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Elimination Chamber is now merely days away and will decide not only who will face Brock Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania 34, but also who will be the Raw Women's Champion heading into the biggest event of the year.
This year history will be made as seven-men step inside the Chamber for the first time whilst six women also make their debut's inside Satan's structure. Elimination Chamber has been part of the Road to WrestleMania for a long time and over the past few years, there have been a number of facts accumulated surrounding the event.
#5. The Elimination Chamber was Vince McMahon's answer to War Games
War Games is obviously a match type that is best associated with WCW, even though NXT recently participated in a Takeover event which included the sadistic match type. WWE decided to incorporate all of the features from Hell in a Cell, The Royal Rumble (the countdown clock) and War Games into one match to create the Elimination Chamber.
It seems that War Games was pitched to Vince McMahon a number of times before he decided to push for the Elimination Chamber. He even allowed Eric Bischoff to point out that War Games was the inspiration for the match type, to begin with.
Whilst War Games needs two rings to take place, it seems that WWE managed to put everything that WCW created into one ring so that it can be used more often.
#4. The Chamber has only been invaded once
Elimination Chamber is quite a solid structure, which means that much like Hell in a Cell, it is quite hard to break inside. The doors are chained shut when all superstars are in the match and are only opened when a superstar is eliminated.
It seems that The Wyatt Family are the only stars who have ever been able to breach the Chamber when they attacked John Cena and Daniel Bryan back at Elimination Chamber 2014 to set up a match between Cena and Wyatt at WrestleMania.
With all the rumours circulating about a match between Undertaker and Cena at this year's WrestleMania, it will be interesting to see if The Undertaker decides to invade the Chamber and cost Cena his chance to fight Lesnar and main event The Grandest Stage Of Them All once again.
#3. The United States Championship has never been defended in the Chamber
Incredibly, after 16 years of The Elimination Chamber being seen as a match stipulation, the United States Championship has never been defended inside the steel structure.
The Tag Team Championships, WWE Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship and this year The Raw Women's Championship have all been defended inside the Chamber.
It seems that a title as prestigious as the United States Championship will one day be defended inside the Chamber, but right now there is only the SmackDown Women's Championship, the Universal Championship and The United States Championship that are singles titles that haven't been defended inside the steel, but two of these Championships are less than two years old.
#2 Only one man has been inside the Chamber twice in one night
Despite The Elimination Chamber being part of WWE's calendar for the past 16 years, it seems that there is only one man who has been able to take part in two Chamber matches in one night.
Edge was eliminated by Jeff Hardy in the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match back in 2009, causing him to lose his World Heavyweight Championship, later in the night the Rated R Superstar attacked Kofi Kingston moments before he was set to enter the Raw Elimination Chamber and then took his place where he then won the WWE Championship.
Could one of the superstars be taken out of the match and replaced on Sunday night? It would definitely add a fresh dynamic.
#1. John Cena and The Miz retain their place from last year
Elimination Chamber was a SmackDown exclusive pay-per-view last year but it has now become exclusive to Monday Night Raw. Since he is a free agent, it isn't that much of a surprise that Cena has been made part of this year's match and retained his place in the Chamber.
The Miz was moved over to Raw following the Superstar shakeup last year and has also managed to retain his place in the match. The A-Lister was part of the Elimination Chamber match last time it was part of the dual brand Elimination Chamber pay-per-view back in 2012 as well, but he was the last man eliminated by CM Punk to win the match.
