Mr. Tito’s PHAT WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 PLE Review with Thoughts and Show Grade
Alright, alright, alright… Wow, what an Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event (PLE) from the WWE for the year 2025. Now, in my opinion, we’re really ready for Wrestlemania 41. We were off to a slow start for 2025 and the Rumble, in my opinion, just didn’t produce any excitement for Wrestlemania but then Elimination Chamber rips the Band-aid off and adds so much needed juice.
Let’s look what we’ve got now for Wrestlemania 41:
– Gunther vs. Jey Uso
– Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens
– Charlotte Flair vs. Tiffany Stratton
– CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins
– Rhea Ripley vs. Bianca Belair (HUGE upgrade to the event)
– Cody Rhodes vs. HEEL John Cena (with the Rock)
For the first time since 2003, John Cena is now a heel and appears to have sold his soul to the Rock. Honestly, this is NO WHERE NEAR close to Hulk Hogan’s heel turn during 1996 as Hogan took some time off and wasn’t expected for the Bash at the Beach 1996 WCW event. When I saw John Cena remaining in that ring, I knew something was up for that last segment of Elimination Chamber. But to see it actually pulled off was cool and makes Cody vs. Cena 1000000000 times more interesting than just Cena on his retirement tour getting one more chance.
Now, it’s John Cena “selling his soul” to win one more World Title reign to break the WWE/WCW World Title record of 16-times. That’s interesting and Cena can really play-up his Hollywood connection with the Rock.
Personally, I would have wanted CM Punk in the sellout role, but I’m guessing that WWE isn’t ready to give up on Punk being a babyface and pushing lots of merchandise out the door. That’s ironic, as John Cena wasn’t allowed to turn heel for years because he was selling so much merchandise.
Let’s just review the show…
Mr. Tito’s PHAT WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 Review
All of this drama over the National Anthem getting booed by Canadians, along with Pat McAfee shooting about it. See, the boos aren’t for the United States but for President Donald Trump who is harassing Canada with his tariffs on trade (March 4th is when they begin), attacking their leaders, wanting them to become their 51st state, and taunting Canada needing our military to survive. THAT is why they are booing. The truth is that the majority of Americans did NOT vote for this guy and his views on Canada do NOT represent the majority of us. They wouldn’t boo if our leader didn’t bully their country and have desires to perform a hostile takeover of their country.
First match was the Women’s Elimination Chamber and let me declare that it was the BEST women’s Elimination Chamber match of all time, BY A MILE. Match started with Liv and Naomi, but Jade Cargill came down and teased attacking Liz but then brutally attacked Naomi instead. Boy was this vicious, as THIS is the Jade that we’ve been waiting for in the WWE. LOVED her slamming Naomi into the pod’s glass walls and the massive sound it made. Then, crushing her head with the chamber’s door. Soooooo violent and I loved it, as this really set the tone for the entire match. But DAMN, that was Jade finally looking like a true star in the WWE.
This match was full of action by 5 solid workers who didn’t just lay around and wait for someone to do something… It was non-stop action and surprisingly violent with people getting slammed into the pods, into the gate, and taking hard slams outside the ring. The moves were perfectly sequenced by the ladies and the chemistry was strong among the 4 ladies. Loved every second of it and I couldn’t keep my eyes off of it. They had Bianca Belair win the match, so we’ll FINALLY get Rhea vs. Bianca unless WWE blows it on RAW (don’t know what Triple H sees in Iyo Sky). If you haven’t seen the clip yet, that ponytail whip by Bianca on Liv was brutal and loud!
Next up was the “piss break” match, but it was fine for what it is… Tiffany Stratton/Trish Stratus vs. Candice LeRae/Nia Jax did its job as an undercard match. I thought Candice looked out of her element when you look at her size and stature compared to the other 3 ladies. However, she helped keep the action going as the in-ring worker to allow for multiple “face in peril” situations while Nia could just come in and hit a high impact move. Like that Tiffany was presented as a babyface and she ended up getting the pin over Nia Jax. I’d build up a big match on Smackdown between Tiffany and Nia, possibly main eventing the show, to have Tiffany go over strong before Wrestlemania 41.
Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn was very violent and intense… Usually, when 2 best friends in real life that we’ve all known were friends usually produces a disappointing match because you just cannot believe it. However, these two damn near killed each other… Maybe too much and I don’t know how either guy kicked out of several predicaments, but they did and just kept fighting. If this kind of match doesn’t get 6-stars on Dave Meltzer’s scale of multiple pin attempts and non-stop finishing type of moves used, then I don’t know what WWE match will please that idiot. Owens won the match and kept attacking afterward, then Randy Orton returned to set up Wrestlemania 41.
The main event was the Men’s Elimination Chamber… Overall, good, but I thought that Rollins, Cena, and Punk were primarily featured while the other guys were kind of there. Wasn’t a balanced Chamber between the 6 participants, though Logan Paul had some moments and even tried to troll Canadian fans by coming out with the American flag. What I really loved was seeing John Cena and CM Punk going at it for extensive periods of time and were the finalists of the match. If we don’t get Cena vs. Punk during the “retirement tour”, then this will have to do. John Cena won thanks to Seth Rollins hitting the stop and making Punk lose to Cena’s submission hold. Cena now goes to Wrestlemania and slips right into the Cody Rhodes WWE title match (because idiot Jey Uso went for the lesser title).
After the match, John Cena was celebrating inside the ring and then Cody Rhodes arrived… And then the Rock followed, coming out with Travis Scott who also turned heel tonight, I guess. Rock asked for an answer of Cody selling his soul and Cody then indicated that his soul was with the fans and that the Rock could go F himself. Wow… If you’re going to use curse words, less is more and use them when it counts. That was great… John Cena acted as if he was happy for Cody telling off the Rock, but I knew something was up. Cena had no business being in that ring. The second Cena hugged Cody, I knew… Then, the Rock made the throat slice signal and Cena went on the attack of Cody. Cena hit him with the Rolex watch and the WWE Title, while the Rock whipped Cody with the belt while Cena and Travis Scott held Cody down. I’ll take it… Makes Cena vs. Cody 100000000% more interesting with Cena going heel and selling his own soul for one more WWE Title reign. Major “sense of urgency” now pressed on Night #2 of Wrestlemania.
Now, you can have Cena win at Wrestlemania 41 and then build up Summerslam 2025 with Roman vs. John Cena for the WWE Title and then have Wrestlemania 42 as Rock vs. Roman for the WWE Title once and for all. Make it happen, WWE.
Great show, one of the best since Wrestlemania 40.
Wrestlemania 41 got a few upgrades, though I’m not entirely excited about Punk and Roman being stuck in a triple threat with Rollins. Like Rollins, but three is a crowd. But, I think with Cena turning heel, that makes for some interesting angles with Punk and Roman after Wrestlemania 41 as the rest of the 8 months of the year should matter too.
THE LAST WORD Great show overall, going with [ A ], strongly recommend this show. Like I said, one of the best shows since the great Wrestlemania 40 show and Wrestlemania 41 has now been upgraded. Should be interesting to see what happens and if Cena as WWE Champion will boost the Summer’s business.
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