6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2017

5. Pinfall Via Rollup

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Inside a demonic structure where people get tossed into a chain-linked fence, backdropped onto a steel floor and thrown through plexiglass pods, you’d imagine it would take a Herculean effort to pin someone.

So when a dominant heel gets pinned via rollup, you have to be a bit more than shocked, right? Or maybe disappointed is the right word. Either way, it defied logic when Dean Ambrose simply rolled up a distracted Baron Corbin while he tried to coax Miz out of his pod. Sure, it set Baron up to demolish Ambrose and “get his heat back,” but it looked completely out of place to see guys being tossed into the chamber wall, slammed on the floor and powerbombed on the mat and still kick out, but Corbin couldn’t handle a rollup.

There are times that a rollup is going to happen and we might as well accept it. It’s part of wrestling. But inside the Elimination Chamber, where people are getting slammed into every surface of the structure? Come on.

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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.