5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2021

5. The Champ Jobs To A Champagne Bottle

Sasha Banks
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What is it with WWE and their distraction finishes?

On Sunday, we got what might be one of the weirdest ones yet, with SmackDown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks getting pinned in a women’s tag title match because Carmella’s wine sommelier tried to get her to use a bottle of champagne during the match.

You kind of knew WWE wasn’t going to have Bianca Belair or Banks lose cleanly this close to WrestleMania 37, and thankfully they didn’t have them win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship so we could get the “wacky tag partners” trope. But having Sasha lose because she was caught holding a bottle and then get hit with a Samoan Drop is certainly not an inspired choice either.

It’s just one of those moments where you realize that WWE painted themselves into a corner by booking a match like this, and they took a dumb way out.

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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.