10 Impulse Reactions Following WWE Elimination Chamber 2017
7. B-Show Losers
It feels unfair to label SmackDown Live! so derisively after yet another encouraging event, but the aspersion is mainly cast towards the truly dire mess the undercard is in.
This is thanks in large part to an early contender for 2017's 'Most Useless Character', Dolph Ziggler.
After a heel turn punctuated with attacks on Tuesday night's most boring babyfaces, the narrative shift for the 'Show Off' has been a laughable affair, somehow burying Ziggler even further underground than his sputtering win-loss record had done in the months beforehand.
And after fans at Elimination Chamber saluted him with "Thank you Ziggler" chants following a lopsided handicap match (that he still lost) in which he back-jumped one also-ran and pillmanized the other, there doesn't seem a single position on the card where the former two-time World Champion fits anymore.
With Ziggler eating the pinfall but Kalisto and Crews appearing equally useless, nobody escaped this rotten fifty-fifty segment unscathed, and surely only Battle Royal eliminations beckon for all three of them at WrestleMania.
Amazingly, the last Hail Mary for Dolph might be a move to Raw. Even if he's chum for the sharks swimming in the red sea on Mondays, it couldn't be any worse than being algae in the smaller pond.