Elimination Chamber Articles - Page 2

After watching AJ Styles deliver – remotely – a firey promo regarding his cross-hemispherical attack on LA Knight at the Elimination Chamber in Australia, it left the “Megastar” so upset he literally attacked a television out of sheer anger. Why did he pull this action, entering into a bizarre impromptu battle that hopefully insensed Jim […]

After taking a massive loss to Rhea Ripley at the Elimination Chamber, it would make sense if WWE decided to ice out Nia Jax in order to move forward to new storylines, allowing the Australia-born, San Diego-raised Superstar to lick her proverbial wounds and prepare for something bigger at WrestleMania 40. So far, that really […]

When news broke that Maxxine Dupri was booed at a California house show before Elimination Chamber for her, shall we say, green wrestling in a match against Nia Jax, it split opinions across the IWC. Some fans found the behavior totally acceptable, noting that show attendants have every right to boo a performer if they […]

Heading into the 2024 Elimination Chamber, Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch found themselves on opposite sides of the WWE contender spectrum. After winning the then-SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 39 in a co-main event match against Charlotte Flair, Ripley has proven herself one of the top in-ring performers in the entire WWE Universe, defending her […]

After securing the biggest win – literally – of her WWE career in Perth, Australia, at the Elimination Chamber, Rhea Ripley was riding high, with the first segment of Monday Night RAW set aside for her to address the audience in San Jose, California about her incredibly productive homecoming down under. But what would Ripley […]

The 2024 Elimination Chamber was a mixed bag for Rhea Ripley. On one hand, she secured the biggest title defense victory of her reigns with the WWE Women’s World Championship thus far, defeating Nia Jax in front of her hometown crowd with some 50,000 Aussies cheering her on, but it wasn’t all roses for the […]

Whether you got up early, stayed up late, or watched it on a tape delay, the 2024 running of the Elimination Chamber had a little bit of everything for fans of professional wrestling, from gimmick matches to local babyface turns, and even a series of joint manipulation spots so gruesome it might have actually left […]

When news broke that Indi Hartwell was going to wrestle for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships alongside Candice LeRae against the Kabuki Warriors on the Elimination Chamber pre-show, fans felt increasingly bad for “Big” Bronson Reed, who found himself the lone major Australian main roster star without a spot on the Perth-based show. Well, […]

After spending the vast majority of her professional wrestling career as a heel, what happens when Rhea Ripley is tasked with wrestling a universally reviled heel in front of 52,000 of her home country fans in the main event of the Elimination Chamber? You make her into Australia’s hottest babyface and lean all the way […]

After a pair of hard-hitting efforts in the opening matches of the Elimination Chamber, fans in Australia were afforded a reprieve from wrestling, but not drama, with a sit-down segment featuring WWE’s top babyfaces, hometown hero Grayson Waller, and… Austin Theory, who was there too for some reason. Initially expected to be nothing more than […]

In the penultimate match of the Elimination Chamber, WWE decided to set history aside to run the Men’s Elimination Chamber match third on the four-match card, tipping the cap to Rhea Ripley for helping to sell some 50,000 tickets to her countrymen in Perth. An unusual decision? You bet; the star power of the men’s […]

After watching Becky Lynch punch her ticket to WrestleMania 40 with a rapid-fire win at the end of the opening match of the Elimination Chamber, the Judgment Day found themselves second on the four-match card, looking to dissolve the New Catch Republic before it reaches its one-month anniversary and head into March with a clear […]

Though he isn’t technically booked on the Elimination Chamber card, Seth Rollins will be watching the show with a vested interest all the same, as one of the six men in the show’s namesake match, Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, LA Knight, Kevin Owens, or Logan Paul, will ultimately punch their ticket to WrestleMania […]

Though she has her own match to prepare for at the 2024 Elimination Chamber, with besting the “Irresistible Force,” Nia Jax, no small task for even the most dominant of champions, Rhea Ripley will also be keeping a close eye on the Women’s Elimination Chamber match at the Perth Premium Live Event, as it will […]

While Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson isn’t heading to Perth, Australia, for the Elimination Chamber, he didn’t leave fans down under high and dry heading into the second main roster Premium Live Event of 2024 high and dry either, opting to cut a promo preemptively talking trash on Cody Rhodes and his “girlfriend” Seth Rollins ahead […]

Despite being the featured performer of the last few weeks within the WWE Universe, dominating headlines and television time whenever he showed up, The Rock will not be heading to the Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia, leaving the show with just four matches and no presence from The Bloodline. … or will he? Speaking with […]

Ever since she joined Damian Priest as a member of Edge’s Judgment Day – which, frankly, feels like a decade ago – the WWE Universe has known Rhea Ripley as one thing and one thing alone: a heel. Now granted, the exact flavor of heel Ripley has filled on the menu has changed from time […]

After slowly working her way into a featured spot on the SmackDown roster, beating Mia Yim in her debut match on the brand, Tiffany Stratton was presented with the next major challenge in her main roster run: qualifying for a spot on her first main roster Premium Live Event, the Elimination Chamber, in Perth, Australia. […]

When Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Adam Pearce, and Nick Aldis announced a 12-man tournament to decide on the six participants in the Elimination Chamber‘s namesake match, fans noticed one very interesting omission from the talent pool: Grayson Waller. Now granted, when considering the top 12 male singles wrestlers in the WWE Universe who don’t currently […]

When LA Knight ran helplessly away from Bray Wyatt at the end of the Mtn Dew Pitch Black match at the 2023 Royal Rumble, it marked a rather odd spot in his career. Still on the climb up the WWE ladder after switching back to his very over NXT gimmick after an ill-fated run as […]

After punching her ticket to Perth later this month with a big win over Shayna Baszler on the previous edition of RAW, Becky Lynch used her newfound status as a Premium Live Event lock to her advantage in Lexington, Kentucky, booking some in-ring promo time to talk up her desire to go 1-0 in the […]

After making a rare appearance on RAW to compete for one of the final spots in the 2024 Elimination Chamber against Ivar of the Viking Warriors, LA Knight officially punched the ticket to WWE’s second main roster Premium Live Event of 2024, heading down to Grayson Waller Land for a World Heavyweight Championship Number One […]

As crazy as it may sound, considering he’s been a member of the WWE Universe for over a decade and holds the top title on RAW, Seth Rollins heads into WrestleMania 40 without a clear challenger for his World Heavyweight Championship. Now granted, it’s not like Rollins will enter the “Showcase of the Immortals” with […]

When Liv Morgan returned in the 30th slot at the 2024 Women’s Royal Rumble match, it felt like a big deal. A true fan favorite coming off of a fantastic 2023, Morgan was taken out of action on July 17th in a tag team match against Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville with the WWE Women’s […]

While the next few months will be incredibly busy for Becky Lynch, with a spot in the Elimination Chamber officially booked and a chance for a prominent match at WrestleMania a single win away, things will be extra interesting for “The Man” because soon, she will be a published author, with her debut book, “Becky […]

One year ago, Sami Zayn was on top of the WWE Universe. He’d just experienced a dramatic breakup with the hottest faction in professional wrestling, The Bloodline, was set to compete in the biggest match of his career in a hometown throwdown with Roman Reigns at the Elimination Chamber in his hometown, and was slowly […]

With 2023 officially passed, Sean Ross Sapp And Denise Salcedo decided to celebrate the occasion with the annual Fightful Awards, where performers across the sport were honored for their hard work and efforts, including Rhea Ripley, who was the big winner this year with not one, not two but four awards heading home to Adelaide, […]

When Grayson Waller got into it with a producer for Australia’s Sunrise as he attempted to promote the Elimination Chamber but inadvertently sparked the umpteenth conversation about Kayfabe in a now-viral clip that also featured LA Knight, it drew all sorts of different reactions from observers across the internet. Some championed Waller for sticking to […]

After talking a very, very, very big game heading into RAW Day 1, Becky Lynch shocked the WWE Universe by coming up short against Nia Jax in their first official singles match together, regardless of the year, the brand, or the promotion. And yet, after getting thoroughly bested in the ring on RAW, taking a […]

As of Christmas Eve, it has officially been one year since Dominik Mystero was sent to prison, and his character, both in Judgment Day and in WWE as a whole, was changed forever. Though it wasn’t always pretty, with a few very unfortunate missteps along the way, Mysterio has now fully come into his own […]

After shooting his shot to John Cena and the rest of the WWE Universe that the promotion should book a major Premium Live Event in Australia, Grayson Waller’s wish has been surprisingly granted, sending the entire show Down Under in early 2024, with the Elimination Chamber coming to Optus Stadium in Perth next February. Now […]

When Sami Zayn got in the ring with Roman Reigns at the Elimination Chamber in his home-ish town of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he knew he was putting it all on the line. If he won, he would secure the biggest heist in WWE history, which, considering Reigns’ history with that phrase, is saying something, and […]

For the first few months of the 2023 calendar year, especially before the 2023 Royal Rumble, it looked like Sami Zayn was going to be the guy in WWE. He had the on-mic skills, was a walking catchphrase, and was feuding with arguably the most over act in the entire promotion in The Bloodline, who […]

There was a time when Sami Zayn was the hottest performer in the WWE Universe. He was heavily featured on television, had the fans behind him to an absolutely incredible degree, and found himself with the perfect venue for his make-or-break match against Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in the Elimination Chamber, […]

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, for better or worse, will forever be linked in the WWE Universe. Though they took different paths to The Fed, with the former working the indies and Ring of Honor as Tyler Black whereas the latter was born into the business as the son of a Wild Samoan, when the […]

Since officially returning to WWE in December of 2022, Bronson Reed has been slowly building up momentum toward becoming an upper-mid card player. Reunited with Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the man who booked him to win the North American Championship in 2021, Reed has won (almost) every match he’s wrestled on RAW, had an impressive […]

Though it hasn’t yet been a year since Bronson Reed jumped ship from New Japan Pro Wrestling to bring his unique brand of big-bodied brutality to the WWE Universe, it’s hard to argue with his on-screen production. Sure, technically, Reed began his career in a weird way, playing the role of “heater” for The Miz […]

There was a time when more than a few WWE fans took particular pleasure in letting Carmella know that, in their opinion, she can’t wrestle. That’s right, despite being a former SmackDown Women’s Champion and the first-ever Women’s Money in the Bank winner, some fans just couldn’t get over that the former Laker Girl was […]

Carmella has been a member of the WWE Universe in one way or another since 2013, when she joined NXT and spent the better part of her time in developmental serving as a manager/valet for the dynamic duo of Big Cass and Enzo Amore. Over that run, Mella established the “moon-walking, trash-talking, Princess of Staten […]