INSTANT REACTION: Dave LaGreca's Thoughts on Elimination Chamber

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1:02Everybody's bitching and complaining about the elimination chamber and then the main event, the men's elimination chamber match out of nowhere. Randy Orton is your winner, poignant to the WrestleMania sign and is now on the road to WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas. Congratulations to Randy Orton. Congratulations to Rear Ripley and now it's getting a little bit clearer what we're going to see at WrestleMania. And I have a sneaky suspicion that the Busted Openation 877-3444-893 are going to love some of the things that they saw at elimination chamber and possibly hate some of the things that they saw at elimination chamber.

2:02We're going to talk about it all from the first match all the way to Randy Orton pointing at the WrestleMania sign and let's start right there and that is Randy Orton, your winner of the men's elimination chamber match. And man, I was saying it on Friday with bully ray and I actually made my case, stated my case to start off a false count anywhere Friday. How Cody Rhodes needed to win the men's elimination chamber match. He was the star, he's the guy. And if you want star power for WrestleMania, give us Cody Rhodes versus Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania 42. And bully said, you know what Dave, I agree. But man, it's a part of me that would love to see Randy Orton win the chamber and that's exactly what we got. And now Randy Orton is on the cusp of

3:05becoming a 15 time world champion for the WWE. That's just two steps behind John Cena and one behind his mentor, the nature boy Rick Flair. And if I had to put money right now, I'm saying Randy Orton's walking out of WrestleMania as a 15 time world champion for the WWE. And to me, Randy Orton saved elimination chamber. I honestly don't know what my mood and my attitude would be about elimination chamber if it wasn't for the victory by Randy Orton. And this is coming from the biggest Cody Rhodes fan that there is. Because you look at everything

4:05that went down, WWE has been playing it safe with the exception of Randy Orton coming out as your victor. And I really thought it was going to be Cody Rhodes. We see Drew McIntyre interfere, hit Cody Rhodes in the back of the head with that championship belt. Randy Orton gets involved. Cody Rhodes get back on his feet, hit the crossroads on Drew McIntyre. And basically Randy fed Drew McIntyre to Cody Rhodes, Agen Amon to hit that crossroads. And immediately after that crossroads, RKO out of nowhere, one, two, three. And Randy Orton picks up the victory. That to me was a wow ending. I did not see that coming. And I got to be honest, I am surprised. Right now there's a poll on YouTube, 60% agree with me. They were surprised by the Randy Orton victory, 877-3444-4893.

5:12But there's so much to get into from what we saw tonight at Elimination Chamber. I mean, there were some great showings. And when you think about great showings, I'll go back to the opening match of Elimination Chamber. Keanu James, great performance in that women's Elimination Chamber match. Raquel, I mean fantastic performance. And I know our very own Jonathan Coachman actually thinks she should have won. But Rhea Ripley was the right one to get this victory. Now, I didn't think Rhea Ripley had a chance of winning the women's Elimination Chamber match until I watched Smackdown. Last night, EO Sky and Rhea Ripley dropped the tag titles to last legend and Nia Jax. And right there, I'm like, Rhea Ripley is going, she just punched her ticket to WrestleMania. And that's exactly what happened. And I really enjoyed the women's

6:17Elimination Chamber match. Like I said, Keanu James, great performance. Raquel, great performance. How about Raquel getting the double pin on Keanu in Asuka? She had an MVP performance, but Rhea Ripley picking up that victory and now punching her ticket to WrestleMania, her and Jade. And man, that is a WrestleMania match. You could say that could be your main event for night number one of WrestleMania. I'm digging it. I love Jade. I think Rhea Ripley is going to bring out the best of Jade. I think we're going to see the best of Jade. Maybe her best match coming up at WrestleMania 42. And this is what Jade has been waiting for. This is what she's wanted. And I think that Rhea Ripley is going to bring out the best in Jade. I'm looking forward to big things between those two at WrestleMania 42 in Vegas. Then we get AJ Lee and Becky Lynch. AJ Lee and Becky Lynch. Now, AJ, as we know, her first singles match in a

7:30very, very long time for her in a big spot against Becky Lynch for the Intercontinental Championship. The MVP performance in that match didn't come from AJ Lee and it didn't come from Becky Lynch. For me, it came from Jessica Carr. She was the MVP of that matchup and really was the focal point in the story. And I loved what she was able to do. The story that they were able to tell. And are we going to get the rematch between those two at WrestleMania 42? Great visual later on with AJ and CM Punk. It's something that we thought we got a visual of both those holding up their respective championships. And now you're probably most likely going to get the rematch at WrestleMania. And that gives you your star power for that match. Again, the road

8:31to WrestleMania getting a little bit more clear after what we saw tonight at Elimination Chamber. To me, the match of the night, CM Punk and Finn Balor. And I loved CM Punk's entrance. That serious Chicago Bulls entrance. And anybody that was watching the NBA in the 90s knows that theme better than anything. The city of Chicago. And that was a great moment. Actually got goose bumps watching that entrance by CM Punk. And I thought it was a wild match. I really did. I loved what I saw between Punk and Finn Balor tonight. A bloodied CM Punk. And there was a little bit of blood between that match, the Women's Elimination Chamber match, and even a little

9:33bit with AJ Lee and Becky Lynch. But I really loved Finn and Punk. The ending kind of came out of nowhere for me. But the match itself was I thought very, very good. There was no way that CM Punk was losing this match tonight. That was not going to happen. Some really cool, you know, false finishes. But I don't know if the crowd ever really bit on any of them. Because I don't think that Chicago crowd expected CM Punk to lose that match. And then we get the box. And I have a feeling that that's going to be a discussion point for a while. What's in the box? Well, a couple of Dan Housen ladies and Dan Housen himself. And the reaction from the crowd, I think, kind of said it all. If you were going to get a pop from a crowd, especially a WWE crowd,

10:42I would think that the best city to get that from would have been Chicago. And if you would ask me, Dave, we're going to we're going to debut Dan Housen at Elimination Chamber. What city would be the best city to do it in? I would say Chicago. And you want to know something? If I made that suggestion and I worked for the WWE after tonight, I would no longer have a job. Because the Chicago crowd actually booed Dan Housen. You could go down the street and buy his shirt. At pro wrestling T's in Chicago, maybe the greatest selling shirt in pro wrestling T's history. But in that arena at Elimination Chamber, it was like a fart in the wind. Fart in the wind. Oof cakes. And let me just say this. I'm a Dan Housen fan. I love Dan Housen. I think AEW dropped

11:51the ball on Dan Housen. I'm actually very, very intrigued by what could happen with Dan Housen in the WWE. But I got to tell you tonight, if that is going to be any kind of sign, I honestly don't know what the future holds. I think it's going to be very positive for Dan Housen tonight. It didn't go over well. And I believe that Nick Aldis on the press conference after Elimination Chamber just announced that Cody is facing Drew on SmackDown next week for the championship. We get confirmation on that. But I believe that Nick Aldis has just announced on SmackDown next week Cody versus Drew on SmackDown for the championship. Again, I want to get confirmation on that and

12:57it is confirmed. It is confirmed. We are getting Cody Rhodes versus Drew McIntyre next week on SmackDown. There is hope for my guy, Cody Rhodes. And if you're going to tell me that at WrestleMania 42, you're getting Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orin. Where? I'm getting in to WrestleMania because I'm working it for Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. I'm still going to go and buy a ticket. I'm buying a ticket. And I am going to buy an unnecessary ticket for Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orin. You give it, please, the wrestling gods have this definitively big Cody versus Drew on SmackDown

13:58next week. So we get Randy Orin versus Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania. Now for sudden, Elimination Chamber that could have been the bomb of all Bob's is now I'm excited here on Elimination Chamber night. What's this world coming to? Real Ripley's not going to win the women's Elimination Chamber. She's tag team champions with the yellow sky. They defend those tag team titles on Roa. How is Rio Ripley now going to go after the women's SmackDown championship? The one that's represented on Smack makes no sense. Oh no. Because the titles are dropped on the SmackDown the night before Elimination Chamber. Okay, now that makes sense. Now we get Rio Ripley versus Jake. Now that is a WrestleMania match. Coming up next, more of my reaction on Elimination Chamber.

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17:08approval. AppleCard issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA Salt Lake City Branch, terms and more at AppleCard.com. Anything at Cody Rhodes is going to win the men's elimination chamber. You need some star power Cody versus Drew. Makes sense. Oh my god. RKO out of nowhere. Randy Orton wins. The men's elimination chamber match. Wow. Randy versus Drew. Okay. Okay. Now you're going to get Cody versus Drew. That is confirmed, gentlemen, right? That is confirmed. It stumps up. Now you give me there's no way in hell. Drew McIntyre is defending that championship. Cody Rhodes is going to win next Friday. Yay. And then you get Cody Rhodes versus Randy on Wrestle about buying an unnecessary ticket to WrestleMania 42. It's going to be an FDC in Vegas because I bought a ticket when I didn't need

18:14to buy one just because I'm excited for Randy Orton versus go and not even know if the match is going to happen, but most likely it will. And then most likely you're going to get a rematch with AJ Lee and Becky Lynch. Star power there. I'm excited. And then you got 10,000 for what that's worth coming out of the box. I know. I got to find out why were people. I got excited to see Dan Housen. I was happy about Dan Housen. He never had an opportunity in AEW. Chicago of old places. I thought it was a cool moment. Obviously, most people don't think the same way that I do, especially the crowd that was in Chicago

19:14tonight for elimination chamber. Also, all right, so the poll we got to pollute. 73% thought Dan Housen's debut was very evil. Yes, it was very good. It was very nice and very evil. Yes, very nice and very evil. As if you go by Dan Housen, a ticket to WrestleMania is only going to cost you 99 cents. Forego ticket to WrestleMania is going to cost you 99 cents, but if you want to buy a soda, it's going to cost you $15,000. So the ticket 99 cents, but the soda is $15,000. If you go by Dan Housen, 99 cents for the ticket, $15,000 for the soda. And if you want a pretzel, that's going to cost you at least 100 grand. So save your money before you go to Vegas for WrestleMania 42. Also, I got to give some

20:19kudos to Tiffany Stratton. Thanks for the free publicity, busted open and Tiffany Stratton that knows the bloody knows from Tiffany Stratton and that women's elimination chamber match. Again, if I had to give a grade overall to elimination chamber, I don't know if I could give one just finding out the information that we're finding out while we're doing this post show. If I had to grade the women's elimination chamber match, I would give that a solid A for the women's elimination chamber match for AJ Lee and Becky Lynch, a C still passing, but you're not going to brag about it. CM Punk and Finn Balor, I'm going to give that match an A. The men's elimination chamber match, I give it a B. Dan Housen coming out in Chicago, I don't know what kind of grade I would give Dan Housen. Again, nothing from Dan, I can't

21:30blame Dan. You know what? I give the Chicago crowd a day for tonight's display of affection and what they did to Dan Housen. I give the Chicago crowd. I always said Philly was a better wrestling crowd. I've always said that Philly is a better wrestling crowd. I don't know all that. Everybody hyped up. I love Chicago. Chicago is a great wrestling city. But now, I mean, if you give me Rio Ripley versus Jade, pretty damn good WrestleMania match. Becky Lynch and AJ Lee, that's a star driven match for that women's intercontinental championship. You know, you get Stephanie Vicaire and Liv Morgan. That's a damn good WrestleMania match. You know, you're going to get CM Punk and Roman Reigns. That's a damn good WrestleMania match. But let me tell you something. If you get Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orin for the undisputed WWE

22:39Championship, I'm sorry. Roman Reigns and CM Punk should not be main eventing night number two of WrestleMania. If it's Cody Rhodes and Randy Orin, that's your main event for WrestleMania 42. CM Punk and Roman Reigns, you know, that's a nice match for night number one. It's a nice match for night one. But make no mistake. If Cody Rhodes beats Drew McIntyre next Friday on SmackDown for that undisputed WWE Championship, to me, Cody Rhodes and Randy Orin is your main event for night number two. That's your A storyline. And listen, there's nothing wrong, Roman and Punk being the B storyline for WrestleMania. It's a nice little story for you guys going into nice little piece of the pie of WrestleMania 42.

23:48You're not the top of the show. That goes to Cody Rhodes and Randy Orin. If that's your match-up for WrestleMania 44. Matter of fact, I'm giving Jade and Rhea Ripley your main event for night number one. Your night number one main event? Jade and Rhea Ripley, your night two main event. Cody Rhodes and Randy Orin, maybe open with Punk and Roman. Open it, open it, that's a hot way. Get that crowd going in Vegas for WrestleMania. Let's go. I've been saying it the whole time. I said it, I said it to Drew McIntyre when we interviewed him in WWE headquarters. To me, the number one championship in the company is that WWE undisputed championship. Come on, I want it to be Friday or I'm more excited for Friday Smackdown than I

24:57was for the rumble or tonight's elimination chamber. This is going to be the, are you kidding me? This is confirmed gentlemen, right? We are definitely getting this back, right? This isn't a rib on me, right? You're not going to be like April Fools early, right? We're definitely getting this match. Randy Orin, you sure about this? You sure about this? All right. Randy Orin versus Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania night number two main event. I could see myself online at the Merch stand waiting online to buy that WrestleMania. The face off, the match T-shirts, the specialty match T-shirts, Randy Orin versus Cody Rhodes. Oh my god, let's go. Let's go. God, you know, you know who you got to thank for this? Guys been getting a lot of heat lately,

26:04and I never lost faith. Let it be said, I never lost faith in this man, Triple H. Thank you Triple H. Maybe it took you a little while? Maybe it took you a while to get the car warmed up for the road to WrestleMania. It's been unseasonably frigid. Maybe one of the worst winters ever. So you got to warm up that car for a while. Can't just get behind the wheel and start driving. It's bad for your engine. Warm up the car. Now it's ready to go, and we're on the road to WrestleMania. Please, please set a wrestling gods. This is confirmed, right? We are definitely getting this match. Cody Rhodes versus Drew Matt. This is a Drew Matt. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Women's elimination chamber match. Let's go. Rearripply. She punched a ticket

27:05for WrestleMania. AJ Lee, Becky Lynch. We're going to get it again, and it's going to be better. I promise Jessica car MVP. Jessica car is your MVP. I can't wait. We got to get her on busted open. I have to. Punk baller, great match. Right guy one. There's no way CM Punk was losing that match. Dan Howzen, don't worry. It's going to get better. I got your figure. I got your rubby figure there. I got your figure. I got from Pandora's box. I'm excited. I don't know how he's kept those you and those lovely ladies kept alive in the box for two weeks. But who knows? None of my business. I don't know what goes on. What goes on in the box stays in the box. I got my, listen, got my own box to worry about. I ain't going to worry about anybody

28:06else's box. You know what I'm saying? It's, it's, that's, that's your business. Dan Howzen. Good stuff. Randy Orton wins your men's elimination chamber match. Let's go. I want to drop an F bomb, but we're live on YouTube. And I don't think you can say, can you say, can you curse on YouTube? Let's fucking go. And then according to Paul and Zach, Drew McIntyre versus co, right? This is being confirmed. Drew McIntyre versus Cody Rose on what's going to be a record breaking viewed Smackdown on Friday night. Unless it's, you know, being on sci-fi because of the Westminster dog show or something. I don't know. Who knows? Who knows what

29:07goes on? Got the puppy bowl or some shit like that. And it goes to sci-fi. Oh, but if it's on USA, it's going to be, it's, I, I know I'll be watching and get me read the orb. Oh my god, that's what I wanted. But I visualized this before Cody even finished the story. This is, this is it. Oh, triple H. Thank you. Thank you, triple H. Thank you. Never lost faith. Never lost faith than a man. Eight, seven, seven, three, four, four, eight, nine, three. We got a lot to talk about. Got the women's elimination chamber match. Got AJ Lee and Becky Lynch for the women's intercontinental match. We got the men's elimination chamber match. Got CM Punk versus Finn Baller. Dan Housen is out there coming out of the box. I'm coming out of the box. Dan Housen.

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