Rod and I was the penultimate episode before the Elimination Chamber, which is coming up in two weeks from Toronto, and I can tell you that it was better than Smackdown.

I know it's kind of a low bar to set because Smackdown's been kind of shit lately.

So it wasn't better by that much, but it was definitely better than Smackdown.

And what it feels right now, basically, is but it was definitely better than Smackdown.

And what it feels right now, basically, is like they're on autopilot until we get to the chamber.

So until we get to the chamber and until we can get some of those big names back on TV,

we're just sort of coasting into that show.

Once we get there, once we have the two chamber matches and we figure out,

okay, who's challenging Cody Rhodes and who's challenging Ria Ripley, and whatever angles they may shoot, you know, that night, because there may be angles to set up other matches

within the chamber, all the pieces will begin to fall into place at that point. It's just a matter

of killing time effectively until we get there.

And it sucks to feel like you're watching these shows and it feels like they're killing time.

But yeah, you got to remember there's a bunch of names that we're just not getting on television

every single week. You know, we're not getting people like John Cena. We're not getting people

like CM Punk even every week. We're not getting Roman Raines on the show. Hopefully that will begin to change coming out of the elimination chamber.

But it's hard to get that excited for WrestleMania yet because it doesn't feel like the

build has really officially began, right?

They say the Royal Rumble is the start of the road to WrestleMania when,

realistically, in many ways, the elimination chamber

is really where the WrestleMania build truly kicks off in a lot of cases.

But we have the final two spots filled in the elimination chamber matches tonight.

The fields are set.

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