Sensai of Mattitude

Does anyone know why Matt Striker insists on explaining the physics of kicking out of a pin, at least once per show?

I desperately want to kick Heath Slater. Right in the face.

I was sort of expecting Buried Alive then.

Completely random musing... As somebody who only recently started watching wrestling again, I'd like to say that Orton's new music completely blows in comparison to Burn In My Light.

Yeah, I feel exactly the same. I won't be ordering either, but if there's genuinely just four matches then that would suck.

Oh right, that should be pretty cool then.

Only two of them are Elimination Chamber matches though, aren't they? So an hour or so on EC matches, and then around another two hours (likely a bit less) that need to be filled with two other matches. Surely more matches will be added to the card.

Is there genuinely only four matches on EC?

This was exactly my thought. It completely ruins the spontaneousness of gimmick matches; a Hell in a Cell match used to happen once a year, and before spoilers came along I never knew when they were going to happen. The epic excitement of the announcement alone was brilliant. By knowing when it's going to happen, it just ruins that aspect of it. Like you said, concept PPVs in moderation can work; I used to think that TNA's Lethal Lockdown (I think it was called that?) was a really good idea. But WWE have overdone it, both in quantity and the prestige (for the lack of a better word - the rarity?) of the matches being turned into concept PPVs.

Interesting. I think it's an awful idea, and everyone else in this thread seems to. I figured that would be the general opinion among wrestling fans.

You've just gotta wonder who thought having 10 gimmick PPVs a year was a good idea.

That's rather cringeworthy.

I know I'm a page or so late, but is there an explanation as to why WWE are making every single event a specialised, concept event? I fail to see the point. I'd get a lot more excited if a Hell in a Cell match was spontaneously announced in the run-up to a Pay Per View, rather than knowing that I won't see one until a specific event. Also, while I know it was a concept event itself, stopping a prestigious event like Survivor Series seems stupid. I haven't seen it since 2007, I think, but I used to enjoy the five versus five matches (well, I enjoyed the ones when it was the result of good storylines banding together; not Raw superstars randomly attacking Smackdown superstars for a month, with the only reason being that Survivor Series was coming up).

I thought the same thing, just before Cena came in.

As somebody who watched wrestling for the first time for two years about a month ago, and has avoided spoilers (what ruined it for me in the first place) since he started watching it again, I didn't see Edge returning at all. And I thought it was awesome. With two left I was certain that the remaining two were Batista and Santino.