I really loved how WWE started off the night in chaos rather than with a ton of in-ring promos with one guy interrupting the next. While we did sadly get the second half of that (though I actually thought it was pretty good tonight, thanks to Je’Von Evans and Trick Williams), the start of the show was finally a win in my book, and it only got better from there.

I was in the camp of believing Jey Uso shouldn’t have been in the Elimination Chamber, but of course, what could anyone have done when Bronson Reed went down with his unfortunate injury on Monday. I think WWE recovered well, with a backstage angle where Uso was taken out. It started on social media a few minutes before the show went on the air, then when “SmackDown” started, it began with the chaotic scene of Uso being loaded into an ambulance with his cousin, Jacob Fatu, already at his side.

The current rumor is that the WrestleMania match for the Undisputed WWE Championship will be a triple threat involving champ Drew McIntyre, Cody Rhodes, and Jacob Fatu. I figured Fatu would just be added into the Chamber mix to somehow get us to that title bout, but we did actually get a qualifier main even match pitting him against Logan Paul.

I can’t even necessarily say that I dislike Paul being in the Chamber match. The Chamber needed another heel, so it was kind of a must, and I do like Paul as an athlete. I thought actually having a match to determine the final entrant was a really nice touch, for once, and Aldis didn’t just put Paul, who asked him first, in the match.

Paul didn’t win clean, of course, and in the end, had help from McIntyre, only furthering the champion’s story with Fatu. That still leads me to believe that somehow the ‘Mania match will be a triple threat, though tomorrow’s Chamber match may get messy if both Fatu and McIntyre get involved.

I also liked the backstage segment where Sami Zayn confronted Fatu about being right there when Uso was taken out. It plants the seeds that maybe Zayn was the one to take out both Fatu, who was beat down last year, and Uso. And, honestly, WWE has a story wide open. If they want Fatu as a heel, he could be revealed as Uso’s attacker, and if they want him to be babyface, they can go with someone else. I really liked all of this tonight, and it adds some intrigue tomorrow. It was also a great pivot after Reed’s unfortunate injury, something I can’t say I expected from WWE at this point.

Written by Daisy Ruth