10 HUGE WWE Elimination Chamber 2020 Predictions You Need To Know
The last stop on the Road To WrestleMania needs something of a kick-start...
The Elimination Chamber card, as these words are being written, is a strange one.
Forced to lie in the bed they made at Super ShowDown, WWE are a company with two part-time male world champions and thus, no defences on the last major event before WrestleMania. In building one opponent so strong for Becky Lynch on Raw and the total exact opposite for Bayley on SmackDown, the company also removed the likelihood of those titles being on the line.
Card subject to change, of course. Hell, this is WWE, plans subject to change. Half of the reason this card doesn't have the Number One Contender's match it advertised locally is because Vince McMahon changed his mind on a WrestleMania main event in February - he's probably already bored of Elimination Chamber before they've even lowered the f*cking structure.
But we, the idiotically faithful fanbase, are not. If the WWE Network is a terminal prospect, perhaps it's best to dance in the warm rain before it departs. This company can never justifiably flog $50 pay-per-views ever again and has thus forgotten how to craft one as if it were still the case. But never has that mad Kickoff show been as required as it is here.
Will Elimination Chamber lock all the pre-WrestleMania emotions in like a tag team trying to squash into one of those pods, or lock out audience investment entirely.
10. Braun Strowman (c) Vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Cesaro & Sami Zayn
There was a palpable buzz in the air when Sami Zayn hit Braun Strowman with Helluva Kicks so hard it looked like he was being shot out of the same banter cannon that fires him down to the ring alongside Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura every week.
Fans clearly had desire to see 'The Underdog From The Underground' go again, and go he will on Sunday even if it mostly amounts to running away from Strowman's inevitable hattrick of ringside shoulder charges late in the day.
It's difficult to predict because it's difficult to care - has the 'Monster Among Men' really been rebuilt by this Intercontinental Title win? And if the belt isn't making the man is the man remotely making the belt? Shinsuke Nakamura wasn't a glorious steward but his lengthy tenure informed the response Strowman received when he liberated it on television a few weeks ago.
A singles title as felt overdue, but it wasn't ever meant to be the secondary one. He's a character study in why Drew McIntyre has to beat Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania more than an over wrestling character, but maybe he'll finally have something of note to do on this year's 'Grandest Stage'.
Winner - Braun Strowman