Elimination Chamber is on Sunday. 7 matches, including three women's matches, three title matches and a couple of huge opportunities missed. Let's breakdown the matches.
American Alpha will defend their Smackdown Tag Team Titles in a Tag Team Turmoil match against basically every team Smackdown has in The Ascension, Breezango, The Vaudevillians, Heath Slater and Rhyno and The Usos. Hmmm...6 teams. You know what else has 6 spots? THE FREAKING ELIMINATION CHAMBER! Why..How...What is WWE thinking? This was the PERFECT show opener inside the structure. It feels like a wasted opportunity you know? Unless, WWE has something else planned. I can see AA having to start the match and run the gauntlet. They wanted competition so why not have them run through the 5 teams? They could either face The Ascension or The Usos last and have either team focus on Gable's knee. Once AA wins, or so they think, have one more team enter; THE REVIVAL. SAY YEAH! Revival comes out, taps out Gable and you have new tag champs! That's the fantasy scenario but in reality, AA will last through the five other teams and retain their titles but The Revival VS American Alpha for Wrestlemania would do wonders to its already lacking card. American Alpha wins.
Another missed opportunity is for the women. In the last year, we've had women main events, cage matches, Hell in a Cell matches and Iron Man matches. With three different women feuds right now, wouldn't it have made sense to put all six ladies in the chamber? Barbaric, yes but it's 2017. I'm all for equal rights! Anyway, it would have been great. The first one I'm focusing on is Nikki VS Natalya, a feud that's been going on since last year. This should be a nice little match and it will hopefully give the payoff from the feud, with Nikki going over. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a little backstage interaction with Maryse and Nikki afterwards either.
Dolph Ziggler will face Kalisto and Apollo Crews in a two on one handicap match. I like each man in the match but I just wish there was a mid card title they could all feud over...Oh, the champ is getting a break by trying to become WWE Champion? Cool....These three will definitely be apart of the IC Title match at Wrestlemania so a winner here doesn't really matter. I'm going with Ziggler to back up his great heel turn though.
The 2017 Royal Rumble winner Randy Orton will have to take a little pit stop before his Wrestlemania title match as he faces Luke Harper. This is a filler match. Yes, there's an ongoing story here between the Wyatts and such but a RR winner doesn't lose a singles match at the PPV before his big title shot. Randy Orton wins in a great match.
In my second most anticipated match this PPV, Becky Lynch will take on the returning Mickie James in their first ever meeting. This has me pumped. One of the greatest women's wrestlers from the past decade VS one of the current greats of this decade. This is going to steal the show, if given enough time. Seriously. This is one of the first dream matches Mickie can have as being apart of the women's division now. It will be a hard fought match but Mickie needs the win to back up her return. While I'm talking women, let's also talk the Smackdown Women's Championship match between Alexa Bliss and Naomi. I'm glad Naomi is getting an opportunity. Smackdown's women division is so much more giving than Raw's. They have been using each woman effectively and each have been making the most of the screen time. That being said, Naomi has already pinned Alexa twice in tag matches. It won't be a third time. Well, not here. Alexa will retain the title here. I think the plan is to do a Fatal Four Way at Mania ala Raw and Naomi will be in here hometown, so, who knows? Maybe it will be there but at EC, Mickie and Alexa will stand tall, maybe even helping each other.
The main event is the first Elimination Chamber WWE Title match in 3 years. 16 time World Champion John Cena will defend against former champion AJ Stlyes, Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose, The Lone Wolf Baron Corbin, The A Lister The Miz and The Eater of Worlds Bray Wyatt. Let's look at it. The winner here has to face Randy Orton at Wrestlemania. You can start eliminating names like that of potential winners. The Miz? Nah, they tried Wrestlemania main event with him before. Baron Corbin? That's definitely a main event for the brand one day but not for Wrestlemania. John Cena? Yes, a John Cena VS Randy Orton match is what Wrestlemania is all about but they've literally wrestled each other 30 times on television, including once this past week. Is that really the way to go. That leaves just three guys; Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles and Bray Wyatt.
Ambrose/Orton is another one I think will main event a PPV between Mania and SummerSlam but it won't be at the Show of Shows. AJ Styles VS Randy Orton is definitely a Wrestlemania worthy match that could go on as the actual main event. It would be the first ever meeting between the two and could even go down as a Match of the Year contender when it's all said and done. The obvious match would be Bray Wyatt VS Randy Orton. They've been feuding since around SummerSlam, when Wyatt stared down Orton. They wrestled at No Mercy, in the main event and then teamed with each other, giving them the Smackdown Tag Titles very briefly. It's the match that makes sense the most. I have been a Bray Wyatt fan since he debuted into his new character and I have been waiting for the day that Wyatt finally wins a World Title. Others have come after him and won World Titles before him, guys like Kevin Owens and Finn Balor but I just said to myself, one day. That one day, is Sunday.
Bray Wyatt will FINALLY win the WWE Championship on Sunday, eliminating John Cena last. I would not be surprised if Styles won either as Orton/Styles is literally a match I need to see soon. My only question is this; if Wyatt wins, Styles and Cena would both be owed rematches. Would they get them on Smackdowns leading to Mania? My suggestion is to put all four guys into one match but hey, that's just me.
Sunday's event, though quickly put together, looks pretty good. Becky/Mickie and the Elimination Chamber match will definitely be what everyone talks about on Monday morning. Let's go Bray Wyatt!
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