Wild scenes erupted in Perth yesterday as wrestling superstars talked trash and traded blows forward of tonight’s highly-anticipated WWE Elimination Chamber 2024 inside Optus Stadium.
Diehard followers packed out the Press Convention in 38C warmth on Friday to catch a glimpse of their icons earlier than the primary occasion kicks off.
Nonetheless the Southern Oval rapidly spiralled into fan-fuelled chaos.
Tensions will undoubtedly be operating excessive after a number of head-to-head moments provided a preview of the mania anticipated tonight in entrance of 60,000 followers, and for these at house by way of the BINGE livestream.
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Logan Paul ‘trashes’ Australia, begins battle
Logan Paul isn’t a fan of Perth and needed followers to understand it when he entered the stage yesterday to face up in opposition to fellow Elimination Chamber opponents Randy Orton and Kevin Owens.
The YouTuber turned exhibition boxer and now wrestler is the reigning WWE United States champion, however his title clearly didn’t imply something to hundreds of Aussie followers who instantly booed him on Friday.
As he got here out smiling, holding his US champion belt, the group hurled insults on the American star.
“Oh, y’all going to yell at me huh?” Paul requested the indignant crowd. “You gonna boo me?
“I flew 30 hours to get booed?
“OK, if that’s the path you need to go, we will go there.”
A ‘Logan sucks’ chant rapidly swept by way of the group as Paul waltzed throughout the stage together with his champion belt in a single hand and a Prime vitality bottle within the different.
“So it’s WWE’s first time coming to Perth and I’m going to personally ensure that it’s the final.
“This place sucks guys. I mentioned after they mentioned we have been coming to Perth, I mentioned we gotta be going to Sydney as a substitute.
“I imply even Taylor Swift went to Sydney as a substitute of this dump.
“I’m critical, you Google the highest 10 issues to do as a vacationer in Perth and primary is go go to an island stuffed with rats. Not so completely different from you folks, huh? Yikes.
Paul’s dig at close by Rottnest Island and its pleasant, selfie-taking quokkas didn’t go down properly with the followers, who continued to show in opposition to the US champion.
Tensions boiled over when Logan Paul provided his bottle of Prime to Owens, who smacked the vitality drink out of his hand and kicked off a tense on-stage battle.
The feuding superstars needed to be separated with the assistance of WWE icon Triple H earlier than they each stormed off stage, all however guaranteeing a tense head-to-head within the Elimination Chamber tonight.
‘Imma squash you once more in entrance of your mum’
One other Prime-related showdown spelled hassle for the ladies when World Championship contenders Nia Jax and homecoming Aussie Rhea Ripley traded blows.
“You’ve laid out each single individual in my girls’s division and that takes rather a lot, so properly achieved, there’s your flowers – you’re doing nice sweetheart,” Ripley teased Jax.
“Once you step into the ring with me tomorrow you’re not moving into the ring with anybody, you’re moving into the ring with Rhea bloody Ripley and the remainder of Australia.”
The Adelaide-born star clearly had the group on her facet as chants of ‘Nia sucks’ and ‘Mami’s gonna kill you’ rung throughout the press convention, referring to Ripley’s extensively widespread nickname ‘Mami’. Though Jax tried to persuade followers she was the true homecoming star, having been born in Australia earlier than transferring to the US, the group wouldn’t flip in opposition to fan-favourite Ripley.
“Mami’s on prime?,” Jax mocked the Aussie famous person.
“Woman imma squash you once more in entrance of your mum. I hope she’s sitting entrance row, so her little child lady can look her mum in her eyes and cry ‘mum’ as you’re getting the life squashed out of you”
“Does everybody need slightly preview of what’s going to occur tomorrow to Rhea Ripley, the one you love?,” Jax requested the group.
However Ripley rapidly returned the provide and threw a bottle of Prime in Jax’s face, dousing her opponent’s hair and garments in inexperienced vitality drink.
The reigning Ladies’s World Champion set the tone for tonight’s highly-anticipated battle and left the stage with some parting phrases for Jax.
“Splash splash b***ch.”
Aussie stars’ epic double ‘shoey’
The chaos continued as Ripley was joined on stage by fellow Aussie ‘icon’ Grayson Waller, the Sydney historical past instructor turned skilled wrestler and trash-talker.
“The issue is I introduced two beers, so how about we end this correctly and the Aussie icon and Mami do a shoey,” Waller introduced to the group, sticking true to his earlier promise that he wouldn’t “go away right here if I don’t drink from a shoe”.
“This may be the proudest second of my life women and gentleman,” the Sydney King added as he opened his beer and the duo loved a hero’s welcome.
“To Australia, cheers!”
The celebrities’ drunk out of white sneakers as the group went wild for the house turf celebration. Ripley later informed information.com.au she had solely purchased the “model new pair of converse final week” and “didn’t even like beer,” providing followers a glimpse into the enduring second.
How one can watch WWE Elimination Chamber 2024
When: 5:30pm (AWST) / 8:30pm (AEDT) Saturday, February 24 2024
The place: Optus Stadium, Perth
Gates Open: 3:30pm (AWST)
Australian viewers can catch all of the motion dwell on Binge or dwell in individual through Ticketmaster.
Randy Orton, Drew McIntyre, LA Knight, Logan Paul, Bobby Lashley and Kevin Owens will compete in an Elimination Chamber match for the best to problem for the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania.
Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, Liv Morgan, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton and Raquel Rodriguez will compete for the best for problem for the Ladies’s World Title — up in opposition to whoever wins between Ripley and Jax within the WWE Ladies’s World Championship Match.
Tag staff champions Finn Bálor and Damien Priest will defend their Undisputed WWE Tag Group Championships in opposition to Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate.
Grayson Waller guarantees to steal the present together with his particular company “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes and World Heavyweight Champion Seth “Freakin” Rollins on the self-titled talk-show, the Grayson Waller Impact.
