Elimination Chamber- About What You’d Expect

The Elimination Chamber Pay-Per-View is just a few minutes past but I wanted to get this up while it’s fresh. All-in-all, the show went as I expected, a decent, pretty predictable show. Match results included:
The show opened up with the World Heavyweight Title Match between Big Show and Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio won by making Big Show submit to the cross arm breaker. The Big Show tapping was a bit of a surprise to me, but it made things a little more interesting.
Antonio Cesaro Def. The Miz to retain the US Title by DQ because Miz accidentally fell into Cesaro’s crotch and Cesaro sold it well enough to convince the ref it was on purpose. This feud is likely not over.
Bonus Match: Dolph Ziggler defeated Kofi Kingston after Dolph was out cutting a promo complaining that he was left off the card.
In the biggest shocker of the night, the rebuilt Jack Swagger defeated Chris Jericho, Kane, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, and Mark Henry in the Elimination Chamber Number One contendership match to face the World Champion at Wrestlemania. Orton had just eliminated Jericho with the RKO and Swagger just as quickly rolled Orton up for the final elimination. I certainly wasn’t expecting this Swagger push to move along so quickly, but I’ll take a surprise when I can get it from WWE.
In a result I was personally pleased to see, The Shield came out on top of Ryback, Cena, and Sheamus. Hard to tell where the shield goes from here as Ryback, Cena and Sheamus will now likely be moving into their Wrestlemania feuds.
Kaitlyn defeated Tamina Snuka to retain the Divas title…that’s more than enough recap for that.
In the main event, we saw CM Punk pull out all the stops, but as i predicted Punk came *This* close to fall to the Rock setting up Rock/Cena 2….you know, that one that was labeled “Once in a Lifetime” last year. A bit of recap for this match: near the end the referee went down and Punk had Rock beat. Finally another ref came down and eventually “hurt” his ankle. While the ref was down Heyman held Rock while Punk charged with the title belt. Rock ducked and Heyman got knocked off the apron. Rock hit the Rock Bottom to win the match.
As I said, a pretty predictable show, which was expected. I liked the Swagger angle, especially beating Orton to end the match. It’s only a matter of time before Orton turns heel. Consider this fuel to the fire.
Final thoughts: I’m trying to be the least bitter I can during this Rock silliness and just pay attention to the rest of the angles. My thoughts: 6 weeks and it’s all over….then we get Super Cena. Lose/Lose. At least we have guys like Ziggler, Punk, Cesaro, and others that I’m pretty happy with to keep my attention. Hope you all liked or disliked the Elimination Chamber show. I really don’t care either way, I just wanted to pretend to care. See ya’ll soon. (Follow me @colinkriegel)