5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2021

3. Reigns Picks The Bones

Roman Reigns Daniel Bryan
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If you weren’t grumbling at the TV about what a sleaze Roman Reigns was for immediately facing and defeating an injured Daniel Bryan, then you weren’t paying attention.

Reigns came down to the ring as the Elimination Chamber was still being lifted, signalling the start of the Universal Championship title match that Bryan had earned by going coast-to-coast in the chamber match. That meant a battered D-Bry was forced to immediately compete against one of the toughest men on the roster with only seconds to recover.

Needless to say, despite a quick hope spot with Bryan catching a spear and turning it into the LeBell Lock, Reigns made short work of him. And then Roman celebrated like he had won a gruelling 30-minute war.

What a jerk. And that’s the point.

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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.