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The 2019 edition of Elimination Chamber is done and dusted. From start to finish, there were some fantastic matches on the night. Without an iota of doubt, we can say that the Elimination Chamber PPV was nothing short of amazing. In this thread, we will take a look at a few reasons why Elimination Chamber 2019 was so good.
#5 Great main event
Every great PPV requires a brilliant main event. If the final match of the night does not deliver, the audience will leave the PPV in bad taste. From the early dominance of Samoa Joe to the resilience of Kofi Kingston, WWE got everything right in the main event.
Randy Orton's amazing RKO to AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy's innovative Swanton Bomb, the brilliant segment between Daniel Bryan and Kofi Kingston - everything associated with this match was beautiful. Even the close finishes in the match were excellent and well crafted.
Rather than having quick eliminations, WWE did the remarkable thing of giving the guys enough time and in the end, we got ourselves an incredible main event. The night ended with beautiful "Thank You Kofi" chants.
#4 Deserving mid-card champions
Sasha Banks and Bayley deserved some sort of gold after going through all these patches of bad booking. There is no doubt that the other women in the match deserve better booking. However, Banks and Bayley needed it more.
Similarly, after the humiliation at 2019 Royal Rumble, Finn Balor needed a title now more than ever. Thus, giving him the Intercontinental Championship was the right move.
Having a proper tag team holding the tag team titles is mostly the right move and thus, around the WrestleMania season, it was the right move to put the SmackDown Live Tag Team Titles back on The Usos.
#3 Becky Lynch
Becky Lynch's unannounced return in crutches was a memorable sight. The fact that she attacked both Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey with the crutches made The Man look more legit than what she already was.
While the RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey and her challenger at WrestleMania 35 Charlotte Flair were having a face to face confrontation, Lynch made her way to the ring by reeling on crutches. But once she entered the ring, she laid waste to both Rousey and Flair, causing security to arrive and pull her out. The entire arena was rooting for Lynch, and it was a great moment.
#2 The booking was spot on
Other than the potential prolongation of the feud between Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin, the 2019 edition of Elimination Chamber had an impeccable booking. Finn Balor won his first title in more than two years, Bayley and Sasha Banks became the inaugural Women's Tag Team Champions, The Usos reclaimed the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.
Another brilliant booking by WWE was putting Kofi Kingston over. The last five days in WWE has elevated Kingston from a comedic tag team contestant to a legit singles competitor in the main event scene and that, my friends, is good booking.
#1 Every participant of the Chamber match for the WWE Championship got the chance to shine
It is one thing to have a good match. It is entirely a different thing to book it without anyone looking weak. In today's main event, no single participant looked weak. Even the early eliminations of Samoa Joe and Jeff Hardy could be attributed to the fact that they were unaware of the positions of some of their opponents.
Samoa Joe was focusing on Kofi Kingston while he was attacked out of nowhere by AJ Styles. Jeff Hardy did an innovative Swanton Bomb and had no time to recover before Daniel Bryan rushed him with a knee. Styles and Orton had an elimination each to their name. Daniel Bryan was the ironman of the match.
Kofi Kingston was the MVP of the match. The entire match revolved around his resiliency, and the WWE Universe responded with "This is awesome" chants. When The New Day member kicked out of the running knee, the entire place erupted in joy. Although Kingston lost the match, he won the hearts of everyone in the WWE Universe.
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