WWE returned to Australia for the primary time in 5 years over the weekend, and made a piece of professional wrestling historical past on the promotion’s Elimination Chamber premium reside occasion. A crowd of 52,590 on the Optus Stadium in Perth, to not point out a world tv viewers, have been handled to an adrenaline crammed evening of sports activities leisure. Right here’s what the outcomes down underneath imply, because the WWE Universe is formally on the quick observe to WrestleMania XL.
With the winner of January’s males’s Royal Rumble, Cody Rhodes, making his intentions clear to problem Roman Reigns for his Common title, and the ladies’s Rumble winner, Bayley, difficult Iyo Sky for her WWE Ladies’s World Championship, the Elimination Chamber matches have been set as much as reply the query on how WWE’s different two main titles can be contested this April 6 & 7, at WrestleMania XL in Philadelphia.
What Are the Guidelines of a WWE Elimination Chamber Match?
- 2 wrestlers begin the match whereas 4 others stand behind glass pods
- A random pod opens at scheduled intervals, till all opponents are within the match
- Elimination happens by pinfall or submission
- There are not any depend outs of disqualifications
- The final individual standing is asserted the winner
The Elimination Chamber itself is among the most brutal matches in all of WWE and is constructed of metal with chain-link partitions. The pods are additionally typically used as super-high platforms that the superstars dive from, as a way to shock and incapacitate their opponents. The flooring, whereas matted, are additionally constructed of metal and have completely no ‘give’.
Who Will Problem Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XL?
On Saturday night, Scotland’s Drew McIntyre, himself a former 2-time world champion, received the boys’s chamber match, beating out Bobby Lashley, LA Knight, Kevin Owens, Logan Paul and Randy Orton. The end got here when Logan Paul, who had been pinned by Randy Orton earlier the match, interjected himself and thumped the star of the RKO with a pair of brass knuckles. Ever the opportunist, McIntyre wasted no time in getting the 3-count from a down and out Orton.
WWE followers will recall that the Scottish Warrior received his first WWE world title inside an empty constructing through the pandemic. His hopes of profitable a WrestleMania principal occasion in entrance of a stadium crowd have been dashed once more only one 12 months later when he was defeated by Bobby Lashley. Now, McIntyre may have the potential to make his dream come true with a win over Seth Rollins at WrestleMania XL. Nonetheless, that will likely be no simple feat.
Who Will Problem Rhea Ripley for the Ladies’s World Championship at WrestleMania XL?
With Rhea Ripley efficiently defending her title towards Nia Jax (within the efficiency of her profession) in Perth, the winner of the ladies’s chamber match is ready to face one in all WWE’s most feared champions at WrestleMania XL in Lincoln Monetary Subject. Happily, the profitable lady, or fairly “The Man” as she likes to name herself, is simply the individual for the job. Becky Lynch was victorious within the chamber after beating out Liv Morgan, Naomi, Raquel Rodriguez, and Tiffany Stratton. (Be careful for Stratton, she is a future megastar).
We now have a dream match at WrestleMania XL within the type of Ripley vs. Lynch. In fact, “The Man” was a part of historical past herself when she grew to become a part of the primary ever girls’s WrestleMania (35) principal occasion in a match towards Charlotte Aptitude and Ronda Rousey. Now, many followers are calling for Ripley vs. Lynch to observe swimsuit and be a principal occasion in it’s personal proper.
With WWE now working WrestleMania over 2-nights, the possibilities of them closing out one of many two gigantic exhibits have to be thought-about excessive. For tickets to WrestleMania go to: https://www.wwe.com/exhibits/wrestlemania/article/wrestlemania-40-tickets however be quick, as a result of there aren’t many left.
