WWE Elimination Chamber: WWE Championship - The Rock (c) VS CM Punk

[BrianBell]

There's 2 ways I can see this match finishing:

1. The Rock has the upper hand in the match, the lights in the arena go out, everyone assumes it's the Shield, when the lights come back on, CM Punk is face to face with the Undertaker. Undertaker makes no contact with CM Punk (which would cause a DQ in the Rock's favor meaning he'd lose the belt), but he's distracted long enough for the Rock to turn him around and drop him with a Rock Bottom for the pinfall.

2. We have a better quality match than the one at Royal Rumble with a clean finish where the Rock retains.

It's real simple, traditionally speaking the WWE Title match at WrestleMania has been a 1-on-1 match with just one exception. Rock/Cena 2 is the route the WWE is going. It may not be the popular choice, but it's the choice that will net the largest buyrate for the PPV and at the end of the day that is what matters the most especially for WrestleMania. There is very little if any chance CM Punk regains the WWE Title this Sunday.

[SDS1582]

Originally Posted by BrianBell

There's 2 ways I can see this match finishing:

1. The Rock has the upper hand in the match, the lights in the arena go out, everyone assumes it's the Shield, when the lights come back on, CM Punk is face to face with the Undertaker. Undertaker makes no contact with CM Punk (which would cause a DQ in the Rock's favor meaning he'd lose the belt), but he's distracted long enough for the Rock to turn him around and drop him with a Rock Bottom for the pinfall.

I like this scenario but with a twist. Lights go out, Shield comes down and surrounds the ring. They look like they're about to attack Punk for the intentional DQ. Then ref gets knocked out and Rock beats the hell out of the Shield. Heyman then grabs a chair and tries to wake up the ref, as the ref starts to wake up, Heyman goes to nail punk with the chair when the lights go out again and the gong. Lights come back on and Heyman is knocked out, Taker has Punk in either the tombstone or choke slam, he hits it. Then ref miraculously "wakes up" just in time for Rock to hit the people's elbow and retain.

[Dagger Dias]

The most likely match to end the show. I feel bad for CM Punk and still disagree with the fact that The Rock won the belt in the first place. The match seems forced and I'm just not as interested in it as I wish I could be. Rather safe to say that The Rock will win so that he and Cena can face each other for the WWE Championship in their rematch at Wrestlemania. I'm not sure where Punk goes from here, I don't see him winning this at all. Even with the stipulation that The Rock cannot get DQ'ed or counted out. Cena & The Rock don't "NEED" the WWE Championship, but it will add more to their rematch which is most likely going to happen no matter what the haters say. Cena already said he will be facing the WWE Champion at Wrestlemania so why do another Cena VS Punk match when he can have a rematch against The Rock to avenge his loss from last year AND win yet another world title at the same time?

Someone like Lesnar or Maddox could cost Rock the belt through interefering in the match to lead to a DQ, that's the only way Punk wins although I still doubt that will happen. Rock as WWE Champion, as much as I disagree with it, can get the WWE publicity during the build up to Wrestlemania where he can promote the likely Cena rematch during appearances he makes between now and then. I hope it will be better than their Royal Rumble match. It goes on last and the show closes with The Rock having retained against CM Punk. They both move on to their Wrestlemania feuds after this match and the feud ends here.

DAGGER'S PREDICTION
The Rock will retain the WWE Championship.

[El Rev sXe]

Well I hope this match is going to be better than their first encounter, not that the first one sucked, but it can be better. At first I would've say it was pretty damn obvious that the Rock was going to retain, however I am seriously intrigued if Taker can't make it this year, then what Punk is going to, plus you need to take in count the stipulation. That being said, it could be that Punk wins because, Rock flips out and beats Heyamn and Punk with a chair and something and then making it a triple threat at Mania.

Prediction: Punk regains the WWE championship.

[#TheSkipper]

There are four possible scenarios for the outcome of this match...

1) Rock wins clean.

2) Punk wins clean or by DQ.

3) 'Taker returns and costs Punk the Title

4) Lesnar/Heyman cost Punk the title setting up a Lesnar vs Punk fued.

Personally, I see Rock winning clean and heading to WrestleMania to lose to Cena. I'd like to see Punk win somehow and add a little intrigue to WrestleMania; could Rock invoke his rematch clause and set up a Triple Threat?

[The Eighties]

I never liked The Rock and he was never a great worker but he was always good at the hot comeback, in fact perhaps the best I've seen, but these days he's jacked up and laboured as well as rusty. Punk is awesome but this is a dead end for him, I just hope he gets the match with Taker at Mania.

The stip of Rock losing the belt if he gets DQ'd I think was added to just to try and create the possibility that Punk might win, nothing more than that. Dwayne wins with the Rock Bottom.