WWE Elimination Chamber 2018 Shows That Women Create Their Own Hype
By John Brown
The WWE Women’s Elimination Chamber Match is the first one in history. Oddly enough, this match does not seem to have the same amount of hype surrounding it as the first women’s Money in the Bank and Royal Rumble. And oddly enough, that’s a step in the right direction.
Alexa Bliss’s theme hits and she nervously marches to the ring, coming to the realization that she may lose her Raw Women’s Championship in the ten tons of steel known as the Elimination Chamber. I suddenly get the urge to type, not about the lack of excitement I feel towards the first ever women’s Elimination Chamber match, but how I just look at this as being part of the card. It’s just another night of enjoying professional wrestling and grinding out some words for Daily DDT.
Out comes Sasha Banks. I am fixated upon the screen. Still no sense of urgency like I felt at the Royal Rumble when Banks entered as the number one entrant.
Out comes Mickie James, Absolution, then Bayley. I’m waiting for emotion to cascade over me as I’m about to see the women of the WWE make history again. Nothing. Nothing new, anyway. However, I do feel familiar goosebumps.
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The goosebumps I am now feeling are the ones I felt when Shawn Michaels went to the ring at WrestleMania 26, knowing I was about to witness his last match. I felt the same goosebumps when Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret Hart pulled the rare double turn at WrestleMania 23.
‘Dem goosebumps popped up one more time when Rey Mysterio won the Royal Rumble in 2006, paying homage to the recently-deceased Eddie Guerrero. Reading those names back immediately after typing them, I see names that were supposed to generate goosebumps as they are proven legends of professional wrestling and greatness is expected from them.
The fact that I am feeling those same goosebumps while watching the first women’s Elimination Chamber, therefore, means one thing: greatness is just expected from the women of the WWE.
It is a wonderful position to be in when one is taking part in history because what is taking place is new and once thought of as an impossibility. That position becomes profound, if not legendary, when the creation of historic moments is commonplace.
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Alexa Bliss is delivering her victory speech as I type this, and I hear the fans chant “You deserve it” as she speaks. They are treating her with the same respect any man has received since the chant became common. She does deserve it. All of these women deserve it. They deserve the lack of hype behind their first Elimination Chamber match, as they have transcended all expectations. Now, excellence is expected as they are getting close to being all out of firsts.