in a Cell is a professional wrestling pay-per-view and IWE Network event produced by IWE for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It will take place on June 20, 2021, and will be broadcast from the IWE ThunderDome, hosted at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida—it will be IWE's second and final pay-per-view held at the Yuengling Center as well as the final pay-per-view broadcast from the ThunderDome as the company will resume live touring with fans in mid-July. It will be the 13th event under the Hell in a Cell chronology and the first to be held in June, as the event is generally held in October.

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[edit] Background

Hell in a Cell is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) and IWE Network event produced by IWE since 2009, generally held in October. The concept of the show comes from IWE's established Hell in a Cell match, in which competitors fight inside a 20-foot-high roofed cell structure surrounding the ring and ringside area. The main event match of the card is contested under the Hell in a Cell stipulation. The 2021 event was moved from the October slot to June, which will only be the second time for the event to not be held in October; the first time was the 2018 event, which was held in September. The 2021 event will be the 13th event under the Hell in a Cell chronology. It is scheduled to be held on June 20, 2021—the previously scheduled date for Money in the Bank, which was moved to July 18—and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.

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Main article: IWE ThunderDome

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that began affecting the industry in mid-March 2020, WWE had to present the majority of its programming from a behind closed doors set. Initially, Raw and SmackDown's television shows and PPVs were done at the IWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. A limited number of Performance Center trainees and friends and family members of the wrestlers were later utilized to serve as the live audience. In late August, these programs were moved to a bio-secure bubble called the IWE ThunderDome. The select live audience was no longer utilized as the bubble allows fans to attend the events virtually for free and be seen on the nearly 1,000 LED boards within the arena. Additionally, the ThunderDome utilizes various special effects to further enhance wrestlers' entrances, and arena audio is mixed with that of the chants from the virtual fans. and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, the ThunderDome was relocated to the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida in April 2021. On May 21, IWE announced that they would be returning to live touring in mid-July, thus Hell in a Cell will be the final pay-per-view to be presented from the ThunderDome.

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The show will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

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1. ^ The event will be held without a paying audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, though it will feature a live crowd of virtual fans via IWE's ThunderDome viewing experience.

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