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   Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:41:59 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

   I really enjoyed Elimination Chamber. Every match was great on its own. However, here is criticism because it's becoming a trend.

   * Match results were too predictable.
   * Why does a four hour PLE only have four matches and a talk show? (1/?)

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:43:52 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     The matches themselves were great, but they're not made that much better by having long entrances for each wrestler. Should it be longer than regular TV? Sure. But not so long that if you add up all the entrances you could squeeze in another match. And then I know match time was traded for showing ads. If I remember correctly we barely used to see ads on PLEs and now they're common filler. (2/?)

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:44:36 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     In general there is so much filler and none of it adds to the awesomeness that you could have instead by giving us more matches. Imagine paying WrestleMania ticket prices for four matches? (3/?)

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:45:40 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     While the matches themselves were great, they all had strong favorites to win. We knew the likeliest winners were Becky, Judgement Day, Drew, and Rhea. I'm not upset with the victors, but you could at least try to make it ambiguous rather than promoting these guys' WrestleMania matches before Elimination Chamber (Becky vs Rhea or Drew vs Seth). (4/?)

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:46:19 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     If you push other wrestlers to also be feuding with the champs at the same time then it's less predictable. Imagine if LA Knight and Randy Orton also got some words in to Seth? Then it would have been less clear who will win.

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 22:58:10 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     For now I give this PLE a B. It was good and I don't want to downplay the wrestling, but I don't like the trend WWE is going down. I think this kind of thing is valid criticism that can push people to watch other promotions as well. It doesn't feel like the WrestleMania matches are predictable at least, so that works in the favor of this event. With as many wrestlers as they have, please don't show me eight matches across two nights... (6/6)

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     Jeremy :bat_boy: (jeremydebose@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 23:43:21 JST Jeremy :bat_boy:

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     @ArnoldBooker the solution isn’t the booking. It’s taking out the PLE completely between Rumble and Mania. Mania matches have been built/setup for MONTHS. We generally know who will fight. If we need a number 1 contender for some belts do to injury etc, do them all on a big, commercial free or special RAW/SD.

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 01:05:18 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     @BeAware I think if we had six matches it would have been a better balance. Swap the talk show for a match and then reduce the filler and ads for another match. I agree that the matches we did get were good and I wouldn't change them.

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     Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA (arnoldbooker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 01:16:29 JST Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA

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     • Jeremy :bat_boy:

     @jeremydebose at that point then the Raw or SmackDown special would have the same predictability just not in a PLE. I don't think that's the way.

     I do like having two PLEs leading up to WrestleMania because it makes it feel more epic.