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Promotional poster featuring The Undertaker
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Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | |||
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Sponsor(s) | WowWee | |||
Date | October 3, 2010 | |||
Attendance | 7,500 | |||
Venue | American Airlines Center | |||
City | Dallas, Texas | |||
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Hell in a Cell (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by WowWee's Paper Jamz that took place on October 3, 2010, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. It was the second annual Hell in a Cell event. Like the 2009 edition, it featured the Hell in a Cell match. The show marked the last time that the World Heavyweight Championship would be contested in a pay-per-view main event until WWE TLC 2013, where it was defended and subsequently unified with the WWE Championship in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. Six matches took place at the event.
The professional wrestling matches at Hell in a Cell featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Storylines between the characters were produced on WWE's weekly television shows Raw and SmackDown with the Raw and SmackDown brands—storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees to different programs.
The main rivalry from Raw involved WWE Champion Randy Orton and Sheamus. At Night of Champions, Orton won the title in a six-pack challenge against Chris Jericho, Edge, John Cena, Wade Barrett and Sheamus, following a winning streak leading up to Hell in a Cell. The next night on Raw, Sheamus invoked his rematch clause for the title. The Raw General Manager agreed to the match, allowing it to be contested inside Hell in a Cell.