Elimination Chamber tonight
The Road to WrestleMania is well underway and the next stop takes place tonight when WWE presents Elimination Chamber.
Daniel Bryan will defend the WWE championship inside the Chamber cell against Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy, Kofi Kingston, AJ Styles and Randy Orton with Orton entering last.
The other Elimination Chamber cell match will crown the first-ever WWE women鈥檚 tag team champions.
The six teams include Nia Jax and Tamina, The Riott Squad, Sasha Banks and Bayley, The IIconics, Carmella and Naomi, and Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville with the teams of Banks and Bayley facing Rose and Deville to start the match.
Ronda Rousey defends the Raw women鈥檚 title against Ruby Riott, Bobby Lashley defends the Intercontinental title when he teams with Lio Rush against Finn Balor in a handicapped match, Baron Corbin faces Braun Strowman in a no DQ match, and The Miz and Shane McMahon are scheduled to defend the Smackdown tag titles The Uso鈥檚 although that match may or may not take place.
Buddy Murphy will defend the Cruiserweight title on the Kickoff Show.
The show starts at 7 p.m. on the WWE Network with the Kickoff Show starting an hour earlier.
WWE Now set for today
Cathy Kelley and Mike Rome will host WWE now today at 2 p.m. on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
It will be a live preview show for tonight鈥檚 Chamber show and will feature Strowman, The Riott Squad and Styles.
AEW show quickly sells out
The All Elite Wrestling show, Double Or Nothing, that will take place in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 25, sold out this past week in four minutes.
Batista negotiating with鈥�
Former WWE world champ Dave Batista is negotiating with both WWE and AEW.
Batista, who has primarily moved on to Hollywood, will make a nice seven-figure pay day regardless if he signs with WWE to for a match at WrestleMania or if he sings with AEW.
McMahon to speak at RMU
Saturday morning, Robert Morris University announced that WWE Chief Branding Officer Stephanie McMahon will give the commencement address to the RMU graduating class of 2019.
She will speak during the undergraduate ceremony on Saturday, May 11 at the new UPMC Events Center in Moon.
First WWE Hall inductee to be鈥�
Word has been circulating that the original Hart Foundation, consisting of Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart and manager Jimmy 鈥淢outh of the South鈥� Hart, will headline this year鈥檚 WWE Hall of Fame Class.
If this happens, Hart and Hart would join Ric Flair as the only people to be inducted to the WWE Hall twice as Bret was inducted as a singles star and Jimmy was inducted as a manager.
Flair was inducted as a singles wrestler and as a member of The Four Horsemen.
Reigns鈥� appearance in Pittsburgh
WWE superstar Roman Reigns has laid relatively low since announcing in the fall that he is in a second battle with leukemia.
However, he made an appearance at the World of Wheels show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Feb. 8.
Peggy Ivery, a longtime online reader of this column and possibly the biggest Reigns fan in the world, took her granddaughter Skarlet to meet Reigns.
鈥淗e was such an amazing man,鈥� she said. 鈥淎 sweet and kind man.鈥�
Ivery then began laughing before adding, 鈥淣ot to mention gorgeous!鈥�
Reigns is said to be doing well in his most recent battle with leukemia and his fans await his hopeful return to the ring soon.
WWE Hall of Famer passes away
Pedro Morales, the first Triple Crown winner in WWE as he won the WWF heavyweight, Intercontinental and tag team titles, passed away Tuesday at the age of 76.
Shane on NCIS
On Friday, WWE announced that Shane McMahon will appear on NCIS: Los Angeles on the March 31 episode.
Next week
In next week鈥檚 column, we will look at the rising Becky Lynch versus the McMahon鈥檚 feud that may culminate with a Lynch v. Stephanie match at SummerSlam.
For longtime wrestling fans, does it feel familiar?
WWE using predicted trend
WWE announced on Friday that the 2020 Royal Rumble will take place at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.
It was predicted in this column that WWE may continue to use venues bigger than a normal arena yet smaller than domes or stadiums for bigger shows like the Rumble.
Last month, WWE ran the Rumble at Chase Field in Phoenix, the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
On This Day鈥�
In 1997, 鈥淧sycho鈥� Sid, also known as Sid Vicious and Sid Justice during his career, defeated Bret Hart to win his second, and final, WWF (WWE) heavyweight championship.
In 2002, the nWo made its WWE debut at the No Way Out PPV.
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