10 WWE Elimination Chamber 2020 Impulse Reactions

7. SmackDown Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber

The Undertaker Elimination Chamber
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There was a lightness of touch to the layout of this bruising but just-about-enjoyable battle.

The New Day and The Usos, as stewards of this division for years now, were in first to do what they do and satisfy the masses with some subjectively excellent pro wrestling until Lucha House Party entered third and ramped up the crazy.

A bunch of mad high spots hit and missed to varying degrees of interest from the live crowd, including one gripping fist fight atop a pod that saw Kofi Kingston hit the roof of one chin-first on the way down. It was gross, but presumably not part of the wider story because it was on to Miz and Morrison before anybody (Kofi included) was given a chance to sell it.

A generous "This Is Awesome" chant from the Philadelphia crowd came following a breathtaking Gran Metalik hurricanrana on John Morrison, but was earned when Tucker wiped out the entire field with a dive from the pod during a quality exchange between Heavy Machinery and the rest. Otis piling through the pod all the way to the floor left his partner prone for elimination, but the angle is clearly very very over - Roode and Ziggler's own exit minutes later got a thunderous response.

The New Day bit the dust when the Champions piled on Kofi after a missed dive, before trapping The Usos to reclaim in a noble conclusion to a noble festival of banter. Not a lot...mattered, but what does in WWE anyway now?

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