Post by Slade on Mar 8, 2022 16:37:47 GMT -5
Live from Rogers Arena in
Vancouver, British Columbia
On Friday, February 25, 2022
WWE Commentary Team: Mauro Ranallo, Tony Schiavone and Corey Graves
WWE Ring Announcer: Howard Finkel
WWE Backstage Reporter: Mean Gene Okerlund
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Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks defeated Savio Vega, Miguel Perez and José Estrada Jr. of Los Baricuas by pinfall at 13:11. Omega took Estrada down with a topé con hilo, while Matt Jackson gave Perez some rolling northern lights suplexes on the floor. Nick Jackson caught Vega with a superkick and tagged his brother who quickly tagged Omega. Together they gave Vega a triple V-Trigger. Omega made the pin.
Mean Gene got a word with Paul Bearer and The Undertaker, who had a very simple message for Roman Reigns, Umaga, Steve Austin, John Cena, and Kenny Omega: the cold, unforgiving, hellacious structures of cages, cells, and chambers is where The Undertaker thrives. The wrestling ring is The Undertaker’s yard, and on Sunday, the Elimination Chamber is his playground. All are invited to enter, but none may leave until they rest in peace.
Paige defeated Kris Statlander by submission at 10:52. Statlander gave Paige an exploder suplex into the turnbuckles, then climbed the turnbuckle and attempted the Area 451 splash but landed on Paige’s knees. Paige quickly gave Statlander a Paige Turner and then applied the P.T.O. to force Statlander to submit.
Randy Orton defeated “Glorious” Bobby Roode by pinfall at 10:15. Orton and Roode were brawling on the floor when Orton gave Roode a powerslam. He picked him up and rolled him into the ring. When the referee checked on Roode, “Cowboy” James Storm gave Orton a Last Call. Storm rolled Roode into the ring. He pinned Orton, who kicked out at two. Roode signalled he was getting ready for the Glorious DDT, but when he picked up Orton, he received the RKO instead. When Orton was posing on the turnbuckle after the match, Dvorak’s 9th Symphony began to play and the Smackdown United States Champion came down to the ring. Orton readied himself for a fight, but WALTER just stood in the middle of the ring, his arms folded behind his back, long coat open, showing off the belt around his waist. He and Orton starred at each other face-to-face. Orton said some things about how he would beat him. WALTER didn’t say a word.
Daniel Bryan came to the ring for an interview with Mean Gene. He admitted that his Elimination Chamber opponent, “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase had pinned him in the ring one week ago, making sure to note that he lost after getting knocked out with DiBiase’s loaded glove. Bryan said that the only loaded weapons he needs to kick DiBiase’s ass are his two feet, and after he beats DiBiase at Elimination Chamber, he’s going to end the 100-day galactic title reign of Nick Aldis to become the new UWA Universal Men’s Champion at WrestleMania II. John Bradshaw Layfield came out to tell Bryan to shut his yapper or else he’d have to feel the wrath of the Wrestling God! Bryan said it was just like DiBiase to send a second-rate stooge out to do his dirty work for him. Then, Bryan was hit from behind by Irwin R. Schyster! IRS whipped Bryan into the ropes and went for the Write-Off, but Bryan ducked, rebounded off the opposite ropes and took him down with the running high knee. JBL tried to go for a Clothesline From Wall Street, but Bryan ducked it and started knocked JBL down with shoot kicks. He went for a whip and JBL reversed. Bryan used the turnbuckles to flip over top of him and ran to the ropes. He knocked Bryan down with a running jump clothesline. He gave him Yes! Kick, but when he loaded up for the last one, he was hit from behind by "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase with a steel chair! The Million Dollar Man put on his loaded glove, sat down on Bryan’s chest and wailed away at his forehead until Bryan was a bloody mess. When officials finally got there, DiBiase got up and laughed as he took pleasure in what he had done to Bryan.
A rematch from two weeks ago, between The IIconics and the Smackdown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch and Lita, was over before it began, as Bayley nailed Lynch with a steel chair shot to the back in a sneak attack during her ring entrance. Lita wanted to go help but Billie Kay and Peyton Royce put the beat down on her. Bayley laid out Lynch with an arm-trap headlock driver on the arena floor and came to the ring to help Kay and Royce. They gave Lita a Sick Knee from Sydney and Bayley gave her an arm-trap headlock driver. Bayley grabbed a mic and said that she was taking back her title at Elimination Chamber.
Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart defeated Penta El 0M by pinfall at 11:20. Neidhart charged at Penta in the corner. Penta moved and Neidhart hit turnbuckle post with his shoulder. When he got out of the corner, Penta took him down with a sling blade. He climbed the turnbuckle. Bret “The Hitman” Hart grabbed him by the foot to stop his ascent. Rey Fénix ran over to attack The Hitman. However, Hart’s tactic was good enough for Neidhart to grab Penta and take him off the top turnbuckle with an avalanche brainbuster for the win.
Sting came to the ring for an interview with Mean Gene Okerlund. Sting, who was wearing an eye patch, told Mean Gene that while he may only be able to see out of one eye, he now sees clearer than ever before that Rowdy Roddy Piper is a poisonous snake. Whether his eyesight comes back or not, he will defend the Smackdown World Championship, and when he does, he is going to give Piper the beating of a lifetime. Rowdy Roddy Piper came out and said told Sting that he better cherish what little time left he has with the Smackdown World Championship because it is going to find its rightful place around the Hot Rod’s waste in two days time. And remember, Sting, not to take the Hot Rod lightly. He’s a very dangerous man, who could blind Sting in his other eye right here, right now, if he wanted to, but he’s not going to do that because he wants Sting to see the smile his face when he takes the title away from Sting and puts it around his waist at Elimination Chamber.
John Cena and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin defeated The Miz and John Morrison by pinfall when Austin pinned The Miz at 14:35. There was definitely tension between Austin and Cena, who were blind tagging each other with force during the match. The co-existed until right before the end. Cena gave The Miz a Five-Knuckle Shuffle, then hoisted him onto his shoulders. Austin reached in and made the tag as Cena began to execute the Attitude Adjustment. Cena made the cover but the ref didn’t count it. Austin pushed Cena out of the way and made the cover. Cena pulled him off. They shoved each other but stopped when Morrison executed a springboard roundhouse kick on Cena. Austin gave Morrison a Stone Cold Stunner. The Miz got up and Austin gave him a Stone Cold Stunner and pinned him for the win. Cena and Austin had their hands raised but kept bickering. Before they could come to blows, Austin was hit with a spear by Roman Reigns and Cena was rocked with a running shoulderblock and then a Samoan Spike by Umaga. Paul Heyman appeared at ringside with a mic and announced that while the Mickey Mouse club drama between Austin and Cena has been amusing, he needed to remind everyone that the Elimination Chamber is just two days away and its winner is not laying flat on their backs rather it is standing in the ring for all the world to see!