4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2020

1. Cutting Off Baszler At The Knees

Shayna Baszler Elimination Chamber
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Brutal. Just brutal.

How else can you describe the women’s Elimination Chamber match? If this was supposed to be the crowning moment for Shayna Baszler as she steamrolls toward a WrestleMania match against long-running Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch, this certainly wasn’t it.

Oh sure, Baszler ran through five women like they were nothing, but it was likely the worst EC match in history. The match was dull, and Shayna’s offense looked limited. She looked like a rookie out there, not a veteran who had been the NXT women’s division standard-bearer for the past year-plus.

Shayna was supposed to come out of the Elimination Chamber looking like a killer. She ran through four jobbers and then easily beat an already-injured Asuka in what should have been a brutal, epic confrontation that could have made her. Instead, it just left everyone watching feel deflated that we didn’t even get that one good battle.

After watching this, here’s a prediction: Lynch retains at Mania. There’s no way Vince McMahon lets Baszler defeat The Man and leave WM 36 with the title.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.