Damocles said:
I feel the complete opposite.
The EC was needlessly crowbarred in and little would actually change between Rumble and WM.
Anything that drops a gimmick match focused PPV is good news to me. The whole idea is absolutely retarded
well as it is now, you get a Saturday Night Main Event card without the excitement of something different, like an Elimination Chamber, to at least build anticipation into the PPV, and a fair amount did change over the years of its use, especially if you didn't follow how Mania was going to be booked closely.
I agree on the whole about gimmick PPVs, especially MITB as that's the perfect opener to WM, but I liked the use of the EC as the last stop before Mania, it's better than not having the champ on the card and those tedious tag matches they used to have between WM main events on the old NWO PPV.
Plus, there's nothing like building up Lesnar even more by having start and win an EC, he should be defending his title. If gimmick PPVs annoy you, then you should be a stickler for 30 day title defense rules, which WWE conveniently ignored to suit Brock Lesnar, which I'm sorry, if you're going to build somebody up as "the reigning and defending, undisputed WWE World Heavyweight Champion", then he should be defending his title every PPV and annihilating everyone in tough matches. He's reigning, but not really defending it.
A champion should defend his title, it's one of the core principles of wrestling.