4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2020

8. Dead Space

WWE loves its multi-person matches, and for good reason: It’s an easy way to get a lot of different wrestlers onto a PPV without having to have a 23-match card.

However, when you have a six-team/person Elimination Chamber match, things grind to an absolute halt during the introductions. You’re talking basically 10 minutes of intros and locking wrestlers in their pods before the match can officially start. And when you have two EC matches, that’s a whole 20 minutes spent on superstars walking down to ringside, climbing into a plexiglass pod and having the doors shut.

That’s enough time for another match (with intros and video package) that’s just essentially wasted space. And while there’s no good answer – the wrestlers have to walk to ringside, and who would you deny a full entrance? – it doesn’t nix the fact that it’s a very noticeable gap in action.

Then you throw in the 5-7 minutes Shayna Baszler spent waiting for her next opponent to come out of the pod after eliminating everyone else, and you have the better part of a half-hour wasted with no action. And it showed as fans really turned on the match.

It was just poorly mapped out, and it really showed.