10 WWE Elimination Chamber 2020 Impulse Reactions

6. Aleister Black Vs AJ Styles

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The crowd were a little bit exhausted after all the chaos and carnage of the prior battle, but some limb work playing out to silence didn't exactly give Aleister Black the quickest opportunity to take revenge. Nothing about this layout did, in fact.

The stipulation Black requested became his undoing - Styles brought The OC with him because he could. Then he targeted Black's leg with weapons because he could. He countered Black's comebacks with great wrestling because he could. The only thing he didn't really do was try to bring the crowd back into this laboured outing before a boy-popper of a finish.

It's fine - they'll fight, like, 500 times more when WrestleMania's out of the way. This wasn't the best, but almost certainly wasn't the last.

A tough one to critique, this. The pair worked hard and snug and all that stuff they're both capable of, and at least dragged the crowd in via Chekov's Table and a cool AJ Styles Tombstone spot, but those wanting a more high impact Gulak/Bryan from the Raw duo were probably left wanting.

Or they would have been, had it not been for...

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