- Jerusalem
- May 20, 2004
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Would you be my new best friends?
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Elimination Chamber Results:
- Buddy Murphy (C) retained his Cruiserweight Championship in a really, really good match against Akira Tozawa on the pre-show.
- Sasha/Bayley began the Women's Elimination Chamber Tag Team match against Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville. The Riott Squad were the first to be released from their pod, followed by the IIconics and then Naomi and Carmella.
- Naomi and Carmella were the first team eliminated, pinned by the IIconics. Nia and Tamina were the last team to enter the Chamber (the IIconics immediately went and hid back in their pods).
- The IIconics were the next eliminated, followed Stereo Samoan Drops from Nia/Tamina. The Riott Squad were eliminated after a frog splash by Tamina onto both of them, and she pinned them.
- Tamina was eliminated by Sasha, Bayley, Mandy and Sonya following an elbow drop by Bayley, after Nia had run full force into a pod. The crowd sang,"Nana na nah, hey hey, goodbye!" as Nia and Tamina left the ring.
- Sasha and Bayley defeated Mandy and Sonya, with Sasha tapping out Sonya with a modified Banks Statement in a hell of a finish. Sasha and Bayley were visibly moved post-match and Sasha gave a tearful promo about how much this meant to them. On commentary, Beth Phoenix was also very emotional.
- The Miz brought out Maryse and they announced she is pregnant with their second child.
- The Usos defeated Shane and Miz to become the new Smackdown Tag Team Champions. Miz took the pin after hitting the Skull Crushing Finale but getting caught and pinned regardless. Shane had done his requisite top rope to table elbow spot and wasn't there to back Miz up.
- Miz and Shane walked sadly to the back together.
- Lio Rush and Lashley were interviewed backstage about their handicap match, with Rush saying he was not concerned about potentially costing Lashley his Intercontinental Championship despite getting pinned by Finn Balor recently on Raw. Lashley cut off the interview.
- Finn Balor became the new Intercontinental Champion by pinning Lio Rush in a handicap match. Rush tagged himself in when Bobby Lashley was dominating, only for Balor for take him out, block Lashley from tagging and hit the Coup de Grace on Rush for the win.
- Post-match, Lashley looked like he was going to attack Rush (to the crowd's cheers) then cut himself off and helped Rush up.... then slammed him to the ground and stormed out as the crowd chanted,"ONE MORE TIME!"
- Charlotte came out to talk about Becky attacking her at a recent house show, and Charlotte managing to take out her leg and re-aggravate her injury, with reports that Becky had to leave on crutches. Charlotte mocked Becky for needing the crowd's approval and claimed she needed nobody but herself, and bragged about main eventing Wrestlemania instead of Becky.
- Ronda Rousey obliterated Ruby Riott in a few minutes to retain her title. Post-match, Charlotte got into the ring to face off with Ronda when Becky arrived on crutches. She struggled to get into the ring and to her feet. The crowd chanted,"SHE'S THE MAN!" as Charlotte laughed at Becky... and then Becky tossed one crutch to Charlotte and beat the poo poo out of her with the other one because her leg was fine
- With Charlotte down, Becky turned her attention to Ronda who grabbed the other crutch. The two stared each other down, then Becky gestured to her to attack Charlotte and get revenge for Charlotte attacking her with the kendo stick at Survivor Series. Ronda slowly approached Charlotte... AND THEN BECKY WAILED ON RONDA WITH THE CRUTCH TOO
- Security FINALLY arrived and Becky, limping slightly, was escorted out. As Ronda fumed and Charlotte was helped out of the ring, Baron Corbin's music hit and he came out for his match.
- Baron Corbin defeated BRAUN! in a No Disqualification match after Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley showed up and they triple-teamed BRAUN! to the point they were able to powerbomb him through two stacked tables. This was awful.
- Shane was getting checked on by medical stuff backstage when Miz showed up to apologize for losing the tag titles. Shane told him it was okay, and Miz flew into a rage saying it wasn't and he'd screwed everything up and disappointed himself, his family, Shane, his children both born and unborn etc. Shane forced him to calm down and told him to go home and they'd see each other next week.
- Lacey Evans came out, walked down the ramp, then turned around and walked straight back up again. That was it. That was the whole segment.
- The first two competitors in the Elimination Chamber were WWE Champion Daniel Bryan and Samoa Joe (awww yssss). Bryan started with a promo complaining about the fans being fickle, and was furious when Rowan was kicked out by the referee. He said the crowd's inability to respond with anything but a repeated one word phrase ("YES!" and "WHAT?") made him think there was still hope he would be victorious, because THEY needed him to lead them as they were too stupid and needed somebody to tell them what to do.
- Kofi was the first out of his pod and did some crazy poo poo, as was to be expected, including leaping right up onto his empty pod when Daniel Bryan tried to hide on it. AJ was the next in, and managed to get the pin on Samoa Joe to eliminate him first just as it looked like Joe was going to take out Kofi.
- Jeff Hardy was next in, but also the next eliminated after he hit the Swanton Bomb onto AJ Styles draped over the top turnbuckle, but then got hit by Daniel Bryan and THE KNEE THAT BEAT JOHN CENA!
- Randy Orton was the last in, and eliminated AJ Styles with an RKO counter to AJ attempting a Phenomenal Forearm. Orton then set his sights on Kofi, but got sidetracked by taking out Daniel Bryan as he attempted to take advantage. Kofi hit Orton with the Trouble in Paradise and pinned him, leaving it down to Daniel Bryan vs.... Kofi Kingston!
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- KOFI KICKED OUT OF THE KNEE THAT BEAT JOHN CENA!
- Kofi and Bryan had a fantastic one-on-one match which ended when Kofi was on the top of a pod and went for the frogsplash, but Bryan was able to get clear and hit a second THE KNEE THAT BEAT JOHN CENA to finally get the pin and break the hearts of everybody watching who wanted Kofi to win.
- Rowan helped Bryan to the back as the crowd chanted for Kofi left laying in the ring. He was joined by Xavier and BIG E, and the crowd chanted,"THANK YOU KOFI!" as they helped him to his feet. They held the ropes open for him to leave the ring, and sat with him on the steps leading into the Chamber to recover before getting back to his feet and being helped back up the ramp, pausing on the platform to turn to the crowd as they continued to chant for Kofi.
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Raw Results:
- A memorial graphic aired for Pedro Morales.
- Triple H opened the show to talk up what happened at Elimination Chamber the previous night. He brought up how close Kofi came to the title, and talked up how cool it was that Becky - the woman he forced to apologize to him - showed up and attacked Charlotte and Ronda even if from a corporate POV he should be mad. He then brought up DX being inducted into the Hall of Fame (which is why he's suddenly a face despite screwing over Becky recently) and said as the head of NXT he wanted to show off some of the top NXT wrestlers.
- He then showed off video packages of Ricochet, Aleister Black, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, saying they'd all be in action tonight. Michael Cole gave brief descriptions about all of them. The crowd could barely be heard during this, which may have been down to the absolutely weird way this was packaged or just straight up unfamiliarity with the wrestlers.
- BRAUN! and Baron Corbin had a Tables match. Baron dominated large sections, then BRAUN! won clean. There was no outside interference and no reason given for why Corbin wouldn't or couldn't make use of Drew or Lashley. Heyman came out as BRAUN! was leaving, so BRAUN! grabbed him by the throat until Heyman begged him to let go and he did... then just walked away.
- After a commercial break, Heyman went to the ring and got on the mic to... introduce a video of himself talking about Brock Lesnar. Afterwards he was talking up Brock more when Finn Balor cut him off and came to the ring to do his own promo (Heyman left) about winning the Intercontinental Title. Lio Rush cut him off to say he didn't deserve the title, Lashley did. Then Lashley attacked Balor from behind and he and Rush (they're friends again?) double teamed him. Ricochet showed up and did some crazy poo poo to get Lashley and Rush out of the ring and stand by Balor's side.
- Balor and Ricochet defeated Lashley and Lio Rush in a match that went a surprisingly long time but ended with Ricochet doing some cool poo poo in and out of the ring and getting the pin on Lio Rush.
- Drew met with HHH backstage as he was talking to Nattie, and told HHH that he was pissed at a bunch of NXT callups happening while he had nothing going on, so give him Seth Rollins and he'd prove he deserved the Wrestlemania spot against Brock. Dean Ambrose showed up out of nowhere, said he had nothing going on tonight either and slapped the poo poo out of Drew before leaving. An amused HHH asked Drew if he still wanted Seth, and Drew told him to "change the drat match".
- A recap aired of Becky beating the poo poo out of Charlotte and Ronda with her crutches last night. Cole explained that if Becky trespassed on another show she would be arrested and charged.
- Lucha House Party defeated Ryder and Hawkins in spite of a good effort, with Hawkins taking the pin and being frustrated at once again losing.
- Heavy Machinery came out for a bizarre promo, which just got weirder when Lacey Evans came out and then left again.
- Gargano and Ciampa were backstage and were confronted by Gable and Roode who wanted to know why they were getting a (non-title) match against the Tag Champions on their first night on Raw. The Revival showed up and warned them that things were different to when they were on NXT together.
- DIY defeated The Revival in a shorter than expected match. It was good but not helped by the bizarrely muted (not artificially) crowd, which hasn't been reacting to anything all night.
- Balor and Ricochet were talking backstage and were interviewed. Balor said it had been a great 24 hours but tonight should be about Ricochet. He left Ricochet to be interviewed, and he said he was thrilled and this was not the last the WWE Universe would see of him.
- Owens did a promo from a movie theater lobby with his kid talking about his rehab and imminent return.
- Sasha and Bayley came out to talk about winning the Women's Tag Team Titles, thanking the fans for their support. The crowd, still bizarrely quiet, did break into a,"YOU DESERVE IT!" chant. They said they would face opponents from Raw, Smackdown and even NXT.
- Nia and Tamina came out and told them to stop talking (they already had) and said that Sasha's history was that whenver she won a title, she immediately lost it. They tried to jump Bayley and Sasha who fought them off and then they... just left.
- A video package for DX (HBK, HHH, Chyna, X-Pac, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) going into the Hall of Fame aired.
- Drew McIntyre very quickly defeated Dean Ambrose, who got in early offense but then ate two Claymore Kicks from Drew who glared at the Wrestlemania sign after getting the pinfall.
- Another Heyman/Lesnar video package aired, with Heyman explaining how Brock dominates and conquers as Champion, and how Seth Rollins will join the likes of Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles, John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, Goldberg etc who have fallen to Brock.
- Rollins countered in a backstage interview that Brock's reign of terror would end at Wrestlemania, and Seth would leave Wrestlemania as Universal Champion even if he had to be carried out on a stretcher. A still hurting Dean Ambrose showed up and asked why he wasn't out there to help him? Seth asked if he'd lost his mind and Dean kind of paused for a moment (the crowd laughed, one of their few reactions tonight) and went,"Ehhhh."
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- Elias refused to do a concert, complaining about the crowd and the town. Finally he deigned to play, but was cut off by the arrival of Aleister Black. The commentary here, attempting to put over Black to be fair, was loving awful. Black defeated Elias in a competitive singles match.
- The Riott Squad did everything they could to help Ruby Riott in a rematch against Ronda Rousey, and they had a far more competitive match than they did at the PPV. Finally Ronda was able to take all three out at ringside and take down Ruby. It was a much, much better match. The Riott Squad tried to attack her again post-match but she took Liv and Sarah out.
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Smackdown Results:
- Shane McMahon and not Kofi opened the show, but they fixed this by immediately playing a video showing just how loving cool Kofi's performance at Elimination Chamber was.
- The Elimination Chamber participants will be involved in a six-man tag tonight, with Kofi/AJ/Jeff Hardy facing Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton and Samoa Joe.
- Shane spoke to the crowd (far livelier than Raw's) about the NXT debuts the previous night, and said he was so impressed he was giving them matches on Smackdown tonight as well. Miz came out and spoke about letting Shane down, and how much their partnership meant. He wanted a rematch for the titles even though they no longer did automatic rematches, and asked Shane if he could make that happen.
- The Usos came out and said they were down for a rematch, but that Shane wasn't gonna make that happen because he knew that Miz was a joke and a loser and a failure. Shane said they'd have the rematch, and it would be in Miz's home town of Cleveland.
- Aleister Black defeated Andrade (whose manager Zelina is Black's wife) in a fun singles match aided by a lively crowd. Gargano and Ciampa were shown watching the match backstage.
- DIY were interviewed and said "this" was the future (a sign for their NXT storyline?) when The Bar showed up to talk trash. Gargano said they weren't here to set the bar, but to break it. Cesaro and Sheamus paused momentarily and then burst out laughing.
- Kofi and the rest of New Day showed up with pancakes on a literal olive branch (Xavier was holding BIG E like they were in a Scooby Doo cartoon) and asked AJ and Jeff to put the beating they gave each other behind them as part of their six-man tag tonight. AJ and Jeff accepted, to everybody's delight.
- DIY defeated The Bar in a tag match, where Ciampa took a bad looking fall right onto his previously injured knee, but seemed to finish the match okay. Sheamus and Cesaro were horrified to have lost.
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- Orton, Joe and Daniel (with Rowan) were shown eying each other up backstage.
- Asuka finally returned, interviewed in-ring about all her many achievements but how she has been overshadowed by the Ronda/Becky/Charlotte story. She said she wasn't worried about that, she'd beaten Charlotte and Becky in the past and now she was ready for a new challenger. The answer to that challenge was... Mandy Rose!?! Could there be a worse opponent for Asuka than Mandy rose?
- Lacey Evans showed up so that answers that question.
- Lacey then turned and left and Mandy tried to jump Asuka from behind for a flash pin, but Asuka got clear. They fought for awhile with Asuka dominating but Mandy managing to get the advantage at various points through cheap tricks. Finally Mandy faked an eye injury and the ref repeatedly blocked Asuka from wrestling her, and then Mandy rammed her into the ropes and scored a pinfall and I got mad about it online.
- Charlotte was interviewed backstage and asked if she felt she was going to be haunted by Becky at every step of the way to Wrestlemania. She said that if Becky showed up again, she would have her thrown in jail for criminal trespass.
- Miz met Shane backstage and said that his dad ("Mr. Miz") would be at the Cleveland show live.
- Ricochet defeated Eric Young (with Sanity at ringside), looking as impressive as he always does.
- New Day were interviewed about the amazing reaction to Kofi after his gauntlet match and the Elimination Chamber. New Day put over Kofi, and Kofi put over New Day, and then BIG E did his intro announcet (I legit didn't know it was done live) and they headed out for the six-man tag.
- Everybody came out for the six-man tag, and Daniel Bryan cut a promo on the ramp talking up how the Elimination Chamber was unfair but he still survived and retained his title anyway. He said he was here to educate the fans who did not want to be educated, and would tell them who is Fastlane opponent was NOT: none of the men in the ring, because he beat them at all at Elimination Chamber!
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- Kofi, AJ and Jeff Hardy defeated Randy Orton, Samoa Joe and Daniel Bryan when.... KOFI KINGSTON PINNED WWE CHAMPION DANIEL BRYAN!
- New Day put Kofi on their shoulders to celebrate with the Wrestlemania sign in the background.
- Shane McMahon came out to announce Bryan's challenger at Fastlane. After a long pause he finally declared it would be.....
- KOFI KINGSTON!
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Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 23, 2019
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