7 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE's Road To WrestleMania 38

6. Rapid Fire Elimination Chamber Bouts

Bianca Belair WWE Elimination Chamber 2022
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WWE announcers like Michael Cole like to harp on about how "gruelling" the Elimination Chamber structure is. Bold lines like, "Nobody who enters the Chamber will ever be the same again" only work when the matches are lengthy, barbaric and exhausting though.

This year's versions lasted approx 15 minutes apiece.

Bianca Belair and Brock Lesnar (who won their respective matches over in Saudi Arabia) seemed fresh as daisies after working the Chamber. This was a missed opportunity, and it smacked of creative desperation to try and give the Saudi market a "top WWE pay-per-view" they could be proud of.

People no-doubt enjoyed the show, and it did have merit, but those Chamber bouts were just a tad too short to really hit. Belair and Lesnar also entered each brawl last, which hardly made their victories look like energy-sapping gut checks.

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