5 mistakes WWE made at Elimination Chamber 2020: Major problem in title change, Popular superstar eliminated too early?

Elimination Chamber 2020 is now in the books and it was the final PPV stop on the road to WrestleMania 36. Now that the PPV is done, WWE will begin with the build to WrestleMania 36, while matches that were already confirmed will see rivalries begin to heat up.

The PPV didn't have high expectations, to begin with, having only seven matches on the card. Even so, there were no significant changes that happened nor was there major character progression.

What we did see, however, was a tease of many different matches that we could see at WrestleMania 36. As a whole, the PPV perhaps did a little better than expected but there were quite a few mistakes made.

As a whole, the show didn't do a lot to hype up WrestleMania 36 since a lot of marquee matches are already set in stone. Either way, let's jump right into the mistakes WWE made at Elimination Chamber 2020.

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#5 A consistency problem with the Sami Zayn title win

Sami Zayn won the Intercontinental Championship

We love the fact that Sami Zayn is the Intercontinental Champion. It's the first title he won on the main roster and first title that he won in over five years. He has always felt like an underutilized Superstar and putting him in a managerial role didn't seem to provide great results despite him being a good talker.

The idea of the 3-on-1 handicap match was that the winner would become Champion. There was a little inconsistency since Sami Zayn directly hinted at wanting the title to go back to Shinsuke Nakamura.

Rather, Nakamura and Cesaro simply rolled out when they were done without any hesitation and while it provides a reason for them to turn on Zayn, it will come across as more inconsistent when it happens.

#4 Heavy Machinery's fairly early elimination

A massive performance from Tucker and Otis

Heavy Machinery were the stars of the Tag Team Elimination Chamber match. The Mandy Rose romance storyline has helped get Otis over incredibly, but Elimination Chamber was the night where Tucker decided that he wouldn't just be in his partner's shadow.

Tucker impressed in a big way, breaking out new moves that he has never shown before. Heavy Machinery got the best reaction of the night but were eliminated too early after Otis went through the pod and out of the ring, while Tucker was defeated and pinned by Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.

Heavy Machinery were given the "Ironmen" spot in the gauntlet match on SmackDown, but it wasn't capitalized in the same way at Elimination Chamber 2020. Instead, they were eliminated early to get to Otis vs Dolph Ziggler at WrestleMania 36.

They should have lasted a lot longer and it would have been good if they were the ones to eliminate Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode at the end.

#3 No World title match

Goldberg was unsurprisingly absent

While it's not surprising that Goldberg nor Brock Lesnar defended their World titles at WrestleMania 36, it's undoubtedly disappointing. This is the problem with having part-timers as Champions, yet no matter how much we discuss this and bring up the same points, things never seem to change.

2019 was a year where WWE was more in favor of full-timers, though by WrestleMania 36, we expect both world titles to change hands. Either way, last year's WWE Championship Elimination Chamber match was incredible and the perfect main event with great storytelling.

This year, WWE was forced to compromise on the Elimination Chamber card since both World Championship matches were done by Super ShowDown 2020. Brock Lesnar's big challenge was squashing Ricochet in 89 seconds, while Goldberg took only a matter of minutes before winning the Universal Champion.

It's hard to imagine a PPV without a single World title match and this was undoubtedly among the biggest flaws of the PPV and the reason why the expectations were so low, to begin with.

#2 Lack of star power in the main event

Ruby Riott and Natalya started the Elimination Chamber match

We have a lot to discuss about the main event. The women had the final spot on the card, with the six-woman Elimination Chamber to determine Becky Lynch's WrestleMania 35 title challenger being the featured attraction on the card.

Here's the big problem with it - there were a lot of underwhelming factors. For starters, the match seemed to lack a major sense of star power that would normally be there. With Asuka and Shayna Baszler being the only two superstars that looked like they belonged in there, it was a reflection on what could have been done better.

Granted, there were injuries to take into account and WWE had to use the women they had - but in our opinion, giving the women of SmackDown that spot likely would have been a better option. There are bigger names right now and it would have made for a better quality match.

While we weren't against the booking of the match nor the winner, there was a lot left to be desired.

#1 The wrong main event

Did Shayna Baszler convince everyone?

We believe that the main event match of any PPV should be one that's deserving of the spot and one where there's a legitimate reason to have it go on last. While International Women's Day should be a good enough reason to have them main event, the reality was that nothing on paper was as appealing as the main event, nor did many other matches make sense.

In this case, we believe that Aleister Black vs AJ Styles should have been the main event for two reasons - One, it was among the best matches on the card; and two, it could have ended the show with The Undertaker returning.

The Undertaker making his return to attack Gallows & Anderson would have been the best possible way as it would immediately create a sense of anticipation for their next confrontation on RAW. It would also give Aleister Black his first singles PPV main event on the main roster.

The Women's match suffered from a lot of problems and Shayna Baszler sitting idly and taunting Asuka wasn't the most fun main event to watch.