WWE "Elimination Chamber 2010"

[adamclark52]

WWE “Elimination Chamber”
February 21st, 2010
From the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri
Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and Matt Striker
Theme Song: Rise Up by Cypress Hill

Elimination Chamber Match for the WWE Championship
John Cena vs. Ted Dibiase vs. Randy Orton vs. Triple H vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Sheamus (champion)
This was a good match. Everyone looked really good.
Winner: John Cena (new WWE Champion)

As soon as the match is over Vince McMahon tells John Cena he has to defend the WWE Championship against Batista…RIGHT NOW

For the WWE Championship
John Cena (champion) vs. Batista
This went as expected. Wait, it was Cena going up against the odds. This went the total different direction I expected it to.
Winner: Batista (new WWE champion)

Recap of Bret Hart’s car accident at Raw last Monday.

For the WWE Intercontinental Championship
Drew McIntyre (champion) vs. Kane
This match did a great job of completely killing the crowd. Drew McIntyre looked like a thirteen year-old.
Winner: Drew McIntyre

Gail Kim is walking backstage when Maryse comes up to her and says a bunch of stuff in French. Gail informs her that she can speak French.

Gail Kim and Maryse come out for the final match for the WWE Divas Championship Tournament but Vickie Guerrero decides to postpone it and make a Tag Team Match, PLAYA.

Maryse & Gail Kim vs. LayCool
...yeah.
Winner: LayCool

Josh Matthews promotes the new show NXT, which starts this Tuesday. He brings out the Miz, who will be mentoring some guy named “Daniel Bryant”. MVP comes out and tells the Miz to get ready for their match.

William Regal comes out and promotes NXT. Edge comes out and Spears him.

For the WWE United States Championship
The Miz (champion) w/the Big Show vs. MVP w/Mark Henry
The other night I was watching a current WWE pay per view (Money in the Bank 2019) and something dawned on me: I have always hated the Miz. He’s terrible. He’s annoying. I just want to see him lose.
Winner: the Miz

Elimination Chamber for the World Heavyweight Championship
Rey Mysterio vs. John Morrison vs. Chris Jericho vs. the Undertaker (champion) vs. CM Punk vs. R-Truth
I liked the Undertaker playing a more uncaged, angry character here than the usual walking corpse. He should have done that more often. He was scarier. This was good but I DID NOT like the ending when Shawn Michaels broke into the cage and cost the Undertaker the match.
Winner: Chris Jericho (new World Heavyweight Champion)
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The Elimination Chamber matches on this show were good but the undercard was pretty weak. The crowd was dead too. But I can solely put the blame on that being the wrong Elimination Chamber Match going on first. The ending of the first one with Batista really drained the crowd of all their life and energy way too early.

A lot of the going ons in this show like Batista getting the immediate title show, whatever was going on with the Divas and the “new” show NXT really don’t lend themselves to watching the show nine years later and not being familiar with all the storylines. I even had to think for a second what the deal with Shawn Michaels coming out was all about, then I remembered that he and the Undertaker had a match a month later at Wrestlemania.

I found out after watching this show that the Undertaker was engulfed in flames and burnt three times during his entrance due to a pyrotechnics accident. That…sort of explains why he came into the match looking much angrier than usual.

Pass.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Undertaker storming to the Elimination Chamber was a great visual, but holy shit did it come about for the wrong reason.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Taker virtually told Vince to fire the pyrotechnics guy for his own safety.

[adamclark52]

When the Undertaker pulled his straps down to show that shit was getting real he had this huge pink mark on his chest. I was laughing a little when I watched it because he went from intimidating to "WTF??" But now that I know it was likely a burn...yeah I'm not laughing.

[chronocross]

I liked the part when Kofi made his way to the chamber, how he would look over his shoulder every few seconds to make sure no one was going to jump him like Edge did the previous year.