Going into this weekend’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, there was talk that Jerry Lawler might win the WWE Championship for a “feel good” surprise on the show.<\/p>\n
Obviously, Lawler was going to lose the title back to Miz on RAW to assure a current Superstar would be in the WrestleMania main-event position, but there was definitely a feeling based on Lawler’s momentum and crowd reaction that he would be given a minor run with the title.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, however, F4WOnline.com reports that WWE decided to give Miz the victory as there has been significant concern about the wrestler’s overness as the marquee champion. Though a one-night title change might have worked given fan support for Lawler, the feeling was that the risk was not worth the reward–Miz needed to look strong against a past-his-prime wrestler.<\/p>\n
That also explains why WWE did not go with the other seemingly-obvious plan: having Michael Cole physically interfere in the match to setup a ‘Mania encounter between the two. WWE certainly seems to be going in the direction of having Lawler and Cole work a WrestleMania program, but in order to strengthen Miz’s win, WWE did not want to overshadow the title retention (and weaken Miz’s perceived power) with a Cole-Lawler program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n