• The show opened with a moment of silence for the victims of the latest school shooting in America.
  
  
• Roman Reigns came out and claimed in an interview that he was going to win at Elimination Chamber and take out Brock at Wrestlemania. He insisted the last time he and Brock met at Mania, he was going to win. Seth Rollins, who DID win that match at Mania, came out so they could kick off the Gauntlet between all the Elimination Chamber contestants.
  
  
• Seth defeated Roman after roughly 20 minutes with a roll-up. Roman smiled despite all his big talk before the match, and offered a fistbump to Seth, but before Seth could reciprocate out came John Cena. Seth clotheslined Cena as soon as he entered the ring.
  
  
• Seth finally managed to beat Cena just after the first hour of the show had ended. This part of the Gauntlet went REAL long and featured a lot of rest-holds initially, but got really drat good towards the end with a series of false finishes that ended with Seth managing the Curb Stomp on Cena after escaping a second roll-through AA. Elias immediately ran out next and began putting the boots to Seth.
  
  
• Cena was interviewed backstage by Renee, where he said he was trying to juggle too much in his life while Seth was obviously hyper-focused on his wrestling, and thus Cena needed to refocus because he NEEDED to be at Wrestlemania.
  
  
• Elias pinned Seth, ending a 65 minute run in the Gauntlet. The crowd was PISSED. They gave Seth a standing ovaton as he left. Finn Balor was out next.
  
  
• Seth was interviewed backstage by Renee where he said he was pleased to have beaten Roman and Cena back-to-back, but this meant nothing if he didn't win the Elimination Chamber on Sunday.
  
  
• Finn defeated Elias with the Curbstomp. The Miz's music played but then he jumped Finn from behind.
  
  
• Miz defeated Finn with the aid of the Miztourage and crotching him. BRAUN was next and Miz tried to cheese it, but got caught by Braun who hauled him back to the ring for his mauling.
  
  
• Renee interviewed Finn backstage, where he said that at the Elimination Chamber the Miztourage wouldn't be able to help Miz, who would be locked in with him and the others. Finn intended to win and go to Wrestlemania against Brock Lesnar.
  
  
• Braun defeated The Miz. Miz did manage to hit the Skull Crushing Finale, but Braun kicked out with authority and murdered Miz some more. Braun was interviewed about this being his first Elimination Chamber, and he claimed the Unknown Feared Him. He called out Brock Lesnar, then stormed back to the ring and killed the Miztourage, grabbed Miz again and killed him too.
  
  
• Overall the Gauntlet Match used up 2 of the 3 hours on Raw.
  
  
• Jeff Jarrett is legit, seriously, actually going into the WWE Hall of Fame.
  
  
• Renee interviewed Asuka in the ring about Nia Jax. As she was talking poo poo about Nia, Nia rushed her from behind. Asuka saw her coming and got some kicks in, but Nia was able to overpower her and hit the Samoan Drop and several leg drops.
  
  
• A video package for Ronda Rousey played, including various women wrestlers talking about her.
  
  
• Titus Worldwide defeated Tag Team Champions The Bar, much to everybody's surprise. It was a non-title match.
  
  
• Bray did a spooky promo saying he hopes the end really is near, especially for Matt Hardy at Elimination Chamber. Matt interupted, and the two went back and forth in their pre-taped segments complete with those awful loving transitions WWE insists on including.
  
  
• A repeat of the Black History month video package about the Sanitation Strike.
  
  
• The main event was Sasha, Bayley and Mickie James vs Absolution and Alexa Bliss, who went to great lengths to make it clear she didn't want to jump or sneak attack Mickie. Alexa ended up submitted to the Banks Statement by Sasha.
  
  
• Absolution jumped Sasha afterwards, then beat up Bayley when she tried to help. Alexa seemed to celebrate with Absolution, until they turned their attention to her. As they approached, Mickie James rushed to her aid. Mickie and Alexa hit a double-DDT on Sonya, and the two left the ring together.
  

• AJ Styles opened the show with an in-ring interview with Renee Young, where he put over the individual talents of every wrestler in the Fatal Fiveway at Fastlane, but insisted he could beat any one of them. The trouble was, he admitted, that if he focused too much on any one of them, he could lose the title while somebody else was pinning another contender.
  
  
• Baron Corbin came out to talk trash about AJ, reminding him he won their last one-on-one match. Kevin came out and went back and forth on the mic with AJ (who tried some DIRE comedy) and then claimed that if he'd had the chance Sami had last week against Ziggler he would have won. Shane immediately came out to announce that AJ would face Corbin tonight, and that Owens would get a chance to prove he was right by facing Ziggler tonight.
  
  
• They are STILL doing the record scratch to interupt NOTHING, then silence, then his actual theme for Ziggler's entrance.
  
  
• Kevin Owens defeated Ziggler with a Superkick right into the side of the face, thanks to Sami Zayn rushing to ringside and distracting Ziggler simply by his presence.
  
  
• Jinder Mahal came to the ring to reveal Bobby Roode's shocking secret: He'd found Roode's top 10 list and had not only voted for himself as number 1, but he hadn't voted for Randy Orton at all! His list was 10. Zack Ryder 9. Tye Dillinger (!) 8. Usos 7. Naomi 6. Becky 5. New Day 4. Nakamura 3. AJ Styles 2. Charlotte 1. Bobby Roode.
  
  
• Bobby showed up, said this wasn't his list and that Jinder wouldn't make it on anybody's list regardless. Jinder tried to put words in Bobby's mouth, Bobby refused to play ball and challenged Jinder to fight him right there. Orton showed up, Jinder tried to take advantage, Bobby knocked him out of the ring, blocked an RKO and hit Orton with the Glorious DDT. But as he celebrated, Jinder hit him with the Khallas.
  
  
• Backstage, Shane and Orton tried to figure out who Bobby's opponent at Fastlane would be, then began squabbling about Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn again with Shane still apparently trying to sell Bryan as the heel in all this.
  
  
• The Riott Squad defeated Charlotte, Naomi and Becky after Ruby Riott pinned Becky. It was a long match and got really good/exciting in the closing stretch. Much better than Raw's main event.
  
  
• Kevin met with Sami backstage to apologize for how he acted last week, but Sami stopped him to explain that he owed his current status as a main eventer and headlining to Kevin taking him under his wing, and now he realized what was right was to have Kevin's back and pay him back.
  
  
• The New Day (Xavier and BIG E) defeated Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable with a little help from Kofi. As they celebrated, the Bludgeon Brothers showed up.
  
  
• The Bludgeon Brothers murdered two jobbers.
  
  
• Charlotte and Ruby Riott did cameraphone promos at each other - Ruby has taken Charlotte's "X down, Y to go" bit, saying she has pinned Becky, will pin Naomi next, and if Charlotte wants to fight she should put her title up at Fastlane.
  
  
• They are STILL doing the text graphics on obviously scripted promos. That lead to this:
  
  

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• AJ Styles defeated Baron Corbin in the main event. Corbin hit an amazing looking Deep 6 on AJ but couldn't get the pin, and AJ was able to hit his usual incredible looking Phenomenal Forearm to get the win.
  
  
• Kevin and Sami jumped AJ postmatch to put a beating on him, but as they were prepping to put him through the announce table, Corbin attacked first Sami and then Kevin and left them laying.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Feb 21, 2018