Elimination Chamber 2012 Review

Elimination Chamber 2012 Review : Play the show in Reverse . 

Thought i'd start going backwards in time to do some reviews . I'll either do TLC 2011 or WM 19 after this one . Ok here we go !

We're starting with the WWE Championship match ???  When i watched this at the time i thought i'd somehow fallen asleep and missed the whole show up to this point . The fact that an elimination chamber isn't in the main event brings this down a bit .

Chris Jericho vs The Miz vs Dolph Ziggler vs R-Truth vs Kofi Kingston vs CM Punk : Elimination Chamber
A lot of great athletes in this one , and the fact that Kofi and Punk are starting off makes it even better . Hope those guys can have a match in the future . This should be great . Some nice chain wrestling to start . They take things outside to use the chamber as a weapon . Here's the countdown and its Ziggler coming in . Kingston and Punk do a springboard at the same time and collide ! R-Truth enters the match . Truth is eliminated after a Savage elbow . Punk takes a trouble in paradise and kicks out ! Dolph takes a DDT on the steel ! The Miz enters . Miz locked in the anaconda vice and Jericho comes in and stares down Punk . The two of them go at it . A codebreaker eliminates Ziggler . Jericho slams a pod door right into the head of Punk . That looked and sounded brutal . Kingston with a crossbody off the top of the pod onto Miz and Punk ! This is a great match . Walls of jericho eliminates Kingston . Jericho is kicked in the head by Punk and falls right out of the chamber . That eliminates him as he cannot continue . A great way to eliminate Jericho as it makes him look good for his Wrestlemania match . Miz hits the skull crushing finale but its only a 2 ! CM Punk wins with a GTS . ***3/4

Santino is backstage doing a Rocky parody .

We see John Cena training in a gym with the development guys , preparing for Wrestlemania .

Beth Phoenix vs Tamina 
I remember this being an above average divas match . Beth gives Tamina an opportunity to leave the match but Tamina chops her . This is nicely paced for a divas match . Nice superplex from Beth . Tamina hits the superfly splash but Beth kicks out ! Beth wins with the glam slam . Really solid match . **3/4

John Laurinaitis is out for a ' major announcement ' . It just ends up with him saying that he wants to be general manager of both Raw and Smackdown and a few superstars return as well . I'm just gonna skip this bit .

Santino doing more Rocky stuff .

Big Show interviewed backstage about his less-than stellar Wrestlemania record .

The Great Khali vs Cody Rhodes vs Santino Marella vs Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett vs Big Show : Elimination Chamber
This is a weird chamber . 2 giants , 3 great athletes and Santino . Probably the strangest one ever . Oh god i forgot Wade had this new terrible music . Not a good start to the match with some fans chanting ' boring ' . Big Show wasn't a good starting choice . Finally we have a countdown . Rhodes is in . Match is still going a little slow . And we have another countdown and it's Santino . Definitely the fan favourite here . I laughed when Big Show shouted Jesus . Double suplex to Show on the steel ! And now Khali is in . Oh great . He gets a ' you can't wrestle chant ' . And Khali is out quickly after a spear from Show . Show stares down Bryan and breaks into his pod . That was awesome . Daniel Bryan smashed through his pod ! Big Show eliminated after an elbow drop from Barrett . Cody eliminated after a roll through from Santino ! Cody returns the favour with crossrhodes . Santino kicks out ! Bryan powerbombed into the chamber ! Bryan takes a pod door to the head ! Barrett out after a flying headbutt . Just Santino and Bryan left . The crowd is going nuts for Santino ! COBRA !! Kick out ! Santino submits to the Labelle lock . The last ten minutes or so of this match give it an easy  ***1/2 . Sheamus comes out to attack Bryan and show that he's going after his title at Wrestlemania .

They show Natalya's stupid flatulance problem . And have a US title match set up between Swagger and Gabriel . Yippee ...

Jack Swagger vs Justin Gabriel
Fans are basically dead for this match . Who can blame them . Both guys are great athletes , but this had absolutely no build except for Swagger knocking a hat off of hornswoggle . Gabriel taps to the ankle lock . Meh . *

John Cena vs Kane : Ambulance Match 
This is only the second ambulance match in history . I loved the first one . Poor Zack being used like a pawn in this whole storyline . This turns into a brawl with both guys fighting all the way up to the ambulance . This is already better than their Royal Rumble match . Cena with an AA off the Ambulance ! Cena wins the match . Solid brawl style match . **1/4

5/10 . This seriously felt like it was in reverse . Average WWE PPV and the worst of the year so far .