Stats, Facts, Matches & Top Superstars: All you need to know about the WWE Elimination Chamber

Satan’s playground

Fresh off from the Attitude Era the WWE introduced a new concept which changed the way the fans looked at matches inside a cage. The brain child of former WCW booker Eric Bischoff, the Elimination Chamber is one of the most unforgiving structures in professional wrestling.

Ever since its inception, the structure has been cutting down the length of careers and sorting out the men from the boys. Throughout the year, there have been some great chamber matches in WWE and the WWE Universe is all set to witness some more as the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view is approaching fast. So in order to refresh the fading memory, here is a look at all the facts, stats and every other detail related to the Satan’s playground.

Structure

Unforgiving steel

The steel structure is 16 ft. (4.9 m) high and has a diameter36 ft. (11 m) whilst being built from 2 miles of Steel chain and 10 tons of steel. It has four glassed pods to hold the superstars who aren’t involved in the match during the start.

Rules

The match usually has six competitors in which two will start while the other will be enclosed in the pods in the chamber. Then the four wrestlers will be given the chance to enter the match in regular intervals. A wrestler who gets pinned or submitted gets eliminated instantly and has to leave the chamber. The process continues until only one superstar remains in the chamber that is declared as the winner.

Match History

Shawn Micheals

The Elimination Chamber was first introduced in 2002 and Triple H, Booker T, Shawn Michaels, Kane, Rob Van Dam and Chris Jericho fought in the first match which had Triple H’s World Heavyweight Championship on the line.

Michaels emerged as the winner and thus won his only World Heavyweight Championship in his career. After that there have been 15 Elimination Chamber matches in the WWE taking the total to 16 overall. The Chamber found its way into Summer Slam and No Way Out before getting a pay-per-view named after it in 2010.

The 16 Elimination Chamber matches that went down at WWE are the following.

1- Triple H (c) vs. Booker T vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Shawn Michaels (winner) vs. Rob Van Dam – Survivor Series (2002)

2- Triple H (c) (winner) vs. Goldberg vs. Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Kevin Nash vs. Randy Orton- SummerSlam (2003)

3- Batista vs. Chris Benoit vs. Edge vs. Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton vs. Triple H (Winner) – New Year’s Revolution (2005)

4- John Cena (c)(winner) vs. Kurt Angle vs. Carlito vs. Chris Masters vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Kane – New Year’s Revolution (2006)

5- Big Show (c) vs. Bobby Lashley (winner) vs. Hardcore Holly vs. CM Punk vs. Test vs. Rob Van Dam- December to Dismember (2006)

6- Batista vs. Big Daddy V vs. Finlay vs. The Great Khali vs. Montel Vontavious Porter vs. The Undertaker (winner) – No Way Out (2008)

7- Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho vs. John “Bradshaw” Layfield vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H (winner) vs. Umaga- No Way Out (2008)

8- Edge (c) vs. Big Show vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Vladimir Kozlov vs. The Undertaker vs. Triple H (winner) – No Way Out (2009)

9- John Cena (c) vs. Edge (winner) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Mike Knox vs. Rey Mysterio- No Way Out (2009)

10- Sheamus (c) vs. John Cena (winner) vs. Triple H vs. Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase vs. Kofi Kingston- Elimination Chamber (2010)

11- The Undertaker (c) vs. R-Truth vs. John Morrison vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Jericho (winner) vs. CM Punk- Elimination Chamber (2010)

12- Edge (c)(winner) vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Kane vs. Wade Barrett vs. Big Show- Elimination Chamber (2011)

13- John Cena (winner) vs. Sheamus vs. CM Punk vs. Randy Orton vs. John Morrison vs. R-Truth – Elimination Chamber (2011)

14- CM Punk (c) (winner) vs. Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho vs. R-Truth- Elimination Chamber (2012)

15- Daniel Bryan (c)(winner) vs. Wade Barrett vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show vs. Santino Marella vs. The Great Khali- Elimination Chamber (2013)

16- Jack Swagger (winner) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Kane vs. Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton – Elimination Chamber (2013)

Stats

The star of the chamber

- Number of Elimination Chamber matches – 16

- Most Number of appearances- Chris Jericho (8), Triple H (6) and Kane (5)

- Most Number of wins- Triple H (4), John Cena (3) and Edge (2)

- Most Number of Eliminations – Chris Jericho (10), John Cena (9) and Triple (8)

- Most Eliminations in one match- Goldberg, Carlito and The Undertaker(3)

- Shortest Time in the chamber- The Great Khali (.49 seconds)

- Longest Time in the Chamber- Triple H (40 minutes)

Random Trivia and Facts

Ultimate Opportunist

- Wrestler who entered the chamber in the fifth spot has gone on to win the match more time than any other position.

- Edge is the only superstar to take part in two elimination chamber matches in a single night. He lost his first match in No Way Out pay-per-view in 2009 then went on to take Kofi Kingston’s place in the second match later that night and won it.

- Goldberg eliminated Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho in a span of just three minutes and two seconds at SummerSlam 2003.

- The Undertaker and CM Punk are the only superstars who entered at number one and went on to win the match.