6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2024
Nia/Rhea steals the show, women's chamber delivers, Cody calls out Rock.
How do you know the WWE is a hot product, even if the actual content is at times mediocre? When they can fill up a stadium with nearly 50,000 fans for a PLE where Cody Rhodes isn’t wrestling, Roman Reigns is absent, and Nia Jax is headlining.
That’s not a knock on Elimination Chamber, which actually was a pretty good show, albeit a four-match main card that felt more like a table-setting show for WrestleMania than a major stadium show.
Both chamber matches delivered expected outcomes but also set up potential Mania rivalries along the way. The women’s chamber match in particular was great at filling the space with action. The final few minutes featured counters galore and a bang-bang set of eliminations to finish.
It might be unpopular to say this, but the Grayson Waller Effect interview segment underwhelmed a bit, with the expected formation of the modern-era Mega Powers between Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins just kind of happening rather than being a “capital-M” Moment. This could have and probably should have felt bigger, especially on a card this small.
Of course, there will be time inside for praise for Nia Jax and Rhea Ripley, but suffice it to say, this was the right call to close out the show.
Overall, even the negatives here were minimal -- nothing was a fatal mistake, and all of them could be overlooked in in different ways. Even from a critical standpoint, this show didn't have any huge bumps in the road.
Let’s get to it…