As I've stated multiple times on this blog, plenty of shows are either saved or doomed by their main event. In theory, every match on the card is a building block, an appetizer, for the entree at the end. And if you end up giving your customers sh** for their entree, they're probably not going to be pleased. So............................................yeah, the Chamber match was pretty good.
- I don't know where I was going with that intro. I also don't know where SmackDown is heading with this Becky Lynch-Mickie James program. It was a strange decision to have this match end on a roll-up, though the rest of the bout was fine.
- SmackDown has not figured out heel Dolph Ziggler yet. This whole match felt like a waste of time, and the fans cheering Ziggler for trying to injure Apollo afterwards tells you everything you need to know.
- I expressed my distaste for the blue brand's tag division during my predictions for the show, but even I couldn't have seen this trainwreck coming. Throwing you entire tag roster into one match is a serious gamble, and it really didn't pay off.
- As much as I hate SmackDown's tag division, I can give them one thing. They were better than Nikki Bella and Natalya. Wow this match was bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. It was an awkward, plodding encounter, a complete departure from their personal feud, and to have it end in a double count-out feels damn near disrespectful.
- At this point in the show, I was about ready to give up and declare it a failure. And then Luke Harper and Randy Orton put on one of my favorite matches this year, and helped carry this show to some success. This is a blood feud done right: two guys with different motivations who want to destroy each other, going out and doing exactly that.
- Not much to say about Alexa-Naomi. Happy for the new champ, who got quite a moment, but both women looked incredibly green and out of their depth.
- The Elimination Chamber is my favorite gimmick in all of wrestling, so I was ecstatic when the announcement was made that it was coming back. This main event was everything you could expect out of one match, almost everyone looking better coming out of it. Hats off to Bray Wyatt. He has suffered through some serious BS in his WWE tenure, but seems to have finally reached the top of the mountain.
7/10
SmackDown may have salvaged this show, but it still has some big issues to address. A lackluster undercard and questionable booking forced the two main matches(Harper-Orton, Chamber match) to carry the show. For now though, it seems as if WWE is continuing the momentum from Royal Rumble, and we now look forward to Fastlane next month.
- I don't know where I was going with that intro. I also don't know where SmackDown is heading with this Becky Lynch-Mickie James program. It was a strange decision to have this match end on a roll-up, though the rest of the bout was fine.
- SmackDown has not figured out heel Dolph Ziggler yet. This whole match felt like a waste of time, and the fans cheering Ziggler for trying to injure Apollo afterwards tells you everything you need to know.
- I expressed my distaste for the blue brand's tag division during my predictions for the show, but even I couldn't have seen this trainwreck coming. Throwing you entire tag roster into one match is a serious gamble, and it really didn't pay off.
- As much as I hate SmackDown's tag division, I can give them one thing. They were better than Nikki Bella and Natalya. Wow this match was bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. It was an awkward, plodding encounter, a complete departure from their personal feud, and to have it end in a double count-out feels damn near disrespectful.
- At this point in the show, I was about ready to give up and declare it a failure. And then Luke Harper and Randy Orton put on one of my favorite matches this year, and helped carry this show to some success. This is a blood feud done right: two guys with different motivations who want to destroy each other, going out and doing exactly that.
- Not much to say about Alexa-Naomi. Happy for the new champ, who got quite a moment, but both women looked incredibly green and out of their depth.
- The Elimination Chamber is my favorite gimmick in all of wrestling, so I was ecstatic when the announcement was made that it was coming back. This main event was everything you could expect out of one match, almost everyone looking better coming out of it. Hats off to Bray Wyatt. He has suffered through some serious BS in his WWE tenure, but seems to have finally reached the top of the mountain.
7/10
SmackDown may have salvaged this show, but it still has some big issues to address. A lackluster undercard and questionable booking forced the two main matches(Harper-Orton, Chamber match) to carry the show. For now though, it seems as if WWE is continuing the momentum from Royal Rumble, and we now look forward to Fastlane next month.
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