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We are less than two days away from the next major stop on the Road to WrestleMania 37 as WWE Elimination Chamber 2021 will take place this Sunday on February 21, 2021. As of the writing of this article, a total of six matches have been announced, all of them with title implications, including two Elimination Chamber matches.
With the kind of placement that Elimination Chamber has on the WWE calendar, the pay-per-view could very well decide how the card of WrestleMania 37 shapes up to be. While there is some sense of predictability, fans could be in for some unexpected twists and turn this Sunday.
Here are five bold predictions for WWE Elimination Chamber 2021. Be sure to comment down and let us know your thoughts and predictions for the pay-per-view.
#5 Mustafa Ali attacks Kofi Kingston and takes his place in the RAW Elimination Chamber match
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre is set to defend his title this Sunday inside the Elimination Chamber match against five former WWE champions - AJ Styles, Sheamus, Jeff Hardy, Kofi Kingston, and Randy Orton. Originally, The Miz was supposed to be in it but he dropped out and Kofi Kingston earned the spot in the match this week on RAW.
However, there might be a last-minute twist in the card with RETRIBUTION attacking Kingston backstage and their leader Mustafa Ali taking his place in the WWE Championship Elimination Chamber match. This would further RETRIBUTION's storyline with The New Day and it would be a great throwback to two years ago where Kofi Kingston replaced Mustafa Ali in the Elimination Chamber match, starting the entire KofiMania storyline.
Mustafa Ali has already mentioned this to be the reason why he and RETRIBUTION are coming after The New Day and it would make the angle more compelling. As interesting as the idea of a faction like RETRIBUTION sounds on paper, there's no hiding the fact that WWE hasn't done a great job with their booking.
#4 Charlotte Flair faces and defeats Asuka at Elimination Chamber
The advertised match for Elimination Chamber 2021 is RAW Women's Champion Asuka defending her title against Lacey Evans, who earned the right to face her a couple of weeks ago on RAW. However, Lacey Evans dropped a massive news this week on RAW by announcing that she is pregnant.
Reports have since revealed that Lacey Evans is, in fact, pregnant for real and this is not part of a storyline. With that, there's no way she will now be facing Asuka at Elimination Chamber this Sunday. However, WWE is still advertising the match and there are chances that a last-minute replacement could be announced.
One possible contender to replace Lacey Evans and face Asuka would be Charlotte Flair and there are two possible ways the angle could go. First, if Flair faces Asuka in a non-title match at Elimination Chamber, it could set up a massive WrestleMania 37 feud between the two.
However, there's another possibility that Charlotte Flair goes on to defeat Asuka at Elimination Chamber to become the new RAW Women's Champion. This would be the perfect set-up for the main-roster debut of Rhea Ripley, who could appear on the RAW after the pay-per-view and ultimately set-up a title clash against Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 37. Deja vu from last year, with the roles reversed, and a chance for Ripley to get her revenge.
#3 Sasha Banks turns on Bianca Belair at Elimination Chamber
At Elimination Chamber 2021, the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler will defend their titles against the team of SmackDown Women's Champion Sasha Banks and the winner of the 2021 women's Royal Rumble match, Bianca Belair. This was a last-minute addition to the match card of Elimination Chamber, announced on SmackDown this week.
As good as the team of Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair is, it is unlikely that the two would win the Women's tag team titles at Elimination Chamber. But neither of them could afford to take a pin and we might just see an internal explosion, setting up the WrestleMania clash between the two.
Right now, both Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair are babyfaces but we might see The Boss turning on Belair at Elimination Chamber, costing them the title match. There is some spark missing and this heel turn could provide the feud exactly that as Bianca Belair would go on to face a heel Sasha Banks at WrestleMania 37 for the SmackDown Women's Championship.
As for Jax and Baszler, they might drop their titles to the winner of the women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez, next week on NXT.
#2 Andrade returns and replaces Keith Lee at Elimination Chamber 2021
Another advertised title match at Elimination Chamber 2021 that could see a last-minute replacement is the Unites States Championship match where Bobby Lashley is set to defend his title in a triple-threat match against Keith Lee and Riddle.
Keith Lee returned to RAW last week after being absent for nearly a month and entered the US title picture. However, he missed this week's episode of the Red brand and the latest reports suggest that The Limitless One could miss Elimination Chamber 2021 and could get replaced in the US title match.
An interesting option to replace him in the match could be the former United States Champion, Andrade, who has surprisingly been out of action for quite some time now. WWE would surely need as many of their stars back in time for WrestleMania, which will take place in front of live fans, and this could be the perfect opportunity to bring back Andrade.
The addition of Andrade would further solidify the mid-card scene of Monday Night RAW and we might later also see him somehow get involved in the entire storyline between Lacey Evans, Ric Flair, and Charlotte Flair.
#1 Randy Orton disappears from the Elimination Chamber match
The Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship is arguably the most predictable match on the card as it's highly unlikely that anyone but the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will walk away victorious. However, a massive twist could happen during the match.
One of the competitors in the RAW Elimination Chamber match is 14-time World Champion Randy Orton who is hell-bound to win yet another WWE title this Sunday. However, things might not turn out to be as good for Orton as he wishes, courtesy of the return of 'The Fiend' Bray Wyatt.
This week on Monday Night RAW, we saw Alexa Bliss in a backstage segment where she was sitting in the middle of a pentagram, using dark magic to resurrect The Fiend.
During the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship, just when Randy Orton would be about to enter the match, the lights could go off and when they return, Orton could disappear from the match, with The Fiend's eerie laugh echoing throughout the WWE ThunderDome.
Comment down and let us know your predictions for WWE Elimination Chamber 2021.
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