Elimination Chamber discussion thread 2018 - 7 Guys, 6 Girls and an Enclosed Space

[Dark One]

I would also be okay with Braun / Roman / Brock in a triple threat.

[Lock Jaw]

Braun Strowman needs to be put in this Wrestlemania main event.

Like no way they can do this without him.

[Emperor Smeat]

:n:

Vince is never giving up on Reigns as the new Cena until he gets what he wants regardless what the crowd wants or what's best for the company instead.

[owenbrown]

BRAUN GOT SCREWED! BRAUN GOT SCREWED!

[Evil Vito]

NJPW > WWE

[DaveWadding]

Cool. Even though I knew this was going to happen, they booked it so I had the slightest glimmer of hope that it wouldn't happen, then pulled it out from under me with no regrets.

[owenbrown]

VINCE IS SENILE! *CLAP CLAP...CLAP CLAP CLAP* VINCE IS SENILE! *CLAP CLAP... CLAP CLAP CLAP*

[#1-norm-fan]

Braun Strowman needs to be put in this Wrestlemania main event.

Like no way they can do this without him.

Oh they will.

Braun can get that IC Title consolation prize though.

[Dark One]

I don't know why you'd have Braun eliminate five guys and not just go all the way with it. At this point, Roman is Roman is Roman is Roman forever.

Strap the rocket to Braun by having him surprisingly obliterate all six guys, put the belt on Braun at Wrestlemania, and try to draw it out to the next Mania and have the final chapter of Braun vs Roman's batshit crazy war be the main event.

[rez]

meh smart booking would have had roman be the first man eliminated. would glue faces to screens the entire match.

[Dark One]

Took less than 60 seconds for Rosenberg to fellate Roman Reigns.

Might be a new record.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Universal Championship <a href="https://twitter.com/BrockLesnar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrockLesnar</a> vs <a href="https://twitter.com/WWERomanReigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWERomanReigns</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WrestleMania34?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WrestleMania34</a> <a href="https://t.co/Tk0aQc9Ins">pic.twitter.com/Tk0aQc9Ins</a></p>&mdash; SW (@SliceWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/SliceWrestling/status/967978391000494080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[slik]

Brock vs Braun vs Roman would be gold.

[Emperor Smeat]

So both of RAW's top titles challengers (Asuka & Reigns) end up getting destroyed after their matches to both of RAW's biggest monster characters (Nia & Braun). Doesn't make either one look strong coming out of this show.

WWE had the chance to call an audible on both title matches and instead stuck with the worst ones possible in terms of crowd interest.

[Black Widow]

Y'all seriously crying?

Should of known Roman was winning soon as he got put in.

[slik]

Cena on RAW TALK now.

[#1-norm-fan]

All heart for Roman Reigns to job repeatedly on Raw and then turn it on when it counts the most. All heart, that guy.

[owenbrown]

At WrestleMania, the fans should turn their back to Brock vs Roman

[Dark One]

NJPW > WWE

Yeah...

Took #ISG to her first wrestling show (a WWE house show) a couple of weeks ago, and she enjoyed it more than she thought she would, but she was perplexed about the Roman Reigns thing. Like "Why is this guy being positioned as the hero when everyone's booing him? Shouldn't they make the guy people love the face of the company? Isn't that marketing 101?"

Then I showed her Hiromu vs Ospreay from last month and she's hooked, but only NJPW, even after I showed her a few other matches.

That's someone that's only seen wrestling out of the corner of her eye when she's been over here.

I don't know what WWE hopes to accomplish with Roman when it's not appealing to people that have never seen the product before.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Fans: http://rs1096.pbsrc.com/albums/g339/thundarr2000/child-satan.gif~c200

Vince: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/870/340/131.gif

[Dark One]

Hell of a segment by Cena on Raw Talk right now...


Which should be on Raw in a backstage sitdown segment. But, nah, we gotta put on Bar vs Titus Worldwide again.

[Lock Jaw]

Super Serious Cena

[Dark One]

Not sure if Cena is talking heel turn or Taker or what, but that was a pretty incredible segment that absolutely should not be wasted on a post-show 12 people are watching.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Would love to see Ronda ambush Steph right now.

[Emperor Smeat]

Whelp any chance of WWE doing a slow burn on Cena becoming paranoid over not being in Mania just got tossed out of the window.

Cena just admitted on the post show he already has a Mania opponent planned and needs to contact the person to do it. Requires him to go "outside of protocol" to get it done.

[Black Widow]

Fans: http://rs1096.pbsrc.com/albums/g339/thundarr2000/child-satan.gif~c200

Vince: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/870/340/131.gifFans that are mad about Roman winning those same fans tomorrow.

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Vince

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/870/340/131.gif

[Evil Vito]

Cena going "outside of protocol" is probably gonna be baiting Nakamura into putting his #1 contendership on the line at Fastlane.

[Frank Drebin]

Really want to see that segment now. Do they put those up on the network under post show or something?

[DAMN iNATOR]

OH YAY CAN'T WAIT FOR A 20 MINUTE OPENING SEGMENT WITH THE BIG BAD AUTHORITY ON RAW. 😒😒😒

[rez]

stephanie got some heat against miss young.

[Dark One]

Cena going "outside of protocol" is probably gonna be baiting Nakamura into putting his #1 contendership on the line at Fastlane.

Oh god damnit.

[rockman725]

Stephanie saying "know your role" hmm...

[owenbrown]

Fans that are mad about Roman winning those same fans tomorrow.

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5891cf0bfb0604bf1f5c59d6/master/pass/00-holding-pay-gap.gif

Vince

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/870/340/131.gif

jI6YWeiHEiE

[DAMN iNATOR]

Fans that are mad about Roman winning those same fans tomorrow.

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5891cf0bfb0604bf1f5c59d6/master/pass/00-holding-pay-gap.gif

Vince

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/870/340/131.gif

I guess we'll find out when the arena is 1.4% full tomorrow. What a great look that will be for VKM & Pals, Inc.

[owenbrown]

Roman is physically hurting... take some steroids, Roman, you'll be good

[Emperor Smeat]

Cena going "outside of protocol" is probably gonna be baiting Nakamura into putting his #1 contendership on the line at Fastlane.

I felt the opposite and it being more he has Taker on speed dial as his Mania insurance plan.

Him being a free agent wouldn't be an issue at all for pleading to Shane/Bryan into having a chance at taking Nakamura's title shot. WWE has shown plenty of times in the past that whenever Cena asks or demands a big match, he gets it.

[DaveWadding]

I just wish that they would book Roman like the heel he is. Take a page out of the Rock playbook. He was an overpushed babyface, so they let him go heel and pushed him as the golden boy corporate champion. Why is it so hard?

[owenbrown]

Because Vince is senile that is why

[Evil Vito]

No interest in Lesnar/Reigns but it's whatever. There will still be other stuff I care about.

Unless they pussy out of Styles/Nakamura. In which case I just won't even watch.

[Lock Jaw]

Would laugh if they "stick to the plan" with Reigns/Lesnar and then "don't stick to the plan" of AJ Styles/Nakamura.

[owenbrown]

No interest in Lesnar/Reigns but it's whatever. There will still be other stuff I care about.

Unless they pussy out of Styles/Nakamura. In which case I just won't even watch.

It would be fucking anarchy if they did that

[Emperor Smeat]

I just wish that they would book Roman like the heel he is. Take a page out of the Rock playbook. He was an overpushed babyface, so they let him go heel and pushed him as the golden boy corporate champion. Why is it so hard?

He probably views Reigns like what he originally wanted Rock to become during the Rocky Maivia days. It took a lot of convincing by others and Rock himself to get Vince to go in a new direction instead. If Vince had his way, Rock never turns heel and gets forced pushes to become the top star of the late 90s instead of Austin.

Same for why he never wanted to turn Cena since he saw him as the next Hogan. He never bothered to build anyone to be Cena's real equal and panicked whenever Cena's merch sales sagged a bit.

[Destor]

Pretty well done card other than letting rousey speak. Could have easily done the same angle cept have kurt interject when she goes to speak...alas...they shit the bed. Wont hurt the freak show draw at mania but you def have nothing there after.

[mike adamle]

Why are people whining about Lesnar-Reigns? It was awesome the first time. Did anyone really even like Lesnar-Strowman from last year? And we just saw Lesnar and Strowman in a triple threat, now you want to see another one?

[XL]

Why didn't DBry or Shane come out and give Ronda a title match at Mania?
She already said she didn’t want to be handed a title match :roll:
SOMEONE CREATE A MONEY IN THE BANK CASE FOR BRAUN RIGHT FUCKING NOW
You know that’d be a Money In The Bank Suitcase.

[XL]

So Cena is going to call out Taker. I’d really like to see him use his “Free Agent” status and use both shows to push for the match.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Only listening to the show via New Legacy, bur man, that sounded like they had to get 10 crew members to start chanting Rhonda Rousey ahaha

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Were Kurt and Triple H drinking before doing their promos as well?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Kurts relapsing?! What the hell is going on with this segment?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Like the show was mediocre before that, but this is WCW 2000 level bad. I love it.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Oh, flu relapse aha

[Bad News Gertner]

Oh man, I can't wait for the Roman Empire to descend on Nawlins. Woo woo!

[slik]

The reactions to WWE posting the Roman/Brock graphic are pretty much what I expected lol

https://twitter.com/WrestleMania/status/967978206253887488

[slik]

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[#BROKEN Hasney]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I like to watch shows and sports that I can't predict every single thing..... if I can predict every single thing that is going to happen in a tv series I STOP watching !!!!! Please for the love of God shock me sometimes ... keep me on my toes ! Give me some real DRAMA !</p>&mdash; CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaWWE/status/968014215289102337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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No idea what show she could be talking about

[Simple Fan]

Why are people whining about Lesnar-Reigns? It was awesome the first time. Did anyone really even like Lesnar-Strowman from last year? And we just saw Lesnar and Strowman in a triple threat, now you want to see another one?

Just rewatched it and I think HHH/Roman was better. Personally I would rather see Strowman vs Brock just because it feels right. Braun is their most successful attempt at building a superstar and should be in that match instead of Roman.

Also just watched the Lesnar/Strowman match from No Mercy. Thought it was better than the Lesnar/Roman match just because it seemed more balanced. I know that Roman's whole thing is taking the ass kicking and then Hulking up but I don't think it works as well with Lesnar like it did with HHH. Plus Braun and Lesnar just look like they were made to fight one another.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Nah, Lesnar/Reigns wasn't great, but watching Roman get his shit pushed in by a Brock that gave a damn was fun and then the match got good when Seth came out.

We haven't seen that Brock in 2 years now and I don't think Roman will get it out of him.

[Bad News Gertner]

I thought the Brock vs Reigns match was awesome. They kicked the crap out of each other.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

It was better than HHH/Roman, that's for sure.

[Simple Fan]

Lesnar kicked the crap out of Reigns and Reigns just kept laughing. Brock did get some cuts and I think a stiff knee from Reigns that busted his mouth open and then the post spot that really opened him up. Rollins really was the savior of that match.

[Simple Fan]

It was better than HHH/Roman, that's for sure.

Disagree as I think that was one of HHHs best WM matches ever.

[#1-norm-fan]

Lesnar kicked the crap out of Reigns and Reigns just kept laughing. Brock did get some cuts and I think a stiff knee from Reigns that busted his mouth open and then the post spot that really opened him up. Rollins really was the savior of that match.

Reigns laughing made him look like a badass instead of the "face in peril" that should be reserved for the Daniel Bryan types. Not a guy who looks like Reigns.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Disagree as I think that was one of HHHs best WM matches ever.

I'd have to look back through HHH's WM matches (because fuck that, I'm not that bored), but right off the top of my head I'd probably put Vs. Taker in HIAC and Vs. Daniel Bryan above that.

[#1-norm-fan]

And Rollins coming in to win the title was a pretty shit ending in the grand scheme of things. Made the smarks happy but Rollins is and always was a level below Reigns and another below Lesnar. WrestleMania should end with a bang with one of your top guys. Not a glorified midcarder winning a title. If they weren't gonna stray from Reigns being the guy they should have just grown a pair, said "fuck the marks" and went with it. Or let Lesnar win and started planning for a rematch.

[Simple Fan]

I'd have to look back through HHH's WM matches (because fuck that, I'm not that bored), but right off the top of my head I'd probably put Vs. Taker in HIAC and Vs. Daniel Bryan above that.

Taker match was probably better and had a better story as well. I'll never rate a Daniel Bryan match high though.

[Stickman]

And Rollins coming in to win the title was a pretty shit ending in the grand scheme of things. Made the smarks happy but Rollins is and always was a level below Reigns and another below Lesnar. WrestleMania should end with a bang with one of your top guys. Not a glorified midcarder winning a title. If they weren't gonna stray from Reigns being the guy they should have just grown a pair, said "fuck the marks" and went with it. Or let Lesnar win and started planning for a rematch.

Reigns is a glorified midcarder who for whatever reason is pushed like Cena. He is not that good and has a terrible gimmick. The fan reaction not changing in three years should be recognized by the powers that be, but it's not. Reigns as the top guy hasn't worked and isn't going to until they do a huge over haul of his character and in ring routine. He is boring!

[Savio]

Did the chamber still have padding in it?

Hope roman turns heel.

[Evil Vito]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I like to watch shows and sports that I can't predict every single thing..... if I can predict every single thing that is going to happen in a tv series I STOP watching !!!!! Please for the love of God shock me sometimes ... keep me on my toes ! Give me some real DRAMA !</p>&mdash; CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaWWE/status/968014215289102337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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No idea what show she could be talking about

Wonder who Rusev will job to this week.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Rollins is and always was a level below Reigns and another below Lesnar.

Man you just encapsulated their problem. Roman is probably above everyone on the roster with his main stream appeal and star power... and as "the guy". But he's that ever-so-important notch before Lesnar, which would give him the actual credibility to go on a big run. And I don't think he has what it takes to get there.

[#1-norm-fan]

He probably doesn't have what it takes to be on Lesnar's level. Booking definitely doesn't help though. Jobbing him and putting him in peril constantly makes him look like an underdog all while they hype him as a world beater. It doesn't make sense. The character is shit.

[#1-norm-fan]

Reigns is a glorified midcarder who for whatever reason is pushed like Cena. He is not that good and has a terrible gimmick. The fan reaction not changing in three years should be recognized by the powers that be, but it's not. Reigns as the top guy hasn't worked and isn't going to until they do a huge over haul of his character and in ring routine. He is boring!

I don't disagree about Reigns being not that good and having a terrible gimmick but that's not how they present him. He's got the look and SOME "mainstream appeal" and that's why they've decided to roll with him for better or worse. He's a shitty face of the company and below every other one they've had but he's the star of the show. Rollins is the upper midcard workhorse. Him closing WrestleMania as champion makes him look like the star of the company. Which makes the company look bush league.

[Rammsteinmad]

As much I don't give a shit about seeing Triple H & Steph vs. Kurt Angle & Ronda Rousey... I really hope Rousey slaps the absolute shit out of Steph. Bad enough she slaps every guy on the roster while they're made to stand there like bitches.

[#1-norm-fan]

It is funny that Triple H was just trying to calm her down when he got put through a table but then Stephanie slapped her and she just kinda steamed about it.

[Droford]

Wonder who Rusev will job to this week.

Time constraints

[KIRA]

And Rollins coming in to win the title was a pretty shit ending in the grand scheme of things. Made the smarks happy but Rollins is and always was a level below Reigns and another below Lesnar. WrestleMania should end with a bang with one of your top guys. Not a glorified midcarder winning a title. If they weren't gonna stray from Reigns being the guy they should have just grown a pair, said "fuck the marks" and went with it. Or let Lesnar win and started planning for a rematch.

Seth Rollins is better on the mic

He showed us how crazy good he is in the ring

Reigns just has the corp rocket strapped to his ass and hes being outshined by Bruan Stroman in every way while Rollins has new life in him

[XL]

Heh. The Rousey segment is on the homepage of the BBC website again.

[KIRA]

Heh. The Rousey segment is on the homepage of the BBC website again.

Vince must be spooging his pants every hr

[Bobholly138]

Saw about half the PPV last night. Wow how the fuck do people watch WWE every week? Was the same predictable garbage it was when I gave up watching it a few years ago.

[Lock Jaw]

Heh. The Rousey segment is on the homepage of the BBC website again.

Vince must be spooging his pants every hr

I hear he does that to BBC a lot

[#1-norm-fan]

Seth Rollins is better on the mic

He showed us how crazy good he is in the ring

Reigns just has the corp rocket strapped to his ass and hes being outshined by Bruan Stroman in every way while Rollins has new life in him

Plenty of guys are better on the mic. That alone doesn't make him a guy you put on the marquee for a WrestleMania. Reigns has the corporate rocket strapped to his ass because he has the look and aura to fill the role better. He just isn't nearly as good as guys who have filled it before him. That and his booking is boring as shit.

[DaveWadding]

Guys that are way better than Reigns right now:

Strowman
Rollins
Ambrose

BELIEVE THAT.

[owenbrown]

Vince must be spooging his pants every 5 minutes

fixed