7 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2025

3. A Janky Tag Match

WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 Nia Jax Tiffany Stratton Trish Stratus
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Nostalgia and hometown pops will only get a match so far.

Trish Stratus embarked on her 25th-anniversary on tour Saturday night, teaming with WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton to take on Nia Jax and Candice LeRae in Trish’s hometown of Toronto. That alone kept fans invested and involved throughout much of the match, but the action itself just wasn’t that good.

Stratus looked like someone with a bit of ring rust – which is understandable – but the match just never really clicked. Stratton had a couple of nice power moves and sequences, but she certainly didn’t look like the women’s champion heading to WrestleMania to have the biggest match of her career against Charlotte Flair. Shockingly, the person who played their role the best and was most consistent? Jax.

At some point, there needs to be an evaluation and analysis of Tiffany to see if she’s actually regressing in the ring. She was long lauded (and rightly so) as a future main-eventer in the women’s division, but lately she’s felt like her relative inexperience (just over three years in the business) is catching up with her.

Maybe chalk it up to an off night and having to follow a really good women’s chamber match, but this was a bit of a letdown.

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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.