LUKE GALLOWS & KARL ANDERSON vs. BO DALLAS & CURTIS AXEL (8:50): This was the last RAW only ppv. Which means the brand-split failed again and we won't be seeing filler crap like this on ppv anymore. Can you believe that Bo Dallas was once the NXT champ? Hard to bo-lieve. And Gallows and Anderson are big dudes and have been in the WWE for, what, two years? And they have yet to give them any sort of push or storyline? At least fucking try. -No Stars-
ALEXA BLISS vs. BAYLEY vs. MANDY ROSE vs. MICKIE JAMES vs. SASHA BANKS vs. SONYA DEVILLE "ELIMINATION CHAMBER" (29:35): Bliss is an awful and boring wrestler but she did at least leap off the top of a pod to do a cross-body slam on one of the other girls. This was the first women's elimination chamber match. I still find it amusing that in Germany they don't use the EC name because I guess it reminds them of the Nazi death camps. This match was just okay...but it did lead to Banks turning on Bayley which means we'll get another Banks v. Bayley match. They had some legendary bouts in NXT. Bliss retained. No surprises tonight. **
CESARO & SHEAMUS vs. TITUS O'NEIL & APOLLO (10:05): They took away Apollo's last name, Crews, because Florida had a school shooter last week named Cruz that killed 17 people. Now he's just Apollo. I really doubt the name Cruz will someday be like Hitler or Manson and never used. After all, our country has so many mass shootings that some guy shot and killed 26 people last Fall in a Texas church and I don't even remember his name. Do you? Since I'm not talking about wrestling you can assume correctly that this match was forgettable. 1/2*
ASUKA vs. NIA JAX (8:15): Asuka has only been in one entertaining/awesome match and that was on RAW against Banks. So why do people rave about her? Nia is a sloppy wrestler so this was pretty awful. 1/2*
MATT HARDY vs. BRAY WYATT (9:55): Remember how stupid but fun the 'Broken' Matt gimmick was? I can't fathom why they're doing it half-assed in the WWE. I honestly didn't even watch this.
ROMAN REIGNS vs. BRAUN STROWMAN vs. ELIAS vs. FINN BALOR vs. JOHN CENA vs. SETH ROLLINS vs. THE MIZ "ELIMINATION CHAMBER" (40:15): Well it's Roman again. And the Vegas crowd heavily booed him. Roman's been in the WM main event the last two years, so this'll be three straight. He did face Lesnar and lost two years ago there but it was a good match. I'd much rather see a non-Lesnar WM main event at this point. Especially because Roman will win and get booed and who wants to see more of that? This match was entertaining but too fucking long. The show didn't end until around 11:20 PM. There were no highlights. A much better match happened on RAW last week. They had all of these guys in a gauntlet match that almost went two hours. That was unique. This was same-old. Finn looked the most impressive but, you know, he's "too small" for Vince. Elias shouldn't have been in there. Braun pinned everyone then lost to Roman. Seth did a frog splash off the top of the pod. The final half was good but this was not a very good show. **1/2
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