3. John Cena vs Kane - Elimination Chamber (2012)
Ambulance Match http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzinN0N-e4w This feud was abysmal. This match was abysmal. I'm tempted to leave it at that. Urgh, fine, a few more words. Whilst 2012 will probably go down fondly in a lot of fans' minds for CM Punk's history making title reign, it was also the year of quite a few really bad John Cena PPV main events against guys who had no business being in such a spot in 2012. John Laurinaitis, Big Show in a Cage and this one-- talk about another one of WWE's failed match stipulations, an Ambulance Match, where to win, you must place your opponent in an Ambulance and close the door... wow, because such an action really constitutes victory. Well, at least it aint grabbing something off of a pole. The problem with this PPV was that both Elimination Chamber Matches, won by Daniel Bryan and CM Punk, were relatively straight forward, both Champions retained their gold. It's not always enough for a match to be good, otherwise we'd all be watching Ring of Honor, there needs to be two other critical components: drama and uniqueness. This often comes in the form of 'Will he, wont he!?', will snap and get DQ'd? Will he win with his career on the line? Those two Chamber matches, whilst not bad- certainly not enough to feature on this list- lacked such drama and uniqueness and was perhaps the reason WWE felt compelled to place Cena vs Kane on last, as it had both of those things. The problem was, they were terrible. Will Cena 'embrace the hate' and snap? Will he turn heel? And do what, beat the hell out of Kane? It didn't make any logical sense, it was never going to happen anyway and nobody would've cared if he had've wasted Kane. Instead, they wasted all our time with a stupid angle and dismal match. Cena won, status quo renewed. Please can The Rock come back now? The sooner this match ended, the better... which is why we were all grasping for the razor blades when it ran 21 minutes.
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