The gauntlet match to determine which team would enter last in Sunday's Elimination Chamber match for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships kicked off with former champions The New Day's Kofi Kingston and Big E battling fellow babyface tandem Heavy Machinery just moments after Otis was shot down by Mandy Rose backstage.

Thanks to some solid tandem offense, Otis and Tucker rolled heading into the break.

Back from the commercial, a hot tag to Kingston sparked the former champions' comeback. Kofi downed Tucker and delivered a Boom Drop. Heavy Machinery thwarted the onslaught, halted the momentum and pinned Big E following the Trash Compactor.New Day eliminated.

Lucha House Party's Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik entered next, looking to use their speed and agility to combat the strength of their opponents. The massive Heavy Machinery cut them off and wore Dorado down, Otis squeezing the fight out of him with a bearhug.

Dorado battled back with a jawbreaker and tagged Metalik into the match. The luchador quickened the pace while a big splash from a rejuvenated Dorado earned the masked team a near-fall. Tucker tagged Otis back in the ring and the big man delivered the caterpillar to Dorado to earn the win.Lucha House Party eliminated.

The Usos hit the ring next. They worked over an exhausted Tucker and appeared to be rolling when Jimmy and Jey uncorked a pair of superkicks. As the latter went to pin Tucker, though, the big hoss countered into a rollup of his own for the shocking upset.The Usos eliminated.

New SmackDown tag team champions The Miz and John Morrison were out next, looking to earn the right to enter their championship defense Sunday last. The titleholders paired off on Tucker, looking to punish and defeat the tired big man.

Every time Tucker tried to tag his partner in, Miz or Morrison cut him off. The Hollywood A-Lister dropped Otis off the apron and Morrison delivered a cartwheel elbow drop to Tucker. An inside cradle by Tucker to Morrison, though, stunned the champions and led to another massive upset.Miz and Morrison eliminated.

The champions, sore losers, drove Otis through the timekeeper's area while Mandy Rose watched from backstage, concern painting her face while Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode made their way to the ring.

The resilient Tucker fought, scratched and clawed, determined to keep his team in the fight. Otis, meanwhile, recovered at ringside and drove Roode into the announce table. He returned to the corner, ready awaiting the tag from a tag team partner desperately in need of it.

Tucker finally made the tag and Otis exploded into the match to a thunderous ovation. He bumped Roode around, feeding off the adrenaline. He dodged a blind charge in the corner but Roode made the blind tag to Ziggler.

The charismatic big man looked to deliver the caterpillar but Ziggler blasted him from out of nowhere with a superkick to score the win.

Result

Ziggler and Roode defeated Heavy Machinery, Morrison and Miz, The Usos, Lucha House Party and The New Day

Grade

A

Analysis

This was some great old school building that made absolute stars out of Heavy Machinery and just as fans were ready to see Otis overcome the odds and stick it to Ziggler, The Showoff got the win to really suck the energy from the crowd.

The booking accomplished two things: it lent great credibility to a team that had been, to this point, little more than a fun-loving comedy act and it left fans wanting more.

Too often, the booking decisions implemented by WWE Creative suck the air out of the building with no real light at the end of the tunnel to be found. This was different. This left fans wanting to see Otis get his hands on Ziggler and win the match.

That may very well happen Sunday on PPV but to see it, you will have to subscribe to the WWE Network and watch the event to find out.

The Otis-Ziggler-Rose storyline has been so simplistic yet so entertaining, and has made stars of the beloved babyface, again proving that sometimes, keeping it sensible rather than overwriting things is to the benefit of all involved.

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