WrestleMania Plans Set, Biggest Takeaways From WWE Elimination Chamber 2024 Results

WWE took over Perth, Australia on Saturday for Elimination Chamber, the last major premium live event before WrestleMania 40.

The show set the stage for The Showcase of the Immortals, introducing new rivalries and potential matchups through interactions between top Superstars inside the show's namesake contests.

What were those prospective matchups, which competitors grabbed the spotlight and shined it on themselves, and how did the fans react to the night's explosive action?

Find out with these takeaways from the latest pay-per-view from pro wrestling's hottest company.

Tiffany Stratton's Star-Making Performance

Tiffany Stratton's performance inside the Elimination Chamber took a star that was already burning brightly and made it blinding.

It was Tiffy Time in Perth, with the Aussie crowd completely behind the 24-year-old NXT export, who seized the moment and turned in the performance of her young career.

Throwing caution to the wind and showcasing her raw athleticism, Stratton rolled into the biggest match of her stint with WWE and showed out, so much so that the fans in attendance greeted any offense directed at her with jeers.

And that was before she scaled the Chamber and launched herself off of one of the pods with a Swanton Bomb that wiped out the field and set social media ablaze.

Liv Morgan would ultimately eliminate the former NXT women's champion to a chorus of boos and chants, but her loss was secondary to a showing that may well prove to be a defining one for the young competitor.

Saturday night was another great example of a performer winning in defeat, and setting herself up for future success.

She may not be heading to WrestleMania 40, but her elimination of Naomi and a subsequent tweet by the former women's champion suggests a feud between the two is to be expected.

Stratton is the future of women's wrestling in WWE, the next chapter of a revolution that started with her prospective rival, continued with Becky Lynch and the Four Horsewomen of NXT, and is continuing with the likes of Bianca Belair, Raquel Rodriguez and Morgan.

That future is bright, and a worldwide audience now knows it.

Perth Brings the Fire for Electric Elimination Chamber

It was obvious during Friday's Elimination Chamber press conference that the fans in Perth were fired up for WWE's latest PLE.

Saturday, they exceeded expectations, packing Optus Stadium and creating an electric atmosphere for one of the most significant stops on the Road to WrestleMania.

The crowd was red-hot from the moment Indi Hartwell and Candice LeRae walked through the curtain for their WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match against The Kabuki Warriors, all the way through the conclusion of the show when Rhea Ripley successfully defended her Women's World Championship against Nia Jax.

The fans in the state-of-the-art stadium were stars themselves.

They enthusiastically reacted to everything and everyone, showering fellow Aussies Hartwell, Grayson Waller and Ripley with thunderous ovations while drowning out Dominik Mysterio with some of the loudest and most sustained boos in recent memory.

It was the latest instance of WWE delivering its product to an international audience hungry for big shows in their own nations.

We have seen it in London, Cardiff and Saudi Arabia, and we'll continue to do so in 2024 with Backlash slated for Paris and the company's inaugural Bash in Berlin on August 31.

The excitement for the shows from fans who are not overexposed to WWE's touring schedule, the reactions to the Superstars and the action in the ring, help make the events even more watchable, regardless of what time they air in the United States.

Such was the case Saturday, when the enormous and passionate reactions to a card that was relatively predictable helped make it one of the better broadcasts the company has presented since November's Survivor Series.

Rhodes, Rollins One Step Closer to a Blockbuster WrestleMania 40 Tag Team Match

Grayson Waller may have been the home-nation hero Saturday, but Cody Rhodes was indisputably the most popular guy in the ring during The Grayson Waller Effect and he had a big announcement to make during the talk show.

The American Nightmare officially challenged The Rock to a showdown anytime before he squares off with Roman Reigns in the main event of WrestleMania 40.

Seth Rollins followed up, reminding Rhodes that The Bloodline does not do anything one-on-one and vowed to be by his side when the battle ensues.

While no formal challenge for a tag team match was made, nor was a contest announced, it appeared to be the direction WWE is heading in the moment it debuted the WrestleMania teaser trailer on Super Bowl Sunday, complete with a showdown between Rollins, Rhodes, Reigns and Rock.

Triple H also hinted at such by reminding fans during the press conference in Las Vegas that the first WrestleMania was headlined by a tag team bout.

The promo segment Saturday was a bit messy, with Rhodes teasing an explanation for why he ducked out of the 'Mania main event in the first place only to not deliver amid interruptions.

Still, it appears we have a glimpse into the direction things are heading. Expect the match to be made official as soon as Friday's SmackDown, when The Rock returns, according to Megan Morant on the Elimination Chamber Kickoff Show.

LA Knight's Phenomenal Path to The Showcase of the Immortals

LA Knight directly cost AJ Styles his Elimination Chamber Qualifying match with Drew McIntyre during the lead-in to Saturday's event.

The Phenomenal One gained a measure of revenge in Perth, entering the Chamber after Bobby Lashley's elimination and bludgeoning The Megastar with a steel chair.

He battered Knight, delivering a Styles Clash on the weapon and setting up his elimination at the hands of McIntyre.

The assault set the stage for Knight vs. Styles at WrestleMania, a singles match that would appear to exist to both give the former a quality bout on the grand stage and, more importantly, a defining win.

Styles is still a highly respected in-ring performer who will remain perpetually over regardless of wins and losses at this point in his career, and there are worse spots to be in on the biggest card of the year than working with one of the most popular guys on the roster.

Beating The Phenomenal One, a former two-time WWE champion would be a significant victory for Knight in the eyes of fans and keep him hot for the key post-WrestleMania period when the company's creative forces lay out the stories that will dominate the proceeding weeks and months.

Is it a championship win? No, but there is enough time for that later. A win over a future WWE Hall of Famer on the grand stage after missing last year's show completely and was nearly fired following the Maximum Male Models nonsense? Not bad for Knight.

Randy Orton Poised to Kill Logan Paul's Legend

Assuming Randy Orton did not injure his surgically repaired back, as it appeared he may have done when he delivered a draping DDT onto the floor of the Elimination Chamber during the men's match, we now know the road he will take to WrestleMania 40.

As United States champion Logan Paul produced the brass knuckles he has repeatedly used to his advantage throughout his in-ring career, The Viper launched himself from out of nowhere and delivered an RKO that sent The Maverick packing.

Not one to be upstaged, Paul made his presence felt moments later, rocking Orton with the same brass knuckles and setting up Drew McIntyre's victory and World Heavyweight Championship opportunity.

The match puts Orton and Paul on a collision course and sets up a third consecutive WrestleMania showcase for the young entertainer against a future WWE Hall of Famer.

In his first match ever, he partnered The Miz to battle Rey and Dominik Mysterio. Last year, he squared off with Seth Rollins in what was one of the better matches of the entire 'Mania weekend.

This year, he faces a different animal entirely in The Legend Killer, whose approach to his in-ring work is less flashy and more methodical and story-based.

How Paul adapts to that, and how they work together, will ultimately determine the overall quality of the match. Still, there is no denying WWE has put him in a position to succeed early in his pro wrestling career.

Working with one of the best of his generation only further supports that idea.

What that means for Kevin Owens, with whom Paul very much has unfinished business, remains to be seen.

Rhea Ripley vs. Becky Lynch a Worthy 'Mania Main Event

Women's world champion Rhea Ripley successfully defended her title Saturday in the main event of Elimination Chamber by overcoming the extraordinary challenge of Nia Jax.

The Eradicator celebrated her victory with family and friends at ringside, but it's a celebration that will be short-lived because her next defense will be against Becky Lynch in a match that is absolutely deserving of the stage and a spot in the main event of Night 1.

Mami vs. The Man is a match WWE has hinted at more than once over the last year or two, either via backstage interactions or tense in-arena staredowns.

Lynch intensified things before the Royal Rumble when she claimed she was not so sure Ripley was not better than her at this point and the only way to prove it was for them to clash for the championship.

The Man failed to win the women's Rumble match to set up the bout, but her victory Saturday inside the Elimination Chamber did just that.

The story is there but, more importantly, so is the star power.

Lynch and Ripley are among the most over women in the company. They are believable champions, accepted badasses and both have the equity built up among the fanbase to headline WrestleMania.

The challenger already has, making history in 2019 with her victory over Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey in the first-ever all-female main event.

Ripley headlined Saturday's premium live event, which was built and marketed around her, proving she can carry the weight of such expectation on her shoulders.

That both have delivered under the brightest lights only helps solidify the argument for their spot in the marquee bout on April 6 in Philadelphia. Lynch had a classic with Bianca Belair two years ago in Dallas, while Ripley and Flair earned acclaim for one of the best bouts of 2023 at last year's event in Los Angeles.

Lynch has always fancied herself as a version of Rocky Balboa, the titular character in the Philadelphia-based classic Rocky, even going as far as to refer to herself as "Becky Balboa" at different points in her WWE career.

Ripley can take on the role of the seemingly unbeatable Ivan Drago, whose sheer disregard for his opponent was at the center of Rocky IV.

The matchup has all the ingredients for an all-timer. The stars, the story, the ties to a character and narrative so popular in the City of Brotherly Love that they paid homage to a fictional character with a statue.

Book the match, put it in the main event of Night 1, and let two of the biggest women's wrestling stars in the history of WWE cook.