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The annual pit stop on the road to WrestleMania is upon us and these are the times WWE nailed their Elimination Chamber plans the best.  0:00 - Intro 0:49 - 12 1:48 - 11 2:44 - 10 3:41 - 9 4:28 - 8 5:20 - 7 6:27 - 6 7:27 - 5 8:32 - 4 9:24 - 3 10:33 - 2 11:32 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/  Youtube Channel Comments Policy We appreciate the comments and opinions our viewers provide. Do note that all comments are subject to YouTube auto-moderation and manual moderation review. We encourage opinions and discussion, but harassment, hate speech, bullying and other abusive posts will not be tolerated. Decisions on comment removal are made by the Community Manager. Please email us at support@wrestletalk.com with any questions or concerns.

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00:00 The Chamber of Horrors, Satan's Structure, the Box of Boxes.

00:04 So comes time for the Elimination Chamber to once again throw a spanner in the works of Wrestlemania.

00:10 Sometimes that happens accidentally, and sometimes it happens by design.

00:14 Sometimes WWE nails the Elimination Chamber, making their road to Wrestlemania that much

00:18 more interesting and exciting because of it. It may not happen 100% of the time,

00:22 and for those examples, may I offer you our list of times WWE got the Elimination Chamber wrong.

00:27 But in the meantime and in between time, let's keep that Royal Rumble positivity going here today.

00:32 Much like our recent list of times WWE got the Royal Rumble right,

00:35 this is a list of times WWE's decision making was on point, rather than a list of best chamber

00:40 performances. So we'll just have to wait to praise the Great Khali some other time.

00:44 I'm Tempest Hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are 12 times WWE got the Elimination Chamber right.

00:49 Number 12 - The Shayna Baszler Chamber

00:52 In theory, Shayna Baszler eliminating the entire field of the 2020 Women's Elimination Chamber

00:57 match was a good idea. In theory, communism works. In theory.

01:00 Entering this list in the bottom spot is WWE's attempt at smashing over the new top star of the

01:05 Women's division. I say attempt, because when all was said and done, more people were talking about

01:10 how boring this match was than how dominant Shayna Baszler actually was. As said off the top,

01:15 WWE had the perfect idea for this match, having the former NXT Women's Champion eliminate the

01:20 other 5 competitors. But for as good an idea as this was, execution is important,

01:24 and WWE did not execute this idea well at all. There was way too much time spent standing around

01:30 waiting for the next pod to open, a problem that could have been easily solved if Shayna had simply

01:34 entered the match 5th instead of 4th. However, this is a positive list, and this match does

01:39 deserve praise for producing a worthy Wrestlemania challenger for Becky Lynch. It would have just,

01:43 you know, been nice if Shayna had like, I don't know, won that match.

01:48 Number 11 - Kofi's Paranoia

01:50 Back in the early days of 2009, a bright-eyed Jamaican named Kofi Kingston was set to receive

01:55 his first world title opportunity inside the Elimination Chamber. Then a certain no-good

01:59 bastard named Edge put a stop to that, scrambling Kofi's brains and taking his spot in the chamber.

02:04 One year later, Kofi was older, wiser, 100% less Jamaican, and made certain that the same thing

02:09 did not happen again. In probably my favorite part of the 2010 Raw Elimination Chamber match,

02:15 Kofi makes his entrance, frequently checking his back to make sure he wouldn't get jumped again.

02:19 It is just such a smart little moment, and sure, in the grand scheme of things,

02:23 it probably doesn't mean too much, but it is emblematic of a time when WWE paid a little

02:28 bit more attention to detail. I'm not sure whether this was a Kofi idea or something he was instructed

02:33 to do by WWE, but commentary did point it out, and I really don't trust Michael Cole to do his

02:38 research, so I'm going to say this was intentional. In case it isn't, it places low on the list,

02:42 but it places high in my heart.

02:44 Number 10 - Triple H Doesn't Save Batista

02:47 The build to WrestleMania 21's main event between Evolution running mates Triple H and Batista

02:52 is one of the best stories WWE has ever told, and at New Year's Revolution,

02:56 we got maybe my favorite moment of this legendary storyline. It was a storyline built up over time,

03:02 with subtlety playing a large role in the animal's emergence as a main event star.

03:06 So came the Elimination Chamber for the vacant world title in Puerto Rico,

03:10 with both Triple H and Batista taking part. Batista's goal was clear - help Triple H become

03:15 world champion again - but when the time came, a white-hot stare-down took place between the

03:20 leader and his heavy. Triple H was scared straight by standing opposite Batista,

03:24 and when Randy Orton hit an RKO on Big Dave, Triple H can be seen clear as day,

03:28 rising from the corner to make the save, but choosing not to. It is such a brilliant piece

03:34 of storytelling, and it just goes to show that sometimes simple and subtle storytelling

03:39 can have the greatest lasting impact.

03:42 Number 9 - CM Punk's Sermon

03:44 Again. We recently spoke about CM Punk's famous Royal Rumble sermon,

03:48 but now it is time for the oft-forgotten sequel. After the swift dismissal of R-Truth - I'm sure

03:52 you'll win the world title next time, Truth - CM Punk took to the mic to antagonize each of his

03:57 four remaining opponents still locked in their pods. Punk told Undertaker he would make him tap

04:01 out "again," referencing their screwjob finish at Breaking Point a few months earlier, and

04:06 Undertaker was none too pleased about it. May have had something to do with being set on fire moments

04:10 earlier, but who's to say? Words cut deep. Eventually, Punk's sermon was cut off by the

04:14 arrival of Rey Mysterio, but this was once again WWE and CM Punk making the absolute most out of

04:20 every single moment of Punk's screen time, and anyone who can get the biggest reactions of the

04:24 match without taking a bump is a genius worker in my book.

04:28 Number 8 - Rivalries Reignited

04:30 Much like how WWE likes to start the Royal Rumble match with an Easter egg or a callback,

04:34 the same applies for the Elimination Chamber. There have been many examples of WWE starting a

04:40 Chamber match with former rivals, and more often than not, it has yielded magical results. It

04:45 doesn't matter the era, it doesn't matter the rivalry, the Chamber is where enemies found each

04:49 other. Jericho and Michaels in '03, Jericho and Benoit in '05, Taker and Batista in '08, Jericho

04:55 and Michaels again in '08, Edge and Mysterio in 2011, Cena and Styles in 2017, Bryan and Joe in

05:01 2019. This is just something that WWE gets right in their Elimination Chamber matches, and it means

05:07 so, so much. If I'm going to highlight a few of them, the big shoutouts have to go to Taker and

05:11 Batista and Edge and Mysterio for being the two sets of rivals not only to start their matches,

05:16 but finish their matches while being the best part of their matches as well.

05:20 Number 7 - The Ballad of Santino Marella

05:22 On the list of unlikely WWE World Title contenders, you have names like Bob Holly, R-Truth,

05:28 Eric Bischoff, The Patriot, Zack Ryder, but none of them ever came as close to actually

05:32 capturing the gold as Santino Marella. The only interesting thing about Elimination Chamber 2012

05:38 as a whole was the journey of Santino, who had won the last spot in the World Heavyweight

05:42 Championship Elimination Chamber match by winning a Battle Royal on SmackDown. Now,

05:46 that sure doesn't sound like praise for a pay-per-view, and truthfully, it wasn't a good one,

05:49 but Santino doing stares in preparation for the biggest match of his career was a chuckle-worthy

05:54 setup for his actual performance in, as they say in Italy, the Elimination Chamber. Santino somehow

06:00 outlasted Big Show, The Great Khali, Cody Rhodes, and Wade Barrett to go toe-to-toe with the World

06:05 Champion Daniel Bryan, and in the most ludicrous near-fall in Elimination Chamber history, nearly

06:10 pinned him with the Cobra. That's right, the sock puppet nearly ended the great reign of Daniel

06:14 Bryan. Of course, if that actually had happened, this would be on a completely different list,

06:19 but there's no denying that Santino offering a comedy underdog performance was precisely the

06:23 best way to go about this otherwise very forgettable match.

06:27 Number 6 - The 2008 Raw Chamber Participants

06:30 Now this one is personal for me, because No Way Out 2008 was the first pay-per-view cycle I ever

06:35 saw as a fan, and it influenced a lot of my opinions about WWE, particularly how you book a

06:40 field of Elimination Chamber competitors to seem like potential winners. Competing for this shot

06:45 at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 24 was Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, Jeff

06:51 Hardy, JBL, and Umaga. Now, JBL and Umaga may not have had much of a chance of going on and main

06:56 eventing WrestleMania, but they played a fun role as the heel tandem, with JBL paying off Umaga to

07:01 make sure he won. But the other four is where this Chamber really shines. Not only do you have four

07:07 main event stars that each could have headlined WrestleMania at the time, but they each had their

07:11 own completely separate beefs with champion Randy Orton from the months leading up to Mania. Triple

07:16 H lost to Orton in October, HBK lost in November, Jericho in December, and Hardy in January, and I

07:22 don't think we have seen a Chamber since with as many believable main event caliber winners as this

07:27 one. #5 - Tag Team Champions - Boss and Hug While Isla Dawn and Al Bafire may have placed a

07:33 retroactive curse on the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship that has meant that those who hold it

07:38 are doomed to be injured, badly booked, or deleted from existence in the case of Aaliyah, the first

07:43 night the titles were introduced was the very best night they ever had. As stated off the top,

07:47 this isn't as much a list of WWE choosing the right winners of these Chamber matches, but in

07:51 this case there was only one team that would have made fitting first champions for WWE's Beyblade

07:56 belts, and they were Boss and Hug. I mean, Sasha Banks and Bayley. There is a bit of a question to

08:01 be asked about why the tag titles were introduced in a match that featured zero tags, but otherwise

08:06 WWE got the Elimination Chamber right at Elimination Chamber 2019. It was already clear WWE was going

08:12 to struggle to fill out the Women's Tag Division when they did not have six teams to hand to fill

08:16 out this match, but of the established teams involved, Sasha Banks and Bayley had the most fan

08:21 support, they had the most credibility, and they were simply the best wrestlers present. Their reign

08:26 may not have amounted to much, but when you watch this show you can't help but feel something when

08:30 their tears start flowing. Number 4 - The First One

08:34 It can often be difficult to introduce a brand new match type into the universe. Insert drawing

08:39 of the Ultimate X match here. And you really need to nail the first one if the match type is going

08:43 to have a chance of sticking. Insert drawing of the Championship Scramble here. Thankfully,

08:47 the Elimination Chamber was not only presented very well as a concept by Eric Bischoff and the

08:51 WWE Video Production team, but the first match was as close to perfect as you could expect a

08:55 match to be when one guy in it nearly crushed his throat. Simply put, if this match sucked,

09:00 you would have a lot more fast lanes in February. Six top Raw wrestlers competed for the world title

09:06 with Kane, Rob Van Dam, Booker T, Chris Jericho, and Shawn Michaels, who was wrestling only his

09:10 second match back from retirement, trying to take the title off of Triple H. Shawn does,

09:15 capturing his final world title and helping to establish one of the greatest WWE original

09:19 creations of all time... while wearing poopy brown pants. I'm sorry, I can't not mention them.

09:24 Number 3 - Kofi Mania I mean, this match is almost entirely

09:28 referred to as "The Kofi Mania Chamber" at this point. After Kofi Kingston caught fire on SmackDown

09:33 in the Gauntlet match to determine who would enter the chamber last, this match sent him into the fan

09:37 support stratosphere, and thus, Kofi Mania was born. It would have been so easy for WWE to have

09:43 Kofi enter this chamber, have a good showing, and then get eliminated third while the quote-unquote

09:48 "real main eventers" finished the match, but that isn't what happened. Kofi outlasted Randy Orton,

09:54 Jeff Hardy, AJ Styles, and Samoa Joe until he was all alone with Bryan Danielson, and in some of the

10:00 most heated action in Elimination Chamber history, Kofi nearly beats Bryan for the WWE Championship,

10:06 but doesn't. I use no hyperbole when I say that this match had my friends and I on the edge of

10:12 our seats at home, because even though it was just before WrestleMania, WWE caught lightning

10:16 in a bottle, and maybe, just maybe, they would go with everyone's main man, Kofi. The decision to

10:22 not have the title change hands was the right one, as it led to one of the greatest WrestleMania

10:26 moments of all time, but I cannot understate the importance of this truly excellent match

10:31 in getting the story to Mania. #2 - Shawn Costs Taker

10:36 Most people could see the card for WrestleMania 26 coming from a mile away, with Royal Rumble

10:40 winner Edge likely to challenge former partner and rival Chris Jericho, and Shawn Michaels actively

10:45 trying to get a WrestleMania rematch with The Undertaker. But with the World Heavyweight

10:49 Championship still around the waist of the dead man going into Elimination Chamber,

10:53 the question remained as to how WWE would shift their chess pieces into their necessary positions.

10:58 Of course, you could just have Chris Jericho beat The Undertaker, but with all these Mania

11:02 plans swirling, it felt like a more creative solution was needed. Enter Shawn Michaels.

11:07 Literally, in fact, as Shawn illegally entered the cage at the end of the match,

11:11 superkicking The Undertaker and allowing his long-hated rival Chris Jericho to win the World

11:16 title. Was Jericho winning the title a little predictable? Yeah. But how they got there

11:20 continues to be remembered as one of the key moments in the all-time great story of Shawn

11:25 Michaels willing to go to any lengths and ultimately put his career on the line for another

11:29 shot at ending The Undertaker's streak. And number one, Edge pulls double duty.

11:35 One of the all-time great show-long stories WWE has ever told, and the perfect example of Edge's

11:40 ultimate opportunist character being the most interesting part of WWE at the time. At this

11:46 point, everyone knows the story here. Edge wrestled the Opening Chamber match as WWE Champion,

11:51 got eliminated in three minutes, freaked the f*** out backstage, and then decided to give Kofi

11:56 Kingston a scrambled brain and also PTSD. Shout out to the me of 10 minutes ago for talking about

12:01 that bit of awesomeness. That decision got Edge inserted into the World Heavyweight Championship

12:05 Chamber in Kofi's place and saw him walk out as the new World Champion. You never see the World

12:12 title scene shuffled around like this right before WrestleMania, but No Way Out 2009 was one of those

12:17 shows that got you thinking that when you watch an Elimination Chamber, anything actually can happen.

12:23 And that's our list. Make sure, of course, that you like this video, subscribe, and enable

12:26 notifications to always on so you never miss a list just like it. And make sure you check out

12:30 this clip from last week's list. And that's right, I lost. Thanks, Luke.

12:36 Yes, indeed, my debut was not my best day, but what about those in WWE for whom that is the case?

12:41 What if you have your best day on your first day? What if it was all downhill after that? Well,

12:46 That's exactly what happened.

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