Here Is Everything You Need to Know About WWE’s Elimination Chamber: Rules, History, Winners and More

With Elimination Chamber coming to Perth, the event on February 24 will be Australia’s first big professional wrestling event since the WWE Super Showdown in 2018. The PLE promises to set the stage for WrestleMania. It is normally built around the big Elimination Chamber match, a six-person cage match where WWE Superstars try to survive rather than win.

Rules of Elimination Chamber:

Two celebrities will start the match in the ring, which is at the same level as the steel cage around it. There are also four pods around it with four other superstars who enter the match at set times, much like the Royal Rumble. Wrestlers have to leave once they have been pinned or submitted. The match winner is the last standing.

The History behind Elimination Chamber: 

The first Elimination Chamber match occurred at the Survivor Series pay-per-view (PPV) event in New York City, NY in 2002. People in the running for the World Heavyweight Championship were Triple H (defending his title), Booker T, Shawn Michaels, Kane, Rob Van Dam, and Chris Jericho. The winner was Shawn Michaels, who beat Triple H to win his first and sole WHC title. 

In total, there have been 13 Elimination Chamber matches. Ten have been for championships, including ECW, WWE, and World Heavyweight. The other three have been for the opportunity to face a current champ at WrestleMania that year. These three matches happened twice in 2008 and once in 2011. In 2008, the fights started in February, right after the Royal Rumble. They have happened at No Way Out or Elimination Chamber pay-per-views ever since.

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The Chamber was changed to the Extreme Elimination Chamber in 2006 at the New Year’s Revolution pay-per-view to match the ECW brand. There was a celebrity with a weapon in each pod, featuring a crowbar, a table, a metal chair, and a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

Statistics, records, and wins: 

There have been 13 Elimination Chambers since the first one in 2002. Triple H and Chris Jericho have been in the most matches, with six each. Triple H has won four times, which is the most. There have been three attempts to defend the WWE Championship, with one success and two failures. 

With the Road to WrestleMania having so many intense segments, what do you think will happen at Elimination Chamber in the lead up to WM 40?

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