Due to my laziness in not posting soon as Elimination Chamber finished, here is a briefer summary of Elimination Chamber and some thoughts on Wrestlemania 28.
Elimination Chamber 2012
World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan won the SmackDown Elimination Chamber Match
This was the less entertaining of the two elimination chamber matches but with people such as Big Show and The Great Khali involved this really wasn’t a surprise. Khali’s involvement was mercifully short but provoked the question: why include him in the first place for 30 seconds of in-ring action? Big Show climbing into Bryan’s pod was interesting and made sense with their recent feud. The only excitement came when it looked like Santino might win the match with a cobra but Bryan thankfully made him tap out. Overall, some good spots with a nice win for Bryan.
WWE Champion CM Punk won the Raw Elimination Chamber Match
This was the first match of the night and started off nicely with Punk and Kofi going at it. This was much faster than the SmackDown match and thus far more interesting. Jericho dominated before being concussed by Punk while Punk defeated Miz to retain the title. For all the apparent heat Miz is receiving he performed well and showed why he deserves to be in the main event. While WWE argue that they are keeping Jericho from losing to Punk, the end was lame and clearly looked like a work.
John Cena def. Kane (Ambulance Match)
For two generally boring wrestlers this was an entertaining match. The two went at it over the arena with an AA off the top of the ambulance to end the match for Cena. It ends the Cena/Kane feud with Cena not embracing the hate but by this point did anyone really care?
United States Champion Jack Swagger def. Justin Gabriel
Missed this match as I was getting a drink and it seems it wasn’t much to write about anyway.
Divas Champion Beth Phoenix def. Tamina Snuka
Tamina needs to develop some more moves apart from the superfly splash. The fact that she went for it every third move indicated clearly she wasn’t going to win and when Beth kicked out it made it look weak. Beth is an awesome champion but WWE needs to seriously build the women’s division or just get rid of it.
Wrestlemania 28
As the year’s biggest event rolls round it seems WWE is trying its best to build excitement for Rock/Cena and Taker/HHH. Unfortunately, as a member of the IWC recently stated, the Cena/Rock feud has been going for a year and the most fighting has occurred on Twitter. That’s right; the most interesting reason they have to fight is that they troll each other on a social networking site! This sounded lame when Rock interfered at WM last year and isn’t getting any better. The match itself should be good because the Rock will lift Cena to new heights but I wish the WWE would stop trying to make the reason behind it seem important when it clearly isn’t.
Similar things could be said about HHH/Taker. Firstly, Taker doesn’t appear for one year and decides to challenge HHH at WM28. Surprising? No but then again everyone knew Taker would have a match in Florida. Secondly, HHH can’t stay away from the spotlight. He claims he wants to build up other talent but then makes his match the co-main event at WM28 thus relegating the championship matches to mere afterthoughts. The Hell in a Cell stipulation will make a fitting end to both their careers and will be a great match but once again with no help from WWE creative.
The stupid thing about this is that the championship matches are going to be great. Jericho/Punk will be a great wrestling match and Sheamus/Bryan will be a fitting reward for two hard workers. Firstly, Jericho’s return has been completely screwed up by WWE creative: he doesn’t win the rumble, doesn’t win the elimination chamber and just seems like a whinging has been. If this was their aim then kudos but one can’t help but think they held off on giving Jericho the title too long and now his return seems unimportant and pointless. His match with Punk will be great because those two can wrestle the house down and hopefully they can show the powers that be what WWE should be about. As for Bryan/Sheamus, Bryan’s heel turn has been awesome and he will go into WM28 as champion much to most people’s surprise. Sheamus’ build has been pointless and slow: he wins the rumble and hasn’t had a real feud to keep him busy apart from routinely burying Mark Henry. Bryan win or lose at WM has had a longer and better run than many suspected. He has proved that smaller guys can carry the belt and I suspect AJ might help him retain the belt.
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