BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
I was wrong about this pay per view. I went into with a ho-hum feeling. I thought it would be boring, lame, and predictable. It turned out to be boring, lame, and a little surprising. I expected a certain set of results that I thought were “obvious”, but it turned out I was wrong. Being wrong is one thing, but I wasn’t really surprised. Nothing happened that made me really gasp and get excited to watch as the programming moves forward towards WrestleMania 29. I know some people thought the show was enjoyable, but I had a really hard time getting into it.
Jack Swagger won the Elimination Chamber match. So what? Didn’t we learn from this before? They gave him the Money In The Bank case, they put the belt on him for a little while, and they put him with the heat magnet that is Vickie Guerrero. It did NOT work. He might be an awesome person. He might be a talented wrestler. He just doesn’t connect with the crowd. Why are we being force fed Swagger AGAIN? Why can’t someone else get a shot? I’m going to be open minded, but this will be shit in the long run.
Alberto Del Rio won. That’s cool, I guess. The Rock won again too. That’s fine with me. I expected both titles to change for some reason. Instead, two lack luster title matches. They were good matches, but nothing that’s going to be memorable or worth EVER rewatching. They had some filler matches in there too. Dolph Ziggler and Kofi had a good 1450th match and there was a Divas match.
The 6-Man Tag match was fun. It was cool to see The Shield in there. It just felt like it should have been a main event on RAW except it had a few of the signature PPV “big match spots” like the table, the ring post, the ringside area being broken, and all of that shit. It happens EVERY PPV now. What was with Ryback taking the pin? That was probably the most shocking part of the night. I know people will say Swagger winning was shocking, but it was so lame that the shock of it is pretty much numbing.
I know I sound bitter and angry. I’m not. I watch the show with no high expectations. I went into it not expecting anymore much more than a some solid action. There was some solid action, but it felt hollow and like a filler show. They advanced some stuff going into WrestleMania, but all in all this is a show that I’m going to forget about completely come summer. I really hope WrestleMania is better than this…
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