18 Things You Probably Missed From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Feb 5)

11. The Women’s Chamber Match Confusion

Elimination Chamber 2019
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What's the deal with the first ever WWE Women's Tag-Team Title Elimination Chamber match? Of the six teams involved, only three have had to earn their way in, and all of those come from the Raw side. Meanwhile, the trio of SmackDown duos simply said they wanted to be involved and got their wish.

They didn't have to qualify. Why not? What kind of a system is that?

It would've been easy TV for WWE to line up some qualification matches on Tuesday nights, but they chose not to do it in favour of this Mandy Rose/Uso/Naomi love rat angle. Maybe they didn't think they had enough teams or something.

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