Black History Month DAY 28

Batista v. Undertaker v. Big Daddy V v. Great Khail v. Finlay v. MVP 2/17/08

About a year ago the WWE had more black wrestlers then ever before. Now Booker T, Marcus Cor Von, Cryme Tyme and Bobby Lashley are all gone. Pretty much your two main black WWE wrestlers (not counting Money May of course) are in this Elimination chamber match. I had seen a ton of these matches, and I amused at how they are kind of worked like FMW land mine matches, with everything being built around bumps on the steel floor sections.

V takes some nasty bumps for a huge dude, and his offense looks really nasty. He is such a huge impressive dude, but is hurt by being in a promotion with so many other huge dudes. If you didn't have Kane and Undertaker and Umaga and Big Show and Great Khali I think he would be a bigger star.

MVP is the last guy in this match and he is a guy I have turned around on. He is a guy who got into wrestling by watching Dean Malenko ECW matches in jail. When he started he worked like a ECW juniors fan, lots of counters and goofy innovative moves. Now he really simplified what he does, now it mostly kicks to the face and taunts. I was digging him using the bling as a Memphis chain, and the beal off the pod was a nutty bump. It was only about a five minute stretch but he was maybe the best guy in this match.

Not a great match though. I have become tired of the Undertaker v. Batista feud, and this match was based around it. Also Undertakes gogoplata is amazingly shitty looking, and it looked like he had no idea how to apply it on Khali. Still the brothers represented.