WWE Elimination Chamber Discussion

[Ruzious]

Boo! Ruby deserves better!

seriously! smh. Ronda even stealing Sonya Deville's look.

Sonya looks much better now without it - she should be grateful they changed her look.

[Scott Hall]

Unfortunately I'm a big twitter guy and I went on there a few times during the All-Star game and saw Bayley
was trending so figured her and Sasha won and saw Kofi was trending so figured he had another crazy run.

Only match that I liked was the mens Main Event Chamber and I usually don't find those matches to be anything special.
I wish this PPV didn't go against the NBA ASG but I didn't mind the spoilers as I'm not vested in the current product.

These Kevin Owens promos are a bit "different" I wonder if him eating Pizza in the car was WWE's idea to fit that
Fat slob narrative some have pushed about him I hope not.

I'm guessing this Lashley, Drew, Corbin faction is gonna be short lived to just cram them all together into a
WM match. Hopefully Strowmans partner this year isn't Nicolas.

So Lacey Evans has a great showing at the Rumble booked strong. Then isn't used on TV for weeks other then jobbing
to Natalya on "Main Event" and has the most pointless bizarre cameo I've ever seen on this PPV lol

Whatever happened to Asuka?

[iMoreland]

https://m.sportskeeda.com/wwe/is-samoa-joe-the-new-bray-wyatt

"Is Samoa Joe the new Bray Wyatt?"

[Stanford]

Joe is actually good

[Heat3]

Unfortunately I'm a big twitter guy and I went on there a few times during the All-Star game and saw Bayley
was trending so figured her and Sasha won and saw Kofi was trending so figured he had another crazy run.

Only match that I liked was the mens Main Event Chamber and I usually don't find those matches to be anything special.
I wish this PPV didn't go against the NBA ASG but I didn't mind the spoilers as I'm not vested in the current product.

These Kevin Owens promos are a bit "different" I wonder if him eating Pizza in the car was WWE's idea to fit that
Fat slob narrative some have pushed about him I hope not.

I'm guessing this Lashley, Drew, Corbin faction is gonna be short lived to just cram them all together into a
WM match. Hopefully Strowmans partner this year isn't Nicolas.

So Lacey Evans has a great showing at the Rumble booked strong. Then isn't used on TV for weeks other then jobbing
to Natalya on "Main Event" and has the most pointless bizarre cameo I've ever seen on this PPV lol

Whatever happened to Asuka?

I don't think I've ever cared less about the NBA all star weekend. The past few years I listened on the radio to the Saturday night but didn't even bother this year. Checked the score this morning and lol'd at 178 points I saw Wade's highlights on youtube. That's all I needed.

[improper]

Joe is actually good

I mean, I think Bray had potential, but on the mic Samoa Joe is one of the best sh*t talkers in the business. Bray had some mic skills, but nowhere near what Joe's got. I think both guys are mediocre in the ring. They both top out at a four star match imo. Maybe Joe used to be amazing, but I've never seen him have anything better than a four star match.

[Diop]

I only just watched this, so happy to see Kofi excel. He's always been a great athlete, love seeing him flying around.

[improper]

I only just watched this, so happy to see Kofi excel. He's always been a great athlete, love seeing him flying around.

WWE has a boatload of guys who I feel could be stars if they were just given a real push.

[iMoreland]

I only just watched this, so happy to see Kofi excel. He's always been a great athlete, love seeing him flying around.

WWE has a boatload of guys who I feel could be stars if they were just given a real push.

There's only room for a few at the top

[improper]

I only just watched this, so happy to see Kofi excel. He's always been a great athlete, love seeing him flying around.

WWE has a boatload of guys who I feel could be stars if they were just given a real push.

There's only room for a few at the top

Well yeah, but there is room for more guys than WWE tends to allow, and they spent the last five years wasting one of them on Brock Lesnar, who is never around and wrestles one good match a year, and the other on Roman Reigns, who they pushed as a face at the expense of both every other face and heel on the roster. He was always pushed above the more over faces and he pretty much derailed the momentum of every heel other than Brock.

Even with the brand split, Smackdown has so clearly been the B show when it comes to PPV card placement and PPV match layout that it didn't really help the top guys there. AJ Styles was champ for like a year and pretty much put on zero classics, and a lot of that was stupid match layouts that seemed designed to kill the crowd more often than hype them up.

[LLJ]

Kofi being pushed is a feel-good story for the hardest of the hardcore, but I can't help but think pushing people based solely on fan reactions can get you a situation like Zack Ryder being in a WWE title match in 2011 as well. The live crowd is the hardest of the hardcore fanbase, and they don't necessarily represent the larger audience out there. I can bet you many of the people who only watch WWE casually probably might be thinking "Why is Kofi Kingston going to be in the WWE title match at Wrestlemania while you have a legendary who's who roster of Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Rey Mysterio, Randy Orton sitting on the sidelines of the WWE title match?"

I can't help but think if you were going to push Kofi to a WWE title, it would have made better business sense to have him win it at a B-PPV instead of Wrestlemania. While the smarks (like us) may be happy that Kofi could get his big moment at Mania, the business side in me sees a complete waste of a roster of pro wrestling legends because they were jobbed out too badly throughout the year.

This situation would be like, if during the Attitude Era, The Rock had to face Billy Gunn for the WWF title at Wrestlemania 15 because Mankind, HBK, Triple H and Austin were booked so badly during the year that they were so damaged by the time Wrestlemania rolled around that Billy Gunn was the best candidate left for the WWF title.