The Real Winners and Losers from 2022 WWE Elimination Chamber

WWE Elimination Chamber was the final pay-per-view stop on the Road to WrestleMania this year, and it had the chance to redefine the most important night on the company's calendar.

Brock Lesnar ran through the field inside the Elimination Chamber. After Bobby Lashley was injured inside his pod, The Beast Incarnate eliminated the other four competitors to claim the title and earn his champion vs. champion match with Roman Reigns at The Show of Shows on April 2-3.

Bianca Belair overcame a returning Alexa Bliss and a motivated Rhea Ripley to win inside the women's Elimination Chamber, and Becky Lynch survived a game Lita to keep the Raw Women's Championship. This set up a huge rematch between these longtime rivals at The Show of Shows.

Goldberg challenged Reigns, hoping to get one last run as universal champion. Instead, The Head of the Table may have sent him into retirement with a statement win, dominating the veteran and making him tap out.

Naomi teamed with Ronda Rousey against the dangerous duo of Charlotte Flair and Sonya Deville. While The Glow wasn't the biggest star in the ring, she felt like it given her performance and the crowd reaction to her.

This show did not pull out any major surprises, but it did solidify the trajectory of key stars on the Road to WrestleMania.

Every time Goldberg steps into the ring these days, there is a danger he could tarnish his legacy.

After starting his latest run in WWE well, the 55-year-old has fallen apart in the ring often. WWE has limited him to a few minutes per match, even when it meant he was basically squashing young talent.

Saturday's match with Roman Reigns was a slow-motion experience. Consistently throughout the match, The Head of the Table had to put himself in position for Goldberg, who was not moving well.

Luckily, there were no truly bad spots. It was the first time Reigns has had to keep a veteran safe in a match, and he did his job well.

It is likely this is the last time Goldberg will step into a ring. If so, he went out to the first submission loss in his career. That's a great way for a veteran to put over a younger star.

In that way at least, the WWE Hall of Famer did his job one last time and got a final big paycheck for his family. He would consider that a win, even if the performance wasn't great.

At SummerSlam 2021, Bianca Belair lost the SmackDown Women's Championship in just 26 seconds to Becky Lynch. It was an abrupt end to The EST of WWE's run at the top of the company.

Since then, Belair has lost a few more cheap moments to Big Time Becks but largely been unstoppable otherwise. She has waited patiently for a clean, fair shot at the Raw women's champion.

After an impressive run in the women's Elimination Chamber match, The EST now stands as the most likely woman to dethrone Lynch.

WWE could have easily gone in many different directions on this journey for Belair, but the focus has remained consistent. It was always leading to WrestleMania and the second match on The Grandest Stage of Them All that can help define her career on the main roster.

Belair has proved again and again that she is one of the best female wrestlers in WWE. She has been on an absolute tear and deserved this huge moment.

Naomi was not walking into the Elimination Chamber PPV as the star, but she left as the most popular woman in a ring that included Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair.

While the focus was on The Baddest Woman on the Planet, who was forced to wrestle with one arm tied behind her back, the crowd lit up every time The Glow got involved. The energy in the bout was about her.

Naomi made every moment matter, and that means a lot on the Road to WrestleMania. She does not have a match on the card yet, but her rivalry with Sonya Deville needs to make it to The Grandest Stage of Them All.

The future for The Glow should be bright. WWE has wasted her for too long now. If the crowd reaction for her at Elimination Chamber wasn't enough to get her a main event push, it's likely nothing will get her there.

Lita is a WWE Hall of Fame and a four-time WWE women's champion. Many would argue she and Trish Stratus laid the foundation for the women's evolution. She has nothing to prove, yet she did show something at Elimination Chamber.

The 46-year-old  performed against Becky Lynch in her first one-on-one match in over 15 years and went 11 minutes without showing much ring rust. If she had wanted to, it was clear she could have returned at any time to compete against the best in WWE.

While she might have lost her title shot against Big Time Becks, most female wrestlers in WWE can say the same. The champion has defeated everyone at one time or another.

What mattered was that Lita showed she still has it. She looked like she could compete again at WrestleMania if she can find an opponent.

There are plenty of exciting possibilities for her, and there are a wealth of women who would jump at the opportunity to share the ring with her.

Brock Lesnar won the WWE Championship at the Day 1 PPV. Thanks to Roman Reigns, he lost it to Bobby Lashley at the Royal Rumble.

He would then win the men's Rumble match to get a shot at The Tribal Chief at WrestleMania 38 before winning back the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber.

That's an eventful first few weeks of 2022 for The Beast Incarnate. It is also a showcase of how little WWE views anyone else in the main event scene. Even Lashley was disrespected quickly after regaining the WWE Championship.

All these moments could have gone to another star. WrestleMania is a two-night event, yet only one match will feature both men's world championships.

The All Mighty deserved to go to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in April as champion. Seth Rollins, AJ Styles, Austin Theory and Riddle all could have had run with the gold in a surprise result. Instead, WWE took the most predictable direction for The Grandest Stage of Them All.

Everyone on Raw who was just passed over should feel disrespected. Even those with certain WrestleMania spots know they will be overshadowed by a match that has already main-evented twice at The Show of Shows.

This was WWE doubling down on a decision that caused a wide-scale backlash, and that is so typical of the company that it's more than a little sad.