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10 Things You Didn't Know About Elimination Chamber - The Elimination Chamber MVP! Triple H Invented It! Shayna Baszler Sets Records! Mark Henry's Pod Breaks And Ruins The Match?!

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The secrets and statistics behind WWE’s most brutal match... Andy Murray presents 10 Things You Didn't Know About Elimination Chamber...


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0:00.0

Since 2002, Elimination Chamber has been one of the nastiest, most elaborate matches on the WWE calendar.

0:06.8

Unlike the hyperbole attached to simple gated cages, like Hell in a Cell, which really isn't all that hellish anymore,

0:13.8

the chamber, with its corners, heights and until 2017, grated floors, could legitimately be called brutal.

0:20.8

And there's more to it than meets the eye.

0:24.0

I'm Andy from WhatCulture, and here are 10 things you didn't know about WWE Elimination Chamber.

0:30.4

10. The Random Order was telegraphed in the first two matches.

0:34.8

Entry to the chamber is supposed to be completely at random.

0:38.1

You know, the whole sudo countdown flickery lightsteel before the spotlight focuses on whoever's coming in next and they come in the match.

0:45.0

But with the first two Elimination Chamber matches, WWE kind of balls it up.

0:49.5

In 2002 and 2003, the random quote-unquote order of the four wrestlers who weren't starting,

0:56.0

well, it turned out to be just the order that they came to the ring, which then matched exactly with the order they entered the match.

1:04.8

WWE fortunately fixed this problem for future incarnations, and you can believe one of two stories here, either A, it was a basic incompetence, or B.

1:15.4

You subscribe to the popular conspiracy theory that nobody actually told the agents the entry was supposed to be random until the third match in 2005.

1:24.4

I think both of those choices are just as funny as each other, so take your pick.

1:28.7

9. The Match was originally Falls Count Anywhere.

1:32.3

As in Falls Count Anywhere inside the structure originally, Elimination's could take place inside the ring and on the wacky steel platform surrounding it.

1:41.6

But in 2012, this rule was quietly changed, meaning that pinfalls and submissions had to happen between the ropes.

1:48.5

It has made the match a little less chaotic, but a good deal safer.

1:53.0

And besides, prior to this, only two Elimination's had ever taken place outside the ring.

1:57.8

Anyway, we had the Undertaker whacking thinly in 2007, and CM Punk getting smoked by John Cena in 2011.

2:05.0

8. It's All About The Game

2:08.1

Triple H holds the record for the most wins in Elimination Chamber, coming in with a total of four.

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