#3 Kurt Angle recalls Elimination Chamber match with then-WWE Champion John Cena
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle recently recalled a story regarding New Year's Revolution 2006, where he took part in an Elimination Chamber match for John Cena's WWE Championship.
Angle revealed that since Cena was slated to win, none of the other competitors wanted to spend a long time in the chamber and wanted to be eliminated early. So they decided who gets eliminated first in a unique way.
"No, we didn't know at that particular time (about Batista's injury). And that's not the reason I got eliminated early. The reason I got eliminated early was because I won paper, rock, and scissors (laughs). We had a competition because John Cena was the champion; he was going to retain the title at Elimination Chamber. So the other five of us decided everyone wanted to get eliminated early. They didn't want to last the whole match because they weren't going to win. And I won paper, rock, scissors, so I got eliminated first. That doesn't happen very often, but we did it that night," Kurt Angle said.
Apart from Angle and Cena, the match featured Carlito, Chris Masters, Shawn Michaels, and Kane. Following the match, Edge cashed in his Money In The Bank contract to win the WWE Championship for the first time in his career.
Edited by Brandon Nell