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Apologies for my late entry but I guess there’s still an hour until the deadline!

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1 hour ago, neil is brill said:

Sorry to be “that guy” who nitpicks, but that statement isn’t accurate. Reigns didn’t beat Rollins during this run, Seth won the match via DQ. In fact, Reigns has never defeated Rollins in a one on one match. According to Rollins at least.

Edit - Pretty sure there’s been a few average Raw matches between them where Reigns probably won.

No worries mate. I’m not saying it’s true at all (as I mentioned I’ve only caught the Rumble and Elimination Chamber this year), it’s just that I’d seen it reported in a few headlines - quick Google and this is one such report: https://www.thesportster.com/roman-reigns-potential-feat-goldberg-elimination-chamber/. But actually reading it, it does point out what you said, so I’ve no idea why they reported it if he hasn’t beat Rollins but retained by getting DQed. As you mentioned, it’s not true and makes their story pointless!

This is the first WWE show I’ve watched since flicking through last month’s Royal Rumble the morning after. The main reason I watched Elimination Chamber all the way through (or at least had it on, as I was getting on with some jobs around the house) was due to the start time.

I must admit that I was also intrigued to see Goldberg facing Reigns, Lita facing Becky and obviously the chamber matches.

Right from the get-go, I was surprised to see Goldberg vs Reigns as the opener, as that was the match I was most excited to see (my personal preference, as I think some fans weren’t too thrilled about it, or the prospect of Goldberg winning). Nothing really wrong with the match itself but personally I would have liked to have seen a shock of Goldberg winning but I guess Reigns winning did make more sense, as I saw that if he had beaten Goldberg it’d mean he’d defeated all previous Universal champions during this reign.

From there, not much else stood out to me, although I wasn’t giving it my full attention. It seems a shame that Lashley is genuinely injured as I have seen he may be out for 4 months due to a shoulder injury which he needs surgery on and this concussion story was a way to write him out. Lesnar’s F5 on Theory from the chamber was crazy and, like the Rumble, the outcome of the match seemed very predictable.

I would have much rather seen someone else win it, while not making Lesnar look weak (they could have had Reigns cost him again in some way, perhaps have him and the Usos run-in and take him out as an eliminated opponent left, to build the hatred between the two even more) but it seems they’d rather have the champion vs champion story and have both Reigns and Lesnar look like absolute monsters going against each other, which strangely I don’t hate the idea of but my only concern is I feel they are making the rest of the roster look so weak compared to them and I feel that they are sacrificing young talent in order to make everything about these two.

I did enjoy Lita vs Becky but much like the Goldberg vs Reigns match, it seems Lita was brought in for the spectacle and the big match feel, which makes Becky look strong going into WrestleMania.

Everything else seemed fairly predictable or I wasn’t particularly bothered by it but that may be due to me not paying as much attention to WWE as I once did. 
 

Overall, the event kinda backed up my feeling that WWE feels a little predictable at best, or stale at worse. I feel a lot of time and effort is being given to build up already established stars in Reigns and Lesnar and while I will watch their showdown at WrestleMania, I just feel a little pessimistic in terms of how things will pan out as I feel they’ve done all they can with both now and I can’t see how anyone can beat them and I feel we’ll end up seeing another already established top guy going against whoever wins after WrestleMania. I do hope I am wrong though and they plan to build a new top star up. I do also feel (if it hasn’t already been announced) that the title match will be a winner-takes-all at WrestleMania, which again shows how predictable things feel - I thought this was how things would go even before the show started and Lesnar was announced for the chamber match.

I don’t really like the whole I’m a WWE guy or I’m an AEW guy, I think it’s good to have competition and I do enjoy watching a bit of both and if this was about 10-15 years ago and all I had to worry about was a bit of homework or uni work, I’m sure I’d be watching and taking it all in but now with a lot more grown-up responsibilities my spare time to watch wrestling is a lot more precious and I generally enjoy watching AEW each week as I like the character progression, the feel that stories progress and the fresh matches - it had originally been NXT but I felt I lost my love of that once its revamp came about and they lost some of my favourites, such as UE (coincidentally to AEW) and I had already began spending more time watching AEW due to Punk joining. I also felt that I couldn’t really get behind anyone in NXT, as it seems they either leave or get released or they get brought up to the main roster and at best get lost in the mix or at worse, get given a terrible gimmick that ruins their character.

That being said, when I do get a bit of spare time, I do plan on flicking through some NXT and seeing if I feel any different after doing so and I will watch WrestleMania and see how that goes, but I don’t feel particularly confident that either will change my feeling but I will go in with a very open mind.

Overall though, and to go back on topic, I feel Elimination Chamber wasn’t must-see and I would have been happy enough to flick through or just read about the results and catch clips of any major goings on (which there didn’t seem to be much of).

I think the main ones for me would be The Rock, Stone Cold, The Undertaker, Eddie Guerrero, Jeff Hardy, the three Shield chaps and Raven but just looking through past events I've been to, I feel so lucky to have seen so many of my favourites, the top ones being CM Punk, HBK and Danielson. Another big one for me is that I've seen Eric Bischoff on a live show.

Then there's the likes of Jericho, Flair, Orton, Malakai Black, HHH, Edge, Christian, Kane, Regal, Angle, Too Cool, Dudleys, Matt Hardy, Batista, Cena, Cody, Pete Dunne...

I've also met Foley and AJ Styles but never got to see them wrestle and I've seen Balor in the ring but not wrestle.

1 hour ago, Just Some Guy said:

And I for one am very grateful for your generosity. Thank you.

I'd also like to add my thanks and apologise for my late entry - sorry, I hadn't spotted your comment on the deadline. Thank you.

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