Elimination Chamber 2025 pre show

6 men and 6 women all fighting for another chance to headline Wrestlemania. For the women a chance to take the World Championship off of 'the eradicator' Rhea Ripley and for the men a chance to finally make WWE's version of Captain American 'The American Nightmare' Cody Rhodes fall once and for all, who will out last their 5 other competitors and punch their ticket along side Rumble winners Charlotte and Jey Uso to headline the Superbowl of pro wrestling? 

Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn a tale and rivalry as old as time itself, having met in the ring on several other occasions this time is nothing like the rest. An unsanctioned match stands before them allowing their men to dig as deep as they feel necessary to finally lay down their opponent once and for all possibly even ending their career in the process. 

Women's WWE champion Tiffany Stratton tags up with 'Hall of Famer' Trish Stratus as they take on Tiffany's "former" friend Nia Jax and her current lackey Candace LaRae. Will the duo of blondes be able to take out the bigger mean girl or will a familiar face to Tiffany and Trish cost them the match?

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Wrestling has more than one royal family. Acknowledge me! And we want to see! What is up, guys? Welcome back to Wrestling Crossroads. As always, I am OneHalf, your dynamic duo, twisted alongside Brother Pyro! What's up, what's up, what's uuuup? We are talking Elimination Chamber. Also, sorry for not getting Vengeance Day out to y'all. Yep, I was just about to hit that on the nose. Unfortunately, there was some scheduling conflicts on our end. Some things that also needed to be taken care of on our end. Brother Pyro, do you wanna Kind of say what happened that week that weekend. Well as we all know Mom crossroads over here sister twisted Is having a second She she she she's having a second child And we found out That Sister Twisted is gonna have a mini Twisted, cause we're having a girl. She's having a girl. So congratulations to her and Flash. And Baby Crossroads, who gets to become a big brother. So we have a mini Flash and a mini Twisted. Oh Lord, we in trouble. Not because with your influence, the mini Flash will end up becoming a mini Pyro. And we all know it. But yes, that is, that is the happy news. So, with Vengeance Day, we were kind of all over the place dealing with that. So unfortunately, our scheduling conflicts kind of put this in a back burner spot. And we hate to say that. But, it's always best to have both of us, not just one of us. Hence why I didn't just do it myself. Yes. But, alright we are talking Elimination Chamber and Brother Power was gonna get us started off. Alright, so first match of the Docket Women's Elimination Chamber match. Winner goes on to face Rhea Ripley or EO Sky. Oh, I know it's gonna be Rhea. At WrestleMania. Look. Miss Look We do not know anything till after Raw. Oh, I know it's going to be Rhea. We know nothing till after Raw. Hey, uh, we do Ah, eh, ah, uh, eh, eh, um I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you cannot nip me. We do predictions on this show, right? Oh, r yeah. It is gonna be Maria. Mhm. We'll have to wait and see. Mhm. Look, history shows. History shows way previously and not any time in the current. EO has yet to lose to Rhea. I'm just saying. And how much further has Rhea come than EO? I'm just saying. It ain't equal. It really ain't. And if you say it's equal, you're stupid, you're lying to yourself, or you're blind. She ain't broke, she ain't broken out that far ahead. He's farther enough that she is now two time. And a better two time, and having better title reigns. Anywho, continue with predictions please. We're gonna continue with predictions. So we have, Roxanne Perez, who'll be Raquel Rodriguez to get her spot. Naomi, Who the hell did she beat? I'm trying to think of everybody. Um, keep going and I will look that up. I believe she beat Piper. And I believe Bianca beat Chelsea. Liv Morgan qualified via And she was the first one to qualify. She qualified via disqualification because Rhea Ripley hit her. Caused, caused EO the match. Yes. That, I was trying to remember the opponent, okay? They did a really good job of spacing these out, but now I gotta remember, now I gotta go back and remember who beat who to get here. I am definitely looking, thank you, cause we also have Bayley and Little Miss Bliss is back in the chamber. I'm so freakin excited. Uh, oh. But, going into our predictions, and going into what I know is going to be one certified banger of a match, cause all six of these women really know how to show up and show out. It's pretty it's not even well split. You have me, you, Flash, and Cauldron taking Alexa, whereas Hex and Disario chose Bailey to win. I am not finding who Naomi's dating. Nope, that's fine. Do you wanna pull up reasonings? Cause I wanna know if we actually got reasonings for either one of them. We have reasonings for Desario, per usual. Nothing from Hex and Cauldron. No, of course. So, he said, Going Bailey, she just got sent to Raw, plus Io and Rhea on the show Afterchamber, Io wins, making it a Mania rematch. Is what he believes. Okay see, I'm gonna go ahead and make the prediction of Rhea winning on Monday. Just cause, She just regained that title. Having her drop it right now doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't. Do I see where she's coming from storyline wise? Yes. But at this point, I don't think there is a need for that rematch. Now going into match numero dos. Is going to be the women's tag team match. We have Tiffany Stratton and Trish Stratus taking on Nia Jax and Candice LeRae. Now, this kind of came about because Tiffany was out just obviously celebrating the fact that she had cashed in on Nia, got attacked by Nia and Candice, and Trish came to make the save. Eventually, these women kind of, uh, spoken backstage and with WWE authorities saying that they wanted this tag team match and here we go, we got this. Looking at our predictions, I know you're very excited for Tiffy time. And Trishy time. I'm excited, we all know it. Outfits that these women are going to have because when it comes to not only our big four, but for Elimination Chamber, they kind of do show up and show out with their outfits, which is really nice. Going into predictions, all but one of us have chosen Tiffany and Trish to pick up the win. Flash being the odd man out today, choosing Naya, Jax, and Candice LeRae, mainly because he loves Candice because that is Johnny Gargano's wife. We know that Flash pays his favorites. Yes, yes I do. After this we had spoken that we believe it's going to be Cody answers Rock. I believe that would be a really good spot at the halfway point. To give it a little break. Yes. I want to know, do you think Cody sells his soul? I personally would like to see heel Cody. Yes. I mean, I would too, but do you think it happens? Honestly, as much as I'd like to see it, I don't think it happens. I think he keeps playing the WDB's version of Captain America. Oh, I fully feel that this man is about to go full Homelander on us. I think he's gonna do it. He, I know last night, watching, they had the video package of The Rock. He gifted him a card. He had a belt that said Cody's Soul. Cody's unsure of What to do, he's talking to this person and that person, and so and so and so, whatever. He's getting opinions from all over the place. Our truth being in his dressing room, loving on the shrimp and seafood buffet that he got, was great, but we love our truth. But, Miz, who told him to do it. At one point he talks to Punk, and Punk gave his two cents. I believe Punk told him not to, but I didn't get to watch that part of the show. Yeah, but he did kind of travel around and get, you know, opinions from others. I, I believe you shared it. It was a meme into the the group that we have, and it said a green shirt guy was talking to Jacob Fatun and he said, Hey, how do you get seats like this? I sold my soul to The Rock. I sold my soul to Dwayne. I was like, wait, is that how it's done? Rock, hit me up. Hit me up. You can have my soul. If it means I get to be at the show's front row. You can have my soul. You know who I think of when I think of this storyline? Honestly, no. But Green Shirt guy. If you ever venture out into podcasts and decide you wanna listen to this, please listen to this episode.'cause I need to know what the hell do you do for a living that you can afford? All this shit, man. I just, I need to know. I need to know me. And you have been asking this for years. Oh yeah. How is this man front row at every show, pay per view, TV, house show, where the hell you gettin the money? Yep, and I'm gonna have to put a headphone warning in there for that. I'm not even sorry, I wanna know man. I do too, like honestly. Like what you do and is they hiring? Hey, hey, hey, you know what I think of when it comes to the storyline? I did it for the rock. I did it for the people out there. That was actually my fantasy name one year. For those for those of you unfamiliar with this, Brother Pyro Fillman. So, back in late 90s, early 2000s, feud between Stone Cold and The Rock. Stone Cold gets hit by a car. They're trying to figure out who it was. Turns out it was The Rock's cousin Rikishi. Rikishi states he did it for the rock and he did it for the people. The rock really didn't care too much. Whatever. But yeah. I did it for the rock. I did it for the people. Well, sir, yeah. Nobody cared. Alright Brother Pyro, into our next match please. In a match that is as heated in our next match, it is about as heated and as personal a rivalry as you can get without it being Actually, you know what? It is almost biblical. Yep. Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, unsanctioned match. They have traveled up and down the indies together. They have been the best of friends. They have held Tag Team Gold together. On the Indies and Ring of Honor and whatever else they have gone to wars against each other in all of these promotions In NXT for the NXT title they've gone at it on the main roster. They've held tag team gold on the main roster Kevin Owens still bitter that he's not champion bitter about the event of the rumble, you know Cody put him through that ladder. He felt some type of way, cause, Oh, you did nothing to help me, Who, I coulda died! Which, I mean, I kinda see. You're supposed to be one of my best friends, and you just watched this man put me through a ladder that they had to kinda, like, very carefully remove me from. And it could've not only ended my career, but it could've ended my life. But as soon as you got to the rumble, you sprinted down that runway, cause Roman Reigns was getting jumped. I don't blame, I don't blame KO for having them kind of feelings. At this point so what does he do he attacks Sammy Zane with a package pile driver the raw after Yep they've gone at it on the mic they've gone at it physically Then we know Last night was a very interesting segment cuz Sammy Zane comes out to address it Talks about, gives a brief rundown on their history. He calls Kevin Owens out. Kevin Owens is like, nah, I'm not, I'm in Toronto, you're right. I'm in the arena that we're gonna be in for Chamberlain. I need you to know. This is why I did it. And what, and because this is unsanctioned, cause Sammy Zane isn't medically cleared, but he still wanted the match. It was specifically stated that Sammy not being medically cleared is the reason that this match is not official on the WWE books. It is Sammy's injury that is keeping it from being official. Specifically. They stated that when he asked, you know, Pierce to make the match official, and he's like, I can't. Doctors will not clear you to have this match. He's like, well, I'm gonna have this match one way or another, so you might as well. He's like, fine, but it's gonna be unsanctioned. It's out of WWE's hands. There's nothing anybody can do about it when you get your ass whooped. That's edgeless. But then Sammy then told Pierce, yeah, well, it works the other way around too. So when I'm beating KO from one end of the arena to the other, you know, you can't really stop me. Can't nobody stop me. Just like nobody can stop him from beating on me. We get here, he's like, look, this is what's going to happen, and when I beat you so bad to the point that you aren't going to have a career anymore, know that your family is going to suffer, and I'm not going to do anything to help. That one got cut real deep. At one point earlier. Sammy did say, state, it's real sad that your mom and my mom have to watch us, who have been there since day one supporting our dream, have to be there and watch us beat each other the way we're about to. Going into our predictions now that we've gotten the brief history lesson of Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane. In what is going to be one hellacious match. This match is not going to be for the faint of heart. No, it will not be. No weak stomachs, no weak heart. Like, this is where you're at. We are split. We are real split. You, me, and Desario going Kevin Owens. Hex, Cauldron, Flash, Sami Zayn. I don't know. Do we have a reason as to why, DeSario picked Kayo. His reasoning says, Classic pairing, these two don't know how to put, how to have a bad match. Going Owens, he has too much steam to lose now. And I agree with that. Your reasons. Honestly, it boils down to who's gonna pull that trigger. And, yo, obviously we've seen it, it's gonna be Kayo. Kayo, Sammy. Sammy doesn't have that killer mentality. No as much as Owens Owens has proven time and time again He's willing to go to lengths and dig into depths that nobody else is Willing to get what everybody it's specifically Sammy when you go back and look at their history you got to think about it like he it's not just Sammy Look at a lot of his matches with a lot of other people He's willing to go a lot further than 90 percent of humanity is willing to go. Oh, I mean his first match that, you know, was pretty close to unsanctioned with Cody Cody Rhodes. He really didn't go very far. Yes, but that's because he was still trying to play the baby face, good guy role. And then as soon as that imploded, he was willing to do whatever it took. Yep, and now Kevin's right. Kevin's right. Kevin's always right. I am excited to see that when he wins this, because I don't see Sammy winning this where they put him from here. Yeah. Because I need, he should have already had it, but I think it's really time to pull that full trigger. He needs to be a world title, world champion again. Yes. All right. With that being said. Into our last match. Into the main event. Men's Elimination Chamber. John Cena, Drew McIntyre, Damian Priest, CM Punk, Logan Paul, and Seth Rollins. Now, almost all these men, and I'm saying almost had to qualify for this. John Cena being the only exception out as he just placed himself in the Elimination Chamber. No surprise there because John still has all of his strings in the back. Punk took on Punk qualified against Sammy. Yeah, Punk qualified against Sammy. Logan qualified against Ray. Seth qualified against Valor. Drew was against It was a triple threat match. For Drew. Yes it was against It was him, LA Knight, and Jay Uso. Or Jimmy Uso. And then Damien Priest, I know I did not see that one. Triple threat match with Jacob and Strowman. Okay. So you see kind of how we got here. Looking at the men that we have here, they're all familiar with this. Oh yeah? All of them have been in the chamber. Even, even so much so being Logan Paul. Yes, Logan's been in a chamber. Yeah. He has first one I think a year or two back. I think it was in Saudi. Did he have this first one? I want to say Saudi or Australia. I cannot remember which one was his first. But I just remember the doodles. The doodles? He started to make, he was like, I'm in here like and he was drawing doodles on. It was Kevin Owens. That was his feud with Kevin. Yup. Yep, okay. Looking at this, we are a bit all over the place. You have chosen John Cena. We'll get to your reasonings in a minute. We have Desario who has chosen Drew McIntyre. Just saying Desario's is pretty much going Drew. Makes no sense, but that is what WWE has done since Rumble. We'll get to that in a minute, I see your face. Hex and Cauldron choosing CM Punk, Flash Seth Rollins, and mine literally states anyone but Logan. I will take any one of you men winning this puzzle. No, genuinely, that's the answer I initially wanted to give you. I don't care as long as it's not Logan. Any one but Logan. Cause cause, no. What, what, what, what is it? We need probable cause to fire him and it is because we hate him? Yes. Yes it is. It is because I hate him. Like, honestly, yes, I'd love to see a new face in the title picture, but Logan is not the one that needs to be in the title picture. And it's wild, because I was just talking, I was just having this conversation the other day. Yeah. With a with another wrestling fan. Okay. And we were talking about how much we cannot stand him as a person. Yeah. No. Like, please go away. But we hate to admit how naturally he gravitated towards this business. I mean, yes, he did, but they also have previous workings in businesses that pertain to WWE as well. They, the Paul brothers have worked in boxing, they have some bits in MMA Yeah, they have a stint, they have stints in MMA. And they have been taking lessons, they did state it before Paul took the contract, they have taken lessons in MMA. Actual training grounds since they were younger. I don't care. He needs to go away. I hate how naturally he gravitated towards this business, okay? I just, I hate it. I hate it so much. I hate it so much and I want him to go away. He should have just stayed retired when he became a dad. As crappy as that is to say, just no. You're a human being. Why? Do you know how bad of a human being you gotta be to be banned from three different countries? You have to be Logan Paul's status. That's, that's how bad you have to be. So, so, so, I know why he got banned in Japan. I still want to know. Why Egypt? And why Italy? Do you not realize? I have looked into this. It is almost impossible to get banned from those two countries. Your name has to be Logan Paul or probably Jake Paul at this point. I didn't order to No! Cause his brother's not even banned! From any of them! Okay, then yeah, your name has to be Logan Paul in order to be banned. Like, like, dude, your brother is an absolute menace to society. Literally. And how the hell has he not been banned from a country? But you have. Three of them, to be exact. Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, I got nothing. Anyway, anyway. Anyway, reeling back in. So, I know you're reasoning for John, but they don't. It's. Given the fact that it is the farewell tour, the fact that they need something to really, they need something to give him at this point, with it being his farewell tour, I think him and Cody probably isn't the best matchup, but it does also give Cody that extra edge as champion, especially if he does sell his soul. Yeah. But it gives Cody that extra edge as champion because we've been stating it for a while. His championship reign hasn't really been all that special. Like it is nothing that we wanted it to be. It's as equivalent as Bianca Belair's second RAW title reign. You really wanted it to be something, but it just fell flat. It did. It did. Like, you needed the fresh face, you wanted the title off of who held it, because I can't remember who held it right now, but it fell the flattest on its face. You did make a face when I mentioned that Desario had chosen Drew, so what was that about? I'm gonna quote Damien Priest. On this one when, when tonight's all said and done, all Drew's gonna do is be complaining about the internet, cause that's what he does best Drew does not need to be here. He has had his opportunities, many times, and it's not even a matter of whether or not it makes sense, cause Drew would kind of make sense, sadly, the only one that wouldn't make sense is Logan. Yeah. But, at the same time, just no. No. Drew needs to be done with all this. At this point. Alright. With that being said, that does conclude the Elimination Chamber on RN. Brother Pyro, anything else you'd like to say? Nuh uh. Alright, with that, we are all done, and we will see you guys back tomorrow or Monday After Raw for our post show, depending upon what scheduling goes in our favor. Alright guys, we hope you enjoy the show. With that, laters!