Today, we watched the Elimination Chamber LIVE on a local cable channel and it was a solid PPV. Both chambers, Raw and Smackdown, were entertaining to watch although I feel that Raw’s Elimination Chamber were more balanced. Smackdown’s Elimination Chamber were filled with small guys and kinda dragged in some parts during the match.

As for the results, John Cena won Raw’s Elimination Chamber and became the new WWE Champion for about a 10 minutes or less. LOL! After the match, the Chairman appeared on the ramp and ordered Cena to defend the title against Batista. Batista pinned John Cena after a spear and a Batista Bomb making him the new WWE Champion.

Smackdown’s Elimination Chamber was interesting and funny at times specially when Chris Jericho used one of the pods to protect himself from the Undertaker. At the end, the two men left in the chamber was Jericho and the Undertaker but Jericho pinned the Undertaker to became the new World Heavyweight Champion. It happened because Shawn Michaels appeared from below the chamber and Super Kicked the Undertaker. Jericho took the opportunity and pinned the Undertaker for the win.

By the way, I later found out (from various wrestling sites) that the Undertaker was literally burned alive when one of his pyro accidentally lit up under him during his entrance. Unfortunately, we didn’t see this on the LIVE broadcast. All we saw was the Undertaker running from the ramp to the ring which was very unusual for the Undertaker to do since he usually takes his time in entering the ring.

According to reports, the Undertaker was really furious after the match and WWE officials had to calm him down. Who wouldn’t be furious? Wrestling is fake but the body slams, the chops and the hits these athletes are taking inside the ring are not. I’m amazed that the Undertaker, after being literally engulfed in flames, was still able to perform as if nothing happened. Now, that’s professionalism and the least the WWE staff can do is keep them safe during their performance.

Below is a video from YouTube showing what happened during Undertaker’s entrance in the Elimination Chamber.

I read that WWE doesn’t want people to see what happened and they are pulling these videos off of YouTube. I just hope that the Undertaker didn’t suffered any serious injuries in that accident.

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Just finished watching WWE’s No Mercy and good thing I didn’t pay for it but I did watch it legally. It was shown in a local cable channel as a special feature. Anyway, I felt that most, if not all, of the matches were not worth to be on a pay-per-view. All feels short and the setup of each spot move were too obvious. It’s a very mediocre PPV. In fact, I fell asleep during Triple H’s and Jeff Hardy’s match.

A quick win for Batista (Photo from WWE.com)

The PPV started with the ECW Championship match between Matt Hardy and Mark Henry. I know Matt won’t lose the title to Mark Henry since he just won it at Unforgiven but, come on, do they have to make the match suck as well. I feel that Matt didn’t do enough damage to make the defeat of Henry believable. Hey, it’s fake but it doesn’t have to look fake, right?

The Women’s Championship match between Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle followed the ECW match. I don’t care much for WWE’s women’s division but I do like looking at most of them. For some reason, the match was okay maybe because I wasn’t expecting anything from the two ladies or maybe I was just glad it was over that quick.

The next match was between Rey Mysterio and Kane and honestly it was a decent match with Rey doing what he does best and that is to fly. I’m just disappointed that it ended in a disqualification. My guess is that, this thing with Kane and Rey isn’t over yet.

The Batista versus JBL Number One Contender’s match ended rather quickly. Batista was all over JBL, although JBL did do a few moves here and there but the entire match was all Batista. It was like, WWE just wanted to get that match over with so that Batista can be the number one contender once again for the championship. Wait a minute, I think the whole segment between Cryme Tyme and JBL, including JBL’s monologue, took longer than his match with Batista.

That was followed by the match between the Bigshow and the Undertaker. Again, this match is like a Smackdown setup match. There was nothing special in it and I still can’t believe that the Undertaker can be taken out that easily with a couple of punches. It’s not very Undertaker like.

I wasn’t able to watch the WWE Championship match between Triple H and Jeff Hardy because, as I’ve said above, I fell asleep. I woke up with Triple H overturning Jeff Hardy’s cover to pin Jeff Hardy and to retain the title. Anyway, I don’t think Jeff would ever become WWE Champion. I feel that WWE is just teasing the fans of a posible Jeff Hardy title run to keep them excited and wanting only to drop the belt to someone else.

In general, I was not too impressed with this year’s No Mercy. As I’ve said, the matches were too short, too predictable and they were not exciting. In short, the execution of the matches were not PPV material.

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At Cyber Sunday, defending World Heavy Weight Champion Batista cleanly defeated the Undertaker to retain the championship. Stone Cold Steve Austin won the vote to work the match as Guest Referee and he did a nice job with it by not interfering with the match.

It was a good match, in fact it was the match of the night, but still it wasn’t what you would expect from a pay-per-view.

Batista successfully pinned the Undertaker after 2 Batista Bombs. I felt that the setup for the finish was out of place because the Undertaker just stood-up and took the second Batista Bomb. I guess he was still groggy from the first Batista Bomb. I also didn’t understand why the Undertaker kept on pounding Batista’s left shoulder but never followed up on it or even took advantage of it. Well, Batista sold it good though.

Batista finally defeated the Undertaker and I would like to commend the Undertaker for putting Batista over, BIG! The Undertaker is a true veteran and even though he lost, he wasn’t shown or portrayed as weak. It took two Batista Bombs to keep the Dead Man down.

I’m guessing that this feud between Batista and the Undertaker will continue until Edge returns to Smackdown.

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