During Wednesday’s episode of The Bump, WWE referee Rod Zapata explained why he decided to stop the The Hell in a Cell match for the Universal Title at Sunday's Hell In A Cell pay-per-view.
"With Bray motionless, and Seth clearly doing whatever it was going to take to win that match…I had to think of the competitor’s safety and at that moment, I did what I thought was best."
Rod Zapata, the WWE official who made the controversial decision to stop the brutal Hell in a Cell Match between Universal Champion Seth Rollins and “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt supplies WWE’s The Bump with an explanation for his actions.
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