Apart for the Chamber Match, is there any reason at all to care for this show?
Match 1: Eugene and Regal vs. Tomko and Christian. World Tag Team Championship.
Match Rating: 3/5
Match 2: Lita vs. Trish. Women's Championship.
Match Rating: 1/5
Edge tells Bischoff that he doesn't want the match tonight because he has no chance of winning with HBK as referee. He wants to give it to Christian instead but Bischoff will have nothing of Edge's crappy ideas.
Match 3: Shelton Benjamin vs. Maven. Intercontinental Championship
Match Rating: 0/5
We see a Raw footage of Mohammed Hassan and Daivari beating down J.R. and King. In a backstage interview Hassan says the footage was typical for America it showed only one side of the story. Damn, funny stuff here.
Match 4: Jerry Lawler vs. Mohammed Hassan.
Match Rating: 1/5
My cable's acting funny tonight. Could it be some kind of defense mechanism ?
Orton interrupts Batista's interview and asks if he's going to kick Triple H's ass tonight or kiss it. Good stuff.
Promo for the Kane/Snitsky feud. I have a hard time staying awake during these segments.
Match 5: Kane vs. Snitsky.
Match Rating: 2/5
Triple H is questioning Batista's loyalty and Batista says he has HHH's back. This story has been built up beautifully.
Match 6: Elimination Chamber World Heavyweight Championship
Match Rating: 4/5
The Good: Great main event, kudos to everyone involved!
The Bad: WWE showed the fans there is no need to take Hassan seriously since he needed help to go over an announcer! By having Eric Bischoff come out and welcome the people to the show when there was only one match left, they pretty much revealed how little importance the rest of the card had.
The Ugly: Maven's push: Didn't last too long, did it.
New Years Revolution Rating: 2/5
Match 1: Eugene and Regal vs. Tomko and Christian. World Tag Team Championship.
- Well put together tag match, slightly above average. Starts off good with Regal against Christian. Eugene is tagged in but Tomko overpowers him. Tomko has been heavily criticized but I think he plays his role quite well. Regal gives Eugene the "Hot Tag" that we see in EVERY tag match nowadays. Eugene then blows his knee in a legit injury and pins Tomko with a poor roll-up when the match booking has to be changed.
Match Rating: 3/5
Match 2: Lita vs. Trish. Women's Championship.
- Lita injures her knee after a Lou Thesz press, making it two legit knee injuries in a row! Again the match booking is changed. Trish regains the title after The Kick That Barely Connects With The Opponent.
Match Rating: 1/5
Edge tells Bischoff that he doesn't want the match tonight because he has no chance of winning with HBK as referee. He wants to give it to Christian instead but Bischoff will have nothing of Edge's crappy ideas.
Match 3: Shelton Benjamin vs. Maven. Intercontinental Championship
- Maven comes out and taunts the Puerto Rican crowd. This audience eats up everything so he manages to get some heat for it. Then Shelton pins him with a roll-up in five seconds! Maven is beside himself. He rambles about Shelton beating him when it doesn't count and saying we have two women's champions. Even The Ultimate Warrior makes more sense on the mic. Shelton immediately pins him again with a T-Bone suplex. Two jobs in ten seconds! I wonder if Maven bothered to shower after this p.p.v.
Match Rating: 0/5
We see a Raw footage of Mohammed Hassan and Daivari beating down J.R. and King. In a backstage interview Hassan says the footage was typical for America it showed only one side of the story. Damn, funny stuff here.
Match 4: Jerry Lawler vs. Mohammed Hassan.
- Match begins with seven bodyslams! A good sign of how boring it's going to get. Hassan dominates but Lawler gets way too much offense in. After ten minutes, the match is still going (without any announcing!). The crowd is so excited, they're sitting. The King starts no-selling Hassan's punches! Me and my friends tap out hoping the match will end. It doesn't. More crappy booking and a messy finish follows.
Match Rating: 1/5
My cable's acting funny tonight. Could it be some kind of defense mechanism ?
Orton interrupts Batista's interview and asks if he's going to kick Triple H's ass tonight or kiss it. Good stuff.
Promo for the Kane/Snitsky feud. I have a hard time staying awake during these segments.
Match 5: Kane vs. Snitsky.
- An OK big men match. These guys work descent together but the angle is just painful. Some power moves, some action outside the ring and a bearhug from Snitsky that nearly puts the three of us to sleep. Due to the "Return Match Rule", Kane gets a clean win after a Tombstone Piledriver.
Match Rating: 2/5
Triple H is questioning Batista's loyalty and Batista says he has HHH's back. This story has been built up beautifully.
Match 6: Elimination Chamber World Heavyweight Championship
- I really like the idea of having Shawn Michaels as referee since he can possibly screw anyone here. Sadly they threw the unpredictability out the window with the Edge/Bischoff/HBK segment. HHH comes out to a huge face pop! Randy Orton has the next entrance and he tries so hard to get a bigger reaction he almost pisses his pants. Benoit starts of against Y2J and it's pretty intense but nothing fantastic. HHH is first to be released from the chamber. He dominates the other two. Crowd is into it. Edge joins the action and hits the Edgecution on Trips. Now it's going back and forth. A great match so far. I have to bring up the usual rant though: There are never more than two wrestlers active at the same time. WWE really needs to do something about this lazy match booking. Orton is in, still no eliminations. HBK gives Edge the Sweet Chin Music after being hit with the Spear by mistake. Edge eliminated. Benoit connects with a Diving Headbutt from the top of one of the chambers. Beautiful! HHH is put in the Walls and the Crossface at the same time but lasts an incredible amount of time so Batista can save the day. After dominating some more, Batista pins Benoit with a spinebuster. One have to wonder how a former champion and a wrestler who lasted out 29 men in the Rumble can be put away with that move. A Sit-down Powerbomb eliminates Jericho. HHH and Batista team up on Orton for a few minutes until Randy comes back with his secret weapon; the punch. Very boring performance by Orton in this match. He pins Batista after a low blow and an RKO but Flair interferes so HHH can hit the Pedigree for the win and the title (gee, I've never seen that ending to a HHH match before).
Match Rating: 4/5
The Good: Great main event, kudos to everyone involved!
The Bad: WWE showed the fans there is no need to take Hassan seriously since he needed help to go over an announcer! By having Eric Bischoff come out and welcome the people to the show when there was only one match left, they pretty much revealed how little importance the rest of the card had.
The Ugly: Maven's push: Didn't last too long, did it.
New Years Revolution Rating: 2/5