WWE: Predicting Elimination Chamber Match Results Into WrestleMania

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How will WWE’s Elimination Chamber matches set the stage for its participants on the Road to WrestleMania?

So here we are, gentle reader, merely a few days away from the WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event and I have a treat for you. It’s a lollipop and honestly, since I can’t actually give it to you, I’m going to eat it right now.

But hey, what I can give you is this great article where I predict the outcomes for some of the participants in the Men and Women’s Elimination Chamber Matches. It’s not as much straight up predictions, but rather how I expect the Elimination Chamber results to define this year’s WrestleMania card. Let’s go for it!

Roman and Alexa Win

There are a lot of narratives running around the Internet Wrestling Community™ but I am not expecting big surprises as far as the winners of the Elimination Chamber matches are concerned.

On the men’s side, Roman Reigns is winning. I know a lot of people are banking on some kind of swerve because of Seth’s performance last Monday, but WWE had a window of opportunity to throw a curveball in the buildup to the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania, but that ship has sailed. Sailed right through that window. It’s all going to be about focusing on making the Reigns/Lesnar main event that they have been planning for the past year into something special. Otherwise, this entire year of Lesnar holding the belt will be pretty anticlimactic.

As far as the women’s EC match goes, there’s no doubt in my enticingly pulpy brain that Alexa Bliss is walking out of the Chamber with her title. She will likely survive the match by turning on Mickie James at the last possible moment to retain.

I understand that she’s not everyone’s favorite and is somewhat polarizing, but she has been the face of the Raw women’s division since jumping to the Red Brand after WrestleMania last year. She’s also arguably the only properly booked member on the roster. It wouldn’t make sense for her to not go into WrestleMania as the champ.

In fact, if I can be so bold, I don’t think she’ll be fighting Asuka at WM, but rather Mickie James, with whom she has great chemistry. Turning on James will give the motivation to push for a proper feud, culminating in a potentially great match where James can work her magic to bring out Alexa’s strengths and make her look like a million bucks.