As the final stop before WrestleMania 24, this show was surprisingly good. Both Elimination Chamber matches delivered, as did the Cena/Orton match.ECW Championship Match: Chavo Guerrero (c) vs. CM Punk - This was a TV quality match, nothing more. These two are capable of much better, in my opinion. Chavo Guerrero retains with the Frog Splash. RATING: **Elimination Chamber Match to Become the #1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 24: The Undertaker vs. Batista vs. The Great Khali vs. Big Daddy V vs. MVP vs. Finlay - This EC match was very good, but it would have been better without Great Khali and Big Daddy. They weren't in there for very long, and they felt like a waste of time. The rest of the competitors did a good job, though, and the sequences between The Undertaker and Batista were especially thrilling. The Undertaker wins by last eliminating Batista with a Tombstone Piledriver. RATING: ***3/4Career Threatening Match: Ric Flair vs. Mr. Kennedy - Average match. It was just a filler bout for the most part, and these two don't have much chemistry. Ric Flair wins with the Figure Four Leg Lock. RATING: **1/2World Heavyweight Championship Match: Edge (c) vs. Rey Mysterio - A very disappointing match. It was way too short for a world title match, and it never kicked into second gear. They were perhaps limited due to Rey's injury. Their match from the Royal Rumble was much better. Edge retains with a Spear in mid-air. RATING: *3/4WWE Championship Match: Randy Orton (c) vs. John Cena - This is one of the better matches in the Cena/Orton saga, in my opinion. There was some solid storytelling and some well-done near-falls. The ending however, sucked. Being done for storyline purposes doesn't make it any less irritating. Randy Orton retains his championship by intentionally disqualifying himself. RATING: ***1/2Elimination Chamber Match to Become the #1 Contender for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 24: Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho vs. JBL vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Umaga - This is one of the top 5 EC matches of all time, in my opinion. The action is non-stop and everyone gets to shine in this match. Umaga, in particular, put on a truly show-stopping performance, and the final sequence between Jeff Hardy and Triple H was fantastic. Triple H wins with a Pedigree on a steel chair. RATING: ****1/2While weighed down by a lacking undercard and a disappointing Edge/Mysterio match, the Cena/Orton match and the two Chamber matches make this show worth your time.RATING: B

ECW championship – Chavo Guerrero vs CM punk.A good match with good build up. It seems strange to see Punk as a fan favourite but a good energetic match 7/10.World Heavyweight championship – Edge vs Rey Mysterio.As talented as he is it can sometimes be hard to take Mysterio seriously. The build up story to this was rather daft and the fact the match finishes almost carbon copy to the Rumble match sums it up. 5/10 Smackdown elimination chamber.Two of the greatest athletes ever in Batista and Undertaker start off the match and other 'superstars' in Finlay, MVP, the great Khali and Big Daddy V enter. Easy to tell who the final to will be but what a finale and oh my word what a fantastic finishing manoeuvre! Just for that this is worth an 8/10.Ric Flair vs Mr Kennedy.Good match, Mr Kennedy (Or Anderson on TNA) is a brilliant mic worker and great athlete and with the prospect that if Flair lost he would retire this boiled some good tension and a great finish. 8/10.WWE championship - John Cena vs Randy Orton.With Cena's big return at the rumble this got the fans excited and a good lengthy match and although I can barely stand Cena he was alright, the ending to this match was so abrupt and funny. 8/10.Raw elimination chamber.With a good array of matches behind it No Way Out boiled down to a sensational last match that did include a roster of all respectable stars in Jeff Hardy, JBL, Y2J, HHH, Umaga and HBK and despite my accidental stumbling on the result, you could not guess who would win this. Fantastic moves, fast and slow paced, bodies hitting steel, a swanton off a pod a bloody collection of bodies, this was easily match of the night. 10/10.A good pay per view, entertaining though not classic but if anything at a cheap price I would buy simply for that last Raw chamber match. 7/10

This show would be technically considered average if it had just a bunch of grudge matches, challenges and title matches like normal WWE events. The reason I give this an above average is because it was the first time we saw more than one Elimination Chamber and it was also the first time we have seen an Elimination Chamber match since December 2006 at ECW's December to Dismember.Match 1: Chavo Guerrero vs. CM Punk for ECW Championship - This rivalry is the first of many rivalries that ensued for ECW in 2008. This contest was for the ECW Championship that Chavo took from Punk back in January. This contest was a very good one, Punk really showed that he wanted the title back. For the total of 7 minutes and 6 seconds that this was we really saw them do as much as they could to entertain. Punk goes for the three amigos on Chavo, but gets a very bad reception from the crowd. In the end Chavo picks up the clean win against Punk to retain the ECW title.Match 2: Undertaker vs. Batista vs. Finlay vs. MVP vs. The Great Khali vs. Big Daddy V in the SmackDown/ECW Elimination Chamber - The winner of this first Elimination Chamber will be receiving a World Heavyweight Championship match at Wrestlemania. So this basically starts with the two biggest stars in the match, Undertaker and Batista. The two take it to each other until Big Daddy V enters the match. For an ECW superstar Big Daddy V sure does spend a lot of time on the other brand, but nevertheless so much for adding ECW into the Elimination Chamber title, because as quick as he enters the match he is soon eliminated by Batista following a DDT on the steel floor by Undertaker. Then we follow with the second giant entering the match, The Great Khali. A whole bunch of 'you can't wrestle chants'. He goes out quickly as well due to the Undertaker's new submission hold called the Gogoplata. After the eliminations of Khali and Big Daddy V we are joined in the match by MVP and Finlay. So after Undertaker hits a reverse chokeslam off the pod into the ring on MVP we see Finlay take the easy pin to eliminate MVP. Nearly two minutes later Finlay is chokeslammed onto the steel floor and eliminated by the Undertaker. They really should've just put Batista and The Undertaker in this as just a one on one match, it would've been more entertaining. Anyway these two battle back and forth for at least 5 more minutes until Undertaker hits a tombstone and pins Batista. Undertaker is going to battle for the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania.Match 3: Ric Flair vs. Mr. Kennedy in a Career Threatening match - They made Mr. Kennedy play the fact that he was offered a shot in the Raw Elimination Chamber, but he turned it down to face Flair. I honestly don't think somebody would turn down a title shot opportunity like that, but I don't write for WWE. Nobody saw Flair going out until Wrestlemania, so we all knew that just like with MVP at the Royal Rumble, Flair was going to keep his career alive. In the end he defeats Kennedy, big surprise.Match 4: Edge vs. Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship - This was a Royal Rumble rematch after Edge successfully retained against Mysterio at that event. This wasn't as good as their Rumble contest and it was a hell of a lot shorter. I have to hand it to Rey Mysterio because the guy competed with an injury he had just recently sustained. Even though the match didn't deliver I still applaud Mysterio for wrestling. In the end Edge hits a spear as Mysterio is in mid air, just like at the Rumble, for the win. Edge retains once again.Match 5: Randy Orton vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship - I personally found this to be ridiculous to have the Royal Rumble winner challenging for the title not at Wrestlemania. Orton really was one of Raw's most dominant champions and he actually retained against different competitors, unlike SmackDown were everybody has to end up defending against Batista every month. This was a very good match for the WWE Championship. Cena was more out for revenge instead of the title. In the end Orton gets himself disqualified to keep the title. Cena is irate.Match 6: Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Jeff Hardy vs. JBL vs. Umaga vs. Chris Jericho in the Raw Elimination Chamber match - This match had the best culmination of athletes put together to wrestle. Umaga was absolutely unreal in this one, he took it to almost everyone. First to go is JBL, who is hit by a Code Breaker from Jericho. Then he is followed by the dominant Umaga, who gets hit by everyone else's finishing move. Jericho shortly then goes after a sweet chin music by Michaels, in which Hardy covers him. Then in a strange turn of events Michaels is out as well following a twist of fate then a pedigree. We are down to Hardy and Triple H. When we believe Hardy is getting that opportunity to go to Wrestlemania we are thrown a curve ball when Triple H hits a pedigree on a steel chair. Triple H is going to battle for the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania.

Another strong PPV for the WWE but what's with having two Elimination Chamber matches on the card? Talk about overkill, but these were great especially when you consider who was in the Smackdown! EC (Big Daddy V and The Great Khali). However WWE wisely booked these two to last longer than needed and a wise move it was. As soon as Khali entered he was heckled by the fans shouting a richly deserved "You can't Wrestle" chant and even though Big Daddy V looks abysmal on most occasions he didn't look that bad well disregarding the man boobs of course.The Raw EC match was far superior to the Smackdown! EC match partly because it had 5 good workers (Jeff Hardy, HHH, Umaga, Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels) and these can work believe me. My jaw dropped when I seen Umaga performing the double Samoan drop on Y2J and Michaels, that was awesome and even though everyone knew HHH would win, it was great seeing that he helped elevate Hardy into a main player in the match. Fans actually booed HHH and cheered Hardy.The Smackdown! EC match was good and Batista and The Undertaker certainly work well together. MVP took a chokeslam off one of the elimination pods from The Undertaker, I'm surprised MVP agreed to do this because he's only been in the WWE for a year and a half and doesn't have that much experience well at taking big bumps anyway. Finlay proved he can still take big bumps when he allowed Taker to chokeslam him on the steel outside, that most have hurt like hell. Bearing in mind Finlay is 50 years old.The rest of the card was average but was flawed by Ric Flair having a match against Mr Kennedy. I don't care how much Flair has done for the wrestling business, Kennedy deserved better. Flair won the with the figure four leg lock in a passable contest.The first match on the card was CM Punk against Chavo Guerrero. This was poor and Punk doing Eddie Guerrero's 3 suplexes spot dampened the mood further, what an idiot. Guerrero won to retain his ECW title and was actually cheered by some fans. This is a shame as Guerrero and Punk are good workers but for some reason they didn't click in this match.Results from the show: Chavo Guerrero downed CM Punk to retain the ECW title in a poor match.... Edge defeated Rey Mysterio in 5 minutes to retain the World title (Rey suffered a bicep injury about a month before the event and was unable to compete in a full match).... The Undertaker bested Finlay, Big Daddy V, The Great Khali, MVP and Batista in a very good Elimination Chamber match.... Ric Flair defeated Mr Kennedy via a figure four leg lock in a so so match.... John Cena downed Randy Orton via DQ in a passable match.... Triple H defeated Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Umaga and John 'Bradshaw' Layfield in an excellent Elimination Chamber Match to win the right to face the WWE champion at Wrestlemania (even though John Cena won the Royal Rumble to go on to face a Champion at Wrestlemania 24) Overall Grade - B-