5 Biggest Missed Opportunities From WWE Elimination Chamber 2020
So close to brilliance and yet so far for Elimination Chamber...
With the Showcase of the Immortals within touching distance, WWE made a stop on the road to WrestleMania (y'know, aside from the other stop they made last week for Super ShowDown). But this stop wasn't all that friendly as the superstars of both Raw and SmackDown found themselves chucked into the unforgiving steel of Elimination Chamber.
That's right folks, the tenth annual Elimination Chamber took place in the Wells Fargo Center and, well, let's just say it was quite the memorable night. In all fairness to WWE, this was indeed one of the company's better PPVs in quite some time, as Daniel Bryan and Drew Gulak wrestled a near-perfect match in the opening bout, The Miz and John Morrison defended their SmackDown Tag Team Championships inside the chamber itself (in what was an unforgettable match) and The Undertaker took his feud with AJ Styles to the next level by making a surprise appearance at the event.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end because for an event that started off with so much promise, fatigue soon set in for Elimination Chamber, leaving the company with quite a few missed oppotunities to make some magic happen.
5. No Men's Elimination Chamber Match
This was a missed opportunity heading into Elimination Chamber and it certainly hasn't changed now that the event is in the rear view mirror. Robbing fans of a men's Elimination Chamber match - that was once-advertised for the event - doesn't just reek of last-minute creative problems, it's one of the many problems that having the unnecessary Super ShowDown so close to it caused.
The fact is that the Elimination Chamber PPV has always had something of a mini-Royal Rumble esteem to it because, in the past, the WrestleMania opponent of whichever champion wasn't facing the Royal Rumble winner would be decided inside the steel structure. But in order to avoid the predictable boo-fest that would ensue when Roman Reigns predictably won it, creative scrapped the match altogether and handed Roman a title shot immediately after Goldberg bafflingly won the gold at Super ShowDown.
No matter how you feel about Roman getting another title shot on the Grandest Stage of Them All, the decision to remove not just a potential Universal Championship elimination chamber match, but a No. 1 Contender's chamber match robbed the show of what could have been another great contest. And it certainly would have been a better main-event than the one we ended up getting.
It also left the event without a lot of star-power...