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

WWE Royal Rumble 2018 Review

WWE Royal Rumble 2018

Results from the show, live on PPV, Sunday 28th January, 2018, below.

AJ Styles defended the WWE Championship in a poor and pitiful 2 on 1 Handicap with fluffer friends Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn to no compelling avail. Styles retained the worthless strap which is meant to be WWE’s top prize. There was also rotten competition, if you can call it that in two inseparable herberts who offer nothing to anyone or anything in WWE.

The Uso’s kept their tag titles for Smackdown dropping Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin in a pointless tag battle of 2 falls to nil. Gable, at one point performed a dreadful move that could have snapped someone’s neck. It was also boring amid the spot monkey flips and all that.

The Men’s Royal Rumble came next. What a mess it was. Everyone did the same routine, with better layout than previous encounters but still reverted to the same tired formula. One in one out, fodder first and favourite Indy luvvies early on to do a few crow warming fluffing up first. 

It was another wasted opportunity which saw its top stars in John Cena, Roman Reigns and Shinsuker F**kamoron in the final three. Shinsuke Nakamura eliminated Reigns to take the title opportunity in another worthless fail that has yet to create a new performer for well over ten years.

Nakamura is boring, gymnastically flawed and spot monkey driven only, which highlights a lacking level of talent and booking/hiring from the WWE ranks above. Exciting it was not.

Next was a tag team loss for Raw champs and injured Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins back to Cesaro and Sheamus, after WWE’s new tag team thrown together failed to excite or maintain position. The match, as god as it was, could not stand out and was forgettable once again.

Brock Lesnar returned in a catastrophic brawl to defend his WWE Universal Championship in a shambolic main event with two jobbers. Braun Strowman recklessly mishandled Lesnar, who potatoed him in return. The match itself was all over the place, dangerous and exposed how awful it was. Kane was there to take the pinfall, as Lesnar retained the strap in a waste of time yet again.

Stephanie McMahon in a leather bin liner.
Luv, those legs are bloody
awful in that rag.

The final match was the grand new idea of the Max Waltham Women’s revolution (stolen as conceptual by Stephanie McMahon and Triple H) to produce another “Women can do what the men can do” match. Namely the Women's Royal Rumble match. It’s getting boring now and WWE manage to zap all the life from everything the attempt to achieve. They do not know how to get it moving forward and think they are exceptional with it. The results speak differently.

This “revolutionary” match was a clearly obvious victory for Asuka, who last dumped Nikki Bella, who turned on her returning sister Brie beforehand. Filled with returning “legends” and resident football team bed post scoring sleeper with the staff, Kelly Kelly, was another pitiful shame that made it all look redundant than amazing. WWE haven't got a clue.

After Asuka won, ringside champs for Raw and Smackdown, Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair, respectively, meet her in the ring. Stephanie McMahon was calling the action from ringside the whole time, which was also blooming dreadful and unnatural in commentating.

Instead of Asuka’s moment of victory, which should have gone to Sonya Deville, WWE’s new signee and UFC women who no one really cares for, Ronda Rousey, arrived. She did her job and pointed to the Wrestlemania sign as everyone does. We had no answer to Asuka’s champion match opponent and Rousey, who overshadowed her moment, wanted to clearly pick up the scraps Asuka wouldn’t want. 

Yeah, just point at the sign, luv.

Again it was another waste that was simply all fluff and another wasted opportunity of nothingness.

We are glad we didn’t waste our full time on it and if WWE can’t be bothered, we aren't going to waste our time either. 

PPV Rating - 2/10

Men/Women of their matches - No one was good enough, Jimmy Uso, Rusev, Cesaro, Brock Lesnar, Sonya Deville

Man/Woman of the PPV - Ronda Rousey

WWE has landed right back to square one. Empty, clueless and devoid of any creativity. No angles, ways forth or credibility tars to utilise and hand me downs from Triple H’s obsessively ignorant Indy love-in has proven another drastic failure.

Losing millions of dollars over just two years alone on NXT, not counting main or house shows, PPV or merchandise, WWE, under Triple H’s mark fandom approach to business has not and does not hold out for a strong future at any rate. 

WWE is a bust, that still hasn't got the ability to put its company values first. All Triple H’s insanely obsessive ego and hatred continues to lead the show to self implosion on Dixie Carter-TNA standards. This is officially the airhead era for WWE under Triple H’s delusional wing. If anyone thinks Vince McMahon is doing a terrible job (and he is) Triple H’s takeover of WWE will be far worse at crashing the business thorough the floor. WWE simply want to be defiant instead of deal with incoming damage limitations which will implode.

Meh.

With ratings and hirings under Triple H’s loose ideas of success, propped up by the wife to feel important, and the McMahon family trying to make him feel a contribute asset at his grand delusions, WWE have serious flaws that won’t seem to be ironed out any time soon. WWE and Triple H are about to crash the business worse in 2018 just to survive.

TNA/Impact Wrestling and the Dixie Carter/Jeff Jarrett route took this path. WWE are following the exact same path, by Triple H’s misguided choice than respectable credibility as a businessman.

Trips just wants to be one of the guys instead of a business man who can hold favour with people for stabilising the business and workers for a future. 

WWE has none coming forward at this rate. No business acquisitions, self topping up of stock or bribes to media curators of rating numbers ‘bought’ by WWE can change that.

WWE is much the same as it was in the murky steroid era.

It’s all coming around again, with disastrous business consequences for all involved with such ignorance. Retribution will deliver.

You’re Welcome.

© Max Waltham 02nd March 2018

All Rights Reserved