WWE Elimination Chamber 2018 Review

Elimination Chamber

2018

Results from the card, live on Pay Per View on Sunday 26th February 2018, below.

Once more the overtired Women’s gimmick matches took centre stage. First up was the first ever Women’s Elimination Chamber battle.

Alexa Bliss fended off all challengers in a predictable, moderately pleasing but still lacking match up with another poor result, where WWE are too scared or creatively uncertain off what to press forward with.

This was the moment to crown a brand new champion and push talent like Sonya Deville (the best worker of the match) to the top. WWE once more are behind on the times, as fans and critics can clearly see. Nothing changes in WWE, which is a simple embarrassment and we arn’t giving any more tips, but WWE need to set both Deville and Mandy Rose solo and send Rose up highly with Goldust as a pair to dominate also. This was also a perfect turning point, missed so badly. They still can’t figure out a single thing, can they?

Sasha Banks turned on friend Bayley, die a Disney spot akin to the Lion King (wow) and Mickie James and Alexa Bliss also chipped in with something.

Bliss showed a strong level of depth, despite the lame result, but is stuck in WWE’s same age old handling of champions who just hog titles, with no way forth as competition or development.

Up next was another dreadful Tag match with the Raw titles on the line from Cesaro and Sheamus, who thankfully retained against deadbeats Apollo, Titus O’Neil and indescribable failure Dana Brooke. Crews was renamed after the recent Florida shootings, which WWE did not want to associate their product with. Seeming to forget its entirety of allegiance with the Bullet Club, almost all its prominent member on the roster, and an ignorant Indy weed in Ricochet, given high favour and having advertised WWE Photo Shoot on the upcoming network show-reel. Classy. Shootings in America have been more prominent since WWE went all guns blazing with its selective talents signed to the roster and highlighted on programming as top stars.

Asuka and Nia Jax had a fight. If Nia won, after losing the Royal Rumble, she would join Asuka and the Women’s champion (Alexa Bliss) in a three way at Wrestlemania. Thrown together for the sake of a random encounter on PPV, with nothing achieved for either performer or the title itself, WWE entered another pot hole. Asuka won and Nia beat her down and left, as per usual. What was the point? Jax, who lost the Rumble, got special favour for no explained reason other than being fat and WWE trying to make her a female beast, which isn’t working out well, even if cheered just to be the wrecking ball to silence WWE’s lacking choices as disagreed with by its universe.

“Woken” Matt Hardy dropped Bray Wyatt in another failed concept filled with political farce. The TNA vs WWE version of Max Waltham, both very poorly enhanced on the main show. (You can’t be or replicate me and that’s why it never works, you can only have me). Wyatt lost another predictable match regardless of if he has a clean reputation backstage. It was revealed Wyatt. Who has been known to be sleeping with ring announcer JoJo, after passing up his wife, has been spending child alimony on JoJo instead. WWE’s family image in a nutshell. The match itself was lacklustre, pedestrian and could not ignite a lukewarm response. Fans also entertained themselves with “Beachball” chants. They would have been better off asking for pizza. It served no purpose either, as is often the WWE booking case. Are ratings down?

A fan was also arrested for fighting with fans, under the influence of alcohol. Ain’t WWE a great place for entertainment? Please take your kids.

Get a grip...
Triple H, everyone's favourite mark.

WWE also wheeled out Ronda Rousey again, to sign her contract. Of course, ego obsessed hard-on hirer, Triple H had to be there, and brought the wife Stephanie McMahon along too. The promo was complete clusterf**k as even Kurt Angle was there and Rousey, Angle and the McMahon plus husband one, made a categorical mess of fluffed lines, awkward reactions and zero chemistry. Great job there, Trips. He went through a table to give Rousey a chance to build a name and dropping Triple H who for him, it was fun, but hoped the audience, who loathe him so much (which he cares not about with disregard) hoped it would generate some 'heat'. No, they just don't like you and want you to sort your egotistic mismanagement out. At this rate Rousey will never get over.

The final battle was the Men’s Elimination Chamber, you know the one that matters. The Illumination Chamber flickered with sexy lights, in pod cameras and plexi glass galore. Oooh, are ya excited?

Great...

This one would be the first ever Triple Threat start. We knew this should happen for years but WWE only seem to have figured this concept out now. Insert your own laughable comments here. Seven men involved in a melee of grand BS and useless fluff that also overran like Royal Rumble.

With no available options other than John Cena and Roman Reigns (how poor WWE have stalled their future) both failed connections with audiences, Roman Reigns won the predictable bout against The Miz, Elias, Finn Balor, John Cena and Braun Strowman.

That sweet chest hair, dho...

The only highlight was actually Elias, and his bare chest little tuft of chest hair, ever so appealing by the moment. A drifter with zero place, tonight, in what little time he has, the path to proving himself a serious player despite WWE failing to get behind him for silly favourites in the failures of Brown Strowman and Finn Balor. I would have booked Elias as Deville to go forth, but WWE only had him there for its comedy angle to job. Yet it tries to make a brilliance job out of Indy darlings who have failed and leading favourites in Reigns and Cena whom the audience cannot stand and revile with a sheer passion that should be in accordance with love for them, obviously.

Strowman was allowed to destroy Reigns to a pulp, but only after Strowman, the beast who took out everyone, lost to SuperCena II, SuperReigns. Roman Reigns has also attracted more attention in the Hollywood steroid abuse ring, which WWE once more decided to reward with a slap up victory and heavyweight title shot at Wrestlemania, where Reigns is going to win.

You didn’t really think Vince McMahon would pass up both the poorly lacklustre defeaters of the Undertaker’s Wrestlemania streak and a sheer defiance to diss the fans with what McMahon wants rather than you’re choices? They look like 1970-1980’s behemoth’s don’t they? Vince McMahon always loves that.

PPV Rating - 2/10

Men/Women of their matches - Sonya Deville, Cesaro, Asuka, Bray Wyatt, The Miz

Man/Woman of the PPV - Roman Reigns

So the fans have left and the ones that remain will boo the hell out of the pair of WWE Superheroes and lacking direction out of the arena at Wrestlemania. Is this really quality entertainment or what is “Best for Business”? Of course not but WWE do not give one hoot about you, its all their own BS that you must swallow. How much will you take before it becomes regurgitated? WWE think they can carry on this way. Fans cannot, and more so, will not. Pockets have been struck for WWE and more likely to drop in 2018 and beyond. WWE has proven to be a catastrophic investment, failure at entertainment and full of corrupt values it promotes itself for.

Mark.

Anyone, with any common sense, would avoid involvement with them like the plague. It will only impact your business dealings even further. WWE will always have money, but losing more of it every year. For them it isn’t how much they earn, its how much they squander and fail to enhance sheer entertainment values.

The game is up.

People see WWE for what it truly has become. Only WWE can change their ways, but with their ego’s and Triple H’s negativity of this writer shaping the business and its way forward and McMahon’s jealousy at not owning such product of creative wit, WWE hasn’t got as chance in hell of healing its self created rift, with drastic cracks among the floor, which will soon collapse beneath it.

Triple H is a kid in a candy store, who wants all of everything. A jack of all trades and a master of none. He doesn’t see himself at all, and how damaging his ignorant choices are for the future business which will die once Vince McMahon is truly gone. Triple H will be no saviour and the “team” he is assembling for his future enhancement are anything but.

That’s your problem though, not mine, isn’t it?

Triple H cannot bury his ego and with it, WWE will be taken from underneath it.

Welcome to the Airhead Era.

Are you really welcome?

© Max Waltham 03rd March 2018

All Rights Reserved

The final joke of Dixie Carter. The Matt Hardy saga.

The final joke of Dixie Carter. 

The Matt Hardy saga.

Dixie Carter made an astonishing choice at Bound for Glory, TNA’s self-professed version of Wrestlemania. After a Triple Threat held together well by Ethan Carter III against PVC mess Drew Galloway and ever redundant Matt Hardy, TNA allowed Matt Hardy the victory, pinning Galloway to lift the TNA world title.

Fans, who are in short supply loyalists, could not believe their eyes when the ageing blubber Matt Hardy lifted the TNA world title. Not only lacking entertainment or value for money, fans knew what everyone else did, but TNA seem clueless on. It was the signal that TNA had nailed its final bolt in the coffin. Fans could no longer support such mediocrity in some ex-WWE star who never cut the mustard to be TNA’s number one guy. 

Matt Hardy has since vacated the title two days later, claiming to win it back fairly at a later date. Apparently, in the bizarre world of TNA, Dixie Carter had this planned since June to have Hardy pointlessly win and vacate. 

ECIII who was a growing and last chance hope to save TNA, was booked like a chump, but still kept faithful with fans. His skills and decent attempts were better than most on the roster and fans supported it. Once more TNA, who has no clue who, how or what to book made a serious fool of itself, title lineage and staff. Morale is at its lowest ever in TNA. Actions like this will surely not encourage the people who work for TNA, many who feel trapped and are waiting for a solid opportunity to bail.

Fans have already bolted in their thousands. For Dixie, Ethan Carter was a strong chance to rebuild and potentially save TNA from its eventual collapse. Instead, Dixie Carter, clueless as ever, had no idea what to do and made up some random idea she thinks is amazing. Carter has placed herself into the realm of obscurity, becoming the worst wrestling entity on the planet. Her storylines are the poorest ever seen and has done nothing but sink her beloved company into the ground, by her own actions. Her failure to include fans and get the people who can to save her company are flawed. Carter, obsessed with ex-WWE stars front and back, was duped into getting useless producers and talent relators to help. She does no checks, has no depth and cannot think for two minutes of a way out. Therefore it is in her interests to hire someone who can fix it for her. Though Dix is too stubborn to admit defeat or hire someone greater. For Dixie her ego has overtaken her former self. Now believing her own character, Dixie has forked her own company, with catastrophic results.

For years, Wrestling Wonders’ editor and wrestling restructurer Max Waltham has been available and Dixie failed to take up the offer. She even avoided Paul Heyman years prior. Instead she chose Vince Russo, one of the worst game players who wants personal attention. She even lied about it publically. TNA has sunk. TNA would not however take its own problems on board and decided that it was online fans’ faults for being negative. Negative about supporting the company for years and having Carter throw it back in their faces. 

Dix has taken no steps to save her company and continue to destroy it from within. Lacking rosters, staff morale at its lowest and non-payment do not shine TNA as a grand company let alone Wrestling one to behold. Management acquisitions and backstage workers who have no connection to wrestling have further dipped TNA’s star. Carter believes all her hires are excellent and won’t take an ounce of humility. Title worth, leaving talent and no TV deals have also played a troublesome role for TNA. 

TNA have decent talent still on the books it could use to the best of their abilities. Once again TNA don’t value them and push all the wrong and bad choices as its main programming entertainment. It is more about just getting a job done and moving to the next angle to pass a two hour show than real depth. 

Can some random infatuation of twenty years ago in washed up loser Matt Hardy, a jobber at best, be the future of what is a failing company? Dixie Carter’s choices of ‘I like him so I’ll give him the title’ make further laughing stock of her role in TNA. Failing to accept advice and help, Carter has no-one else to blame and her meltdown’s and earn her no sympathy from lifelong fans who hate to see the once great TNA crumble beneath them. They want no part of this farce. Carter continues to blame them. Classy.

If only Carter listened she could have saved herself. If she just hired one guy to save everything she could have been real competition to WWE and survive the turbulent waters raising her paddleboat. Instead she hired everyone but. Dixie Carter is all at sea, and not a lifeboat to help. Only one person has the rubber ring on the salvage ship, and Dixie Carter is refusing to take it. TNA is sunk.

© Max Waltham 07th October 2015

All Rights Reserved

Troubled Star Matt Hardy’s online suicide ‘hoax’

 Troubled Star Matt Hardy’s 

online suicide ‘hoax’

Matt Hardy, former WWE wrestler, had been sent home from current Employing organisation TNA Wrestling.  Hardy, had claimed a “Goodbye” note on the internet, assuming he was close to ending all ties with life in general.

Videos on his Youtube account and notes online from his blog indicate he was contemplating suicide, but has not done so (thankfully).

Sister in law Beth Hardy was outraged and annoyed claiming Matt was “working the internet” and asked him to stop.

It is clear Hardy is rather troubled and needs some help. Love or loathe him, it would be an utter shame to see him follow through with this.

Considering a therapy/ counselling session or some acknowledgement from TNA or someone else able to, Hardy needs the support, whether some feel he is working them or not.

"Goodbye world... My time here is almost complete... I only have a few hours and minutes... I loved you all... Regardless of how you felt about me... I'll miss you all... September 23, 1974-August 31,2011" – This was the message 36 year old Hardy had projected worldwide by means of the web.

The reason/s for this act from the former TNA & WWE star is unknown.

WWE have banned all its talent from communicating with Hardy through micro blogging site - Twitter, and all other outlets.

After 10.30pm on Tuesday evening, when saying “Goodbye”, Police received roughly 30 calls in fear for the star. The 36 year old was said to be fine and shook an officers hand stating no problems.

TNA fired Hardy following his arrest last week, on a driving collision charge.

Following, the driving incident, which occurred at 12:46 pm on August 20^th, was not thought to be alcohol related, though blood tests were taken after an impairing substance is thought to have been used by Hardy. His vehicle collided with a tree, in Moore County, however, is thought to have sustained no injuries, the State Highway Patrol claim. Speed was a contributing factor, travelling over 55 and below 70 mph.

Hardy was removed from the TNA website, with a two sentence written release.  He now faces a court hearing on September 28^th.

Brother Jeff Hardy’s trial, whose felony regarding drug paraphernalia in 2009, was delayed from June to September 8^th, due to court cases clashing with one another.

If Matt Hardy wants to clear the air or plead his case, WW would be happy to schedule an interview to understand or explain your situation.

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© Max Waltham 04^th September 2011