Throughout this week's show, the focus was understandably on
the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view,
which will emanate from Milwaukee, Wisconsin a week from this Sunday. I love
the Elimination Chamber as much as anybody - outside of Money in the Bank,
they're probably my favorite wacky match type - but even I have a hard time
justifying the decision to run the Elimination
Chamber pay-per-view right before WrestleMania.
In order for Elimination
Chamber to feel meaningful, fans have to believe that both the WWE and
World Heavyweight Titles could very well change hands inside the Chamber. But,
with those two huge question marks in the card, it becomes increasingly
difficult to build toward WrestleMania,
which is meant to be the biggest show of the year, and accordingly, could
probably benefit from whatever advance publicity WWE can spare. Right now,
outside of the Rock and John Cena, the only thing that's locked down for WrestleMania is Sheamus, but for all we
know as fans, he could very well end up squaring off against World Heavyweight
Champion The Great Khali, and who the hell wants to see that? Unless it's in a
Punjabi Prison Match, in which case we ALL want to see it. Badly. Extremely
badly. Very extremely badly.





