The WWE Championship match for WrestleMania is set.
At the start of this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE announced that Drew McIntyre would challenge Bobby Lashley in the main event of WrestleMania 37. The match will be for Lashley’s WWE Championship.
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Drew McIntyre lost the WWE Championship at the Elimination Chamber PPV event. After winning the Raw Elimination Chamber match, McIntyre was attacked by Bobby Lashley before Miz cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to win the title. The next night on Raw, it was revealed that Lashley attacking McIntyre was part of a deal made with Miz and that Lashley was to receive a title shot in return. The following week, Lashley defeated Miz to win the WWE Championship and set up the clash with Drew at the biggest show of the year.
Analysis of the timing of the 2021 Elimination Chamber matches
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Let’s check out the timing of the Elimination Chamber matches from this year’s (Feb. 21, 2021) event of the same name.
The way the timing of this match typically works is that the first two entrants are supposed to wrestle for five minutes, at which point a countdown clock reaches zero. I’ll define that as the end of Period 1. After that happens, about 8 to 10 seconds lapse with a light rotating around the pods, and a buzzer goes off to “randomly” select which wrestler enters the match next. I don’t consider these 8 to 10 seconds to be part of any waiting period, it’s just the time between waiting periods. When the buzzer finally goes off to select the next pod to open, that’s the beginning of Period 2. This repeats for a total of four waiting periods, though the final wrestler to enter the match doesn’t have to wait those extra 8 to 10 seconds for their pod to be selected.
The WWE and Universal Championships will both be on the line as the road to WrestleMania continues at tonight s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view.
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will put his title on the line against Sheamus, Randy Orton, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, and Kofi Kingston in an Elimination Chamber match. As the winner of the gauntlet match that took place on this past Monday s Raw, Sheamus will enter the Chamber last.
SmackDown s Kevin Owens, Daniel Bryan, Cesaro, Jey Uso, Baron Corbin, and Sami Zayn will also face off in an Elimination Chamber match. The winner will challenge for Roman Reigns Universal Championship later in the night.