No Way Out Review 2/15/09

Welcome everyone to the Slingshot Suplex No Way Out review. Now when i do my show reviews I usually do them while I'm watching the show, but with the ppv's this won't be the case as i like to sit down and just watch and enjoy them. So these reviews wont have as much detail more then likely as my raw/smackdown/ecw reviews have. With that being said, lets see what NWO brought us shall we.

WWE Title Match: Elimination Chamber:

I'd have to say i was shocked to see that this match was the opening match, but obviously it was clear why later on. This match was simply amazing from start to finish. Edge and Jeff Hardy started things out and before the next guy could enter the ring, Jeff caught Edge in a small package and Edge was gone. Seriously holy shit was my reaction. I couldnt believe Edge was gone already. But as we found out later on it was all a part of WWE's master plan to swerve us. From there saw Kozlov enter the ring, followed by Big Show. They played a little can u top this while beating up Jeff for a little while before Triple H enters the chamber. Undertaker was the last entrant, and everybody's in now. Kozlov got eliminated by Taker when he got caught with the last ride out of the corner. Kozlov was actually very good in this match and impresssed me some. Later on and Jeff climbs the chamber and on to the top of the pod where Show crotches him and climbs up after him..Taker nails him and then superplexes Show off the top rope. Thats always an impressive spot to see. Jeff then follows with the swanton bomb off of the pod, simply amazing. Triple H covers Show and eliminates him. Jeff then gets caught in the tombstone and is eliminated leaving Taker and Triple H to fight for the title. Jeff was outstanding in this match and definitely proved to everyone why he is in the main event now. Awesome spot with the double reversal flipping over the ropes and into the tombstone by taker. Triple H gets his foot on the ropes. Taker then kicks out of the pedigree as well. The end saw Taker catch triple H in the last ride out of the corner but The Game reverses it and hits the Pedigree for the win and the title. Just simply an amazing amazing match. You would be hard pressed to find a better chamber match then this. Everyone played their role perferctly. Just awesome.
Predicted Winner: Triple H
Actual Winner: Triple H

Edge was shown in the back yelling at Vickie, who blamed him before apologizing. But as we will later see the night turns out pretty good for Edge.

Randy Orton vs Shane Mcmahon: No Holds Barred:

This match dissapointed me some though it still was a pretty good match. Your basic brawling until they went to the floor. Shane nails Orton with the monitor busting him open quite nicely. Shane lays him on the table and goes to hit the elbow off the top before Legacy intervenes, shane eventually gets the best of them, hitting rhodes with the always nice spot of the dropkick across the ring while cody held the garbage can. He then goes for the elbow through the table and misses in an insanse spot. Orton gets him back in the ring and superplexes him through a table wich was very impressive. After some more brawling around and weapon usage Shane goes to punt Orton who catches him in the RKO for the win. Nice Match but i honestly thought we would see a little more here. Still i cant complain.
Predicted Winner: Randy Orton
Actual Winner: Randy Orton

Jack Swagger(c) vs Fit Finlay: ECW Title Match:

This was just your basic match, nothing really special to report here. Finlay accidentaly knocks Hornswoggle off the apron then gets caught in the Gutwrench Powerbomb, Swagger retains the belt. Swagger once again was very impressive on PPV, albeit in a short outing here.
Predicted Winner: Jack Swagger
Actual Winner: Jack Swagger

JBL vs Shawn Michaels: Winner Takes All:

This storyline has been amazing and this was the blowoff match. Shawns wife was at in the first row. Nice job of storytelling by these 2 in this match as was expected. JBL trying to get Shawn to DQ himself early. They teased Shawn getting counted out at one point after a second clothesline from hell. JBL eventually gets slapped by Shawns wife. Shawn then flips, hitting all his HBK spots followed by Sweet Chin Music for the win.
Predicted Winner: Shawn Michaels
Actual Winner: Shawn Michaels

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Elimination Chamber:

It was gonna be hard for this to top the Smackdown chamber match but they did a wonderful job of trying. Edge attacks Kofi before Kofi could get into the chamber taking him out with the chair and stealing his pod. As soon as this happened all my questions were answered. First, as soon as this happened it was obvious Edge was winning. Wich then told me who was gonna face John Cena at WrestleMania, pretty much confirming my Randy Orton/Triple H prediction as well. Just remember when that does happen that you heard it here first :). Jericho and Rey start the match off. Awesome spot with Rey hanging off top of chamber and dropping onto Jericho into a hurricanrana. Kane enters next, dominates Rey and Jericho, before getting eliminated when Jericho hit the codebreaker, followed by a 619 and Rey jumping off the pod onto Kane for the pin. Mike Knox is in next, basically same formula here as with Kane. He dominates for a couple minutes before setting Rey up for his finisher, Jericho hits codebreaker on Knox and pins him. Edge is in next and Mysterio jumps him immediately, upset over the attack on Kofi. Rey and Jericho are battling on the top rope when Edge comes up behind them, Jericho rolls over both of them powerbombing Edge who basically held on to Rey in a german suplex. Awesome spot there. Cena enters next clears house for a minute then gets caught by the codebreaker, the 619, and a spear and is eliminated. Cena wasnt in the match very long and i'm sure that pleased all the ignorant Cena haters out there. Jericho catches Rey in the Walls of Jericho but before he can turn him over, rey counters with a victory roll and eliminates Jericho leaving Rey and Edge as the last two. Great job teasing a Rey win with many near falls and close counts but in the end it was Edge hitting the spear and winning the World Championship. Great match, suprise win, nice way to end the PPV. It was the only match i got wrong but so did everybody.
Predicted Winner: John Cena
Actual Winner: Edge

All in all No Way Out was a pretty good showing by WWE heading into WrestleMania. Just an awesome smackdown chamber match to open the show. And a swerve ending to close the show. Both top titles changed hands with triple winning the WWE title. And Edge, who came in WWE champ, left World Champ. This ppv was about the chamber matches and it showed. Now we are off to Wrestlemania and it should be very interesting.