MAJOR Last Minute Booking Change At WWE Elimination Chamber 2019?
Things could have been WAY different had Vince McMahon not changed his mind.
Death, taxes, and Vince McMahon changing his mind at the last possible second: these are life's three certainties, and so it was proved again last night.
WWE's Chairman reportedly pulled a major booking swerve just before the Elimination Chamber 2019 pay-per-view went on the air. This is according to Fightful, who had written earlier in the day that WWE had planned on having the Women's Tag Team Title bout go last, only for McMahon to go down a different route and book it as the opener instead.
PW Insider have corroborated the story, and Fightful have provided a reason for the switch-up: apparently, McMahon didn't feel the women would "get the desired reaction to close the show."
The men's Elimination Chamber match ended up closing the pay-per-view instead. Regardless of any speculation on crowd reactions, both matches hit the right notes, with the main event highlighted by a brilliant Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan closing stretch, and the women's bout over-delivered to the extreme. Remarkable, given the grand disaster that was WWE's last tag team Elimination Chamber.
The reception that Sasha Banks and Bayley received after becoming the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Champions suggests they'd have been just fine going last, either way.